Occultation Recordings

08/04/2025

The amazing sleeve to Death and the Maiden's "Uneven Ground" has made the shortlist (of three) for the New Zealand equivalent of the Brit awards. It's an amazing sleeve and an amazing record. Congratulations to Natalie and Chris, who designed the sleeve, and Lucinda, Danny and Hope, the band.

04/10/2024

We're handling Bandcamp for our friends The Everlasting Yeah's new album, Staying Cool Staying Free with The Everlasting Yeah. We expect to have LPs and CDs next week, LPs are a small pressing. https://theeverlastingyeah1.bandcamp.com/album/staying-cool-staying-free-with-the-everlasting-yeah. It's a fabulous record, of course.

7 track album

20/08/2024

The role of the critic is not – as some people think, and some critics do also unfortunately – to rip apart the work of an artist. Nor is it to offer “constructive criticism”. That role falls to, in the case of music, the manager, producer, record company or trusted advisors. Because the rol...

20/08/2024

WL//WH Review    DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand band Death And The Maiden, named after a nineteenth-century engraving by Edvard Munch which explores love, lif…

20/08/2024

20/08/2024

Cali Bellow – Goldin Scepter The project of Agriculture’s Leah B Levinson, Cali Bellow makes music concerned with the tension and interplay between the interior and exterior, real and fictional. Thematically, new album Ciao Bella owes as much to Dark Souls and The Muppets as it does Ursula Le Gu...

16/08/2024

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

16/08/2024

A reminder, particularly for any of you in London, that this is happening tomorrow. The new album is terrific...

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

19/07/2024

Our friends The Everlasting Yeah are hosting a listening party for their new album next month. If you're in London you should definitely go...

Heads up! IT'S FINALLY HERE! We're having a listening party for our second album "STAYING COOL, STAYING FREE WITH THE EVERLASTING YEAH" on the 17th of AUGUST (next month) from 2-6PM at LONDON IRISH CENTRE, 50 - 52 Camden Square, NW1 9XB. ADMISSION is FREE and there will be a QnA with the band hosted by the estimable Jon Hunter (June Brides). Afterwards you will be able to buy signed vinyl, cds and t-shirts and chat to the band. Here's a preview of the LP cover. There will be a bar and tea and coffee. If you could give me an idea of numbers that would be wonderful. If you can't make it and still want to get your hands on the goodies dm us with an email address. Hope to see as many of you as can make it! (N.B. the colours on the LP are not exactly like this, don't understand why they've changed). The record was recorded at Silver Shark Studios by the estimable Grant Strang.

18/07/2024

A fine review of the new Death and the Maiden album, which is now in stock.

WL//WH Review    DEATH AND THE MAIDEN Ōtepoti/Dunedin, New Zealand band Death And The Maiden, named after a nineteenth-century engraving by Edvard Munch which explores love, lif…

18/07/2024

We now have the new Death And The Maiden LP "Uneven Ground" in stock. Link in comment below. Both LP and CD come feature the rather spectacular sleeve, the LP has a printed inner and the CD is a lovely gatefold.

27/04/2024

https://youtu.be/Aqg5JjQ8AiM?si=BVpAPdcdC3RZXS9b. Death And The Maiden video for Leanest Cut, from the forthcoming album Uneven Ground which we'll be releasing in the Northern Hemisphere before too long. Fishrider Records will, as always, be taking the Southern Hemisphere.

Music video by Christopher SchmelzExpired 16mm film hand processed in caffenol