greyfade

21/08/2024

final day of 3 dollar sale on LP1 from joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann (2019).

https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/lp1

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19/08/2024

over the next 3 weeks, we'll be taking a look back through greyfade's catalog, exploring our releases since 2019 with a rotating sale on each of our digital editions.

every 3 days, a new album from our catalog will be available for 3 dollars. the full schedule is at: greyfade.com/sale.

a nice chance to expand your collection and explore some greyfade releases you may have missed over the past few years.

25/05/2024

"I would dare to say that it will mark a milestone in avant-garde music."

LOOP (CL) reviews Taylor Deupree's STI.LL.
https://loop.cl/taylor-deupree

13/05/2024

read excerpts of essays by taylor deupree & joseph branciforte from the upcoming FOLIO edition of deupree's 'sti.ll' over at headphone commute.

An excerpt from a monumental project released in the newly launched FOLIO format on greyfade

09/05/2024

thanks to Freq for their wonderful write-up of greyfade's new FOLIO series and first two releases!

03/05/2024

today only, $5 on bandcamp.
joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann, LP2
https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/lp2

POPMATTERS: 9/10 stars. A stunning experimental soundscape.

IRISH TIMES: Ear-opening & mind-altering.

FUTURISM RESTATED: [Like] Diskont 94-era Oval reworking Meredith Monk’s Book of Days.

8 track album

29/04/2024

now shipping:
kenneth kirschner, three cellos
https://kennethkirschner.bandcamp.com/album/three-cellos

linen hardcover, 115 pgs., includes high-resolution album download or stream.

18/04/2024

greyfade 008
taylor deupree: sti.ll
www.greyfade.com/catalog/008

17 may 2024
FOLIO pre-order available now:
https://taylordeupree.bandcamp.com/merch/taylor-deupree-sti-ll-2024-greyfade-folio-65-x-8-hardcover-book-album-download

The second release in Greyfade’s innovative new FOLIO music release format—a 6.5 x 8” linen hardcover book with included digital music download—is Taylor Deupree’s Sti.ll.

An elaborate, authoritative acoustic re-imagining of Deupree’s seminal electronic album Stil. (2002), Sti.ll is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Deupree and arranger/producer Joseph Branciforte to bring Deupree’s explorations of extreme repetition and stillness into the world of acoustic performance.

Meticulously reconstructed and scored by Branciforte for an ensemble of clarinet, vibraphone, cello, double bass, flute, guitar, and percussion, the album approaches the rhythmic, textural, and formal complexity of Deupree's original through purely acoustic means, transposing the digital repetition of Stil. into a distinctive chamber music setting.

Performed by an ensemble of notable New York creative musicians—Madison Greenstone, Ben Monder, Laura C***s, Christopher Gross, and Sam Minaie—alongside Branciforte and Deupree themselves, Sti.ll brings the tactility and emphasis on imperfection characteristic of Deupree’s later albums to one of his most austere, process-based early works.

Greyfade’s FOLIO edition of Sti.ll features an introduction by Pitchfork’s Philip Sherburne, essays by Deupree, Branciforte, and Greenstone reflecting on the album’s conception and creation, a complete reproduction of Branciforte’s arrangements in full score, studio photography by Deupree, and digital downloads of both Sti.ll and the original Stil.—forming a comprehensive, completist’s guide to Deupree’s Stil. and its most recent transformations.

17/04/2024

On May 22, JACK Quartet joins fellow greyfade artists Taylor Deupree, Joseph Branciforte and Theo Bleckmenn at public records. JACK performs new music and arrangements by our very Christopher Otto and Austin Wulliman.

https://www.greyfade.com/publicrecords

01/03/2024

introducing FOLIO.

a new greyfade music release format that sets out to answer the question: why release music in physical form today?

https://www.greyfade.com/folio

28/12/2023

vinyl now in stock.
joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann, LP2
edition of 300.
greyfade.com/catalog/006
greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/lp2

14/12/2023

PopMatters on LP2 from Joseph Branciforte & Theo Bleckmann:

"9/10 stars. A stunning experimental soundscape and profoundly satisfying new release that builds upon their 2019 debut. There’s desperation, tenderness, mystery, and hope in these grooves. You must hear for yourself and be gently blown away."

The sophomore collaboration from experimental musicians Joseph Branciforte and Theo Bleckmann comes four years after their debut, and builds on it.

09/12/2023

out today.

greyfade 006
joseph branciforte & theo bleckmann:
LP2

(bandcamp link in bio, or visit greyfade.com)

format: vinyl + digital
duration: 41:35
edition: 300
release: 8 december 2023

'LP2' a follow-up, companion piece, & evolution of the musical language developed on 2019's 'LP1' (greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/lp1) — greyfade's inaugural release. that album was included on many of 2019's 'best of' lists and set the trajectory for the label's first chapter of releases.

branciforte & bleckmann return with a meticulously crafted album of even greater scope & complexity. building on performances from brooklyn to big ears, 'LP2' further dissolves the boundaries between improvisation & composition, live performance & studio production, human & machine-generated sound.

available in a vinyl edition of 300, with design that forms a bookend with 'LP1'. as with all greyfade releases, the album is not available on streaming services.

30/11/2023

out next friday 8 december 2023.
LP2 from joseph branciforte + theo bleckmann

pre-order the album (and read an early review of the record from ) at: https://greyfade.com/catalog/006

09/11/2023

"The team up of electronic musician Joseph Branciforte and vocalist Theo Bleckmann is one of the most remarkable feats of mutual support I have heard in all of 2023."

'this week in sound' on branciforte & bleckmann's LP2, out 8 december 2023 on greyfade.

https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/lp2

14/04/2023

on may 6, greyfade presents three of its artists in an afternoon concert at public records in brooklyn.

more info & tickets at greyfade.com/longplay

23/12/2022

now until 1 january 2023.
greyfade holiday sale.
https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com

23/11/2022

greyfade thanksgiving sale!

all digital editions are $5 through sunday.
(or $18.75 for the entire greyfade catalog)

visit:
https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com

04/11/2022

greyfade releases for your consideration this bandcamp friday.

https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/

03/11/2022

"Few labels have such a defined remit as Greyfade, who for the last few years have released a steady stream of thoughtful works concerned with precision, process & sonic nuance."

FREQ (UK) reviews greyfade's latest releases from Greg Davis & Phillip Golub, saying: "Greg Davis paints with a wonderfully purist mentality on New Primes [greyfade 004], drawing interest from the building blocks of the sonic process itself. Loitering at the other end of the sonic spectrum, Phillip Golub ’s 'Filters' [greyfade 005] is a meditative piano work that explores the affordances of performative repetition."

https://freq.org.uk/reviews/davis-primes-golub-filters/

01/11/2022

greyfade's fifth release is out now in vinyl + digital editions.

greyfade 005
phillip golub 'filters' for solo piano.
produced by phillip golub & joseph branciforte

approaching the concept of endless repetition through live performance, 'filters' unites the austerity of systems-based composition with the infinite variety & sensitivity of golub's solo piano interpretations.

listen + buy the album below.

21/10/2022

"A cutting edge album that illustrates how the performer can exert the critical creative input from within the confines of a strictly minimalist framework."

Sequenza21 previews phillip golub's 'filters' for solo piano, out next friday.

On October 28, 2022, Greyfade released Filters, a debut album of solo piano music by Phillip Golub. Based in New York, Golub has been performing for decades in both classical and improvisational settings. In Filters he explores the intersection of musical repetition and improvisation. The album c

10/10/2022

"★★★★. This is a work that, like the works of the first minimalists, demands a spirit of immersion from the listener, and as with those works, such immersion will be rewarded." AllMusic

phillip golub's 'filters' for solo piano is out 28 october 2022.

listen + pre-order:
https://www.greyfade.com/releases/filters

06/10/2022

greg davis speaks with Headphone Commute.

'new primes' now available in vinyl & digital.

https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/album/new-primes

“… since I am dealing with prime numbers there are really no repeats at all, the music unfolds and shifts according to its own internal logic…”

Today I'm speaking with Greg Davis about his latest album, "New Primes," now out via greyfade

https://hcdi.gs/NewPrimes

05/10/2022

29 october 2022:
album release for phillip golub's filters at the owl in brooklyn!

this unique afternoon show (2-5p) will feature long-duration performances of the album's loops, plus pickling.

yes, pickling... read more below.

28/09/2022

"Davis configure[s] sine tones into mind-altering excursions that bring out the psychoacoustic possibilities of JI in technicolor splendor."

Greg Davis 'New Primes' featured on Bandcamp Best Contemporary Classical.

Work from Greg Davis, Caroline Shaw, Kotoka Suzuki, and more.

16/09/2022

in anticipation of pianist phillip golub's solo debut 'filters' (out next month on greyfade), phillip is today releasing a free / name-your-price bonus track on bandcamp called 'loop 2'.

download here:
http://www.greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/track/loop-2-bonus-track

'loop 2' is one of five loops that phillip composed for his 'filters' project for solo piano. these pieces explore the concept of endless repetition through the infinite variety & human touch brought by human performance.

pre-order the upcoming album in LP or digital form at greyfade.

track by phillip golub

16/09/2022

in anticipation of pianist phillip golub's solo debut 'filters' (out next month on ), phillip is today releasing a free / name-your-price bonus track on bandcamp called 'loop 2'.

download here:
http://www.greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/track/loop-2-bonus-track

'loop 2' is one of five loops that phillip composed for his 'filters' project for solo piano. these pieces explore the concept of endless repetition through the infinite variety & human touch brought by human performance.

pre-order the upcoming album in LP or digital form at {www.greyfade.com}.

02/09/2022

greyfade releases for your consideration this bandcamp friday!
https://greyfade-label.bandcamp.com/

pre-order our upcoming recordings from greg davis & phillip golub.

plus recent albums from jack quartet, kenneth kirschner, joseph branciforte, & theo bleckmann.

24/08/2022

announcing greyfade 005.
phillip golub, 'filters' for solo piano.

pre-order vinyl LP + digital:
https://www.greyfade.com/releases/filters
out 28 october 2022.

a beautifully meditative and architectural set of loops for solo piano, 'filters' is the solo debut of pianist and composer phillip golub (b. 1993). approaching the concept of endless repetition through the prism of his radiant pianism, golub’s loops unite the austerity of the systems-based with the infinite variety & imagination of live performance.

"a new minimalist treasure." -- polyphonia (pl)

produced by Phillip Golub + Joseph Branciforte