Seven Things (aka 7HINGS):
A Brief History
 
 
Seven Things (with its distinctive typography logo 7HINGS, by graphic designer David Coyle) was the shortened version of the company’s full name “Seven Things I Daren’t Express Ltd”. The company was founded in 2005 as a digital-only label, dedicated to the highest-quality experimental and contemporary music.
 
Seven Things was supported by private finance, and grants from the Scottish Arts Council and Scottish Enterprise. Over the period of its existence it released a total of 20 live and studio recordings, many of them critically acclaimed, from its own website and other distributors.
 
The complete list of released recordings is:
 
1 LUC FERRARI, Madame De Shanghai
2 ALEKS KOLKOWSKI & UTE WASSERMANN, Murmelndes Lueftchen
3 ALESSANDRO BOSETTI, I Like Ice Cream, I Don't Like Ice Cream
4 BILL THOMPSON, Of Memory and Dreams
5 CHARLEMAGNE PALESTINE, The Golden Mean
6 DANIEL WILLIAMS, Scanning
7 DAVID FENNESSY, ppp
8 JOHN BUTCHER, Huddersfield Prospects
9 KEITH ROWE & COR FUHLER, Culprit
10 KOJI ASANO, Live at CCA Glasgow
11 MATTIN, Wrong Commodity
12 NEIL DAVIDSON, Therscan
13 NMPERIGN, Nmperign Live
14 PETER DOWLING, Don't Touch Me! (I Hate You Sometimes)
15 ROSS CAMPBELL, On One
16 SPRING HEEL JACK, Mass
17 YANNIS KYRIAKIDES & ANDY MOOR, Rebetika
18 ZOE IRVINE, Magnetic Migration Music
19 MAX RICHTER, From “The Art of Mirrors”
20 SCOTTISH FLUTE TRIO with JOJI HIROTA, The Waterfall of Time (7HINGSCD01)
 
Other recordings were made but never released.
 
In an effort to support its work as a label, Seven Things briefly expanded its website in 2009 to enable it to distribute recordings by other experimental and contemporary artists. Unfortunately, the business never became financially sustainable, and it closed in 2010.
 
Some of the recordings are now distributed by others, under license from Seven Things’ founder John Harris, who owns the rights to the recordings.
 
To make an enquiry about any aspect of 7HINGS, please use the following email address:
 
john (at) seventhings.co.uk
 
Thank you.
 
Seven Things
1A Dalrymple Crescent
Edinburgh
UK
EH9 2NU