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Charrm was a British record label based in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK operated by the company Charrm Limited. It was founded in 1989 and ceased trading in 2002. The label was created predominantly to act as a production and distribution operation for recordings by the British avant garde music group :zoviet*France:.
| Catalog No. | Artist | Title | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| CHARRMLP03 | The Hafler Trio | Three Ways of Saying Two - The Netherlands Lectures | LP |
| CHARRMCD01 | :$OVIET:FRANCE: | Garista | CD |
| CHARRMLP01 | :$OVIET:FRANCE: | Garista | LP |
| CHARRMTC01 | :$OVIET:FRANCE: | Garista | cassette |
| CHARRMCD02 | :$OVIET:FRANCE: | (untitled) | CD |
| CHARRMLP02 | :$OVIET:FRANCE: | (untitled) | LP |
| CHARRMCD03 | :zoviet:France: | Norsch | CD |
| CHARRMCD04 | :zoviet:France: | Mohnomishe | CD |
| CHARRMCD05 | :zoviet:France: | Eostre | CD |
| CHARRMCD08 | :zoviet-France: | Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals | CD |
| CHARRMCD09 | :zoviet-France: | Gesture Signal Threat | CD |
| CHARRMCD10 | :zoviet-France: | A Flock of Rotations | CD |
| CHARRMCD11 | :zoviet-France: | Assault and Mirage | CD |
| CHARRMCD12 | :zoviet-France: | Shouting at the Ground | CD |
| CHARRMLP12 | :zoviet-France: | Shouting at the Ground | 2xLP |
| CHARRMCD14 | :zoviet-France: | Look Into Me | CD |
| CHARRMLP14 | :zoviet-France: | Look Into Me | 2xLP |
| CHARRMCD15 | :zoviet*France: | Vienna 1990 | CD |
| CHARRMCD17 | :zoviet*France: | What Is Not True | CD |
| CHARRMCD18 | Horizon 222 | The Three of Swans | CD |
| CHARRMCD19 | Various Artists | Off the Map | CD |
| CHARRMCD20 | Ingleton Falls | Absconded | CD |
| CHARRMCD21 | Serafuse | Fallen Angel | CD |
| CHARRMCD22 | Alan Moore, David J & Tim Perkins | The Birth Caul | CD joint release with Locus + |
| CHARRMCD24 | :zoviet*France: | in.version | CD |
| CHARRMT26 | al.x | Overstand | 12" single |
| CHARRMCD28 | Various Artists | Absolute Zero | CD |
| CH.060997 | Jonty Semper | The one-minute silence from the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales | 7" single joint release with Locus + |
| KENO1 | Jonty Semper | Kenotaphion | 2xCD joint release with Locus + |
Polydor Limited, also known as Polydor Records, is a German-British record label that operates as part of Universal Music Group. It has a close relationship with Universal's Interscope Geffen A&M Records label, which distributes Polydor's releases in the United States. In turn, Polydor distributes Interscope releases in the United Kingdom. Polydor Records Ltd. was established in London in 1954 as a British subsidiary of German company Deutsche Grammophon/Schallplatte Grammophon GmbH. It was renamed Polydor Ltd. in 1972. The company is usually mentioned as "Polydor Ltd. (UK)", or a similar form, for holding copyrights.
Zoviet France are a music group from Newcastle upon Tyne in north east England. While often dissonant and made of industrial textures, their music also falls into the ambient music category. Formed in 1980, and remaining largely anonymous, the group has had a number of members; presently it consists of co-founder Ben Ponton and Mark Warren. Former members included Neil Ramshaw, Peter Jensen, Robin Storey, Lisa Hale, Paolo Di Paolo, Mark Spybey and Andy Eardley. In 2005 Storey, Spybey and Eardley formed a new group, Reformed Faction.
Dark ambient is a genre of post-industrial music that features an ominous, dark droning and often gloomy, monumental or catacombal atmosphere, partially with discordant overtones. It shows similarities with ambient music, a genre that has been cited as a main influence by many dark ambient artists, both conceptually and compositionally. Although mostly electronically generated, dark ambient also includes the sampling of hand-played instruments and semi-acoustic recording procedures.
Vertigo Records is a British record company. It was a subsidiary of the Philips/Phonogram record label, launched in 1969 to specialise in progressive rock and other non-mainstream musical styles. Today, it is operated by Universal Music Germany, and the UK catalogue was folded into Mercury Records, which was absorbed in 2013 by Virgin EMI Records, which returned to the EMI Records name in June 2020.
Staalplaat is an independent record label that is located in Amsterdam with a separate store in Berlin. Founded in 1982, the company's mission was to create a sound forum for sound artists, who write and perform new and experimental music.
Soleilmoon Recordings is an American record label that began in 1987 as a cassette label, operating from the back of a record shop called the Ooze in Portland, Oregon, US.
Maeror Tri was an ambient, noise and drone music band from Germany founded in the 1980s which consisted of Stefan "Baraka H" Knappe, Martin "GLIT[s]CH" Gitschel and Helge S. Hammerbrook.
Nigel Ayers is an English multimedia artist. His sound art has included numerous audio releases and live performances through his group Nocturnal Emissions.
Ambient 4: Isolationism is a 1994 studio album of new material by various ambient artists released on the Virgin Records label, part of its Ambient series. The compilation was issued as a double CD, packaged in a slimline case. It was compiled and features liner notes by Kevin Martin. It was the first in the series to be composed entirely of new, exclusive material.
Tesco Organisation is a German record label, mail order company and distributor, specialising in industrial, noise, neofolk and ambient music. Tesco has also organised music festivals in the past such as "Heavy Electronics", "Tesco Disco" and "Festival Karlsruhe"
Mark Warren may refer to:
Ravi Deepres is a British artist who works with lens based and screen based media. He has worked extensively with contemporary dance companies, including Wayne McGregor Random Dance Company (UK) and Karas (Japan), and with the British avant garde music group, :zoviet*france:. His first solo exhibition, Patriots, shown at the Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, in 2003, explored aspects of patriotic and national identity around the football World Cup and European Championships.
:Garista: is a debut album by the British avant-garde music group :zoviet*france:, who, when it was recorded, identified themselves as :$OVIET:FRANCE:. Recorded in December 1981, it was the first commercial album by the group, who released it themselves in 1982 in audio cassette format. Subsequently it was re-released by the music label Singing Ringing, again in audio cassette format, and then by Charrm in audio cassette, 12-inch vinyl and CD formats.
The untitled album by Zoviet France, also known as hessian, the hessian album, the burlap album or OK Boys, is the second commercial music album release by the British avant-garde music group Zoviet France. Recorded in December 1981, it was the first released in 1982 in 12-inch vinyl album format by the British record label Red Rhino Records. A re-edited version was released in 1985 by Red Rhino Records, and then re-released by the British label Charrm in 12-inch vinyl album and CD formats. The vinyl album versions are significant for being packaged in custom made screenprinted hessian (burlap) bags. The CD version is different from the vinyl versions in featuring an extended version of the last track, "Ji Boys".
Red Rhino Records, also known as Red Rhino, was a British independent record label which was developed by the independent record shop and wholesaler of the same name, all formed and run by "Tony K" and his wife Gerri. It was part of the Cartel, a co-operative record distribution organisation in the United Kingdom, set up by a number of small independent record labels to handle their distribution to record shops.
Popular Soviet Songs and Youth Music is the sixth album by the British avant-garde music group :zoviet*france:, who, when it was recorded, identified themselves as :zoviet-france:. Recorded in 1984 and 1985, it was first released in 1985 by the band's label Singing Ringing in collaboration with Red Rhino in double cassette format. The packaging was elaborate and very labour-intensive to create; the cassettes sat inside a sculpted, clear-glazed ceramic box with a short length of twine with a hand-painted stick on the end sticking out of the bottom. A seabird feather gathered from the beach at Seascale was stuck through a hole in each side of the box, held in place with sealing wax, which held the cassettes in. The inserts included a parody of the American flag silk-screened on muslin, a piece of paper with art silk-screened on it, and a professionally printed sheet of paper with the track list and various sets of instructions for use of the package in English, Spanish and French, with most of them obviously being jokes. Staalplaat re-released it in triple CD format in 1994, with other editions in 1995 and 2004. These were packaged between two round felt pieces cut from black market Red Army caps, and held together with a Soviet military pin. The design on the front cover piece is by E. Van Weelden. The first edition was problematic; the intent was to sandwich the music CDs between CDs with tones on the play side and felt glued on the label side, but many copies wound up with the music CDs having the felt glued on them. The second and third editions don't have the tone CDs or the glued-on felt.
Digilogue is a music album of recordings which became the twentieth commercial release by the British avant-garde music group :zoviet*france:. It was first released in 1996 in limited edition 12 inch clear vinyl format by the United States record label, Soleilmoon Recordings. Subsequently, a CD version was released in 1998 by Soleilmoon Recordings, with additional tracks. The album reach #73 on the CMJ Radio Top 200 charts in the U.S.
No Man's Land was a German record label based in Würzburg, Germany. Formed in 1984, it ceased trading in 1997. The label was run by its proprietors in combination with the music publishing and record label Review Records and the distribution company Recommended No Man's Land. The latter was part of the network of distributors associated with the British record label and distributor, Recommended Records. No Man's Land specialised in releases by experimental jazz and avant-garde artists.
Reformed Faction is a musical group formed in 2005 by three former members of Zoviet France: Andy Eardley, Mark Spybey and Robin Storey. The band's original name was The Reformed Faction of Soviet France. They played one concert, in Vienna on 10 November 2005, and released a self-titled album on the Vienna-based Klanggalerie label. In 2006, they announced that they were to continue the project under the name Reformed Faction in order to detach themselves from the name Zoviet France. The album was re-pressed under the new name and given the new title Vota. In the same year, Andy Eardley departed the band. They subsequently toured eastern Germany and recorded a second album, The War Against, for the Soleilmoon label. They have also recorded a triple album for Soleilmoon, released in 2008. The band continues today as a duo of Spybey and Storey.
Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey's experimental and industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France. Dead Voices on Air has collaborated with artists such as Not Breathing and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy.
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