Greyfade

Greyfade (https://www.greyfade.com) is a music label and publisher that takes as its basic premise the idea of a music release as a complete conceptual universe, integrating sound, compositional architecture, visual design, and text into a single object worthy of sustained engagement.Founded in 2019 by Joseph Branciforte, the label’s roster includes artists exploring procedural composition, acoustic & electronic minimalism, alternative tuning systems, and custom technological frameworks for composition and performance.In 2024, Greyfade introduced a new music release format called FOLIO—a 6.5 x 8” linen hardcover book with included digital music download—that seeks to answer the question: why release music in physical form today? Equal parts album release, critical text, making-of narrative, study score, and collectible art object, the FOLIO format represents a renewal of Greyfade’s commitment to the continued relevance of both thoughtfully designed physical objects and high-resolution digital music, bringing greater context and depth to the label’s most ambitious musical projects.

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