MERZBOW 'Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty' CD (CSR314CD)

Cold Spring proudly presents the new studio album from MERZBOW. As a life-long campaigner of animal rights, Masami Akita has delivered a brutal assault on those that cage and murder animals. 'ANIMAL LIBERATION - UNTIL EVERY CAGE IS EMPTY' is 5 tracks (49 mins) of total noise assault that only the King of Japanese Noise can provide.

"There is a theory that Covid-19 broke out from the poor conditioned wet markets where live animals are sold. If there were no poultry farms, there would be no mass destruction of chickens due to the spread of bird flu. Human beings' cruelty to animals, animal abuse and species discrimination are all adding up to a disaster for mankind and the whole planet. The pandemic is an opportunity to reflect on the relationship between animals and humans. Veganism is the future for humanity" (Masami Akita, 2021).

The artwork is a reflection of the animal rights and anarcho-punk movements of the 80's. Proceeds from this release will benefit animal rights charities.

Presented in a matt-laminate digipak with free sticker.

Out 20th May

1. No Cages Part 1 (9:27)
2. No Cages Part 2 (13:41)
3. No Cages Part 3 (5:51)
4. No Cages Part 4 (14:30)
5. Baby Bird (5:28)

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr314cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/animal-liberation-until-every-cage-is-empty-csr314cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr314cd

https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/merzbow-animal-liberation


MERZBOW:

https://merzbow.net
https://twitter.com/MerzbowOfficial
https://www.facebook.com/OfficialMerzbow
https://soundcloud.com/merzbow
https://www.coldspring.co.uk/merzbow

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

MERZBOW Animal Liberation - Until Every Cage Is Empty

Emptiness Reworked, Rewoven

Sequences - The Willows (Shō Rework)

MERZBOW Baby Bird

MERZBOW No Cages Part 3

L'Infinie puissance des vagues - Mvmt. I

L'Infinie puissance des vagues won the student prize of the international electroacoustic composition competition KLANG! 2023 : https://klangacousmonium.wordpress.com/concours-international-de-composition-electroacoustique-klang/

Le titre et le concept sonore de cette pièce sont tirés d'un poème en prose de mon père. La phrase entière est : "À chaque assaut de la mer, il rit, il joue à avoir peur, car il ne connaît pas encore l'infinie puissance des vagues.” Ce mouvement est un labyrinthe sonore. Les portes s'ouvrent et se ferment. Les murs apparaissent et disparaissent. Le sol s'écroule. Les plafonds s'effondrent. Les couloirs s'entremêlent et se délient sans cesse, évoquant une cartographie sonore en constante évolution dans l'imagination de l'auditeur qui s'étalera au long des deux prochains mouvements.

The title and sound concept for this piece are drawn from a prose poem by my father. The translation of the full sentence is : “They laugh at each assault from the sea, playing at being scared, for they don't yet know the infinite power of the waves.”  This movement is a labyrinth in sound. Doors open and close. Walls appear and disappear. Floors fall out. Ceilings cave in. Corridors are incessantly interwoven and unwound, evoking an ever-changing sonic cartography in the listener's imagination which will spread across the two following movements.

composé mars-mai 2022, la haye

À chaque assaut de la mer, il rit,...

COLOSSLOTH 'Promethean Meat' CD

Rhythmic industrial noise - grinding and churning, drenched in crushing doom-laden guitars - drapes the sacrificial bones of the new album from esoteric electronic alchemist Colossloth.

Building on this trademark sound, pushing and striving for reinvention and renewal, Colossloth has also utilised live instrumentation and ethereal vocals, and black metal blast beats on certain tracks for the first time to enhance the intent behind the music. Digitally-driven soundtracks for transfigured cities and myths born in the wilderness of Albion.

Digipak. Out 19th August 2022.

"An unknown voice deep within the landscape reveals a clandestine location. A place of arcane mechanics, a cathedral of divine engines suspended in primal matter. Turbulence forms amidst amorphous strata, the polarised elements stretch out and then return once more to a singular form, gauging an ecology of discordant time down newly formed vertices. Crystallised dreams spin wild atmospheres into the horizons and fill the localised spaces with the remnants of passive machinations and distant mutterings, the devices allocating into their framework the offerings set forth".

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr315cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/promethean-meat-csr315cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr315cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/Colossloth-Promethean (Video by Abby Helasdottir).

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/colossloth-promethean-meat


COLOSSLOTH:

https://colossloth.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/colossloth
https://soundcloud.com/colossloth
https://twitter.com/colossloth
https://coldspring.co.uk/Colossloth

COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

COLOSSLOTH The Locust Trove

Out 7 Oct 2022: DEAD VOICES ON AIR 'Abrader Redux' CD.

The debut album from DEAD VOICES ON AIR (Mark Spybey of DOWNLOAD / ex-ZOVIET FRANCE), feat cEvin Key (SKINNY PUPPY / DOWNLOAD). "Abrader" blends processed sounds from primitive instruments and found objects into hypnotic looped rhythmic structures, with dark clusters of heavy ambient washes into what could be described as Organic Panambience, or 'music for the eyes'.

The hugely sought-after "Abrader" was the first of over 80 releases (so far) by Mark Spybey using the name DEAD VOICES ON AIR. It was recorded over the space of days in Vancouver in 1993 and released as a tape the following year by Akifumi Nakajima (AUBE), for his G.R.O.S.S. label. Chronologically, the material was recorded after most of the music that made up his first two releases on compact disc - "New Words Machine" and "Hafted Maul" - however, "Abrader" was released before both of those albums. 

"Abrader Redux" features the three lengthy tracks that were released on the original cassette, plus the bonus tracks that were included in the 2009 reprint as part of the "Fast Falls The Eventide" double CD, and now with two 'new' previously-unreleased bonus tracks recorded 1994 - taking this masterwork up to 7 tracks and over 67 minutes of exceptional music.

"If most ambient is the laudanum of the new fin de siécle, then Dead Voices on Air are the absinthe" (Village Voice)

This release is dedicated to the memory of both Akifumi Nakajima and Zev Asher who both passed away in 2013. Spybey was introduced to Akifumi by his friend from Vancouver, Zev Asher. Zev had a noise project called Roughage and was also in a band called Nimrod, that had at one time been based in Japan. 

The album for Cold Spring has been remastered by Martin Bowes from Attrition. Packaged in a matt-laminate digipak with art by Spybey, beautifully laid out by Abby Helasdottir.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr320cd

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/abrader-redux-csr320cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr320cd

Listen:  https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/dvoa-abrader

Album Teaser: https://bit.ly/DVOA-Abrader

For further reading on the back story on the recording process, please visit the Bandcamp link above!


DEAD VOICES ON AIR:

http://www.deadvoicesonair.com
https://deadvoicesonair.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/dvoaspybey
https://soundcloud.com/deadvoicesonairofficial


COLD SPRING:

https://www.coldspring.co.uk
https://coldspring.bandcamp.com

DEAD VOICES ON AIR Papa Papa Revers feat cEvin Key - Excerpt

DEAD VOICES ON AIR Concretion - Excerpt

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) 'Malfeitor' CD (CSR318CD)

A history lesson, recorded in autumn 1989. Unavailable for over 20 years in any format, we proudly present "Malfeitor" - the now classic album from Maschinenzimmer 412. This was the last release under that name, and what seemed like the final nail in the coffin for the Swedish Black Industrial act. 6 years later they rose from the ashes, restructured and resurrected as MZ. 412.

This is evil incarnate, staring into the abyss. Relentless industrial rituals; darkness fused with machines, your fears and your power. An expression of the coldest music imaginable. With a more lyrical approach than the predecessor "Macht Durch Stimme", "Malfeitor" explores themes of death, with an unequivocal dystopian outlook. Cavernous heavy industrial, primitive machine rhythms, and cold metallic loops created on old synths with very little post-production. What you hear is how it sounded on those original sessions.

Originally released on LP in 1989 by Cold Meat Industry, this monumental album is now available for the first time since 2001. Also available on digital for the first time ever! This definitive edition has been painstakingly transferred and mastered from the original 4-track tapes, with no unnecessary 'padding'.

Listen to Nordvargr discuss "Malfeitor" with Noisextra in 2021: https://www.noisextra.com/2021/06/16/maschinenzimmer-412-aka-mz-412-malfeitor

In 1987 Henrik Nordvargr Björkk, Jouni Ulvtharm Ollila, and Leif Holm forged a band that would be an outlet for blasphemous prophecies, yet from a unique sonic spectrum. The unholy triumvirate were already hitting hard as Pouppée Fabrikk, with Maschinenzimmer 412 unleashing their deepest, darkest personas. Jonas Drakhon Aneheim joined in 1995, replacing Holm and thus enacting the change of name to the abridged MZ. 412.

MZ. 412 are an act that continues to cover the earth in a nightmarish black veil. Rare releases and even rarer performances have only added to the cult status of these prime movers.

Digipak with elegant new artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 28 Oct.

https://coldspring.co.uk/csr318cd 

https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/malfeitor-csr318cd 

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr318cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/MZ412-Malfeitor

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/maschinenzimmer412-malfeitor


MZ. 412:

https://www.nordvargr.com/mz-412
https://mz412.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/MZ412official
https://coldspring.co.uk/mz412

MASCHINENZIMMER 412 (MZ. 412) Malfeitor

LULL 'That Space Somewhere' CD

Cold Spring proudly present the first new album in 14 years from LULL - the pioneering, isolationist dark ambient project of MICK HARRIS (SCORN, FRET, ex-NAPALM DEATH).

EXCLUSIVE FULL ALBUM STREAM AT THE SLEEPING SHAMAN: https://www.thesleepingshaman.com/streams/premiere-lull-that-space-somewhere

LULL was conceived by Mick Harris in 1990, in an attempt to create music that would stretch, if not forsake entirely, the structures of conventional music by developing and exploring sound without beats.

MICK HARRIS ON LULL: 

"I finally heard the way of recording, making profound sounds. Lull is purely something I can get lost in, as far as trying to create these imaginary spaces. And that’s what I always tried to do – to create. I'm a lover of sounds. I love collecting sounds. Playing with those sounds using various software until I created something new from that sound. Which for me end being what I call "a droner" or "a drift",  I’d use those to create a piece of music, or a sound-scape. That's what I’m doing with Lull. Just trying to create soundscapes. And to this day, still, absolutely love doing that". 

THAT SPACE SOMEWHERE:

"I haven't made Lull records since 2007 so... with this pandemic, I have time on my hands. I've used that time, I think, to the best. Going to the music-room is pretty much an everyday thing to me. Which has been the best thing because I’ve not been able to do this since the 90's when I had various studios... Since the lockdown I had all this time on my hands and I created a lot of good music, which I'm actually happy with.

I'm a fisherman. It gives me a lot of space. It gives me immense pleasure. For me it's about going to the river. I like moving water. The seasons change, the river changes with the seasons. It clears my mind, gives me ideas, gives me the space to be by myself and with nature... just listening to the sounds around me.

LULL is quite natural for me. It's an extension of me. Drifting. Just going to darkness. Into a space. LULL is drifting and droning, discovering more and more what can be done with sound. These soundscapes hugely appeal to me".

Mick Harris interview August 2020, courtesy of Peek-A-Boo Magazine.

http://www.peek-a-boo-magazine.be/en/interviews/mick-harris-scorn-lull-ex-napalm-death-2020

Matt-laminate digipak with majestic artwork by Abby Helasdottir (Gydja). Out 2nd December 2022.

Order: https://coldspring.co.uk/csr321cd

Order: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/that-space-somewhere-csr321cd

Digital: https://orcd.co/csr321cd

Watch: https://bit.ly/LULL-TSS

Listen: https://soundcloud.com/coldspring/sets/lull-that-space-somewhere


LULL / MICK HARRIS:

https://mickharris.bandcamp.com
https://coldspring.co.uk/Lull

"Though this is dark ambient, the tone here is more meditative than menacing, something the name of the project has always made obvious and which always set Harris' work apart" (The Sleeping Shaman)

"The first really minimal music I encountered that really captivated me... It seems to exist somewhere on the threshold between consciousness and the unconscious" (Aaron Turner).

LULL Unplumbed (Excerpt)

LULL Range (Excerpt)

Extracted & rearranged from Giovanni Battista Pergolesi's Stabat Mater /Quis est homo

Quis est homo

Jesuve - Inner Experience

Cold Spring is the UK's premier record label / mailorder for: Industrial, Dark Ambient, Esoteric, Japanese Noise, Ritual, Power Electronics, Noise, Drone, Death Industrial, Neoclassical, Neofolk, Doom, Dark Soundtracks and Experimental music.

Cold Spring Records has primarily been a label since 1990, releasing such influential artists as Coil, Laibach, Psychic TV, Merzbow, MZ. 412, Z’EV, Skullflower and more.

http://www.coldspring.co.uk / http://store.coldspring.co.uk / info@coldspring.co.uk

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