I’m pleased to share that I am continuing to move forward with a small Glass Throat Recordings artifact shop and adjacent performance space. Located in West Seattle and open by appointment only, I am aiming to welcome visitors around the Summer Solstice on June 21st.
A substantial portion of the Glass Throat Recordings discography will be available, much of it consisting of original pressings spanning the past three decades. Many of these editions are exceptionally limited, handcrafted releases. In addition, I will be offering vinyl titles and merchandise from my personal archive, including mint-condition records that have never been played.
I’m also excited to announce the following artists and creators are currently among those with whom I am collaborating. Given the intimate scale of the space, both inventory and featured works will remain carefully curated and continually evolving. Parting with these personal artifacts creates room for the works, ideas, and individuals that genuinely resonate with me and receive my deepest enthusiasm and support.
The shop will carry a select range of vinyl, cassette, CD, and book titles. Each image below will provide a direct link to these remarkable creative individuals and their respective digital platforms. I encourage you to explore and support their work, and I look forward to welcoming you into the world of Glass Throat Recordings for what I hope will be a uniquely intimate and meaningful experience.
At present, I have only a limited selection of Aural Hypnox titles available, largely due to ongoing international postal complications. However, I’m very pleased to share that, once these issues have been resolved, this small and humble space will become an exclusive destination in the Pacific Northwest for all things Aural Hypnox (Finland).
Aural Hypnox represents a deeply kindred artistic spirit to both myself and the numinous ethos of Glass Throat Recordings. I greatly look forward to working alongside Antti H. also of Halo Manash / Arktau Eos / Unfyros in bringing these extraordinary releases to the region, as well as exploring the future availability of the Glass Throat Recordings discography in Finland.
Further information will be shared as developments continue.
I’m very pleased to announce that I am once again collaborating with Cold Spring in the United Kingdom. In the near future, they will be carrying a selection of Glass Throat Recordings titles through their distribution network and shop. For many of you who have inquired about obtaining G.T.R. releases within the UK, there will now be a dedicated and reliable source.
In return, I will also be offering a carefully curated selection of releases from the Cold Spring catalog here in the shop, several of which I believe many of you will find particularly compelling and intriguing.
It is my hope that this relationship will continue to deepen and evolve, ultimately allowing those in the UK broader access to the full range of available Glass Throat Recordings releases. If you are unable to locate a specific title, I encourage you to reach out to Cold Spring directly regarding availability.
Time will reveal what this collaboration may ultimately become.
What can truly be said about brother Scott E. Candey? He remains one of the most overlooked and enduring pioneers of the United States underground dark electronic and soundscape movement since the mid-1990s. Beyond his remarkable body of work, he is also someone with whom I had the privilege of creating music with during the formative early years of my own artistic journey.
Scott E. Candey a.k.a. Gruntsplatter and The Corvidae Cabal, has supported Glass Throat Recordings since its very inception, and the artifact shop will now serve as a direct destination for all things Crionic Mind.
I am genuinely excited and deeply grateful to once again be working alongside Scott.
Please support the releases of Crionic Mind.
I am truly honored to be carrying the works of visionary artist David V. D'Andrea, including his recently published book In the Garden, alongside a selection of musical releases from Samaritan Press.
Among these offerings is a release featuring my own Blood of the Black Owl endeavor, Spirit Canoe: Soaring the Shadow Spiral. I currently have a limited number of copies available in the shop, each edition featuring a 12-inch letterpress print, cassette, booklet, and accompanying sticker. An exclusive t-shirt incorporating the Spirit Canoe artwork is also available in conjunction with the release.
The following testimonial captures the spirit and vision of brother David V. D'Andrea remarkably well…
“The somatic meets the transcendental in D’Andrea’s painstakingly constructed visual works. Vascular continuity flows between organic and spiritual forms by way of capillaries carrying ink, sap and blood. From the hard, saturnine clay of raw matter awaken phantasms cloaked in the otherworld. In this kinetic paradigm, the viewer embarks on a dynamic journey into the primordial wellspring that pours into the boundless seas. The traveler is nourished and imperiled in equal measure, following the glittering ocular current from the underworld to the heavens, through myriad lush intricacies, guided by gossamer elementals. D’Andrea is in this sense, both magician and navigator, evoking visions, charting the path to Gnosis with a deftly wielded pen.”
~ B. Vierling, artist
I feel deeply grateful to be carrying two albums by the late composer and friend Garek J. Druss. Through the generosity of Debacle Records and Sam’s support, I was able to obtain these profoundly beautiful and essential works following brother Garek J. Druss’s passage into the great mystery.
I am genuinely and deeply excited to begin working with Hologram Opera. There is a palpable sense of intention and care in what they are building, and it feels like the emergence of a label with authentic artistic vision and heart.
Through this collaboration, I will be looking to keep the works of Garek J. Druss available across all formats, alongside the music of my current favorite ensemble, Holy Sun Opera House. Both feel deeply aligned with the spirit and sensibility this new imprint is cultivating.
I look forward to seeing what unfolds with Hologram Opera as it continues to grow and take shape.
There is so much I would like to share regarding this important and profoundly vital publishing collective. At present, I find myself hesitant to define too much in advance, as I await what may organically unfold between Severed Branches Press and Glass Throat Recordings. In many ways, I trust that this dialogue will reveal its shape in time.
I am deeply honored to be working with brother Heron of sacral musical soundscapes Flight of a Green Heron and Returning. Through this collaboration, S.B.P. are now carrying my Cycle of the Raven Talons ceremonial work, A Medicinal Musical, as well as the live cassette release from Flight of a Green Heron. Both works are now available through their distribution and vending network. In time, I am hopeful this may expand into additional releases, or perhaps a more integrated collaboration within their broader vending structure.
I encourage those who are interested to seek out their work, connect directly, and engage deeply with what they are offering into the world.
It has also recently come to my attention that Severed Branches Press will be featuring Glass Throat Recordings, as well as aspects of my own musical work in an upcoming volume of Defending the World Tree, a publication I understand to be both expansive and deeply considered. After 30 years, to my knowledge there has never been a printed feature dedicated to Glass Throat Recordings, let alone within a book. I am sincerely moved and tremendously grateful to receive such authentic recognition and support from these dedicated individuals.
I will also be carrying this forthcoming volume, along with other selected publications from Severed Branches Press, within the shop.
Their collective statement follows below:
~ Severed Branches Press
Juan Pablo Martínez Ramos, known as stillme., has long remained one of my most beloved ritual soundscape composers. His 2014 release, My Funeral Was At the Mountains, created alongside Álvaro Casas, left a deeply embedded mark on my being, the kind of resonance that has become increasingly rare for me to encounter within contemporary music.
I’ve always hoped to work with stillme., and perhaps carrying his releases is a meaningful place to begin. I’ll continue dreaming about a future follow-up to My Funeral Was At the Mountains by these two composers released here through G.T.R.
I’m deeply grateful to be on his radar, just as he has remained on mine. I’ll be carrying as much of his available discography as possible exclusively within the Pacific Northwest. Nearly his entire catalog is beautifully handcrafted and produced in extremely limited editions, so if something is available in stock, I strongly suggest not waiting too long.
Beyond the moon to be carrying vinyl from Wah Wah Records - Super Sonic Sounds in Barcelona. I’ve been able to obtain exceptionally rare reissues from Popol Vuh, the one group that has informed nearly everything I compose myself. I’ve also stocked a small quantity of I Am One With the Earth on LP by Florian Fricke, an album I’ve long dreamed of releasing myself on both CD and cassette and am currently exploring the licensing to make possible. To my knowledge, this extraordinarily rare work has never been officially issued on either format. More to come...
Well, to everyone who took the time to read all of this, I’m deeply grateful for you all and hope to see you soon here at the shop, or perhaps at one of the intimate performances I’ll be working toward curating over the coming years. I'll save that for another blog.
~Currently in stock vinyl releases from friends~
AE Machinas - Hallowell, ME
Árnica - Spain
Fogweaver - Portland, OR
Fungal Abyss - Seattle, WA
Heiress - Seattle, WA
Kaverna - Spain
novemthree - Eau Claire, WI
Returning - Olympia, WA
Siiilk - France
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WARmth,
— Chet W. Scott
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