Cold Spring Newsflash

COLD SPRING 2018 RELEASES

Here are some of our forthcoming releases for early-mid 2018!

Imminent:

PSYCHIC TV 'Kondole' 2CD+DVD CSR246CD (23rd January) - 8-panel digipak w/ booklet
CORRUPTED 'Felicific Algorithim' 12" Ltd CSR240LP (early February)
NDE 'United' CD CSR247CD (late January / early February)
MAYUKO HINO 'Lunisolar' CD CSR245CD (February) - digipak
MZ. 412 'Ulvens Broder' 10" Ltd CSR248EP (feat Tomas from Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio) (March)

The NEW Cold Spring CD sampler! CSR250CD (February)

Plus new albums from:

C.3.3. (= Test Dept) 'Ballad of Reading Gaol - The Cacophonietta'CD CSR255CD - digipak
NYTT LAND 'Oðal' CD CSR249CD - digipak
SHE SPREAD SORROW 'Midori' CD CSR251CD - digipak
MAYUKO HINO 'Phenomenon' 10" Ltd CSR252EP - coloured vinyl
SONOLOGYST 'The Conspiracy Theory Dossier' CD CSR253CD
LEFT HAND RIGHT HAND 'Biting The Hands That Bleed You' CD CSR254CD - early archival collection

DET KÄTTERSKA FÖRBUND (= Nordvargr + Trepaneringsritualen) 'Lidaverken Parts I-III' 3 x 10" series

MZ. 412 CD / LP - the long-anticipated new album!

COLD SPRING CHRISTMAS DRAW!

The results! All prizewinners have been notified.

1st Prize: Phil Eaglesham, Glasgow, UK

2nd Prize: Clair Oloman, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, UK
3rd Prize: Adele Bell, Bolton, UK
4th Prize: Mario Walschaerts, Deurne, BE
2017 RELEASE ROUND-UP!

Here's a look back at another great year for Cold Spring releases!

JOTUNSPOR
'Gleipnirs Smeder'
CD
(CSR244CD)

COLOSSLOTH
'Heathen Needles'
CD
(CSR235CD)

BARRY ADAMSON
+ PAN SONIC
+ THE HAFLER TRIO
'The Hymn Of The 7th Illusion' 12" (CSR241LP)

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER
'Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside' CD (CSR243CD)









VA
'Visions Of Darkness
(In Iranian Contemporary Music'
2CD (CSR242CD)

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'Perfection & Permanence' BLOOD RED LP
(CSR198LP)

PENNY RIMBAUD'S KERNSCHMELZE II
'Cantata For Improvised Voice'
CD (CSR239CD)

SUN RA | MERZBOW 'Strange City'
GREEN LP
(CSR229LP)









KRZYSZTOF PENDERECKI
'Kosmogonia'
CD (CSR238CD)

KHOST
'Governance'
CD (CSR237CD)

SHIFT
'Abandon'
CD (CSR236CD)

SHE SPREAD SORROW
'Mine'
LP (CSR231LP)









TENHORNEDBEAST
'Death Has No Companion'
CD (CSR227CD)

NYTT LAND
'Fimbulvinter'
CD (CSR234CD)

SKULLFLOWER
'The Spirals Of Great Harm'
2 x CD (CSR225CD)

LA BREICHE
'Le Mal Des Ardents'
CD (CSR224CD)









TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'Deathward, To The Womb'
CD (CSR222CD)

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN
'Deathward, To The Womb'
LP (CSR222LP)

ZOS KIA / COIL
'Transparent'
CD (CSR230CD)

ZOS KIA / COIL -
'Transparent'
2 x LP (CSR230LP)









COLD SPRING RELEASES

- PSYCHIC TV-

OUT 23/01

PSYCHIC TV 'KONDOLE / DEAD CAT' 2 x CD + DVD (CSR246CD) £23

Cold Spring are proud to announce "Kondole / Dead Cat" - a double CD and DVD collection, presented in a lavish 8-panel matt digipak with booklet. The RARE film features: DEREK JARMAN, ANDREW TIERNAN (‘The Pianist’, ‘300’, ‘The Bunker’, Derek Jarman’s ‘Edward II’) and GENESIS P-ORRIDGE.

CD1: features the complete, long version of ‘Dead Cat’.

"...what could be more beautiful that such a sustaining & chronic radical as Gen could have provided us all - in the form of KONDOLE - with a piece of truly necessary Everyday Listening?" (Julian Cope / Head Heritage).

CD2: contains 3 tracks: Thee First Part, ‘Thee Whale’ was recorded at Time Square Studios, Chiswick, London, on thee 23rd January 1988. It is thee soundtrack to an unmade 23 minute film called "Kondole (Thee Whale)", by David Lewis and Andy Crabb. Thee Second Part, ‘Thee Shadow Creatures’ was recorded at Hyperdelic Studios, San Francisco on 23rd January, 1993. Thee Third Part, ‘Dead Cat’ was recorded at Time Square Studios, Chiswick, London, on thee 23rd January 1989. It is thee soundtrack to the film “Dead Cat” by David Lewis.

DVD: The film ‘Dead Cat’ was released in 1989, and shown only at a handful of cinemas that year, including once at the infamous Scala Cinema in London. It was never issued on general release and has only recently been uncovered by David Lewis (writer & director). We present the full film, re-authored from the original source. The film itself features unique starring roles from cult film director DEREK JARMAN, ANDREW TIERNAN (‘The Pianist’, ‘300’, ‘The Bunker’, Derek Jarman’s ‘Edward II’) and GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle). The film features the music of Psychic TV, included here on CD1, in its complete form.



- JOTUNSPOR (WARDRUNA + GORGOROTH) -

OUT NOW!

JOTUNSPOR 'GLEIPNIRS SMEDER' CD (CSR244CD) £10.50

King Ov Hell (Gorgoroth, Sahg, God Seed) and Kvitrafn (aka Einar Selvik of Wardruna, Skuggsjá, Gorgoroth) teamed up and formed Jotunspor ("tracks/traces of giants").

Musically, "Gleipnirs Smeder" binds grim and primitive black metal together with elements of noisy dark-ambient, while the concept of Jotunspor is strongly founded in the old Norse cults and beliefs. "Glepnirs Smeder", or the The Forgers of Gleipnir, explores some of the incidents surrounding the creation of the world and Ragnarok - the ultimate doom / transformation. The chain Gleipnir, its forgers from the depths of Svartalvheim and Fenris - the chained jotun-wolf are some of the most important themes on the album, on which the lyrics are sung in Norwegian and Old Norse tongue.

Produced and engineered in Norway by Kvitrafn, the album was originally released in 2006 by our sub-division Satanas Rex. Digipak.



- COLOSSLOTH -

OUT NOW!

COLOSSLOTH 'HEATHEN NEEDLES' CD (CSR235CD) £10.50

On his second album, Colossloth continues his esoteric sonic crusade of volatile yet absorbing audio textures. Cold electronica, with swathes of rhythmic power noise and industrial harshness, tempered with penetrating song structures.

Eleven tracks of austere, reflective and exploratory electronics for journeys made into the hidden realms underpinning daily life, spanning the bridge between gnosis and praxis. The dissonance of opposites falling into elemental synthesis with a sound and approach influenced from the past, present and future, letting us remain anachronistic yet temporal voyeurs in the abyss evoked forth.

Digipak.



COLOSSLOTH COMBO!

BUY BOTH RELEASES FOR A SPECIAL COMBINED PRICE!

COLOSSLOTH - 'Heathen Needles' CD (CSR235CD)
COLOSSLOTH - 'Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth' CD CSR214CD)

- BARRY ADAMSON + PAN SONIC + THE HAFLER TRIO -

OUT NOW!

BARRY ADAMSON + PAN SONIC + THE HAFLER TRIO 'THE HYMN OF THE 7th ILLUSION' 12" (CSR241LP) £16

Pan Sonic, arranged and edited by Barry Adamson, with an additional re-arrangement by The Hafler Trio. Here, Barry Adamson and Pan Sonic is performed by the Hljomeyki choir and Pan Sonic. "...a blend of an Icelandic choir performing Barry's (treated) microtonal, urgent score is slowly infiltrated, first with an electronic breath and then by well-rounded bass that evolves into a satisfactory crescendo before the scary humhum returns... highly successful" (Vital Weekly).

The Hafler Trio's wonderful extended reworking "weaves strong drones together before levelling them to start anew. At times it sounds eerily like the soundtrack to "the monolith" from Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, but the intermittent digital crackles and processing bring the listener forcefully up to the present tense. If you are interested in abstract and experimental electronic music, the Hafler Trio deliver a solid remix".

35 minutes. Originally released on CD by Icelandic label Kitchen Motors in 2001, now released on vinyl for the first time by Cold Spring.

Produced by Barry Adamson, Jóhann Jóhannsson, and Pan Sonic. The cover art features Icelandic electronic composer Magnús Blöndal Jóhannsson having a brain scan performed while listening to this disc.

180g vinyl with matt card sleeve. Comes with download card.



- COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER -

OUT NOW!

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER 'SHRINES FOR THE UNWANTED, RESPITE FOR THE CAST ASIDE' CD (CSR243CD) £10.50

The triumphant reawakening of San Francisco’s masters of behemoth ritualistic darkness…

Within “Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside”, bone, antler and voice produce connective threads between the worlds, as guitar and percussion punctuate shifts in mood. Voices call to the spirits, and the spirits call back in return. Recorded in 2016 during four private, collective only rituals, the pieces pull the listener through the darkest and most overgrown trails of the blackest forest. Monumental and horizonless ritualistic black ambience. Vocal visitations by A.C. Way of Sutekh Hexen.

Spot-varnished digipak.



COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER COMBO!

BUY BOTH RELEASES FOR A SPECIAL COMBINED PRICE!

COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - 'Shrines For The Unwanted, Respite For The Cast Aside' CD (CSR243CD)
COMMON EIDER, KING EIDER - 'Extinction' CD CSR219CD)

OUT NOW ON COLD SPRING:

VARIOUS ARTISTS 'Visions Of Darkness (In Iranian Contemporary Music' 2CD (CSR242CD £12

TREPANERINGSRITUALEN 'Perfection & Permanence' LP (CSR198LP) £16

PENNY RIMBAUD'S KERNSCHMELZE II 'Cantata For Improvised Voice' CD (CSR239CD) £10

A gathering of majestic, heavy, dark ambient, ritual, drone and noise music from Iran. Highly original and monolithic, with stunning production, Visions Of Darkness stands shoulder to shoulder with the giants of the Dark Ambient scene. The growth of the experimental electronic scene in Iran is going to be about more than a mere novelty reaction to a political paradigm shift. The darkness here is a consequence of the mood of the artists. Iranian artists have a great difficulty getting the resources to better develop their projects. Despite this, the enthusiasm and will for them to promote their music shines through. Artists: Ali Phi, Alphaxone, Anunnaki Signal, Crows In The Rain, Downtown Of HongKong, DSM, Hossein RangChi, idft, Limen, Mehdi Behbudi & Vahide Sistaani, Narcissa Kasrai, Nojan, Nyctalllz, Poo Yar, Reza Solatipour, Rhonchus, Saint Abdullah, Soheil Soheili, S.S.M.P., Xerxes The Dark, XSIX.

Trepaneringsritualen explores themes of religion, magick and the hidden realms of consciousness, taking its musical cues from the old school of ritual ambient & death industrial. Rhythmic and seething at times, and oozing forward with a creeping sense of desolation at others, Trepaneringsritualen conjures forth bleak but mesmerizing visions of the end-times.
A conversation with angels, in archaic tongues. Ceaseless, blood-churning, terrible; an incoherent accusation by the mirror image, he who's blood was shed to atone another man's sins. Without bloodshed there can be no salvation. L "...a perversely satisfying experience... Ekelund has created that most chimeric of beasts: an accessible, even what some might say commercial, noise album." Ltd x 500 copies on blood red vinyl.

Kernschmelze: ‘the dying gasps of the Age of Enlightenment’. 'Kernschmelze II' is a cantata for voices, in this case the voice of CRASS songstress EVE LIBERTINE, processed by CHARLES WEBBER to almost choral proportions. Working on Kernschmelze II alongside Eve Libertine, PENNY RIMBAUD has been able to produce a classic album on a par with their ‘Acts of Love’ of 1984 (Crass Records). Libertine’s sparse, vulnerable poetics counter the almost Wagnerian scale of the work, challenging preconceptions of what music should be and making strong suggestions as to what it might yet become. Extreme electronics sourced solely from vocal sounds to create noise music of an intense and highly demanding nature. Ecopak with artwork by GEE VAUCHER.







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