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02/02/2026

We are not dead here at the label. We suffered some financial setbacks last year and didn’t release what we would like and we are hoping this year will be much brighter and we can get back to the business of releasing albums in the way we want . In the meantime here is a recent interview with label founder in the future of the label as well as the production processes of his latest album “This Is My Body, This Is My Blood.” Link to whole interview in our profile.

04/11/2025

Out today! “The Great Work” by SameStory.

In our quest to fully expand our genre boundaries we are thrilled to bring you our first true industrial release “The Great Work” by local Richmond hero SameStory. We have been friends with Dillon for years here at the label and have had the opportunity to know Dillon first as a fan, then a friend, then a up and coming musician and finally as a goth, industrial fire breather. So when SameStory came to us wanting to release their debut on CRR our immediate response was “f**k yes.” So what about the record tho you ask. Okay well SameStory after releasing two EP’s and building up their sound and audience performing in Richmond and the east coast has slowly been recording and perfecting their debut full length “The Great Work.” Bringing together a hybrid of industrial tinged with goth and noise influences SameStory explores the ideas of what it means to come of age in the shadow of the South’s foremost religious institutions and the grip they have on the South’s subconscious. Blending traditional Appalachian instrumentation with harsh industrial beats, lyrically they express themes of southern religious traditions, anti capitalism and confusion about self. The album is now available on CS and DL. As always follow the link in our bio to order.

03/14/2025

New release! “Commit Life” 7” by Same Story!
As we gear up for the April release of “The Great Work” by industrial firebrand Same Story we thought we would try something different and release a 7” lathe cut of the first single “Commit Life” This is our first time trying this and if it’s successful we will do more in the future. The release is limited to 20 so get your hot hands on one today. Out today! Link in profile to order

02/04/2025

Our label celebrates its 5 year anniversary today! 🎉🥳 On February 4, 2020 our label was born with the release of “Transmissions” by Samuel Goff. We have learned a lot and had some good times and some bad times here. Mostly good or we wouldn’t still be doing this. We should celebrate somehow I 🤔 what if we had a 50 percent off sale on everything this weekend ? Would yall be down with that ? It’s stupid to do a sale like that on a Tuesday. Let’s wait for pay day. What do yall think? 50 percent off sale? Friday and Saturday? Let me know what yall think. We have to celebrate somehow. We are surprised and relieved we have made it this far. 25 releases in 5 years. My only regret about this endeavor is our pace and not being able to go farther and release more great music. Here’s to another 5 years

01/24/2025

Many thanks to Phil Freeman and the folks at Stereogum for writing some good words about our latest release “Living Things” by Nicola Miller. Phil sums up thusly “This is unearthly, fascinating music, influenced by nature but recalling Tom Waits. ” I don’t know about you but getting a reference to Tom Waits in one of our reviews gives us goosebumps here at the label. We are very proud of “Living Things” and Nicola is someone to keep your eyes peeled for in the experimental jazz underground. “Living Things” is available on the vinyl and for folks who eschew tangible products, less exciting download. As always hit the link in our profile to order.,

01/16/2025

Many thanks to and the staff for a very nice review of our recent Death Sneeze release. Chris let some very complimentary words flow from his pen and said “Knapp, Wen, and their various co-conspirators have crafted an album that is - to borrow a word from their label - cacophonous but also contains a million unique moments that are ripe for discovery.” Well we agree with that and also for us here at the label we think this album is the perfect representation of what we set out to do at the very beginning. It’s loud, it’s undefinable, it’s strange and esoteric and it has its footprints at points all over the world. The album is multiple genres and you would be hard pressed to answer an equation as basic as “what kind of music is this?” S**t we don’t know but we know it’s GOOD. Check out the review and then smash that link in our profile to purchase Death Sneeze, you can find it on sexy CD and/or cassette and also the less sexy DL. All hail

12/23/2024

It’s always really special to receive some year end love for our releases. Sometimes we feel like we are flapping around in the dark here not knowing what the hell we are doing. But then we receive some nice accolades like this and it makes us feel like hey maybe we are doing okay. But thank you to Chris Ingalls and the staff for including “This Is My Body, This Is My Blood” by Samuel Goff in their “Top 20 Experimental Albums of 2024” list. Chris and popmatters have been very supportive of us here at our label and we couldn’t be more thankful to have an angel in our corner in a world full of devils. We are also very proud of “This Is My Body, This Is My Blood” and if you would like to hear it is available on double LP, CD or cassette. Follow the link in our profile to order.

12/13/2024

Out today! “Living Things” by Nicola Miller

Cacophonous Revival is proud to release a stunning debut by a strong new force in the jazz and composition world. “Living Things” is the debut from Nicola Miller and is out today on vinyl. Cacophonous Revival is proud to add this to our ever expanding and thought provoking jazz canon. The album is available on turquoise, yellow or black vinyl and the digital version comes with 2 bonus tracks. Link to order in bio.

About the artist. Nicola Miller is an experimental saxophone player and composer based on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Her strange tender playing stretches toward the avant-garde while maintaining a foot in the lyrical and the mysterious. She has studied with saxophonist/composer Frank Gratkowski (a mainstay of the European improvised music scene) New York based
experimental composer Kirk Nurock and Grammy Nominated composer and drummer John Hollenbeck.

About the album. Living Things is a collection of compositions crafted over the winter and spring of 2022/23, exploring the intricate relationship between music and the natural world. Drawing inspiration from various living entities, each piece in this album embodies a unique approach to composition, rooted in the cellular approach to composition which was learned through private studies with renowned composer John Hollenbeck.
The title Living Things reflects both the biological significance of the cell—the fundamental unit of life—and its role as the smallest structural component in each composition. the pieces reflect the natural world with sounds taken from field recordings and intervallic structures taken from wildlife observations in Nova Scotia.

Nicola Miller - Alto Saxophone, Field Recordings
Frank Gratowski - Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Doug Tielli - Trombone, Saw, Voice
Nicholas D’Amato - Upright Bass
Nick Fraser - Drums
Caro Nebbia - Cover and Layout

12/12/2024

Hey Canadian folks! Tomorrow we release “Living Things” by Nicola Miller on vinyl. Also there will be a record release show tomorrow, see flyer below. Albums can be purchased at the show or with us here. Also we will release the second single and video from the album “Seagulls” next week. Lots of good stuff coming up soon. Keep those eyes peeled

12/06/2024

Bandcamp Friday! New release! Death Sneeze! Out today is the debut from Death Sneeze. Look I got to be honest this is one of our favorite releases we have done and it’s out today on CD and cassette. Here is what we said about it previously.

Cacophonous Revival is proud to bring you the debut from Brooklyn based, accordion led Death Sneeze. The duo of guitarist, accordionist and vocalist Mary Spencer Knapp and drummer Lily Wen eschew genres and boundaries and even languages on their exciting, raw, emotional and breathtakingly strange first album. The pair combine Spanish, French and English prose and fuse that together with a dizzyingly vast array of genres combining cumbia and merengue-style accordion, garage rock and bachata guitars, laptop percussion, jazz and disco punk grooves. The album was recorded in the Dominican Republic with contemporary jazz & Dominican roots guitarist, composer and arranger Isaac Hernandez. Mixed by drummer Lily Wen, this s**t is raw and unfiltered in an unapologetic punk rock type of way. These odd compositions sound like nothing out there today. Yet the music also seems very familiar. When we first received this at headquarters and gave it a listen we didn’t quite know what to think but the melodies stayed in our heads all day and dammit, we couldn’t stop humming it. That was when we knew we had to put this out. Available today on CD and Cassette.

11/30/2024

Available for preorder today ! “Living Things” by Nicola Miller! Is the stunning debut by a strong new force in the jazz and composition world. Cacophonous Revival is proud to add this to our ever expanding and thought provoking jazz canon. About the artist. Nicola Miller is an experimental saxophone player and composer based on the South Shore of Nova Scotia. Her strange tender playing stretches toward the avant-garde while maintaining a foot in the lyrical and the mysterious. She has studied with saxophonist/composer Frank Gratkowski (a mainstay of the European improvised music scene) New York based experimental composer Kirk Nurock and Grammy Nominated composer and drummer John Hollenbeck. About the album. Living Things is a collection of compositions crafted over the winter and spring of 2022/23, exploring the intricate relationship between music and the natural world. Drawing inspiration from various living entities, each piece in this album embodies a unique approach to composition, rooted in the cellular approach to composition which was learned through private studies with renowned composer John Hollenbeck. The title Living Things reflects both the biological significance of the cell—the fundamental unit of life—and its role as the smallest structural component in each composition. the pieces reflect the natural world with sounds taken from field recordings and intervallic structures taken from wildlife observations in Nova Scotia. Available for preorder in vinyl and digital formats
Nicola Miller - Alto Saxophone, Field Recordings
Frank Gratowski - Bass Clarinet, Alto Saxophone
Doug Tielli - Trombone, Saw, Voice
Nicholas D’Amato - Upright Bass
Nick Fraser - Drums
Caro Nebbia - Cover and Layout

Address

Richmond, VA
23173, 23218–23242, 23249–23250, 23255, 23260–23261, 23269, 23273–23274,

Website

https://cacophonousrevivalrecordings.bandcamp.com/

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Mission Statement

Coming in January 2020 will be the launch of my new label called Cacophonous Revival Recordings. My aims and goals will be to not be constrained by genre or geography but to have a unifying theme. One of passion, excitement and experimentation in music. Cacophonous Revival will hope to comfortably release styles as divergent in genre as avant garde, world music, experimental, jazz, noise, metal, hip hop, punk, spoken word, classical, etc. We want to release albums sporadically, focusing on between 4-6 albums a year so that we can promote and give enough time and attention to each individual release. We will release in all formats including vinyl, cassette and CD. Cacophonous Revival also wishes to focus on a sense of community within the small world of experimental music hoping to work in conjunction with other labels. In fact our first release will be a joint release with Orb Tapes. IG, Facebook and bandcamp pages will be ready by Jan. 1. Thank you for listening and I’m looking forward to many incredible journeys with this venture.