Looking for a new, interesting label?  

We’ve spent so much time chasing down Kscope over the past five years that some other labels might have gotten too little attention.  Kscope has certainly been distracting for us, serving as a kind of Pixar to the prog and post-prog world.

Here’s one that definitely demands watching.  And, demands because it’s going to be an interesting ride with them.

At a time during which the major, big player, colossal labels of the last three decades are crumbling under the weight of radio formatting changes and imploding because of the extreme decentralization of the market–due to the release and outreach of the work and through the fundamentally democratic ethos of the internet–it’s great to see some new innovative and entrepreneurial labels realizing and offering the positions of ombudsman, muse, and midwife.  Kscope has that in spades.

This label I want to introduce to you now, has it well–again–in spades.  This one is Karisma Records.  Good solid, interesting, innovating lyrics and intense music.  Prog, psychedelic, bass-blues, funk, real funk, funkadelic., nineteenth-century folk instruments . . it’s fusing and combining in ways you might not be expecting.

Dang, does it work.

Karisma seems likely to be the next big label, ready to step in where the old have failed to adapt to such a fundamentally altered marketscape.

If you have time for nothing else at the moment, please set your browser to stun and at least visit the magical and mythic snow world of Norway: http://www.karismarecords.no/

Even the website makes my brain swirl with Pink Panther-like effects.

[Updated, June 16, 2014: fixed ca. 10 typos]

POSTAL ADDRESS:

Karisma &
Dark Essence Records AS
Postboks 472
5805 Bergen
Norway

PRESS, GENERAL CONTACT

Tel: +47 95 74 92 19 (Martin)
post(a)karismarecords.no

DISTRIBUTION, WHOLESALE, SHIPPING

Tel: +47 922 66 316 (Bjørnar)

FINANCE / ACCOUNTING / CONTRACTS

+47 412 11 208 (Kristine)
kristine(a)karismarecords.no