About Me
BlackCottage: a collective.A collective? Yes! A collective... for artists, musicians, poets, film makers, society matrons, steeplejacks, wall flowers, etc.
It started in Athens, Georgia. But soon, that little town could no longer contain the hubris and pleated slacks of our fine roster of talent. Sadly, a relocation to Atlanta, Georgia brought instant failure. The BlackCottage Recording label surfaced again briefly as a spoken word label with offices in Athens, Atlanta, Berkeley, CA and Lima, Peru but suddenly became downsized, upsized, outsourced, and over wrought. During an ice storm, BlackCottage reopened once again in Atlanta, producing soundtracks for independent films. By spring, wages were reduced. Workers staged a sit-down strike. The strike ended due to lack of sufficient folding chairs and throw pillows. Still, strike-breakers were called in and the company saw it's first profits. Sadly, most of these profits were deposited into our secretaries pocket book. (Not by her, but by her surly boyfriend, Manix.) Both split town.
Back again like a hacking cough or an alcoholic uncle, BlackCottage is once again ready to astound you with recordings by a variety of sophisticated musical acts. Many of our acts fall into the "space-pop, mellow twee-pop, thrift store-pop, electronic-pop, anticlimactic-pop and lo-fi frankenpop " categories. Others may be gently placed into the "ambient free-noise" and "improv -experimental" categories.
Yes, artists and con-artists created this record label to benefit all concerned. We're in this for the long haul now. We have a full time skeleton staff ready to provide empty promises at a moments notice. We love our new office. And ever since the "great asbestos scare of 2001" we've been getting a fantastic deal on the rent!
