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Greyfade

Born: January 1, 2016

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.

Joseph Branciforte & Jozef Dumoulin: ITERAE

By Joseph Branciforte

Label: Greyfade
Released: 2026
Track listing: 01. ⊏ 04:38 02. ⊐ 09:07 03. ⊏ 11:34 04 ⊐ 07:20 05. ⊏ 09:21 06. ⊐ 09:31 07. ⊏ 09:06 08. ⊐ 07:32

Josh Mason: Punk And Circuitry, Zippered Together

by Lawrence Peryer
August 22, 2026

This week we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Florida sound artist Josh Mason. Mason's new album, Kicking A Dark Horse, is out now on greyfade as a hardcover book paired with modular synthesizer music, the two built to zipper together rather than stand apart. We talk about the punk rock roots underneath ...

Physical, digital or streamed? How do you like your recorded jazz?

by Chris May
November 7, 2023

Time was, round about when jazz was raising its head in New Orleans, if you wanted an affordable car it had to be a Ford Model T. And as Henry Ford said, perhaps apocryphally, you could have had any color you liked as long as it was black. Much the same went for recorded music. You ...

Filters

By Phillip Golub

Label: Greyfade
Released: 2022
Track listing: loop 1; loop 3; loop 4; loop 5.

New Primes

By Greg Davis

Label: Greyfade
Released: 2022
Track listing: sophie germain; irregular; proth; pierpont; cullen; euclid.

rag'sma

By Christopher Otto

Label: Greyfade
Released: 2021
Track listing: rag'sma q1q2q3; rag'sma q1q2; rag'sma q1/q2.

LP1

By Joseph Branciforte

Label: Greyfade
Released: 2019
Track listing: 6.15; 3.4.26; 4.19; 5.5.9

Joseph Branciforte/Theo Bleckmann: LP1

by Dan Bilawsky
June 17, 2019

Is sound something to bathe in? Can music envelop? Does the art of improvisation lend itself to ambient sound painting? The answer to all three questions, according to this collaboration, is “yes." LP1, the debut release on Joseph Branciforte's greyfade imprint, finds the producer and electronics ace teaming up with vocalist Theo Bleckmann ...