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

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)

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

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Album Out 13th March 2020

KHOST Intravener

KHOST We Will Win

MINÓY 'In Search Of Tarkovsky' CD(CSR273CD)

Minóy (1951-2010), a major figure in DIY noise music, produced some of the most remarkably engrossing, beautiful and imaginative work-of-art albums released on cassette in the 1980's.

Created in 1986, "In Search Of Tarkovsky" is dedicated to the late Russian Director Andrei Tarkovsky ("Solaris", "Stalker", "Andrei Rublev" etc). A unique world of musical expression, with dense audio abstractions where the origin of any particular sound isn't quite discernible. A form of labyrinthian, droning collage electronics, otherworldly and dreamlike, at times nightmarish, at times sad, but always bold and deeply affecting.

Composed after the director's death, it contains many trademarks of Minóy's style: manipulation of shortwave radio, use of spring reverb to get those strangely echoing, claustrophobic environments, and then the howling vocals, piling-up and distorting. Minóy plainly mourns the director's death but in such a unique way there is nothing to compare it to. Two long-form, elaborate pieces (just under 1 hour), essential to Minóy's aesthetic of "cinema of the ear".

This is the first Minóy material ever to be reissued. Unavailable since the original cassette release, these tracks have been remastered from the original archive files and are presented for the first time on CD in a matt-laminate digipak.

Track listing:

1. In Search Of Tarkovsky
2. Memory Undefined (Dream As Truth)

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Album Out 13th March 2020

In Search Of Tarkovsky

MINÓY In Search Of Tarkovsky (Excerpt 1)

SONOLOGYST 'Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs' CD (CSR270CD)

Profound, ritual dark ambient and apocalyptic drones from Italy’s Sonologyst.

The veneration of the dead plays an important role in mythology and (nature) religions. It is inspired by fear for wrath of the deceased, and by obtaining their council and favours. A large part of the religious life concentrated therefore around the death cults. This led to the erection of huge monuments (mastabas, pyramids, grave-temples, and rock-graves) in Egypt... but in ancient China, Mesopotamia, and India the dead were also honoured by impressive monuments and elaborate rituals.

Although the death cults and burial rituals may be different among the nature religions, the reasons are the same; either affection towards the deceased or else fear for the soul wandering in the vicinity of the corpse and which must be appeased (with offerings, prayers, incantations). Common is also a form of cannibalism where the body is eaten in order to obtain some of the strength of the deceased. The mummification of the dead, which originated in the belief of life after death, was an important part of the death cults too.

This album is a deep musical investigation of those cults and beliefs in ancient times. Presented in a matt digipak with evocative, ritualistic artwork by Abby Helasdottir.

Track listing:

1. Purgatorium (8:07)
2. Ceremony (5:50)
3. Primeval Science (6:24)
4. Popol Vuh (4:23)
5. Anubis, House Of Dead Prince (14:59)

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Album Out 13th March 2020

Ancient Death Cults And Beliefs

SONOLOGYST Purgatorium (Excerpt)

COLOSSLOTH 'Plague Alone'(CSR277CD)

When these tracks were recorded in spring-summer 2019, when the prophetic album title was set in stone, who knew what turbulence the world would undergo, what social isolation we would endure. To face a plague alone…

This release marks a change in the sound of Colossloth. Whilst still traversing landscapes sheathed in cacophony, the layers when stripped back reveal a new sound being forged and emerging forth from the fractured sonics and sepulchral bass rumblings one has come to expect from past releases. Not so much a change of direction, but a bold move forward towards the cinematic, an instinctual transcendence born from annulled ancient currents stirred up once more into frenzied and chthonic ritual.

This new frontier in the Colossloth sound meets the familiar sense of pastoral disquiet and gleefully invigorating spatial havoc utilising a canon of sound that’s normally reserved for taking part in the creation of dimensions. Music for transportation and immersion, taming the wilderness of the ravaged psyche and sailing forth upon it’s turbulent ocean whereof whilst also a meditation on the configurations of sound and it’s transmutations wherein.

Digipak.

Track listing:

1. Little Cups Of Grace (2:30)
2. Dies Infaustus (3:25)
3. Naked Blooded & Witched (8:43)
4. Plague Alone (10:43)
5. Scylla Is Rising (5:16)
6. Silt (15:04)
7. A Fuse Like This Has To Be Lit (14:47)

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Watch video for 'Little Cups Of Grace': https://youtu.be/EzKBDRcmMA8

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Plague Alone

COLOSSLOTH Little Cups Of Grace

TUNNELS OF ĀH 'Deathless Mind'(CSR279CD)

'NO DEATH BECAUSE THERE IS NO BIRTH'.

The ambient drones and angular abstractions on 'Deathless Mind' combine to carry the listener on a disquieting journey into dark recesses. TUNNELS OF ĀH pursue a singular sonic path. Each album has been recorded with a visualised location arising in; for 'Charnel Transmissions' it was a childhood landfill, 'Thus Avici', a field of pig arks in a Golgotha landscape. How these places emerge and obsess is a mystery. 'Deathless Mind' is set on a half mile stretch of abandoned railway where various human transgressions have occurred.

With contributions from Primitive Knot on 'Ritual For The New Dumb' and Adam Probert (The Mannequin Factory) on 'Saint of Slaves', 'Deathless Mind' is an album recorded at the height of summer and sounding like the depths of winter.

TUNNELS OF AH is Stephen Ah Burroughs (HEAD OF DAVID).

Digipak.

Track listing:

1. Ritual For The New Dumb (5:46)
2. Parable Of The Sewer (6:37)	
3. The Cult Is On The Move (7:09)	
4. Saint Of Slaves (7:03)
5. Ascetic (7:07)	
6. Cum Iron In The Spine (7:10)	
7. Sanatorium Lawns (4:19)

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Deathless Mind

TUNNELS OF AH Saint Of Slaves

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)

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Album Out 15th May 2020

Hammerschlag

FM EINHEIT (EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN) / ANDREAS AMMER Noise Orgy

LA BREICHE 'Le Rite' CD (CSR280CD)

LA BREICHE (“the witch”) features YAN AREXIS (Stille Volk / Sus Scrofa / Common Eider, King Eider / Coume Ouarnède), and PATRICK LAFFORGUE (Stille Volk / Sus Scrofa / Hantaoma). The two musicians are also the creators of the cult festival L’Homme Sauvage, held in Midi-Pyrenees each year.

After their 2017 debut “Le Mal des Ardents” (Cold Spring), “Le Rite” opens a new door, with post-folk sounds close to post-rock, influenced by ancient music, with folk used in a modernist way. Dark, ambient and yet mystical… deep with grandiose landscapes.

The sound of La Breiche is situated at the crossroads of early music and dark ambient; ambient music, industrial music with a strong ritual dimension. Their electro-acoustic is music based on old instruments such as the hurdy-gurdy, mixed with analogue synths, field recordings, and ritual objects, taking a mystified look at nature, archaic societies, rites, beliefs and lores, animism.

Presented in a stunning 6-panel digipak with artwork by Dehn Sora.

For fans of: Bark Psychosis, Sigur Ros, Wolves In The Throne Room, Hexvessel, Ulver, Rosa Crux.

Promo Video for 'Le Rite': https://youtu.be/09Sf7PaQ7Bw

Track listing:

1. Incipit
2. Le Rite
3. Démiurge Thaumaturge
4. Gæstebud
5. Exuvie
6. Senta Méra
7. Etter Regnet
8. Exorcisme Apocryphe
9. Homélie Du Trépassé
10. Monastery
11. Ekklesia
12. My Celestial Journey

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Album Out 10th July 2020

Le Rite

LA BREICHE Demiurge Thaumaturge

WESTERN, CREED, SPYBEY 'W ands' CD (CSR285CD)

A posthumous collaboration between the late Phil Western (DOWNLOAD, BEEHATCH), Jesse Creed (THE PASSENGER) and Mark Spybey (DOWNLOAD, DEAD VOICES ON AIR, REFORMED FACTION, BEEHATCH).

Both Phil and Jesse shared a love for vintage analogue synthesizers such as the VCS3, and the music for "W ands" was largely created using this equipment. In the spirit of how it was created, Spybey added improvised passages using his collection of homemade and ethnic instruments and then edited the pieces.

Phil would often talk about being 'taken away' by music. Both Jesse and Mark have laboured to do this through their own music too, not as a means of escape but to transcend. This music strives to explore the desire to go beyond the ordinary everyday experience and to reach a place where the egos and the individual contributions of the players are largely inconsequential. A place where time doesn’t really matter. A place of healing and invention.

An album of expansive drones and analogue electronics, which will undoubtedly appeal to fans of Coil, Nurse With Wound, Zoviet France. Digipak.

Read the full story of this release here: www.coldspring.co.uk/csr285cd.pdf

Track listing:

1. Ace Of Wands (A Sign Of A New Beginning) (6:27)
2. Two Of Wands (New Partnerships And Relationships) (20:17)
3. Three Of Wands (Freedom, Adventure And Travel) (5:33)
4. Four Of Wands (A Cause For Celebration) (8:23)
5. Five Of Wands (Time To End The Discord And Clear The Air) (15:32)
6. Six Of Wands (Others Will Recognise Your Achievements) (11:51)

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Album Out 10th July 2020

WESTERN, CREED, SPYBEY Two Of Wands (Excerpt)

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)

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Album Out: 10th July 2020

LLYN Y CWN Braich

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’

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

PETER ULRICH - Lammas Dance

MOTHRA 'Doom Engine' LP (CSR284LP)

First time on vinyl for this cult album from Japanese Noise / Death Industrial / junk noise group MOTHRA: Jun-ichi Takahashi (Screloma), Masahiko Okubo (Linekraft / Oozepus), Fumihiro Kojima, and Masahito Nozu.

Harsh noise, rhythmic death industrial and full of Industrial junk percussion, “Doom Engine” was created using gas tanks, iron plates, junk metal, heavy bass, distorted / screamed vocals, and psychedelic sound imagery.

For fans of: early Einsturzende Neubauten / early Test Dept, Kollaps, classic German Death Industrial, but with a distinct Japanese edge.

New artwork by RSJS. Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve.

Track listing:

A1. Great God Wind (6:45)
A2. Shit Microphone Scream (5:14)
A3. Man-Mai Bastard (5:05)
B1. Death Black Square (4:24)
B2. 1/495.5 Mensch (3:10)
B3. Space Doom Engine (7:50)

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Album Out 21st August 2020

MOTHRA Shit Microphone Scream

CONTROLLED DEATH (MASONNA) / RUDOLF EB.ER 'Death Ceremonies' LP (CSR283LP)

“Death Ceremonies” is the darkest, most primitive death industrial record, soaked throughout with the smell of rotting corpses and burning bodies.

Controlled Death (MASONNA) features Yamazaki’s most compulsive Korg MS-20 drones and obsessive, disturbing vocals, drenched with anxiety and alienation. Dense atmospheres of doom, death and decay build up just to break away in deep paranoia. Rudolf Eb.er (SCHIMPFLUCH) scratches a near-dead violin over horrifying synth tones, celebrating obscure forest rituals, unearthing an archaic actionism and long forgotten witchery – decomposing his raw sounds on dusty magnetic tape.

Maso Yamazaki (best known for his extreme Japanoise project Masonna) and Rudolf Eb.er (Swiss noise-actionists of the legendary Schimpfluch circle) collaborated live and in the studio multiple times during the mid and late 90’s. Both based in Osaka, Japan, a spontaneous meeting brought up their mutual interest in degraded and primitive black metal. Discussing their own latest black brews of sinister side projects gave birth to the idea of the “Death Ceremonies” LP.

Ltd x 400 copies on 180gm vinyl in a 350gsm sleeve.

Track listing:

Rudolf Eb.er:

A1. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) I (2:35)
A2. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) II (2:13)
A3. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) III (2:50)
A4. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) IV (2:36)
A5. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) V (2:29)
A6. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VI (2:53)
A7. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VII (2:17)
A8. Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) VIII (1:39)

Controlled Death:

B1. Death Ceremony I (5:17)
B2. Death Ceremony II (0:50)
B3. Death Ceremony III (4:17)
B4. Death Ceremony IV (1:44)
B5. Death Ceremony V (1:04)
B6. Death Ceremony VI (1:50)
B7. Death Ceremony VII (2:28)
B8. Death Ceremony VIII (2:12)

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Album Out 21st August 2020

RUDOLF EB.ER Ende Leben (Hëxapoda Cëremonia) I

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)

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Album Out 23rd October 2020

COIL Ostia (The Death Of Pasolini)

COIL The Lost Rivers Of London

'I REMEMBER YOU' (ÓSKAR THÓR AXELSSON) Original Motion Picture Soundtrack CD (CSR287CD)

We are extremely proud to release the official soundtrack to the cult Icelandic horror film 'I REMEMBER YOU' (Is: "Ég man þig"). Heavy dark ambient / industrial / orchestral soundscapes composed by Frank Hall, with a beautiful, solemn, folkloristic finale featuring Icelandic choirs. A must for fans of Graeme Revell, Steven Price, Lustmord, MZ.412. Digipak.

The soundtrack was created at the old industrial area of Grandi in Reykjavík, at a studio due to be 'gentrified' and forcefully emptied of the artists. "I was alone in this large building in this deserted area, working late hours, making music for a horror movie. It was during winter... wind blowing, darkness. There were some tense moments...".

"As soon as I read the script I heard low brass in my head and that kind of stuck. We used a lot of brass instruments, filtered and processed throughout. I also ended up using a lot of bowed guitar, sometimes doubling the brass, sometimes more like a sound effect". Hall also used analogue synths on the special climactic track "Montage".

On the finale, Hall reminisces: "Móðir mín í kví kví (My Mother In The Sheep Pen) is an old Icelandic folk song. The lyrics are based on Icelandic folklore about a woman who had a baby which she couldn't afford to have and left it outside to die, wrapped in a rag. The infant then becomes what we Icelandic call "Útburður" - the ghost of a child who has been left out to die. Some time later the woman wants to go to a dance but has no pretty clothes to wear. She is in the sheep pen attending to the sheep when she hears this whispering outside: "My mother in the sheep pen, don't you worry because I'll lend you my rag, my rag to dance in". It's a rather ominous lyric and this song is sometimes sung for Icelandic babies as a lullaby... a little odd custom perhaps. I remember my mother singing this to me. This is one of my favourite Icelandic folk songs, and when I created the music for "I Remember You", which is about a lost child that haunts people, I suggested to director Óskar Thór Axelsson that I should make an Icelandic choir version of it and use it as a theme / credit song. He loved the idea".

'I Remember You' is based on the internationally acclaimed novel by Yrsa Sigurðardóttir, the "Queen of Icelandic Crime".

Track listing:

1. Intro
2. Sigling
3. Hesteyri
4. Kjallarinn
5. Bernodus I
6. Lækurinn
7. Reykjavik
8. Benni
9. Hvalstöðin
10. Montage
11. Bernodus II
12. Freyr
13. Endir
14. Móðir mín í kví kvi

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Album Out 4th December 2020

'I REMEMBER YOU O.S.T.' (Óskar Thór Axelsson) Kjallarinn

'I REMEMBER YOU O.S.T.' (Óskar Thór Axelsson) Hvalstöðin

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)

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Album Out 4th December 2020

JAGATH Agadha (Excerpt)

COIL The Anal Staircase

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.

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