Cold Spring 2020 Releases...

At the end of a year that should have seen us celebrating our 30th Anniversary with a momentous 2-day festival, we look back on another proud year of releases for our label. 

2021 will see new releases on Cold Spring from the likes of Mayuko Hino / Controlled Death, Det Kätterska Förbund (Nordvargr + Trepaneringsritualen), She Spread Sorrow, FM Einheit, William Burroughs + Brion Gysin, Psychic TV, Nordvargr, Khost, and more to be announced.

Thank you for your continued support throughout this plague year...

COLD SPRING 2020 RELEASES:

JAGATH - 'Devalaya' CD (CSR290CD)
'I REMEMBER YOU' O.S.T. CD (CSR287CD)
COIL - 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' 2CD (CSR288CD)
CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / RUDOLF EB.ER - 'Death Ceremonies' LP (CSR283LP)
MOTHRA - 'Doom Engine' LP (CSR284LP)
VA - 'The Forme To The Fynisment Foldes Ful Selden' 2CD (CSR252CD)
WESTERN, CREED, SPYBEY - 'W ands' CD (CSR285CD)
LLYN Y CWN - 'Dinorwic' CD (CSR286CD)
LA BREICHE - 'Le Rite' CD (CSR280CD)
FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER - 'Hammerschlag' CD (CSR281CD)
TUNNELS OF AH - 'Deathless Mind' CD (CSR279CD)
COLOSSLOTH - 'Plague Alone' CD (CSR277CD)
KHOST - 'Buried Steel' CD (CSR278CD)
SONOLOGYST - 'Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs' CD (CSR270CD)
MINÓY - 'In Search Of Tarkovsky' CD (CSR273CD)

... and our special first release of 2020:

Z'EV - 'Heart Beat, Ear Drum' DVD (CSR262DVD)
Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRFZ4JQZCwk

All available at:

coldspring.co.uk
coldspring.bandcamp.com

Cold Spring 2020 Releases

@edv3ctor @joe-gilmore

a guest mix by another founder member of the v3ctor collective, joe gilmore. known for his record sleeve & book designs, joe is an audio artist in his own right too. here he graces us w/ a two hour mix of computer music, electronica & algorithmic abstractions

www.altoradio.live

radio broadcast

social schemata w/ joe gilmore - 05.03.21

Curious Casus

المصحف المرتل مقسم أرباع - محمود علي البنا 

يَسۡـَٔلُونَكَ عَنِ ٱلۡأَنفَالِۖ قُلِ ٱلۡأَنفَالُ لِلَّهِ وَٱلرَّسُولِۖ... [71]

Previously unreleased recording.
All rights THET!

Thet Liturgiske Owäsendet - Blood Locations >FREE DOWNLOAD<

KHOST 'Buried Steel'(CSR278CD)

‘Buried Steel’ is the fourth album from Birmingham industrial metal duo KHOST, following the 2017 release ‘Governance’.

Themes and sonics of ‘Buried Steel’ range from granite and impassive to dreamlike and somnambulistic, in keeping with the promise – and threat – of the title, dwelling on slow, infallible ruination: a gravitational downthrust upon misshapen monuments and structures which are mangled, overgrown and increasingly forgotten. A monochrome landscape where nature reclaims and redefines us as time passes.

Recording of the album was marred with events such as an electrical fire which damaged some equipment. As a result, a number of tracks on the album had to be pieced together from damaged analogue elements such as reel to reel (Khost reel to reel RIP). From this point, the dynamic of some of the songs was altered, shifting their eventual outcome, particularly the tone of ambient work on Buried Steel.

Guests on ‘Buried Steel’ include Stephen Mallinder (CABARET VOLTAIRE, WRANGLER), Syan, Eugene Robinson (OXBOW), Manuel Liebeskind, Daniel Buess (16-17, MIR) and Stephen Ah Burroughs (TUNNELS OF AH, ex-HEAD OF DAVID)

CD in 6-panel digipak with artwork contributions from Talitha Bell, Syan and Craig Earp.

Track listing:

1. We Will Win (4:06)
2. Blood Gutters 6x4x1 (4:48)
3. Intravener (2:57)
4. Yellow Light (1:54)
5. Last Furnace (5:33)
6. Night Air (4:07)
7. Judgement Is Infallible (1:48)
8. Kent House (1:17)
9. December Bureau (5:26)
10. Vandals (1:57)
11. Dog Unit (4:13)
12. Two (1:19)
13. A Non Temporal Crawlspace (4:18)
14. Intravener In Dub (Mothboy Remix) (8:12)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/buried-steel-csr278cd

Watch teaser: https://youtu.be/TVlV81HyQMg

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Album Out 13th March 2020

KHOST Intravener

Soaked in nostalgia, a tightrope between sombre & heart-warming and rich in imagery, @jeremiahcarter's Inchmix paints an atmosphere that could be drenched in hazy summer evenings or the darkest of winters. 

With many sublime releases already under his belt (@vaagner & @vienna-press in particular) Jeremiah weaves industrial, white noise and drones with spoken word & folk elements culminating in one of the stronger neo-ambient facets to come out of the US scene over the past half decade. 

This mix evolves over repeated listens, as if the story thickens or matures when more attention is given to it. A striking combination of folk, fuzzy drones, angelic vocals blended with deep southern blues, broken jazz, industrial noise and hints of psychedelic strings akin to Robbie Basho or John Fahey
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Tracklist:
J. Carter - A Few Freed Memories That Lay Bare (feat. Kelby Clark) [upcoming Vaagner and Opal Tapes]
Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares - Malka Moma
Lankum - Katie Cruel 
Jonatan Leandoer 127 & Frederik Valentin - October Poem
Horoscope - Besa el anillo con todo tu alma
Sarah Louise - Daybreak 
John Prine - Diamonds in the Rough
Indian - Clarify 
Jack Rose - Cross the North Fork 
Treasure Teeth - Finite_Linear Systems 
Xlyouris White - Goat Hair Bow
Jerry Garcia - An Odd Little Place (Studio Version)
Soho Rezanejad - Animal 
Leila Bordreuil - Sleep Cycle 
Nico - The Falconer 
Tongue Depressor - live at Cold Spring Hollow Belchertown MA 10/22/19
Rosalie Sorrels and Mitch Greenhill - Some Other Place, Some Other Time

Photo by J.Carter.

INCHMIX062: J. Carter 'Some Other Place, Some Other Time'

my take on new Abul Mogard live track, I used original track as sample base for collage and mixing it into drone sounding track.

original track:
https://abulmogard.bandcamp.com/track/the-purpose-of-peace-live

my album Expanding lands (released 15.03.2020):
https://secretpress.bandcamp.com/album/expanding-lands

my label secret press:
http://secretpress.bandcamp.com/

Abul Mogard - The Purpose Of Peace (Live) [Blear Moon Rework]

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER 'Hammerschlag' CD (CSR281CD)

"Hammerschlag" - created by FM Einheit (member of Einstürzende Neubauten early 1980's to mid-1990's), with Andreas Ammer -  features many percussive industrial elements and 'machine music' (chains, scraping, coiled springs, objects), noise, experimental electronics and provocative musical compositions familiar to the ears of Neubauten fans. An oratorio with prelude and two noise interludes, based on Russian futurist Aleksej Kapitonovič Gastev, the "bard of the machine age".

FM Einheit (Mufti) is an industrial and electronic musician and actor, primarily known for his percussion and compositional work with Einstürzende Neubauten, notably on the classic albums: "Kollaps", "Halber Mensch", "Haus Der Luege", "Tabula Rasa" and "Ende Neu". 

He played the lead role in the 1984 feature film Klaus Maeck's "Decoder". He has also collaborated with musicians such as: Diamanda Galás, Eraldo Bernocchi, Mona Mur, KMFDM, Goethes Erben and many more. Andreas Ammer has been creating works with FM Einheit since the early 1990’s.

"Just a moment longer, and through the confused chaos of these days, the legendary realisation of the future roar of events is triumphant" (A.K. Gastev, "A Bundle of Orders").

CD in glossy digipak.

Track listing:

1. Amoeba (7:07)
2. Order 01 (2:59)
3. Order 02 (4:09)
4. Order 03 (3:40)
5. Order 04 (3:39)
6. CIT (4:04)
7. Order 05 (5:07)
8. Order 06 (4:19)
9. Noise Orgy (4:37)
10. Order 07 (4:46)
11. Order 08 (2:50)
12. Order 09-10 (4:07)
13. Epilogue (3:40)

Order via Cold Spring: http://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8522

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/hammerschlag-csr281cd

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Hammerschlag

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER Noise Orgy

My first gig with the monome norns and grid. Brought nothing with me but those two, using the Timber app. All was free form, triggered from the grid with some live tweaking, but a lot of work just done by Timber's lfo's and envelopes, to be honest.

For better or worse, the mix isn't processed at all, this is live directly from the norns. I kind of think the Timber filters sounded so good, I didn't want to do any additional processing on this.

monome norns + grid - White Shores

LLYN Y CWN 'Dinorwic' CD (CSR286CD)

Llyn Y Cwn conveys atmosphere and environment through deep ambient sounds. The sound of nature re-establishing itself in the post-industrial wilderness of a former quarry. A phantasm of echoes reflecting the bleak majesty and poetic melancholy of the hinterland of North Wales. A hole within a void, a place defined by absence in a world of negative space.

The backdrop for this cavernous soundtrack is Dinorwic slate quarry. The field recordings were taken in this vast subterranean environment where an exposed scar of rock is carved out of the mountainside on the western slope of Elidir Fawr in Snowdonia, North Wales.

Standing alone in the quarry, which covers 700 acres up to a height of 600m, it isn't difficult to imagine work going on around you with the abandoned industrial landscape juxtaposed against the backdrop of the majestic Snowdonia skyline.

Each track is named after an area of the quarry, descending ever deeper through each rock gallery, with their acoustically unique echoes and sounds. The landscape is in a state of constant flux with small avalanches of rock and spoil slate tumbling over itself - it was such a landslide that led to the eventual demise of the quarry. The hydroelectric power station, built deep underground inside the mountain, can be heard rumbling away through the various air shafts dotted around the quarry, adding to the overall ominous feel of the pieces.

File next to fellow Welshman Lustmord.

Presented in a 6-panel digipak with breathtaking photography by the artist. 

Track listing:

1. Dyffryn (6:01)
2. Garrett (5:39)
3. Allt Ddu (6:40)
4. Bryn Glas (5:10)
5. Llwybr Llynog (8:48)
6. Braich (5:26)
7. Vivian (12:24)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8801

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/dinorwic-csr286cd

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Album Out: 10th July 2020

LLYN Y CWN Dyffryn

VA 'The Forme To The Fynisment Foldes Ful Selden' 2CD (CSR252CD)

We bring our dark folk series full circle on Lammas (1st August), 13 years after the release of 'John Barleycorn Reborn: Dark Britannica'. A constant theme throughout these releases has been the cyclical nature of time and the seasons, and the relationship of mankind to the natural environment, with recurrent references to John Barleycorn, personification of the harvest.

"In my beginning is my end...

Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth
Which is already flesh, fur and faeces,
Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf...

In my end is my beginning" (TS Eliot, East Coker)

32 tracks from the cream of current dark British Folk music. Of special note, PETER ULRICH (DEAD CAN DANCE) created an exclusive track especially for this collection: 'Lammas Dance'.

Digital release: 1st August
2CD release: Friday 11th September

Track listing:

Disc 1

1. WINTERFYLLETH – ‘Æcerbot III’
2. SOL-DE-MUERTE – ‘Bismerch My Name’
3. FINGLEBONE – ‘Befuddled’ –
4. TIM LANE – ‘Shadow Song (Acoustic)’
5. SOLDAT – ‘No One / No Body’
6. THE FAMILIARS – ‘The Shaming Of Agnes Leman’
7. THE SOUND OF ANTLER – ‘Niewe Tsorg’
8. BEAU – ‘The Roses Of Eyam’
9. PERKELT – ‘Ailein Duinn’
10. A TIDING OF MAGPIES – ‘Oaklands’
11. C J MANN & BECKY SHARP – ‘Fine Lines’ –
12. THORNLAND – ‘Moonlight’
13. LARYNX AND CLAW – ‘Lone Kimono’
14. MY SILENT WAKE – ‘Light And Shadows’
15. PELESER – ‘From The Horse’s Mouth’
16. ROBERT PITCHER – ‘The Golden Hair Of Maria Orsic (Part Two CSV 6116)

Disc 2

1. PETER ULRICH – ‘Lammas Dance’
2. SEDAYNELORE – ‘A Country Life’
3. WOLCENSMEN – ‘Shield And Spear’
4. BROCC – ‘Call Of The Wild Woods’
5. VENEREUM ARVUM – ‘Dragon Hills’
6. SIXPENNY WAYKE – ‘Madron Well’
7. ALEX MONK – ‘Ilud Tempus’
8. THE PSYCHOGEOGRAPHICAL COMMISSION – ‘Fires Of London’
9. SILVER OF WORLD UNION – ‘The Crossing’
10. SAND SNOWMAN (FEATURING MOONSWIFT) – ‘Samhain Rain – Arise’
11. TIM LANE & HAYLEY EVENETT – ‘Gallows Song’
12. SUNSHINE CODING – ‘We Build A Pyre’
13. COMA WALL – ‘Summer’
14. JO BETH YOUNG – ‘Rabbit Eyes’
15. NATHANIEL MANN – ‘Whip Crack Away’
16. IGNIS ASTRIFER – ‘Eldorado’

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=8829

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/the-forme-to-the-fynisment-foldes-ful-selden-csr252cd

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Digital release: 1st August
2CD release: Friday 11th September

PETER ULRICH - Lammas Dance

COIL 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' 2CD (CSR288CD)

Deluxe reissue of 2xCD 'Best Of' by the esoteric experimental pioneers.

Out of print on CD for almost two decades, Cold Spring are proud to announce the official reissue of a much sought after 'Best Of' set by the acclaimed experimental group Coil, with 'A Guide For Beginners - The Voice Of Silver' and 'A Guide For Finishers - A Hair Of Gold' being made available together in one deluxe set.

Officially licensed from FEELEE, this edition spans Coil's entire career, featuring tracks from all their major albums. They were hand-picked by Coil to represent their best work and originally released to mark their first performance in Moscow in 2001.

The artwork (text in English and Russian Cyrillic) sympathetically features the rarest of the images previously used in the original Russian and English editions and is packaged in a deluxe, glossy 8-panel digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish.

The vinyl-only edition by FEELEE was released as two separate luxurious 2xLP editions in 2018 (http://feelee.bandcamp.com). All artwork for the Cold Spring edition has been approved by FEELEE.

Double CD in an 8-panel glossy digipak with spot matt-laminate varnish. Comes with 2 glossy artcards and sticker (direct from Cold Spring only).

Track listing:

Disc 1 - A Guide For Beginners: The Voice Of Silver

1. Amethyst Deceivers (6:33)
2. The Lost Rivers Of London (7:41)
3. Are You Shivering? (9:38)
4. Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini) (6:21)
5. Where Are You? (7:51)
6. At The Heart Of It All (5:12)
7. A Cold Cell (5:58)
8. Batwings (A Limnal Hymn) (11:09)
9. Who'll Fall? (5:15)
10. The Dreamer Is Still Asleep (9:41)

Disc 2 - A Guide For Finishers: A Hair Of Gold

1. Panic (4:18)
2. First Dark Ride (10:50)
3. Further Back And Faster (7:55)
4. The Anal Staircase (3:57)
5. Red Skeletons (7:32)
6. Scope (6:35)
7. Solar Lodge (5:36)
8. Blue Rats (3:08)
9. A.Y.O.R. (3:11)
10. The First Five Minutes After Violent Death (4:59)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&amp;product_id=8917

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/a-guide-for-beginners-the-voice-of-silver-a-guide-for-finishers-a-hair-of-gold-csr288cd

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Album Out 23rd October 2020

COIL Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)

Sold In Black Velvet version

JAGATH 'Devalaya' CD (CSR290CD)

Jagath is a ritual/industrial ambient act from Perm, Russia. 

We create our music at abandoned industrial locations - the bottom of a moist underground sewer shaft and inside huge hollow oil tanks - without using digital synthesis. We use simple, mostly hand-crafted instruments, found objects and our voices. We do this to share our vision of decaying post-industrial age, to unleash the spirit of deep beyond-world and unveil life in the abyss. 

It is cold out here, in Russia, everything stays frozen for decades. Life is almost stopped, and this cannot be changed. So we have to do something so as not to freeze to death. 

"A firefly may inspire a man. Man takes a flint, flint carves sparks, sparks set fire to wood, a flame lights up. Flaring up more and more, a fire turns into a firestorm. Firestorm lives its own life". 

"Devalaya" ("Temple") was recorded in vast oil tanks from 2015 to 2018. 

6-panel glossy digipak with photography by Gregory Skvortsov and Dmitriy Frolov. 

For fans of: Shibalba, Phurpa, Arktau Eos.

Track listing:

1. Agadha (Abyss) (11:30)
2. Utthana (Rise) (7:39)
3. Catu (Conversation) (10:55)
4. Devalaya (Temple) (14:28) 
5. Nila (Darkness) (9:39)

Order via Cold Spring: https://store.coldspring.co.uk/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=9068

Order via Bandcamp: https://coldspring.bandcamp.com/album/devalaya-csr290cd

Watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/lNpOlErmLH4

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Album Out 4th December 2020

JAGATH Agadha (Excerpt)

reaching across the atlantic in one direction,
across the pacific in the other direction

the full experience: https://youtu.be/jcFJqFeuTNw
visuals by dylan schmid

in collaboration with k wilson from down under
kwils soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/kwilsonk

stems (in collab with kwils)

Buy CD or download from: https://beforeaftersilencerecordings.bandcamp.com/releases

Towards the end of 2019 I wrote & recorded Two Days part 1 
at this point it was just titled "Two Days" as I had not intended to compose a second part. My initial idea was to perhaps to do a series of long form works which would be released in the digital format, providing the inspiration continued to flow. In early 2020 I released "Two Days Pt 1" on bandcamp only and the response and support seemed very positive. 

A few more long form works happened from week to week and then the Covid Pandemic lock down arrived, I found myself out of work as many others did and my long form works seemed to be a nice antidote for many who now found themselves in a new and very uncertain routine. 

Many people asked if I planned to release these works on CD, which I liked the possibility of, however due to the proficient output of my work I doubted that any labels could take it on, so I decided to launch my own label to release these works. The original "Two Days" clocks in at 40 minutes so I decided that I would return to the piece and re work it and include a second part to give my fans/followers something extra if they wish to purchase the CD and also to utilise the space on the format.

Mick Chillage Two Days Part 2. CD & Download out now!

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

PETER ULRICH - Lammas Dance

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