Disaro Records is a music label from Houston at the heart of the recent 'Witch House' movement. Acting as a Texan umbrella for the current batch of dark, electronic goth acts that mask themselves in pitch-shifted vocals and gloomy synths they've released CDRs, vinyl and cassettes by the likes of Salem, o0o00, White Ring, Modern Witch and Mater Suspiria Vision amongst others.Interview with label founders Robert Disaro and Jim Owleyes
-What were you influenced by when starting Disaro, did other labels inspire you, or was it more about wanting to get music out there?
Robert Disaro did do some work with another Texas CDR label, only he started branching off into a sound that did not fit with the old label, and what he would eventually turn into Disaro.
-With Disaro, there's a certain visual aesthetic associated with the label, was this always the intention?
Of course, the image plays such an important part of how the music is initially catalogued in the cerebral cortex. We started off at first with Robert collecting the sound while I started creating images that we wanted associated with the label. A lot of the artsists on the label make their own art as well, which we like a lot.
-How was your SXSW this year, was it interesting seeing Disaro related acts play, did you discover any new music or is it not really like that?
Texas is the place! We both are from there so we get screwed and chopped. It was a family reunion of sorts. The gathering storm is in full swing there.
-What new releases can we expect from Disaro for the rest of the year?
We are actually doing a lot of new projects in LA at the moment.
-What's your take on all the different buzz words that are thrown at some of your acts, genre names like Witchhouse and Drag?
Witchhouse is a great name, we love it. Only once a name comes about to define a vibration, it becomes a solid, the word takes form and shapes reality, for better or worse.
White Ring - Roses (Fan Video)
-Apart from Disaro, are they any other projects that you're involved in, you do artwork for the label but do you create outside of that context?
The owleyes is a working graphic artist in LA, also we have been working with the Showcave night gallery in LA, developing it as an alternative space to explore ritual in art and music:
http://immortalmortal.com
http://www.showcave.org
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Disaro Records can be found online at myspace.com/ffdisaro
