Accretions was first conceived in 1985 as an arts and culture magazine, which quickly turned to music with a flexi-disc EP insert by worldbeat masters, Guam Caucus. A year later, Accretions officially launched as a record label with the release of an eponymous LP by Burning Bridges.

Now, a couple decades and over 40 releases later, our roster includes many of the most adventurous, grooviest, genre-bendingest players and sound artists around. If there's a single thread running thru our catalog, it would have to be something like exploration. We've tried to create a place where artists can feel free to take some serious risks, and where their tastiest experiments can be served to the eager listener.

The lumbering music industry at large may be bumbling and sputtering along, but from where we stand, things look mighty fine indeed. There just doesn't seem to be any shortage of innovative, creative and interesting music being produced all over the planet. And definitely no shortage of listeners hungry for new sounds. So we'll keep growing and cultivating our little garden here, and you be sure and check in from time to time because there's plenty more to come.

Summer 2007 releases included Nathan hubbard's "Blind Orchid," the percussionist/composer's second solo mash-ups of acoustic and electronic instruments, and Donkey's "Stone," their third effort that signals a new dark, glitchy, dense, playful, harsh, loopy sound for the duo of LA synth player Hans Fjellestad and NYC sound manipulator Damon Holzborn.

Earlier in 2007,musician/filmmaker Hans Fjellestad (MOOG, Frontier Life) brought us "Snails R Sexy," a visceral, densely layered studio project produced with analog synthesizers, theremin and vacuum tube processors - a dark, lush world of sound coming out of the contemporary Los Angeles noise scene, with nods to early 1970's Krautrock experiments, Sun Ra-inspired solo synth bursts, Japanoise sonic assaults and Heavy Metal flourishes. The year began with Less Pain Forever who delivered their "performance art disguised as pop-rock" debut album, "I Know What It's Like To Want To Danceernandes (California) and Mike Pride (New York) produced "a mountain is a mammal," the critically acclaimed duo percussion sesTrummerflora compiled "Rubble 2" which showcases a dozen works by members and ensembles of this transgressive musicians collective. Hans Fjellestad and Marcos Fernandes along with Haco (Japan) and Jakob Riis (Denmark) released "Haco Hans Jakob Marcos," an electro-acoustic masterpiece recorded one spring afternoon in Tijuana, Mexico and the San Francisco/Bay Area duo Santo Subito's "Xavier" is a part minimalist, part wall of sound, ambient/noise opus based entirely on acoustic instruments.