Charnel Music

Charnel Music is an independent record label devoted to putting out eclectic and improvisational music. The label was formed in 1988 by Mason Jones as "Charnel House"[1] and had initially released works by his band Trance. The label's name later changed to "Charnel Music,"[1] and went on to release music by influential acts such as Melt Banana, Merzbow, and The Pain Teens. Charvel is one of the first independent labels that focused on noise music and music from Japan.

History

Charnel's first release was Trance's Fatal Blow on cassette. More cassettes releases from Trance as well as other local San Francisco groups followed. The label focused on other projects after the release of the Arrhythmia CD compilation in 1990.[1]

Charnel released music from up-and-coming as well as bands that already possessed a cult following (such as the Pain Teens). For the next eight years, releases by acts such as Gravitar, Crash Worship, and Jones' own SubArachnoid Space had followed. The label also put out releases by Japanese bands such as Melt Banana and Fushitsusha, and compiled a three-part Land of the Rising Noise series that featured all Japanese bands.

Charnel had two sub-labels. The first was Document and Eyewitness, whose sole release was P. Children's Documentation 1987-1992. The other was Circular Reasoning, which was formed in 1995 and put out albums such as Tel Basta's Lickerish and the groundbreaking Bohemian Special by The Gay Barbarians and/or the Jaurwars.

Charnel ceased their operations in 1999 and was briefly resurrected in 2007 for the CDR releases of Mason Jones' Unreleased Themes For Caged Heat 3000 and Numinous Eyes' The Farthest Thing.[1] The label is currently on an indefinite hiatus.[2]

List of releases

Compact Disc

No. Year Artist Title
1 1990 Various artists Arrhythmia
2 1991 Trance Automatism
3 Crash Worship ¡Espontaneo!
4 1992 Various artists Dead Tech 3: New Japanese Music
5 Various artists Documentation 1987-1992
6 KK Null & Jim O'Rourke New Kind of Water
7 1993 Various artists Arrhythmia II
8 Flying Testicle Space Desia
9 Various artists Land of the Rising Noise
10 1994 Crash Worship Triple Mania II
11 Gravitar Chinga su Corazon
12 Ruinzhatova Ruins-Hatoba
13 Hybryds The Rhythm of the Ritual
14 Torture Chorus In the Land of Lullabye
15 Allegory Chapel Ltd. When Angels Fall
16 1995 Trance Augury
17 Gravitar Gravitaativarravitar
18 1996 Aube + Cock E.S.P. Maschinenwerk
19 Mainliner Mellow Out
20 Various artists Arrhythmia III
21 1997 C.O.T.A. Ta'Wil
22 1996 SubArachnoid Space Delicate Membrane
23 1997 Various artists Land of the Rising Noise Vol. 2
24 Gravitar Now the Road of Knives
25 Mainliner Mainliner Sonic
26 Kadura From the Depths of the Other Space
27 Walking Timebombs Walking Timebombs
28 Onna-Kodomo Syuuka
29 Vas Deferens Organization Sweat Your Cheeses, But Not in My Salad
30 1998 Fushitsusha Gold Blood
31 Mason Jones International Incident
32 Pain Teens Pain Teens
33 1999 Various artists Land of the Rising Noise Vol. 2

Cassette

No. Year Artist Title
1 1988 Dada Fish Means By No Means
2 Trance Fatal Blow
3 1989 Trance Abyss
4 Trance The Beaten Track
5 Formula 409 Cleanses Your Palate
6 Survival Research Laboratories Illusions of Shameless Abundance
7 1990 Trance Purity
8 Trance Mesmerism
9 Grae.Com Media Sickness
10 1994 Crash Worship Triple Mania II

7" vinyl

No. Year Artist Title
1 1992 Hijokaidan & Trance & Allegory Chapel Ltd. Means By No Means
2 1993 Trance Guitar Noise EP
3 1994 Crash Worship !Pyru!
4 Gravitar Evil Monkey Boy
5 Melt-Banana Hedgehog
6 1996 SubArachnoid Space Char-Broiled Wonderland

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Charnel Music at Discogs.com
  2. ↑ Charnel Music section of Charnel.com

External links


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