Founder Charles Kennedy Location London Founded 1987 | Country of origin England Official website invisiblehands.co.uk | |
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Invisible Hands Music is an independent record label best known for its releases in the years 2003-2010 when based in London's Camden Town neighbourhood. The label was founded by musician Charles Kennedy. The company name first appeared on cassettes sold at gigs by Kennedy's 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 next musical project, The Aries Project, the label moved into signing 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 products such as a box set of new music by Emerson, Lake & Palmer, a box set of previously released music by Wishbone Ash, and a compilation of covers of David Bowie songs. Hazel O'Connor joined the label with a reissue series of her 1990s albums. Recent 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 Music made the news by signing the (partially) reformed lineup of The Jam, and making the 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".
Current artists and releases: Miranda Lee Richards - Echoes Of The Dreamtime Tangerine Dream - Out Of This Would (Limited edition numbered, double transparent tangerine coloured vinyl) Hugh Cornwell - The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell Mishka Shubaly - Cowards Path The above 4 releases were half-speed mastered at Abbey Road studios by Miles Showell
Releases upcoming for 2016 by Animotion, Crosby & Nash, Superdrone (flexi-disk project), REM, Pearl Jam and James Taylor.
Catalogue
All titles on CD unless otherwise stated
N/A The Aries Project Echo Park / Ionisphere Blue / Up / Underpass