Officially licensed by Irwin Chusid on behalf of the Sun Ra legacy, Cold Spring Records negotiated access to rare and previously unreleased recordings drawn directly from the archives of the legendary jazz mystic. These exclusive recordings were handed to Masami Akita, the undisputed Japanese master of noise known as Merzbow, to be...
Some recordings arrive as documents from the past, and this album is exactly that — a time capsule transporting us back to the mid-eighties. Schönste Muziek, originally released in 1986 on the German label Dossier and now reissued by Cold Spring with a remastering that truly does it justice, stands as one of the...
Cold Spring is set to relaunch a genuine cult artefact, the complete soundtrack of Decoder, the visionary 1984 German film that fused industrial noise with cyberpunk dystopia. Three decades after its creation, the music accompanying this seminal work will finally see an independent CD release, offering a new generation the chance to experience its...
A Prayer For Derek Jarman stands as Psychic TV’s sonic homage to the work of Derek Jarman. This classic album is a vital document of the soundtracks created by the band for the visionary filmmaker’s prolific body of work. After remaining nearly inaccessible in its original format for three decades, Cold Spring Records resurrects...
Colossloth’s fifth album, The Harmony Knife, is not just an auditory exploration of industrial and esoteric electronic music but a deep dive into the nature of the human condition. Based on the writings of Ted Kaczynski, the infamous Unabomber, the album steers away from the morbid fascination with his terror campaign to focus instead...
Noise as an inarticulate or partially unpleasant sound, not as a musical genre, has different connotations depending on each person and the way they process it in their mind. Noise Forest, as a reference to the noise emanating from a forest, is not something that is normally associated with noise, but rather reminds us of...
It's been said by many over the years that Horror is the most flexible genre. So many ideas, themes, and styles flow through it. Craig Varian of 400 Lonely Things has spent a half-century on earth exploring almost all of it, and finds a particular sweet spot in the glut of films released in...
Broken Allures, the fifth LP by the trio Jac Berrocal, David Fenech and Vincent Epplay (following their releases on Blackest Ever Black, Akuphone, KlangGalerie), deepens their unique recording style with a musique concrete-oriented approach. Fenech and Epplay have teamed up with legendary French musician Berrocal, famous for his collaborations...
Recoiled is a rambunctious alchemy, of magikal Coil sensibilities and hi-tech home circa 90’s mixing technique, all fused in the cave-like early studios of Danny Hyde (Coil, Electric Sewer Age) / Peter Christopherson (Coil, Throbbing Gristle). Recoiled es una alquimia desenfrenada de la sensibilidad mágica de Coil y la técnica de mezcla doméstica de alta...
Megaliths, by Welsh dark ambient maestro Llyn Y Cwn, is a profound exploration of the sacred resonance of stone circles, capturing years of field recordings of the silent, enigmatic monuments that stand as timeless witnesses to the ebb and flow of existence. Megaliths, del maestro galés del dark ambient Llyn Y Cwn, es una profunda...
