Records, Update

Landing / Headroom LP out today!

Coming to you today with a bright spot in the current murky world we live in! Landing and Headroom have new music for you to hear on a vinyl 12″ record that is out today!

Landing and Headroom split LP

We have it for sale at the store if you’d like to do a curbside pick-up for that (call us at 203 265 7013 or email redscroll@gmail.com). If you’d like to get it mailed to you you can order through our Big Cartel here:  https://redscrollrecords.bigcartel.com/product/rsr-024-landing-headroom-lp

Check out some quick snippets of songs here:

It should also be streaming on all the basic streaming services soon.

Digitally (and also physically) you can buy either bands’ halves at their pages:
Landing – https://landing.bandcamp.com/
Headroom – https://csiterecordings.bigcartel.com/

Besides us, if you are not nearby and you’d like to pick it up around the world from your  local shop the following spots will have it in stock:
Autumn Records (Vermont)
Bruit Direct (France)
Cloister Recordings  (Colorado)
Discreet Music (Sweden)
End of an Ear Records (Texas)
Feeding Tube Records (Massachusetts)
Grapefruit Record Club (Nebraska)
Iris Records (New Jersey)
Knotwilg Records (Belgium)
Philadelphia Record Exchange (Pennsylvania)
Pleasantly: Peasantries & Pleasantries (Utah)
Record Grouch (New York)
Records The Good Kind (Vernon, CT)
Resurrection Records (Washington)
Revolver / Midheaven (California)
Robotic Empire (Washington)
Siren Records (Pennsylvania)
Stormy Records (Michigan)
Telegraph Records (New London, CT)
Tor Johnson Records (Rhode Island)
Vinyl Conflict (Virginia)
Willimantic Records (Willimantic, CT)

(If you own a store or distro and would like to carry any of our music please do get in touch for wholesale rates – redscroll@gmail.com)

Podcast

RSR PC 035 Stone Jaw (Terry)

On this episode of the Redscroll Podcast we talk with Terry of Stone Jaw (and a few other projects). We talk about Dungeons & Dragons and dungeon synth. We talk about getting into noise and the various approaches to it and all the potential people finding it during their time locked in their living quarters. We talk about NPR for some reason.  And we even talk about Stone Jaw as a musical noise project a little.

Terry lets us know how he particularly got into making noise versus the art mediums he was previously into – how his visual works led him down that path. Talk of John Cage and Robert Rauschenberg ensues. Then we bring it all home with sports. How we got there you’ll have to listen.

LINK:
https://stonejaw.bandcamp.com/

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Redscroll Records

Landing / Headroom split LP coming July 17th!

We are pleased to announce that a release we’ve been working on quietly and with heavy anticipation is now readied and can be pre-ordered in our Big Cartel shop here: http://redscrollrecords.bigcartel.com/product/rsr-024-landing-headroom-lp

It has an official release date of July 17th, 2020.

Check out some snippets here:

Ambient drift rock band Landing formed in 1998 by married couple Aaron and Adrienne Snow, two musicians who met at Brigham Young University and moved to Connecticut after graduating. Landing quickly set about recording their dark, ambient dream pop, resulting in several cassette and EP releases. Their early work was stylistically close to that of contemporaries like Flying Saucer Attack, Bowery Electric, and Windy & Carl, with buried vocals and washes of noisy texture riding slow, drawn-out rhythms. Following the 2015 EP Body Diffuser on Vast Arc Hues, the full-length Third Sight was released by El Paraiso in 2016, followed shortly by Complekt on These Are Not Records. The Krautrock-influenced Bells in New Towns appeared on El Paraiso in 2018.

Headroom first took flight in 2016 as the solo outlet for New Haven musician  Kryssi Battalene, née of regarded noise project Colorguard & guitarist for psychedelic voyagers, Mountain Movers. Headroom sprung forth from the fertile and underrated New Haven scene – a musical patchwork of punk, hardcore, noise & experimental music all sharing the same stages & DIY spots and creating a musical identity all their own.

Battalene’s talent flourished & soon enough, her signature style of guitar was infiltrating & influencing a new crop of New Haven musicians; part Twisted Village / PSF Records-influenced white noise maelstrom, part nuanced, beautiful six-stringed draperies. Battalene’s talents have graced recordings & stages with Estrogen Highs, Medication, Secret Treaties & Stefan Christiansen & Friends. Headroom have established a strong base of releases on labels Ever/Never, Centripetal Force, C/Site Recordings, and Trouble In Mind. Beyond Kryssi at the center, the band features Rick Omonte and Ross Menze of The Mountain Movers, David Shapiro (Alexander & Kath Bloom live backing), and Stefan Christensen (of C/Site).

We at Redscroll Records believe it was about time these two bands that represent different aspects of psychedelic sounds from our small state of Connecticut combine forces. Here it is, and the tracks do not disappoint.

PRE-ORDER in our Big Cartel shop here: http://redscrollrecords.bigcartel.com/product/rsr-024-landing-headroom-lp

Podcast

RSR PC 034 SCRAP.EDX (Josh)

On this episode we talk to Josh of Scrap.edx. An outlier in the Connecticut musical landscape. A rhythmic broken beat industrial project. Josh also has a couple other projects. The Carapace which was a one album and done field recording based idea and Children of Men which is a current hip hop cooperative where he has the roll of producer.

Josh Colella – Virtual Interview

We also talk about dealing with Covid-19 and how that effects his daily, professional and creative life among other things. We talk about touring, breakcore basement shows and driving back and forth to Toronto to basically see one act’s set. I (Rick) regret that I didn’t bring up how much we listened to Stabyouintheheadandeatyourfaceoff’s, “Killin’ Toys,” CD (a Redscroll release from 2003 before I was involved) on that trip. Oh yea, and we talk about some other stuff and Josh and I do the standard opening banter with current listening and a quick brief on the store (super quick).


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2nd of May Update / Employee Picks

2nd of May Update for Redscroll Records

Hope you’re all staying well and safe. We’re continuing to operate as a mail-order only operation until further notice. We have some updates below in regards to planned events. We have some employee picks as well! Videos for those further below.  And all the ways to support us on the bottom.

The rescheduled date for Record Store Day has been further rescheduled and now split up into three dates (August 29, September 26, & October 24). Their announcement about that is here: https://recordstoreday.com/NewsItem/9003

How we’re going to handle these new dates is yet to be determined. It surely won’t be handled in the same way as previous year’s large events have been handled. Look out for updates on these drops closer to the August date (of course, possibly sooner).

In relation to that our rescheduled Anniversary Sale (rescheduled for June 5th-11th) is now by default canceled. We will not be able to handle large capacity crowds by that time so it is in everyone’s best interest to cancel the event completely. We do want to offer something in lieu of this cancellation to our loyal customers and we will figure something out in that regard, but we are still operating day to day so what that something we come up with is not something we’re ready to announce yet (or have completely figured out ourselves).  We are continuing to offer 10% off our entire online catalog for the foreseeable future.

You can hear Josh and Rick talk briefly about our current store operations in our latest podcast: https://redscrollrecords.com/2020/05/rsr-pc-033-ritual-clearing-brian-dan.html

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