Resipiscent
| Resipiscent | |
|---|---|
| Founded | May 1, 2005 |
| Founder | James Decker Thomas Day |
| Genre | Experimental, noise |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Official website | resipiscent |
Resipiscent is an independent record label based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2005 by James Decker and Thomas Day.
The label publishes a wide range of experimental music and film. Most of its releases are extremely limited editions involving handcrafted package art. Liz Allbee's "Quarry Tones" release is packaged in heavy hand-sewn felt with flowers and shredded circuits scattered inside. Smegma's Live 91-93 relies on dumpster-dived mainstream CDs that the band then defaces to serve as packaging. The Anti-Ear Tre Picoli release appears to be a 7-inch record but contains two mini-CDs and one mini-DVD. Aaartfystte's 22 Short Noise Videos comes in a four-color silkscreen package embellished with hand-carved relief prints by Maw Zuffler. The double CD compilation String of Artifacts requires listeners to solve a word jumble and then a crossword puzzle in order to decode the track listing, with some bands adding to the puzzle by imitating the style of other bands. The Bran(...)Pos "Quaak Muttar" package is a crude but functional pinball machine for which track indexes serve as scoreboard.
The label name revives a word that had fallen into disuse. Resipiscent means "a return to one's senses following a brutal experience". Its tagline is "Unburying the meanest in criminally obscure sound."
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