Oaken Palace Records

07/08/2023

Ok, so finally I'm getting around to informing you about a decision that I already made quite a while ago. 10 years after the release of our first record, I will drop out of running the label.

It has been a wonderful experience, and when I secured some funding for the first three releases, I never would have thought that so many more will follow - and that we will donate, thanks to your continued support, more than £18,000 towards the protection of endangered animals all around the world!

Over the past years, my focus has shifted, though. About a year ago, I started a Buddhist community close to my home village. In addition, I have to say that Brexit has taken a lot of fun out of running the label, at least for me.

But hey, Owen will continue running the label! So all is not lost. Many thanks to all of you for your support!!
Sven

23/05/2023

Oaken Palace is going on vacation shortly so get your orders in this week if you need anything!

In June and July, Bandcamp orders will be accepted but LPs and tapes won't be sent out until beginning of August. Thanks and enjoy the summer!

13/12/2022

As part of this year's The Big Give, we donated £100 from profits of Phurpa's two Sacred Sounds releases to the Wild Tiger Health fund of Wildlife Vets International. This amount was match-funded and doubled to £200. A bit less than in previous years, but better than nothing in those difficult times!

05/12/2022

We're happy to share our first donation of profits from Bombay Lunatic Asylum's "Mad Song" LP with you!
Right from the start, Louise was very clear that the album should be dedicated to the critically endangered Masai giraffe - so we donated the first $500 to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation, the world's leading organisation for protecting these amazing animals. As always - thanks to everyone who made this possible! May there be many more donations!

27/08/2022

Last minute notice! Louise Landes Levi will be performing in London TONIGHT as support at Cafe Oto. Her two Oaken Palace LPs, Mad Song and Ikiru, will be available for purchase at the venue.
https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/events/josephine-foster-august-22/

“She effortlessly dissolves barriers between herself and her fellow musicians, between music and listener, between language and expression.” – The WIRE Josephine Foster makes a welcome return to OTO with her masterful self-honed songbook - some singalongs, some deep atmospheric tales …

12/01/2022

After winter travels, we're back at the secret forest bunker where all the Oaken Palace recordings are stored! Orders received while we were away will be sent out tomorrow, and we're back to regular schedule of records/tapes being posted out 2 or 3 days after orders are completed. Happy new year!

21/12/2021

Just in time for Christmas we want to share one last donation for 2021 with you - another NZ$ 420 for the Kākāpō Recovery Program of the Mauri Ora Kakapo Trust, donated from profits of Merzbow Official's Kakapo LP.

In total, we have now donated a massive NZ$ 4,700 towards this cause (that's GBP 2,390!), so we've cracked the previous donation record set by Eternal Tapestry's Guru Overload LP.

There are still a few copies available - you can find the link in the comments!

14/12/2021

Remember how quickly the IKIRU vinyl by Louise Landes Levi sold out back in 2018? It became our first album to be repressed, and continues to generate donations - so we've donated another $250 to the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation's Monarch Butterfly and Pollinators Conservation Fund!

We have 34 copies of the LP repress left in our shop - you can find the link in the comments.

02/12/2021

It's been a tough year, but thanks to your support we are still able to make some donations before 2021 is over. Obviously, under the given circumstances we want the donations to be of the greatest possible benefit, so we've decided to donate £535 of profits from Phurpa's LP and tape releases to Wildlife Vets International as part of this year's The Big Give Christmas Challenge. This means that our donation was matched and doubled to £1070!

The money will be used to train vets in helping to reduce the often devastating conflicts between humans and big cats.

31/10/2021

Oaken Palace will be away from 10 Nov to 10 Jan! We can still take orders over that time, which will be sent out in January.

BUT! orders that come in by 8 NOVEMBER will be sent out immediately!

11/06/2021

It's getting warmer again, and we just need to sell two more Oaken Palace label shirts to break even and start donating for the pangolin! So if you need a rad, 100% organic, sustainably produced, and pangolin-coloured shirt, check it out here:

Oaken Palace Label Shirt #2 from Oaken Palace Records

07/06/2021

Great review of Mad Song at Brainwashed... 'incredibly powerful and moving, yet also impressively hallucinatory' http://brainwashed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12677:bombay-lunatic-asylum-qmad-songq&catid=50:sound-bytes&Itemid=140

Brainwashed.com - Music and more since 1996

23/04/2021

I planned to take a break from performing solo gigs after my last one on 12th Feb 2020 but... you know the rest.

So!

I've been making and composing new works and you can wrap your ears and mind around em on 20th June at Strongroom Bar

In fine company too!

Anthony Chalmers & Gareth Main will be playing some Indonesian horse riding metal to get you in the mood 🐎

Event link below

17/04/2021

Sven and myself (Owen) run Oaken Palace from different countries, but we usually have our unofficial annual meeting at Roadburn in the Netherlands... neither meeting nor festival could happen in person this year, but happily both can take place online!

And the highlights so far of the AMAZING RoadburnRedux have been previous OP collaborators: congratulations to GOLD and Nadja for their extraordinary performances at Roadburn Festival... you can watch both sets for a limited time at roadburnredux.com

19/03/2021

After the great Wire magazine ran a feature on ecologically-conscious US label enmossed, we had to write in about our similar philosophy and activities!

05/03/2021

Bombay Lunatic Asylum's new album Mad Song is now available to order!

Special editions are selling quickly, so don't wait on this one - and it's Bandcamp Friday!

3 track album

05/03/2021

You can now order your copy of Bombay Lunatic Asylum's "Mad Song", and stream the album in full on our Bandcamp page! Both standard and special editions are available.

It's Bandcamp Friday, so if you order your copy today, we don't have to pay any fees - which effectively means we can donate more money for the Masai giraffe.

3 track album

02/03/2021

Just in time for your lunch break, you can now stream the first track of Bombay Lunatic Asylum's upcoming album Mad Song!
With a running time of almost 19 minutes, "The Mental Traveller" spans over the complete A-side of the LP. A slowly evolving, melancholic duet of Louise Landes Levi's and Koen Vandenhoudt's sarangis, underpinned by Bart De Paepe's hypnotic harmonium drone. Enjoy!

Mad Song will be released this Friday, 5th March 2021, exclusively via Bandcamp.

3 track album