Invisible Hands Music
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| Invisible Hands Music | |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1987 |
| Founder | Charles Kennedy |
| Country of origin | England |
| Location | London |
| Official website | invisiblehands |
Invisible Hands Music is a UK-based independent record label.[1]
The label is owned and run entirely by Charles Kennedy who started out by self-releasing cassettes sold at gigs by his first band 'Night World' in 1987. The first CD release was Fretwork Southeast, a compilation album of local bands from Southwest London in 1993. After three more CDs in the series, and an eponymous debut album by Kennedy's alias The Aries Project, the label moved into signing legacy artists starting with Wishbone Ash, and singer-songwriter, Rob Reynolds. Other releases in the 1990s, distributed by Pinnacle in the UK, included electro compilations such as Speed Garage Invasion and Drum n Bass Invasion.
After a gap of five years, the label restarted operations in Camden Town in January 2003, releasing niche cash-in products such as a box set of Emerson, Lake & Palmer remixes by Mike Bennett, a box set of Wishbone Ash demos, and a compilation of covers of David Bowie songs. Hazel O'Connor joined the label with a reissue series of her 1990s albums. Releases included music by guitarist Stevie Salas, Silver Sun (two studio albums), Hugh Cornwell (two studio albums and a live set) and Thomas Dolby (live CD / DVD box set).
In 2008 Invisible Hands signed a partially-reformed lineup of The Jam (sans Paul Weller), and released a new Hugh Cornwell album, Hooverdam, available as a free download.
After a four-year hiatus between 2010 and 2014, the label restarted operations in London's West End, rereleasing The Aries Project's eponymous album under the new title "English Ghosts".
Other artists and releases:
- Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime
- Tangerine Dream – Out of this World (Limited edition numbered, double transparent tangerine coloured vinyl)
- Hugh Cornwell – The Fall and Rise of Hugh Cornwell
- Libera – Forever (2023),[2] If (2021),[3] Christmas Carols with Libera (2019),[4] Beyond (2018),[5] Hope (2017),[6] Libera at Christmas (2016)[6]
- Mishka Shubaly – Cowards Path
The above 5 releases were half-speed mastered at Abbey Road studios by Miles Showell.
Releases for 2016 were by Animotion, Crosby & Nash, Superdrone (flexi-disk project), REM, Pearl Jam and James Taylor.
In addition to albums, Invisible Hands released promotional VHS tapes for Rob Reynolds ("Stormy Weather", "Take It Easy", "Sweet Mother"), Clear ("Johnny Marr Was A Mistake"), Hazel O'Connor ("One More Try"), Mick Karn ("The Jump"), and Hugh Cornwell ("Live in London").
Catalogue
[edit]| Year | Artist | Title | Type | Catalog number |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Night World | Invisible Hands | Album | IH1 | |
| Atmospheres | IHCD11 | |||
| The Aries Project | "Echo Park" / "Ionisphere Blue" / "Up" / "Underpass" | |||
| Rob Reynolds | "Take It Easy" | Single | IHSCD6 | |
| The Kates | EP | IHCDS17 | ||
| 1988 | Night World | The Bears at the End of the Garden | Album | IH2 |
| 1990 | Grand Designs | IH3 | ||
| 1993 | Charge of the Night Brigade | IH4 | ||
| 1994 | Various | Fretwork Southeast | Compilation | IHCD5 |
| 1996 | The Crossing: Fretwork Southeast 2 | IHCD7 | ||
| 1997 | Rob Reynolds | Waiting for the Tide | Album | IHCD8 |
| Various | Upshot: Fretwork 3 | Compilation | IHCD9 | |
| Electronic: Fretwork 4 | IHCD10 | |||
| 1998 | Wishbone Ash | Trance Visionary | Album | IHCD12 |
| "Heritage" | Single | IHST7 | ||
| Various | Drum 'N' Bass Invasion | Compilation | IHCD14 | |
| 1999 | Speed Garage Invasion | IHCD15 | ||
| 2000 | Wishbone Ash | Wonderful Stash | Album | IHCD24 |
| 2001 | Various | Diamond Gods - Interpretations Of Bowie | Compilation | IHCD16 |
| 2002 | Hazel O'Connor | Beyond the Breaking Glass | Album | IHCD18 |
| Live in Berlin | IHCD19 | |||
| 5 in the Morning | IHCD20 | |||
| Acoustically Yours | IHCD21 | |||
| Whysome | Not Even Close To What It Was Meant To Be | IHCD27 | ||
| Cormac de Barra | Barcó | IHCD32 | ||
| 2003 | Emerson, Lake & Palmer | Reworks: Brain Salad Perjury | IHCD23 | |
| Clear | Coming Round | IHCD26 | ||
| Over and Over | IHCDS15 | |||
| "Johnny Marr Was A Mistake" | Single | IHCDS10 | ||
| UK Subs | Staffordshire Bull | Album | IHCD28 | |
| The Vibrators | Live: Near The Seedy Mill Golf Club | IHCD29 | ||
| Cheap & Nasty | Cool Tak Injection | IHCD30 | ||
| Hazel O'Connor | A Singular Collection: The Best of Hazel O'Connor | IHCD31 | ||
| Mick Karn | More Better Different | IHCD33 | ||
| Forest Giants | "Postcards" | Single | IHS14 | |
| Rob Reynolds | "Sweet Mother" | IHCDS11 | ||
| 2004 | Forest Giants | In Sequence | Album | IHCD34 |
| Rob Reynolds | In Den Haag (Live) | IHCD36 | ||
| O.K. Cola | "Everybody Wants to Be a D.J." | Single | IHCDS12 | |
| Hazel O'Connor | "One More Try" | IHCDS19 | ||
| The Kates | "Suicide Valentine" | IHCDS20 | ||
| Junk TV | "Oh England!" | IHCDS21 | ||
| Silver Sun | "Bubblegum" | IHCDS23 | ||
| Hugh Cornwell | "Under Her Spell" | IHCDS28 | ||
| 2005 | Rob Reynolds | Samsara Never Sleeps | Album | IHCD17 |
| Sightseeing | IHCD22 | |||
| Silver Sun | Disappear Here | IHCD35 | ||
| Hazel O'Connor | Hidden Heart | IHCD37 | ||
| "Perfect Days" | Single | IHCDS27 | ||
| Hugh Cornwell | Beyond Elysian Fields | Album | IHCD38 | |
| 2006 | Ade Payne | My Town | IHCD25 | |
| Various | Northern Line: The British at NXNE | Compilation | IHCD40 | |
| Rob Reynolds | The Curious World | Album | IHCD41 | |
| "Free Me" | Single | IHCDFREEME1 | ||
| Silver Sun | Dad's Weird Dream | Album | IHCD42 | |
| Hugh Cornwell | Dirty Dozen | IHCD43 | ||
| People, Places, Pieces | IHCD44 | |||
| 2007 | Stevie Salas | The Sun And The Earth "The Essential Stevie Salas" Vol. 1 | IHCD39 | |
| Various | Lost and Found | Compilation | IHCD45 | |
| Invisible Hands Music: Contemporary Formation | IHCD50 | |||
| Birds of Wales | Fall of the 49 | Album | IHCD49 | |
| The Aries Project | "Shelter" / "Medina" / "Stateless" | Single | IHSCD4 | |
| 2008 | Thomas Dolby | The Sole Inhabitant | Album | IHCD51 |
| Hugh Cornwell | Hooverdam | IHCD52 | ||
| From The Jam | A First Class Return | DVD boxset | IHCD53 | |
| 2010 | Rob Reynolds | "Heaven Knows" | Single | IHCDS16 |
| 2011 | Dave Bartram | Lost and Found | Album | IHCD59 |
| 2014 | The Aries Project | English Ghosts | IHCD6 | |
| 2015 | Mishka Shubaly | Coward's Path | IHCD60 | |
| Hugh Cornwell | The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell | IHCD61 | ||
| Tangerine Dream | Out of this World | IH65 | ||
| 2016 | Animotion | Raise | IHCD62 | |
| Miranda Lee Richards | Echoes of the Dreamtime | IHCD63 | ||
| Rush | Timeless Wavelength | IH66 | ||
| Crosby & Nash | Wind on the Water | IH67 | ||
| Dorje | Centred And One | IHCD68 | ||
| Tangerine Dream | Quantum Key | IH69 | ||
| Libera | Libera At Christmas | IHCD73 | ||
| The Jive Aces | For the Record | IH78 | ||
| 2017 | Tangerine Dream | Particles | IH72 | |
| Miranda Lee Richards | Existential Beast | IH74 | ||
| Libera | Hope | IH75 | ||
| Hazel O'Connor | "I'll See You Again" / "Hidden" | Single | IHCDS29 | |
| 2018 | Superdrone | Superdrone One | Album | IH76 |
| Two | IH82 | |||
| Thorsten Quaeschning | Cargo (original soundtrack) | IH79 | ||
| Tangerine Dream | "Run to Vegas" / "Leviathan" | EP | IH80T | |
| The Sessions I | Album | IH83 | ||
| Libera | Beyond | IHCD85 | ||
| 2019 | Superdrone | Starcade | IHD89 | |
| Libera | Christmas Carols with Libera | IHCD89 | ||
| 2020 | Rob Reynolds | "Stormy Weather" | Single | IHSCD5 |
| 2021 | Libera | If | Album | IHCD90 |
| 2023 | Forever | IHCD91 |
References
[edit]- ^ Holder, Bev (29 April 2017). "Johnny Depp favourite Mishka Shubaly to perform at The Duke William in Stourbridge on Friday May 5". Halesowen News.
- ^ Libera (9 April 2023). "Forever • Libera". Libera. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Libera (10 June 2021). "If • Libera". Libera. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Libera (14 November 2019). "Christmas Carols with Libera • Libera". Libera. Retrieved 12 August 2023.
- ^ Libera: Beyond
- ^ a b Invisible Hands Music discography at Discogs
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Invisible Hands Music discography at Discogs
