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Berlin-based artist Hans Gnendinger from Grizzly Bird, on his contribution to our compilation. Hans sings of two gorillas who were ‘experimented on for far too long’. How does it relate to the animals theme? This song is a biography about two famous apes: Koko was a gorilla thatcould speak via sign language and Kanzi isContinue reading “Koko & Kanzi – by Grizzly Bird”

We loved this contribution to our compilation by The Ombudsman (James McIntosh). Lines like: ‘all the spiders want to to scuttle home’ and ‘us leopards take out another mortgage’ stick out in this song about finding and competing for space. All proceeds from the animal-themed compilation, available here, are going to Extinction Rebellion. What wasContinue reading “Kerfuffle”

It feels like it’s never been more difficult to sell your music in the UK. Giants of digital distribution rule the roost; live gigs have been necessarily cancelled; funding for the arts dwindles.. and yet, ‘we just have to keep making it’, said E.J Worley, aka Betty Blight, as we sat on the grassy slopeContinue reading “Little One”

For the first Castle Collective Records compilation we asked artists, musicians, and writers to contribute tracks, images, and poetry around the theme animals. Peruse here. Jake Smith from Baked Alaska talks to us about the making of their track Dog Sense. What was the songwriting/making process?I approached work buddy Francis to see if he’d likeContinue reading “Dog Sense”

In 2015, I scribbled this idea for a label logo on the back of an envelope. ‘It’s perfect,’ Bryin, the bassist in our band The Knights Project, said, ‘even the crinkles.’ He pasted it just as it was on the back of our EP cover. I toyed around with the idea of starting a collectively-runContinue reading “Crinkles”