about
Gold Bolus Recordings provides a home for a particular genus of contemporary sounds that range from bubblegum to classically experimental. There is no single sound or aesthetic that we document. Instead, this label presents the work of a subset of artists working with and around one another, primarily in NYC. If you look closely, you might find artists creating one set of sounds on their first album, appearing on someone else’s album doing something completely different, and then presenting their next album in a third, totally new area. Accordingly, expect to find albums from the artists on our creative roster that touch on opera, noise, indie pop, improvisation, conceptual art, text art, dance music, and chamber music. Gold Bolus artists come together roughly once a year for the Super Bolus.
values
Gold Bolus recordings is a music label that focuses on sharing the fruits of the labor of a thriving creative community. By releasing this music, GBR is documenting a sphere of interdisciplinary artists who dream and innovate and collaborate and hope and scheme and point to a series of vibrant, original systems of organization, thought, and being that lie beyond the status quo.
We support art as a necessary part of collective liberation. As a label, Gold Bolus stands against the actors and structures in our society that seek to do violence and deny anyone their life, health, voice, and rights, especially as a means of racist, sexist, anti-LGBTQ+, xenophobic, antisemitic, Islamophobic, ableist, etc oppression.
Down with fascism, down with white supremacy, down with austerity. We’re here for abundant, uplifting creativity.
Gold Bolus has committed to PACBI.
history
Gold Bolus Recordings was first posited in 2009 but really brought to life in 2013. It was started by Dave Ruder for releasing his own work but quickly expanded to those in the various creative spheres around him. Of late, we release about a half dozen things a year and have limited capacity, but if you want to start a conversation, you can email us at goldbolus [at] gmail [dot] com.
Gold Bolus was originally called Small Bolus, and was named after a disappointed remark a White Plains, NY doctor made to Dave, after being handed a stool sample in 1999. The name Gold Bolus was quickly adopted as a better alternative that reflects the discovery of treasure inside something that at first seems rough or icky.
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You can also see where Gold Bolus’s mark is being left by following our graffiti Tumblr, I Tag GBR:
