Textual Records

Textual Records is a record label dedicated to the distribution of sound, music, and text by contemporary artists. As a form of publication, the label focuses on the simultaneity of inscription - the textual, sonic, and musical markings created within the context of art. Limited editions are produced in LP, CD, or cassette form in collaboration with the artists and other entities.

News

photo credit: Kristin Oppenheim

01.15.2022

Kristin Oppenheim premieres a new video and sound installation Bang Bang in a solo exhibition at 303 Gallery in New York. The exhibition is on view from January 15 - February 19, 2022.

Copies of Oppenheim's White Rabbit gatefold LP with poster insert are available at Textual Records and also 303 Gallery.

303 Gallery
555 W. 21st Street
New York, NY











photo credit: WGXC

08.28.2019

Textual Records is happy to participate in the WGXC 2019 Record Fair in Hudson, New York.

Basilica Hudson
110 S. Front Street
Hudson, NY

Sunday, September 15, 2019
10 a.m. - 4 p.m.




photo credit: Anna Medina

06.21.2019

We are pleased to announce our new release, Someone To Watch Over Me, a split cassette tape by Jenny Perlin and Frank Carlsberg. The limited edition of 100 copies will be available (along with our previous releases) at Pioneer Works Press Play Fair on June 28 - 29. You can also find it at our online store.

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photo credit: Pioneer Works

06.28 - 06.29.2019

Textual Records will be part of this years Press Play, book and music fair, at Pioneer Works - June 28 - 29, 2019.

Pioneer Works
159 Pioneer Street
Red Hook, Brooklyn

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photo credit: Manuela Unverdorben

05.23.2019

Textual Records is currently participating in the exhibition, PODCAST - Radio Kunst, at the AIC in Cologne, Germany. On view from May 23 - June 29, 2019.

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photo credit: Everything Studio

10.26.2016

Please join Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere to celebrate the launch of their new catalogue published in conjunction with their recent survey exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania. The artists will be joined in conversation by ICA curator Kate Kraczon and designers Everything Studio (Jessica Green and Tom Griffiths). The conversation will be followed by music, care of Textual Records.

Date: Wednesday, 26 October 2016, 7–9 pm
Location: Cabinet, 300 Nevins Street, Brooklyn, NY
(map)

FREE. No RSVP necessary









03.15.2016

Thank you all for coming out to the Textual Records, Prelude to a Memory, record release party at Brewerytown Beats!!

Special thanks to Laris and Max for being great hosts and Robert Botto for an amazing dj set throughout the night.

Please visit our catalog for more titles and artists.















01.26.2016

Textual Records is proud to present the new 7" record, Prelude to a Memory, by Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere.

Record Release Party:
Prelude to a Memory
March 4, 6-10PM

Celebrate the newest record release by artists Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere on their Brooklyn-based label Textual Records. Produced in conjunction with their Philadelphia-based film project Memory of a Time Twice Lived, editions of this vinyl “artist print” and other records from their label will be for sale all month at Brewerytown Beats. With food and drinks and DJ sets by Nevarez and Tevere.

Location:
Brewerytown Beats
2710 W. Girard Ave, Philadelphia, PA 19130

Admission is free and open to the public (over 21).

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09.03.2015

Textual Records and Interference Archive invite you to a record release party for If a song could be freedom... Organized Sounds of Resistance.

Thursday, September 3, 2015
7–9pm
131 8th Street, #4
Brooklyn, NY

The 7″ contains five international political songs which have fallen out of circulation:
Internationale (rendition from Kurdistan)
Pfumo Nya Ku Pele by Coral das Forças Populares de Libertaçåo de Moçambique (a revolutionary Mozambican call and response)
Workers–Get Ready (a 1970s soul send-up from the Progressive Labor Party)
Bambini Pianificanti by the Gruppo Musicle de Comitato per il Saleario al Lavoro Domestico di Padova (a song from the Italian Wages for Housework movement)
Got a Union in this Town by the Mountain Musicians Cooperative and June Appal Recordings (a pro-union folk ballad from Appalachia)


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photo credit: Kristin Oppenheim

05.21.2015

Join us at Printed Matter on 5/30 for a record release party to celebrate Kristin Oppenheim’s new 12” LP White Rabbit.

KRISTIN OPPENHEIM
WHITE RABBIT

May 30, 2015, 5-7pm

Printed Matter
195 10th Avenue
New York, NY 10011

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05.20.2015

We're collaborating with Interference Archive on a limited edition 7" record and catalog that will accompany their upcoming exhibition if a song could be freedom . . . Organized Sounds of Resistance.

You can help press this record by pre-ordering the limited edition 7” and catalog!

To pre-order, follow this link to Interference Archive:
http://interferencearchive.org/if-a-song-could-be-freedom-7-pre-sale/

The 7″ will contain five international political songs which have fallen out of circulation:
Internationale (rendition from Kurdistan)
Pfumo Nya Ku Pele by Coral das Forças Populares de Libertaçåo de Moçambique (a revolutionary Mozambican call and response)
Workers–Get Ready (a 1970s soul send-up from the Progressive Labor Party)
Bambini Pianificanti by the Gruppo Musicle de Comitato per il Saleario al Lavoro Domestico di Padova (a song from the Italian Wages for Housework movement)
Got a Union in this Town by the Mountain Musicians Cooperative and June Appal Recordings (a pro-union folk ballad from Appalachia)


photo credit: Kristin Oppenheim

03.12.2015

...NEW RELEASE...

KRISTIN OPPENHEIM

WHITE RABBIT

12" LP- Gatefold with Poster Insert
40:00 min.

Limited Edition of 350

2015

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photo credit: Kristin Oppenheim

02.26.2015

...NEW RELEASE COMING SOON...

KRISTIN OPPENHEIM - WHITE RABBIT









12.3.2014

Stephen Vitiello will be participating in Sound by Artists at Film: Art Basel in Miami Beach curated by David Gryn
December 3-6, 2014


http://davidgryn.wordpress.com/2014/11/16/sound-by-artists-at-film-art-basel-in-miami-beach/



photo credit: Anna Medina

09.25.2014

New York Art Book Fair
MoMA PS1
September 26-28, 2014
Preview: Thursday, September 25, 6-9 pm

Editions from the Textual Records catalogue will be available in the project room by Ivan Navarro and Hueso Records.

MoMA PS1 - 2nd Floor
2225 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, New York

http://nyartbookfair.com/about/

04.24.2014

Sense Objects
Leah Beeferman and Stephen Vitiello

Sense Objects is an exhibition and split 7" record featuring the work of Leah Beeferman and Stephen Vitiello. This pairing brings together their ongoing shared interest in producing art from a sonic perspective. The vinyl record includes sound compositions produced in the fall of 2013. Limited edition of 500.

See related information on the exhibition curated by Regine Basha at Fridman Gallery, New York.
http://www.fridmangallery.com/#!sense-object/c1qvw









photo credit: Anna Medina

11.18.2013

Pulsar '13
Feria Internacional de la Musica de Santiago

November 22-24
Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho

Queridos Amigos en Santiago de Chile, Gracias a Hueso Records! El disco Touching From A Distance estará de venta en Pulsar '13. Feria Internacional de la Música de Santiago del 22 al 24 noviembre en el Centro Cultural Estación Mapocho.

http://feriapulsar.cl/2013/

photo credit: Anna Medina

07.18.2013

Hey Folks!
You can now find the Touching From a Distance LP at Printed Matter, NYC.

http://printedmatter.org/
















photo credit: Goethe-Institut New York

02.28.2013

Saâdane Afif
Blue Time, Blue Time, Blue Time...

Opening February 28th, 6:30 pm & release of the album L’S BELLS - The Busker of the Gray Line

L’S BELLS - The Busker of the Gray Line is composed and interpreted by Mount Moon in the context of the exhibition that took place in 2012 at the MINI/Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38, New York. This new album produced by Saâdane Afif and Clara Meister under the label Textual Records, will be released for the exhibition’s opening.

http://i-ac.eu/en/newsletter/13

photo credit: Anna Medina

02.22.2013

Welcome to Textual Records! We are now open for business.













photo credit: Naeem Mohaiemen

02.19.2013

Textual Records Label Launch Party & Record Release

Join us for an evening of music, karaoke, & drinks to celebrate Textual Records, a new record label and publishing forum focusing on the sonic, textual, and musical markings created by contemporary artists. The inaugural LP release of Textual Records is a labor of love, stemming from the two-channel video Touching From A Distance by Angel Nevarez & Valerie Tevere in collaboration with Mariachi Ciudad de Guadalajara (interpreting Joy Division's Transmission).
http://www.textualrecords.com/Launch/Party


Textual Records is a project of Angel Nevarez and Valerie Tevere. All Rights Reserved, 2013