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On Air Ottawa · Ontario CBR · JKGPC Inc.

A small house for records. Built by working engineers.

We produce, deliver, and develop a short list of artists we can actually serve, in the country's best rooms or wherever the record needs to live. Masters kept by the people who made them.

Est. 2023
Imprint JKGPC Inc.
Roster 2 Artists
Cum. Streams 250,000+
01 — The Label

Built for records. Not volume.

Caber Studios is a boutique independent label and music production company. We cut records where the music lives: in the country's best tracking rooms, in a client's home studio, in a chapel, on a stage. Our engineer travels. Our gear travels. The record gets made where the record is right.

Then we handle the label work that scales a release past a SoundCloud upload. No retail calendar. No influencer budget. No volume roster. A short list of artists, a long horizon, and masters that stay with the people who made them.

FoundedOttawa, Ontario
ImprintJKGPC Inc.
RosterTwo signed artists
MastersRetained by the artist
TerritoryCanada · Worldwide
02 — The Roster

A short list of artists.

James Gibson Insert press portrait
James Gibson
Audient ASP 8024
CBR · 001

James Gibson

Principal Artist — Lead Engineer

Producer, session musician, and songwriter. Applied Audio Recording Diploma, TARA. Console-trained, location-capable. Performing live since sixteen, he tracked the original Million Degrees single at Raven Street Studios the same year.

Commercial radio on Hot 89.9. Live session on CBC Radio One. 2024 Capital Music Awards Newcomer of the Year nominee. Feature at LIVE on Elgin; headlining at Rainbow Bistro.

Selected Releases
  • 01Blink86,775
  • 02Laugh Again65,494
  • 03Million DegreesEP53,800
  • 04Complicated43,821
Instagram ↗ Spotify ↗ Full Press Kit ↗
DJ PERKi Insert press portrait
DJ PERKi
Rainbow Bistro, Oct. 2025
CBR · 002

DJ PERKi

Electronic — Resident DJ

Up-and-coming Ottawa DJ and producer building a club-forward body of work. House DJ across multiple venues in the city. Caught the label's ear at the October 2025 Rainbow Bistro showcase, co-presented with Raven Street Studios.

Debut releases through 2026, the first step toward a profile on the national funding registries, and a catalogue that scales on its own terms.

03 — Any Room

Built to travel.

James is TARA-trained on a professional console, and just as capable behind a mic kit wherever the music actually lives. We go where the record needs to be made. The gear comes with us.

Studios are sometimes the answer. They aren't the only one.

04 — Strategic Rooms

The rooms we go back to.

Primary Tracking

Raven Street Studios

Ottawa, ON · Est. 1992

Ottawa’s largest and oldest recording complex, founded in 1992 by Breen Murray, now owned and run by his daughter Shannon Murray Mead, and home of The Audio Recording Academy (TARA). James cut his first single here at sixteen and trained on the Audient ASP 8024. It’s where his Ottawa sessions track.

Clients include Avril Lavigne, Snoop Dogg, Queens of the Stone Age.

Production — Toronto

Banquet Sound

Toronto, ON

Toronto production house led by Nixon Boyd, Juno-nominated producer and former lead guitarist of Hollerado, with credits including Dizzy, Anyway Gang, and “A Little Bit Alexis” from Schitt’s Creek. Nixon produced James’s singles Blink, Laugh Again, Complicated, and No Place to Go at Banquet Sound and his Simcoe Mechanical studio. Our Toronto production partner and the gateway to the broader Canadian indie network.

For projects that want big-room production and a seasoned producer's hand.

05 — Friends of the Studio

The Hummingbirds.

At sixteen, James Gibson hit the Ottawa music scene as a singer-songwriter. Veterans who caught him at open mics passed his name along, and the introductions went places: Shannon Murray Mead at Raven Street Studios, where he cut his first single; Nixon Boyd, who produced the Million Degrees EP; and eventually TARA, where he took his diploma in audio engineering. By 2024 he was a Capital Music Awards nominee for Newcomer of the Year.

For four years it's been a collective of good luck, better people, and an experience that couldn't be replicated. Caber Studios is just the infrastructure that had to follow. When a poster needed a name for all of it? The Hummingbirds. It's how we refer to the friends of this studio, and to the journey that got James here.

The arrangement underneath all of it is simple. Artists control their art. The label helps them leverage it.

The Hummingbirds — red and cyan duotone hummingbird with a guitar-headstock wing, signed JG
The mark · duotone · 2026 · signed JG
James & The Hummingbirds Live billing · All configurations

The configuration changes with the room and the material. Sometimes a trio, sometimes more. Players are credited by appearance. There is no member list, because there are no members.

Nov 20 · 2026
CAPO 7 — Rainbow Bistro, Ottawa
For the Queensway Carleton Hospital
Jun 27 · 2024
Rainbow Bistro, Ottawa
James Gibson’s Rainbow debut
Rob Hewitt · Jake Boyd · Morris

Credits are added after each night, not before.

Not signed, not staff. Musicians and makers we share rooms and stages with around Ottawa, who wear the mark because the work is good, not because anyone told them to.

Rob Hewitt
Rob Hewitt
Ottawa · CAPO Feature · The Rainbow
Jake Boyd behind the kit at the Rainbow Bistro, brushes in hand
Jake Boyd
Ottawa · Hollerado · The Rainbow
Morris on stage with a blue electric guitar, stacks and drum kit behind him
Morris
Ottawa · Guitar · The Rainbow
Fletcher tracking acoustic guitar in headphones, capo on the neck
Fletcher
Ottawa · Session Guitar / Bass
06 — What We Deliver

À la carte.

Take the full label arc, production through release and artist development, or just the piece you need. Rates depend on the room and the record.

Masters always stay with the artist.