CIA Records Houston / Starvation Dance Productions

01/10/2025

Video number two, from the new "Psychosis to Song" album. The track, titled "Psychosis", is by Can't Take a Picture (Dan Workman and Nikki Hune) who made this moving portrait of an intense journey.

I (Heather) made the video - most of the footage was shot in and around a large retention pond I have studied hard for an art project I've been working on for over a year (called The Brio Memory Project - another story, obviously). The site was once a subdivision containing 677 houses - demolished after countless people were sickened from toxins leached into the soil and groundwater from the Brio Superfund site that the houses had been built right next to. You would not know what had transpired there if you were to walk in the site now. To me it symbolizes trauma and the possibility for healing. Appropriate for this song.

https://youtu.be/Vp9qDCUg2bI?si=DX_D2jYkNu7JRAsY

The rest of the album is just as amazing. Listen to it on CIA's Bandcamp page at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/album/psychosis-to-song

"Psychosis", by "Can't Take a Picture" (Dan Workman and Nikki Hune) was recorded for the album and project, "Psychosis to Song", released in January, 2025. T...

01/09/2025

We have a new video by John Reen Davis that transports us into "Angel's Trumpet", a track by Evan Forbes, from "Psychosis to Song", just released yesterday. Rich, creepy, dense, but somehow ethereal.

Enjoy here, on JRD's YouTube page: https://youtu.be/Dpp5uWw_j_s?si=1VaByyPMBQ8Oq8aJ

Then give the rest of the album a listen on Bandcamp at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/album/psychosis-to-song

artist: Even Forbesalbum: Psychosis To Song A recording project, documentary film, and research project conceptualized by Dr. Nikki Hune, co-produced with Da...

01/09/2025

"Psychosis to Song" is out!

This is an intense labor of love, a long time in the making, with many people to thank for it. 13 musicians who are also psychiatric patients, led by Nikki Hune and Dan Workman and joined by guest musicians, all came together to make this happen. Bob worked with Houston's brand new record press, 610 Record Manufacturers, to put out immaculate, incredibly high quality 12" vinyl, with dust resistant, lined sleeves and re-usable poly bags (no shrink wrap!). The hundreds of gorgeous photos tiled on the front cover are by Casey Whitt; layout by yours truly. Much gratitude is owed to The MendCenter and others for sponsoring the project.

We are beyond excited and grateful that this project has come to fruition. We hope you enjoy it!

https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/album/psychosis-to-song

More info on the CIA site here:
https://www.cia-records.com/psychosis-to-song

01/05/2025

2 BANDS FOR $2
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01/02/2025

Thank you, Timothy Muddiman for mentioning us in your interview with Blitzed Magazine! 2025, bring it on 😈💞🙌🏼

12/16/2024

A fine reggae/jazz composition from one of the Manifestation compilation artists, Michael O. Johnson. The video was created with the help of Tim Sternat, our colleague and collaborator in Portland, OR.

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12/13/2024

Save the date!

On Friday, January 10, at Rec Room Arts, CIA will release an album called "Psychosis to Song" during an event that includes screening of short films that challenge mental health stigmas. "Psychosis to Song" is a collection of recordings that rose from collaborations between guest musicians and psychiatric patients, made to explore the therapeutic benefits of music and creativity on mental health. This project, lead by Dr. Nikki Hune and Dan Workman, with Bob Weber, has been a year in the making!

You won't want to miss this one! More information coming soon.

12/06/2024

UPDATE:
We're keeping the Manifestation sale going through the weekend, everybody - that's all CIA Manifestation releases in vinyl (and one CD) bundled together for just shy of half price (a $63 value for $35). The new code will work on Manifestation LPs (including the Man 11.5 CD). Bob's got them all bundled together and will ship them from wherever he happens to be. You just order each one from CIA's Bandcamp store and enter the following:

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This is a great deal! Don't miss out.
https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/merch

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Bandcamp Friday is tomorrow, y'all. Bob wants to hit it early - like NOW - with a deal that lasts through Friday night (December 6th, that is, at 11:59pm).

Our Manifestation compilations offer independent music from around the world, representing all kinds of electo, broken by moments of metal, 21st century new wave, and other sounds you can't categorize, in 3 LPs and one CD, wrapped up in the layered, trippy artwork of our very own Tim Sternat.

Call it a holiday special: you can get all three LP’s (Manifestations 9, X and 11) and one CD (Manifestation 11.5), a $63 value for only $35, plus applicable tax and shipping. At this price you can afford multiple copies to give to your vinyl-loving friends. Use the code below to activate your discount when ordering at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/merch. (Note: the discount will be honored with physical Manifestation vinyl and CD purchases only).

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Order now and support your local, weird, loving Houston record label. We always appreciate it.

Peace and love, y’all. And Happy Holidays!

Bob/Heather/Jim
CIA Records

11/19/2024

Check out the track SUPERMARKET on the Manifestation X LP:

"Supermarket" by Tank Fight in Death Town. On "Manifestation X" released by CIA Records Houston / Starvation Dance Productions, copyright 2023, available on ...

11/03/2024

We are incredibly pleased to announce a new collaboration with musician and artist - starting right now.

Tim Muddiman is from Northampton, England. His music career was slowly born out of a deep love of Rockabilly, a Roland TR808 drum machine and the texture of an infectious and rhythmic melody. By his teens Tim was djing at all night illegal Raves in the UK and by his twenties was touring Europe in a few different Industrial bands on guitar or bass guitar. For the first time, at 28, Tim stepped into a role in Gary Numan’s band and for the next two decades would play almost 400 shows around the world as Gary’s bass player or guitarist. In between a sometimes-busy tour schedule Tim played and wrote music for local Rockabilly band Junkyard and joined the Electronic Punk and alternative Hip Hop band Pop Will Eat Itself, as their guitarist. In 2015 Tim produced and co-wrote a number of songs on PWEI’s latest album, Anti Nasty League.

To critical acclaim, Tim wrote two albums titled, Paradise Runs Deeper and Domino Blitz in his own name and performed with band mates known as The Strange between 2014 and 2018. After a long tour with Gary Numan and at the end of 2018, Tim took a long break from the world of music to concentrate solely on painting to which he continues to do today. Now, in November 2024, Tim is joining us to release three new ep’s in 2025. The music is self described as being like snakes of guitars gargling on the throat of an emotional bass string while sparse percussion and the English word create an abstract mind scape for the multi directional physche.

Welcome, Tim!

Bob/Jim/Heather

10/19/2024

I had time a couple months back to catch up on my listening to Genetic Memory Radio, Austin & Carol's show on KTRU in Houston, TX. At just about an hour in Austin is talking about a double album of "sounds made by plants and fungi". Then he announces an entire set of music by Ralf Armin Kaethner. It's great lo-fi grunge, spooky stuff - my inadequate descriptives. It starts out with the INTROVERTS (this is at about 1:03) which was one of the early C.I.A. Records groups. That was a cassette only release at the time. Then about 1:19 it slides into one of the all time classics, "Atomic Bomb" by CULTURCIDE! That one also started out as a cassette release but I had an LP version (CIA-007) pressed by Wakefield Manufacturing, my go to back then. What an amazing song with Perry Webb's original lyrics, Ralf, Robb May on small digital devices, Dan Workman for the screaming guitar track, and the drums were probably Bart (sorry, I should remember that - I'm sure someone will help me). Enjoy!

I have been doing radio for 40 years now. This means I really know what I am doing. However, it also means that I am slowing down with advancing age. To cope with this, I am playing more long tracks and less short ones. So this show features more lengthy cuts, but still in the general ouvré of musi...

10/11/2024

Just the other day Bob encountered some especially lovely Facebook praise on one of CIA's most exceptional, but overlooked releases, a collaboration between Dan Workman and Steve Silverstein called "Antiquated Views of the Future" that came out in 2021. Pressed on orange vinyl and packaged in gorgeous graphics that leave you wondering what the hell is going on, it's pretty great to see this being appreciated.

If you haven't heard it, give it a listen at https://antiquatedviewsofthefuture.bandcamp.com/album/thread-count

Enjoy, and thank you, Mike Trouchon, wherever you are!

10/04/2024

Hey everybody.. it's been a hell of a summer, with each of us (Bob, Jim and Heather) immersed in our own worlds, with major ventures taking us away from this space for a while. But it's October, the light is changing (even if the temps aren't), and as the season shifts, we are excited to pick back up on and push to fruition CIA projects that have been in the works for months, as well as new ones we're looking forward to for winter and spring late this year and early next.

For now, since it's Bandcamp Friday, we're offering up a half-off discount on Geltab, a collection of electronic studio tracks emerging from the rich sonic history of our very own Scott Ayers, on 180-gram vinyl. The discount means you can get the album for $7, plus shipping and tax, today only! Input the discount code "bcf10424" when you order at https://ciarecords2.bandcamp.com/album/geltab . It'll ship within 5-7 business days.

Thanks everybody, and a Happy Spooky Season to all!

12 track album