greyfade

04/07/2025

greyfade is throwing a summer sale on our entire catalog, now through sunday.

all vinyl editions are 18 dollars.
all digital editions are 5 dollars.

https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com

001 joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann: LP1 (2019)
002 kenneth kirschner & joseph branciforte: from the machine, vol. 1 (2021)
003 christopher otto & jack quartet: rag'sma (2021)
004 greg davis: new primes (2022)
005 phillip golub: filters (2022)
006 joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann: LP2 (2023)
007 kenneth kirschner: three cellos (2024)
009 phillip golub: loop 7 (2025)
010 catherine lamb x ghost ensemble: interius/exterius (2025)

happy listening!

4 july 2025
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03/06/2025

Catherine Lamb's 'interius/exterius' on Bandcamp's Best Experimental.

https://daily.bandcamp.com/best-experimental/the-best-experimental-music-on-bandcamp-may-2025

"It’s like you can feel the sound inhaling and exhaling. You don’t need to know anything about how 'interius/exterius' was made to immerse yourself in its resonant tones, which slowly re-shape themselves as they move forward."

The month that was in experimental music.

30/05/2025

popmatters reviews catherine lamb x ghost ensemble's 'interius/exterius'.

out now in vinyl LP + digital formats.

08/04/2025

in this month's print issue of The Wire: Adventures In Modern Music

"Unlimited Editions: Meticulous design and sonics dovetail in New York new music label Greyfade." By Philip Watson

01/04/2025

"The weird thing about EDO systems is that they're not based on sound. They're just entirely theoretical. It's just mathematical. There's nothing about how it sounds—it has nothing to do with the overtone series." Phillip Golub interview with The Tonearm

How do you record music that can't be played on conventional instruments? For 'Loop 7,' Golub and Greyfade's Joseph Branciforte devised an ingenious solution involving a digital player piano and meticulous retuning to create the impossible.

25/02/2025

thanks to popmatters for this excellent review of greyfade's latest!

"Loop 7 is yet another in a series of ambitious experimental projects from Phillip Golub and another stunning home run for Joseph Branciforte’s Greyfade label. Both artists—as well as the musicians who join them here—are devoted to creating music that is complex, engaging, and unique. As is expected from Branciforte’s label, the sound quality is impeccable."

Loop 7 is yet another in a series of ambitious experimental projects from Phillip Golub and another stunning home run for Joseph Branciforte.

07/02/2025

greyfade's ninth release, out today!

https://phillipgolub.bandcamp.com/album/loop-7

Pianist and composer Phillip Golub continues his acoustic loops project with Loop 7, dramatically expanding the project’s scope harmonically, technologically, and orchestrationally, while maintaining the emphasis on microscopic variation within tightly controlled repetition begun on his solo debut Filters.

Composed using a 22-note per octave tuning system, the studio recording of Loop 7 employs two microtonally-tuned Yahama Disklavier pianos controlled via keyboard controller. Golub is joined by a small ensemble—consisting of scordatura electric guitar, microtonal vibraphone, and live electronics—to create an absorbing realization of the piece, uncannily situated between chamber performance and imaginary studio creation.

Phillip Golub midi-controlled disklavier pianos
Aaron Edgcomb vibraphone
Ty Citerman e. guitar
Joseph Branciforte live electronics & synthsesizer

duration: 28:20
format: ultra high resolution digital (192k/24b)

recorded at Yamaha Artist Services and Greyfade Studio.

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THE WIRE (UK): A Satie-esque melody is warped by the unusual tonality, further enhanced by the spare deployment of scordatura electric guitar, microtonal vibraphone, and live electronics. The nuanced variation, with Golub dropping 1/22 of a pitch with each cycle, makes it so mesmerizing I only hear new sonic portals opening up.

TOUCHING EXTREMES (IT): Another classic Greyfade release, which could undoubtedly appeal to fans of William Basinski’s piano-based output, but also of the more experimental side of Ryuichi Sakamoto and – apropos of crepuscular refractions – of early Gavin Bryars.

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1 track album

30/01/2025

greyfade welcomes berlin-based composer catherine lamb to the label.

lamb's deep explorations of harmony, temporality, and collective resonance have made her a defining voice in contemporary experimental music and one of the most celebrated composers of her generation.

we are excited to present the results of her several years' collaboration with new york's ghost ensemble in LP form later in 2025.

03/01/2025

coming 7 february 2025. available for pre-order now.

phillip golub's 'loop 7'.

for two yamaha disklavier pianos in 22 equal divisions of the octave, scordatura electric guitar, microtonal vibraphone, and live electronics.

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duration: 28:20
format: ultra high-resolution digital (192k/24b)

phillip golub, midi controlled yamaha disklavier pianos
ty citerman, electric guitar
aaron edgcomb, vibraphone
joseph branciforte, live electronics & synthesizer

15/12/2024

top 10 ambient of 2024 on A Closer Listen.

taylor deupree 'sti.ll' (greyfade 008)

30/11/2024

the new york city jazz record profiles greyfade in this month's issue.

05/09/2024

today's 3 dollar digital album is LP2 from joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann (2023).

head to greyfade.com/sale to grab it at greyfade or bandcamp.

the sophomore release from vocalist theo bleckmann and electronic musician & producer joseph branciforte, LP2 is a follow-up, companion piece, and evolution of the shared musical language first developed on the duo’s debut, 2019’s LP1. returning with a meticulously crafted album of even greater scope and complexity, LP2 further dissolves the boundaries between improvisation & composition, live performance & studio production, human & machine-generated sound.

POPMATTERS (US): 9/10 stars. A stunning experimental soundscape. There’s desperation, tenderness, mystery, and hope in these grooves.

PHILIP SHERBURNE / FUTURISM RESTATED (SP): Best of 2023. If you’ve ever imagined Diskont 94-era Oval reworking Meredith Monk’s Book of Days, this is the record for you.

THE WIRE (UK): Branciforte and Bleckmann trade in their own highly specific form of abstraction, beautiful and very nearly visual. Manages to make the alien sound familiar while discovering new contours, crevices, and some positively room-rattling low end.

THIS WEEK IN SOUND (US): One of the most remarkable feats of mutual support I heard in all of 2023. Bleckmann emits economical phrases with full knowledge and appreciation of what Branciforte is capable of doing, which is transforming whispers and humming and moans into beautiful, room-filling soundscapes.