Occultation Recordings

04/10/2024

We're handling Bandcamp for our friends The Everlasting Yeah's new album, Staying Cool Staying Free with The Everlasting Yeah. We expect to have LPs and CDs next week, LPs are a small pressing. https://theeverlastingyeah1.bandcamp.com/album/staying-cool-staying-free-with-the-everlasting-yeah. It's a fabulous record, of course.

7 track album

20/08/2024

The role of the critic is not – as some people think, and some critics do also unfortunately – to rip apart the work of an artist. Nor is it to offer “constructive criticism”. That role falls to, in the case of music, the manager, producer, record company or trusted advisors. Because the rol...

20/08/2024

WL//WH Review    DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand band Death And The Maiden, named after a nineteenth-century engraving by Edvard Munch which explores love, lif…

20/08/2024

20/08/2024

Cali Bellow – Goldin Scepter The project of Agriculture’s Leah B Levinson, Cali Bellow makes music concerned with the tension and interplay between the interior and exterior, real and fictional. Thematically, new album Ciao Bella owes as much to Dark Souls and The Muppets as it does Ursula Le Gu...

16/08/2024

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

16/08/2024

A reminder, particularly for any of you in London, that this is happening tomorrow. The new album is terrific...

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

19/07/2024

Our friends The Everlasting Yeah are hosting a listening party for their new album next month. If you're in London you should definitely go...

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

18/07/2024

A fine review of the new Death and the Maiden album, which is now in stock.

WL//WH Review    DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand band Death And The Maiden, named after a nineteenth-century engraving by Edvard Munch which explores love, lif…

18/07/2024

We now have the new Death And The Maiden LP "Uneven Ground" in stock. Link in comment below. Both LP and CD come feature the rather spectacular sleeve, the LP has a printed inner and the CD is a lovely gatefold.

14/06/2024

N. Hemisphere preorders are now open for the third Death and the Maiden album at: https://occultation.bandcamp.com/album/uneven-ground. We expect to have stock over the next few weeks. S. Hemisphere orders here: https://fishriderrecords.bandcamp.com/album/uneven-ground

27/04/2024

https://youtu.be/Aqg5JjQ8AiM?si=BVpAPdcdC3RZXS9b. Death And The Maiden video for Leanest Cut, from the forthcoming album Uneven Ground which we'll be releasing in the Northern Hemisphere before too long. Fishrider Records will, as always, be taking the Southern Hemisphere.

Music video by Christopher SchmelzExpired 16mm film hand processed in caffenol

08/04/2024

https://occultation.bandcamp.com/track/leanest-cut. From Uneven Ground, the third album by Death And The Maiden, out on Fishrider Records/Occultation Recordings this (N. Hemisphere) spring or summer.

06/12/2023

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/dec/06/the-wild-swans-paul-simpson-interview-liverpool-music-revolutionary-spirit

The Wild Swans frontman also formed bands with Ian McCulloch, Ian Broudie and Julian Cope – and was Courtney Love’s flatmate – but admits to being a peripheral voice in Liverpool’s music scene. A new memoir could change that

12/05/2023

The Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus are mentioned in this Eurovision-adjacent article: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/forget-liverpool-this-is-the-uks-real-music-city-h2nzz8zx9.

Not unusually there was deep division in Belfast last August when bids were invited to host the Eurovision Song Contest. The city met the criteria — a 10,000-se

22/10/2022

RAIJ's 2020 twin albums are included in this "best of the last decade list": https://progarchy.com/2022/10/21/ricks-best-of-the-decade/?fbclid=IwAR1aiZSroYOxf8lNTaoQd_T3PlBLlyYmZ_gpWImIKJjVwk9NVnrTeFpa9OY -57142

I’ve kept a spiral-bound notebook titled “Core Discs: The Honor Roll” since the mid-1990s, when I was deeply into a classical music binge at the height of that genre’s last …

02/09/2022

https://occultation.bandcamp.com/album/the-15th-antiphon. It's Bandcamp Friday and we have a new release by A Glass Darkly, formed by former member of the Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus Jon Egan. Full details at: https://mailchi.mp/7f87958f7de4/aglassdarkly_15thantiphon. Video at: https://youtu.be/8l3ieZnVgXo

https://occultation.bandcamp.com/album/the-15th-antiphonThe recording is a setting of an Orthodox Liturgical Chant for Good Friday and all proceeds from the ...