Invisible Hands Music is a UK-based independent record label.
The label is owned and run by Charles Kennedy who started out by self-releasing cassettes sold at gigs by his first band 'Night World' in 1987. The first CD release was Fretwork Southeast, a compilation album of local bands from Southwest London in 1993. After three more CDs in the series, and an eponymous debut album by Kennedy's alias The Aries Project, the label moved into signing legacy artists starting with Wishbone Ash, and singer-songwriter, Rob Reynolds. Other releases in the 1990s, distributed by Pinnacle in the UK, included electro compilations such as Speed Garage Invasion and Drum n Bass Invasion.
After a gap of five years, the label restarted operations in Camden Town in January 2003, releasing niche cash-in products such as a box set of Emerson, Lake & Palmer remixes by Mike Bennett, a box set of Wishbone Ash demos, and a compilation of covers of David Bowie songs. Hazel O'Connor joined the label with a reissue series of her 1990s albums. Releases included music by guitarist Stevie Salas, Silver Sun (two studio albums), Hugh Cornwell (two studio albums and a live set) and Thomas Dolby (live CD / DVD box set).
In 2008 Invisible Hands signed a partially-reformed lineup of The Jam (sans Paul Weller), and released a new Hugh Cornwell album, Hooverdam, available as a free download.
After a four-year hiatus between 2010 and 2014, the label restarted operations in London's West End, rereleasing The Aries Project's eponymous album under the new title "English Ghosts".
Other artists and releases: Miranda Lee Richards – Echoes of the Dreamtime Tangerine Dream – Out of this World (Limited edition numbered, double transparent tangerine coloured vinyl) Hugh Cornwell – The Fall and Rise of Hugh Cornwell Libera – Forever (2023), If (2021), Christmas Carols with Libera (2019), Beyond (2018),Libera: Beyond Hope (2017), Libera at Christmas (2016) Mishka Shubaly – Cowards Path
The above 5 releases were half-speed mastered at Abbey Road studios by Miles Showell.
Releases for 2016 were by Animotion, Crosby & Nash, Superdrone (flexi-disk project), REM, Pearl Jam and James Taylor.
In addition to albums, Invisible Hands released promotional VHS tapes for Rob Reynolds ("Stormy Weather", "Take It Easy", "Sweet Mother"), Clear ("Johnny Marr Was A Mistake"), Hazel O'Connor ("One More Try"), Mick Karn ("The Jump"), and Hugh Cornwell ("Live in London").
Catalogue Year Artist Title Type Catalog number Night World Invisible Hands Album IH1 Atmospheres IHCD11 The Aries Project "Echo Park" / "Ionisphere Blue" / "Up" / "Underpass" Rob Reynolds "Take It Easy" Single IHSCD6 The Kates EP IHCDS17 1988 Night World The Bears at the End of the Garden Album IH2 1990 Grand Designs IH3 1993 Charge of the Night Brigade IH4 1994 Various Fretwork Southeast Compilation IHCD5 1996 The Crossing: Fretwork Southeast 2 IHCD7 1997 Rob Reynolds Waiting for the Tide Album IHCD8 Various Upshot: Fretwork 3 Compilation IHCD9 Electronic: Fretwork 4 IHCD10 1998 Wishbone Ash Trance Visionary Album IHCD12 "Heritage" Single IHST7 Various Drum 'N' Bass Invasion Compilation IHCD14 1999 Speed Garage Invasion IHCD15 2000 Wishbone Ash Wonderful Stash Album IHCD24 2001 Various Diamond Gods - Interpretations Of Bowie Compilation IHCD16 2002 Hazel O'Connor Beyond the Breaking Glass Album IHCD18 Live in Berlin IHCD19 5 in the Morning IHCD20 Acoustically Yours IHCD21 Whysome Not Even Close To What It Was Meant To Be IHCD27 Cormac de Barra Barcó IHCD32 2003 Emerson, Lake & Palmer Reworks: Brain Salad Perjury IHCD23 Clear Coming Round IHCD26 Over and Over IHCDS15 "Johnny Marr Was A Mistake" Single IHCDS10 UK Subs Staffordshire Bull Album IHCD28 The Vibrators Live: Near The Seedy Mill Golf Club IHCD29 Cheap & Nasty Cool Tak Injection IHCD30 Hazel O'Connor A Singular Collection: The Best of Hazel O'Connor IHCD31 Mick Karn More Better Different IHCD33 Forest Giants "Postcards" Single IHS14 Rob Reynolds "Sweet Mother" IHCDS11 2004 Forest Giants In Sequence Album IHCD34 Rob Reynolds In Den Haag (Live) IHCD36 O.K. Cola "Everybody Wants to Be a D.J." Single IHCDS12 Hazel O'Connor "One More Try" IHCDS19 The Kates "Suicide Valentine" IHCDS20 Junk TV "Oh England!" IHCDS21 Silver Sun "Bubblegum" IHCDS23 Hugh Cornwell "Under Her Spell" IHCDS28 2005 Rob Reynolds Samsara Never Sleeps Album IHCD17 Sightseeing IHCD22 Silver Sun Disappear Here IHCD35 Hazel O'Connor Hidden Heart IHCD37 "Perfect Days" Single IHCDS27 Hugh Cornwell Beyond Elysian Fields Album IHCD38 2006 Ade Payne My Town IHCD25 Various Northern Line: The British at NXNE Compilation IHCD40 Rob Reynolds The Curious World Album IHCD41 "Free Me" Single IHCDFREEME1 Silver Sun Dad's Weird Dream Album IHCD42 Hugh Cornwell Dirty Dozen IHCD43 People, Places, Pieces IHCD44 2007 Stevie Salas The Sun And The Earth "The Essential Stevie Salas" Vol. 1 IHCD39 Various Lost and Found Compilation IHCD45 Invisible Hands Music: Contemporary Formation IHCD50 Birds of Wales Fall of the 49 Album IHCD49 The Aries Project "Shelter" / "Medina" / "Stateless" Single IHSCD4 2008 Thomas Dolby The Sole Inhabitant Album IHCD51 Hugh Cornwell Hooverdam IHCD52 From The Jam A First Class Return DVD boxset IHCD53 2010 Rob Reynolds "Heaven Knows" Single IHCDS16 2011 Dave Bartram Lost and Found Album IHCD59 2014 The Aries Project English Ghosts IHCD6 2015 Mishka Shubaly Coward's Path IHCD60 Hugh Cornwell The Fall And Rise Of Hugh Cornwell IHCD61 Tangerine Dream Out of this World IH65 2016 Animotion Raise IHCD62 Miranda Lee Richards Echoes of the Dreamtime IHCD63 Rush Timeless Wavelength IH66 Crosby & Nash Wind on the Water IH67 Dorje Centred And One IHCD68 Tangerine Dream Quantum Key IH69 Libera Libera At Christmas IHCD73 The Jive Aces For the Record IH78 2017 Tangerine Dream Particles IH72 Miranda Lee Richards Existential Beast IH74 Libera Hope IH75 Hazel O'Connor "I'll See You Again" / "Hidden" Single IHCDS29 2018 Superdrone Superdrone One Album IH76 Two IH82 Thorsten Quaeschning Cargo (original soundtrack) IH79 Tangerine Dream "Run to Vegas" / "Leviathan" EP IH80T The Sessions I Album IH83 Libera Beyond IHCD85 2019 Superdrone Starcade IHD89 Libera Christmas Carols with Libera IHCD89 2020 Rob Reynolds "Stormy Weather" Single IHSCD5 2021 Libera If Album IHCD90 2023 Forever IHCD91
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