The Crystal Cabinet

01/03/2024

50% off our current digital catalogue 🧡 delve into the worlds of viola da gamba, electro acoustic composition, meditative guitar tones, the intricacy of pianos and a celestial prog smorgasbord of a mellotron only record.

Click on any artist profile to redeem 🎟️

25/12/2023

As close as we get to a Christmas party. Vault of Heaven by Lucy Valentine belated album launch. Big thank you to The Oneirologist for bringing the bass clarinet artistry, Poppy Cockburn for the transportative spoken word poetry and Cloud of Flies for the unearthly bass tones and sweet harmonies.

A gratuitous thank you to 101 Social for hosting the evening alongside Salon Gallery for the accompanying exhibition and Other Echoes for making the best connections in the auditory realms ⛓️ Merry Xmas 🗡️

14/12/2023

All cassettes now sold out thank you 🤍

Go and support our brethren: Echodelick Records, Ramble Records, Panurus Productions, Cruel Nature Records Cardinal Fuzz & Hive Mind Records. Make your super niche festives merry 🎄 ♥️

09/12/2023

Vault of Heaven pop up exhibition this weekend at Salon Gallery, Margate 🪐 The full collage artwork for the release on display
alongside video and album by Lucy Valentine.

We also have Crystal Cabinet merch, prints, cassettes and vinyl for sale 🎞️

01/12/2023

Vault of Heaven by Lucy Valentine is now live. Limited 30 cassettes of 70 minutes of mellotronic unearthly celestial prog. Each piece of music was created to an accompanying artwork which can be found in the book 📕 also up for sale alongside the cassettes.

https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/vault-of-heaven

30/11/2023

Tomorrow…

22/11/2023

Futuristic medievalism has landed. Save the date 💍

31/12/2022

2022 from The Crystal Cabinet. Thank you to everyone who has picked up our releases and thank you as always to the artists for their wonderful work 🙏

Happy New Year everyone 💎

09/12/2022

Thank you for all the support for Matt Marble’s Living Mirror debut vinyl release. Proud to say these beauties were produced within a 25 mile radius before leaving for 🇺🇸 and 🇦🇺 and to everywhere else around the 🌍 they have been picked up. As always, please check out Matt’s incredible Secret Sound podcast or pick up a copy in our 🇬🇧 bandcamp store.

Considering the economic climate we are all enduring: all listens, comments and shares are greatly appreciated. Thank you 🤍

20/11/2022

Another Living Mirror out in the wild 🌿 Thank you isolationjams 🙏

14/11/2022

Nick Roseblade’s initial review for The Living Mirror over at God Is In The TV Zine.

🇬🇧 shipping starting this week.

New labels are exciting. They usher in an unlimited amount of promise. Much like a new exercise book at the start to term. They are unblemished. They haven’t

11/11/2022

Matt Marble's The Living Mirror is now live. Printed in the North East on beautiful limited edition matching white vinyl. When reviewed on initial cassette release in 2021, writer Nick Roseblade said: “there is something fragile about these songs, like they have been created out of glass”, and it’s these delicate moving musical motifs that make Living Mirror such a special record.

Purchase now at: https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com

🇺🇸 distribution at Echodelick Records and 🇦🇺 at Ramble Records

09/11/2022

This Friday Matt Marble’s Living Mirror 🪞 is released on beautiful white vinyl in collaboration with friends Echodelick Records 🇺🇸 & Ramble Records 🇦🇺

03/11/2022

Save the date: 11/11

As the year comes full circle, Matt Marble’s The Living Mirror makes a return to The Crystal Cabinet into beautiful limited white vinyl 🙏

Working alongside our friends at Echodelick Records 🇺🇸 & Ramble Records 🇦🇺 to bring a wider distribution to this beautiful release 🤍

31/10/2022

Exciting news brews, Happy Halloween everyone 🎃

19/10/2022

Thank you to Slack City radio for the play of Bicameral Mind from Sarira last week on Signal To Noise show curated by Nick Roseblade. Catch up here 🎠

Sometimes you hear a piece of music and don’t know what to make of it. You know you like it but are unsure if its any good. This sounds like a weird value judgement, but its true. One this week’s Signal to Noise there is an album played in full. This isn’t something that has happened very ofte...

07/10/2022

Down to the last handful ⛪️

06/10/2022

Thank you Ambient Blog & Peter Van Cooten for the Sarira write up and preview of Martijn Comes and Frans De Waard new work 'Equal Weights' ✨

Two collaborations of Martijn Comes with Frans de Waard and Nicoleta Chatzopoulou.

05/10/2022

Thank you Rewire. Martijn Comes live performance of Radiance, Time at the Stevenskerk, Nijmegen the first side of Sarira.

Cassette numbers are now very limited ✨

Throwback to the Resonance event at the Stevenskerk in Nijmegen! 🤩 This project was done in collaboration with RE:VIVE back in November 2019 as part of the Rijksdienst voor Religieus Erfgoed's Kunst & Kerk initiative.⁠

The recording of this performance has now been released: Martijn Comes' two commissioned compositions (+1 more) "Radiance" and "Time" are available via The Crystal Cabinet: thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/album/sarira

29/09/2022

'Bicameral Mind' is side B of Sarira, the beautiful collaboration and composition between Athens based composer and viola da gamba player Nicoleta Chatzopoulou & Martijn Comes.

Described by Tobias Fisher: "Chatzopoulou's original lines and bowings juxtaposed against mysterious electronic transformations of Comes’s guitar notes and the eery rattling of tuning pegs. The subtle twang of the viola, and the surprisingly rhythmical quality of the performance add up to an experience that is equally of this and another world." ✨

28/09/2022

The Sarira tapes by Martijn Comes and Nicoleta Chatzopoulou have landed. Beautiful teal shells with on body print.

Ltd to 30 copies 🇬🇧

21/09/2022

As we move into autumn, the incredibly beautiful Sarira by Martijn Comes & Nicoleta Chatzopoulou has just landed ✨

3 track album

20/09/2022

Incoming 📯

02/09/2022

Just a thank you for all the Cabinet support, listens, likes and purchases. Greatly appreciated as we go forthright into the economic unknown here in the UK 🇬🇧

As always, digital sales go directly to the artist and we have a small handful of copies of the blinding Exorcism in America by Arrington de Dionyso & Ben Bennett left. Exorcism was a chance encounter, a midnight listen and I can categorically say, that apart from a small handful of music that has felt categorically cosmic on sober listening, this jars you to the core. We Will Never Return to What Was Before is not only prescient, but also a personal favourite. Don't sleep on it ♥️

26/08/2022

Start your weekend early 🔥

Exorcism in America by Arrington de Dionyso. With contemporary rendition of "Judith Beheads Holofernes" c.1612 inspired by Artemisia Gentileschi.

Ltd. run as always 🙏

https://thecrystalcabinet.bandcamp.com/