Welcome to the new home page of Fargone Records and the Seven Arts. Fargone is a homemade CD-R label that will be releasing a wide variety of noise and experimental music. You can listen to MP3 samples from some of the first Fargone releases from the catalog, and you can also order CDs by paying with PayPal or sending a check, money order, or cash (more details on the catalog page).

NEWS

12.14.08: Fargone now has in stock several copies of the Hospital Productions vinyl LP+7" compilation Like a Frog In Winter, which is already sold out from the label. This dark, depressing collection of power electronics includes one track by The Seven Arts, which is actually an excerpt of the material on the long-OOP Mugshots split tape with Other Peoples Children. Order it from the catalog page. The label description, written by Dominick Fernow (Prurient), and the list of artists follows...

"I started putting this compilation together in 2004 while residing in Providence. At that time the climate of noise was rather hi-fi, technological, and cold. This was the start of noise as entertainment rather than entertaining. Personal communication became lost. Noise became something clean. Something stimulating. In response I started putting together a list of new bands at the time that I felt represented a more psychological, minimal, dismal, and rejected feeling that to me was one of a fire place having smoldered out after a night of burning.

"Aside from the sound I wanted to see a return to the fetishistic and erotic attitude of noise... and a negative one at that... again in response to what I saw as a call for positive noise. I asked the artists to think about the theme of inevitability. Of being unable to escape one's own attractions and being slaves to desire. Each one approached this topic differently and sometimes in very contradiction to the theme as you will see. Many of these artists have continued on to establish themselves while others have vanished into the ether. However this is the terms upon which this work came forth to offer again a refreshingly negative perspective on this human game we play called life."

Artists: FFH, A Fail Association, Immaculate:Grotesque, Cleanse, Pedestrian Deposit, Chrysalis, Ahlzagailzehguh, Habeeb, Craniopagus, Alberich, Bereft, Barrikad, Prurient, Sewer Election, Panicsville, Filthy Turd, Omei, The Seven Arts, Age Of Enlightenment, Mark Solotroff, Whorebutcher, Climax Denial, Stegm, Burden