Rune Grammofon Sailing To Byzantium [VINYL]

150 releases and counting, who would have thought? To celebrate we have put together a selection of tracks showing where we are now, some label mainstays, personal favourites, hidden treasures and to round it off; a beautiful exclusive from Arve Henriksen. No expenses have been spared to make this a sublime and highly desirable collection: 4 x 10 inch records - a format loved by collectors - different coloured vinyl for each record, a big two sided poster and a long, unedited and frank interview with label founder Rune Kristoffersen and house designer Kim Hiorthøy by UK music writer Rob Young. And all beautifully designed by Kim and individually numbered by stamp in a strictly one-off edition of only 500 copies. The title is borrowed from William Butler Yeats´ meditation on art and immortality and follows in the tradition of previous compilations where we have borrowed from song lyrics and poems; Love Comes Shining Over The Mountains (Jimi Hendrix), Until Human Voices Wake Us And We Drown (T.S. Eliot) and Twenty Centuries Of Stony Sleep (W.B. Yeats). Finally, after deciding on the music selection, we realised that out of the 17 tracks, almost half (8) of them feature female artists, either as a solo artist, leader or main singer. Needless to say, we are quite proud of having championed so many prominent and talented women through the years. Tracks 1/Hedvig Mollestad Trio Sing, Goddess 2/Bushman´s Revenge As We Used To Sing (Live) 3/Scorch Trio Kjøle Høle 4/Motorpsycho Year Zero (A Damage Report) 5/FIRE! Your Silhouette On Each (Without Noticing) 6/Elephant9 Hardcore Orientale 7/Phaedra Honeydewed Autumn 8/Jenny Hval Blood Flight 9/The Last Hurrah!! The Lonely Whistle Call 10/Hilde Marie Kjersem That Day In The Shower 11/Tove Nilsen Jordan 12/Sidsel Endresen & Stian Westerhus 13/Maja Ratkje Intro 14/Alog Baklandet 15/Espen Eriksen Trio In The Woods 16/Nils Økland Blond Blå 17/Arve Henriksen Silver Box