Hallow Ground is a Swiss record label from Lucerne, founded in 2013 by Remo Seeland. Even though his label’s man-power is quite manageable – next to Seeland, the artist Ruth Stofer takes care of the design and graphics, Roger Hofmann takes on the mastering of the releases – it’s all about constant upgrades. The arts for a start, since Hallow Ground was not just founded as a platform for music. »It can most certainly be that in the future we will take on further media in the catalogue«, says the operator himself. Because on the other hand he takes the self-chosen motto »Hallow Ground is a platform for music and art that leads to visions« literally. »As long as I can remember, I have been enthusiastic by changes of consciousness«, explains Seeland. »To me, art and music appears to be an excellent means. Next to entertaining, this has always been the mission of music.« Although there is a certain musical as well as visual stringency noticeable; Hallow Ground doesn’t want his artists and himself to be limited by this.

The music published on this Swiss imprint rather weakens frontiers than to acknowledge them. Between the releases from, amongst others, David Tibet, the Swans guitarist Norman Westberg and S S S S you many indeed find aesthetic similarities – almost all of Hallow Ground publications are gloomy by tendency and armed with a weakness for harsh varieties – however they are not specialised to a unique genre. Seeland said it himself that he finds it boring, searching on the internet for fitting candidates and rather prefers personal contact. A few of Hallow Ground’s organised Lucerne concerts finally resulted in a release. These are produced with a lot of passion for detail and are partially available in small editions, like in the case of the »Soisong« EP by the Russian musician CoH which can result in quite long production times. »We understand this 88 unit limited art edition as a complete artwork«, says Seeland about this release which took one year in the making. A limitation doesn’t mean that in the end you can’t get more than the mere sum of individual parts as the result.