Invisible Hands Music

Invisible Hands Music is an independent record label based in London's Camden Town neighbourhood. The label was founded by musician Charles Kennedy. The company name first appeared on cassettes sold at gigs by Kennedy's first band Night World in 1987. The first CD release was Fretwork Southeast, a compilation of local bands from Southwest London in 1993. After three more CDs in the series, and an eponymous debut album by Kennedy's next musical project, The Aries Project, the label moved into signing artists starting with 70s prog rock group Wishbone Ash, and singer songwriter Rob Reynolds. Other releases in the 90s, 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 its current offices in January 2003, releasing high class product such as a box set of new music by Emerson Lake And Palmer, a box set of previously-released music by Wishbone Ash, and a compilation of covers of David Bowie songs. 80s post-punk icon Hazel O'Connor joined the label with a reissue series of her 90s albums. Recent releases include music by guitarist Stevie Salas (best of), 90s Britpop group Silver Sun (two studio albums), ex-Stranglers frontman Hugh Cornwell (one studio album and a live set) and electro visionary Thomas Dolby (live CD / DVD box set).

In 2008 Invisible Hands Music made the news by signing the (partially) reformed lineup of the Jam, and making the new Hugh Cornwell album Hoover Dam available as a free download.

Catalogue

all titles on CD unless stated otherwise
ALBUMS
IH1 Night World Invisible Hands (cassette)**
IH2 Night World The Bears At The End of The Garden (cassette)*
IH3 Night World Grand Designs (cassette)*
IH4 Night World Charge of the Night Brigade (cassette)*
IHCD5 Various Fretwork Southeast*
IHCD6 The Aries Project The Aries Project
IHCD7 Various Fretwork Southeast 2: The Crossing
IHCD8 Rob Reynolds Waiting For The Tide*
IHCD9 Various Fretwork 3: Upshot
IHCD10 Various Fretwork 4: Electronic
IHCD11 Night World Atmospheres*
IHCD12 Wishbone Ash Trance Visionary*
IHCD14 Various Drum & Bass Invasion
IHCD15 Various Speed Garage Invasion
IHCD16 Various Diamond Gods: Interpretations of Bowie
IHCD17 Rob Reynolds Samsara Never Sleeps*
IHCD18 Hazel O'Connor Beyond The Breaking Glass
IHCD19 Hazel O'Connor Live in Berlin
IHCD20 Hazel O'Connor 5 In The Morning
IHCD21 Hazel O'Connor Acoustically Yours
IHCD22 Rob Reynolds Sightseeing
IHCD23 Emerson Lake & Palmer Reworks: Brain Salad Perjury (3 CD box set)
IHCD24 Wishbone Ash Wonderful Stash (3 CD box set)
IHCD25 Ade Payne My Town
IHCD26 Clear Coming Round
IHCD27 Whysome Not Even Close To What It Was Meant To Be (IR01)
IHCD28 UK Subs Staffordshire Bull
IHCD29 The Vibrators Live: Near The Seedy Mill Golf Club
IHCD30 Cheap & Nasty Cool Talk Injection**
IHCD31 Hazel O'Connor A Singular Collection: The Best of Hazel O'Connor
IHCD32 Cormac De Barra Barco
IHCD33 Mick Karn More Better Different
IHCD34 Forest Giants In Sequence
IHCD35 Silver Sun Disappear Here
IHCD36 Rob Reynolds Live in Den Haag
IHCD37 Hazel O'Connor Hidden Heart
IHCD38 Hugh Cornwell Beyond Elysian Fields
IHCD39 Stevie Salas The Sun & The Earth: The Essential Stevie Salas Vol. 1
IHCD40 Various Northern Line: The British At NXNE
IHCD41 Rob Reynolds The Curious World
IHCD42 Silver Sun Dad's Weird Dream
IHCD43 Hugh Cornwell Dirty Dozen
IHCD44 Hugh Cornwell People Places Pieces (3 CD box set)
IHCD45 Various Lost & Found
IHCD49 Birds of Wales Fall Of The 49 EP
IHCD50 Various Contemporary Formation
IHCD51 Thomas Dolby The Sole Inhabitant (CD and DVD box set)
IHCD52 Hugh Cornwell Hoover Dam (CD and DVD box set; vinyl)
IHCD53 From The Jam A First Class Return (DVD box set)
N/A The Aries Project Echo Park / Ionisphere Blue / Up / Underpass
SINGLES
IHSCD4 The Aries Project Shelter, Medina, Stateless
IHSCD5 Rob Reynolds Stormy Weather
IHSCD6 Rob Reynolds Take It Easy*
IHST7 Wishbone Ash Heritage (12" vinyl)
IHCDS10 Clear Johnny Marr Was A Mistake*
IHCDS11 Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother*
IHCDS12 OK Cola Everybody Wants To Be A DJ**
IHS14 Forest Giants Postcards (7" vinyl)
IHCDS15 Clear Over And Over
IHCDS16 Rob Reynolds Heaven Knows
IHCDS17 The Kates EP (CD and 12" vinyl)
IHCDS19 Hazel O'Connor One More Try
IHCDS20 The Kates Suicide Valentine*
IHCDS21 Junk TV Oh England
IHCDS22 Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother
IHCDS23 Silver Sun Bubblegum
IHCDS25 Rob Reynolds Heaven Knows
IHCDS26 Hazel O'Connor Perfect Days
IHCDS27 Silver Sun Immediate
IHCDS28 Hugh Cornwell Under Her Spell
IHCDS29 Hazel O'Connor I'll See You Again/ Hidden
IHCDFREEME1 Rob Reynolds Free Me
VIDEO (promo only)
VHS Rob Reynolds Stormy Weather
VHS Rob Reynolds Take It Easy
VHS Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother
VHS Clear Johnny Marr Was A Mistake
VHS Hazel O'Connor One More Try
VHS Mick Karn The Jump
DVD Various IHM Artists
DVD Hugh Cornwell Live In London
RELATED ALBUMS
Hugh Cornwell Live: Live It & Breathe It (HISCD004)
David Fisher Firehorse
Manana Fast Days EP
COMPILATIONS
Exposed (In Yer Face Records IYF-01CD) includes Night World Remote
Future Sounds Of Underground Garage (Intrinsic Records TOYCD008) includes Night World Grass Roots and DJ Aries In Awe Of Stratus Girl
United Flava Of Drum n Bass: The Junglist Jazz Selection (Intrinsic Records TOYCD1006) includes Fledgling feat DJ Tyrone and The Aries Project Baby Jane
Definitive Underground Drum n Bass (Ration-L RALVP002CD) includes The Aries Project New Foundations (Fledgling's Incision Mix)
Seminal Excursions In Underground Garage: 40 Crucial Cuts (Ration-L RALVP007CD) includes DJ Aries feat Mikey Davenport Sitting All Alone
The British At Midem 2004 includes Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother
The British At Midem 2005 includes Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother
The British At Midem 2007 includes Silver Sun Fallen
The British At Popkomm 2005 includes Rob Reynolds Sweet Mother
The British At Popkomm 2007 includes Thomas Dolby I Live In A Suitcase
AIM For China 2004
AIM For America 2006 includes Silver Sun, Rob Reynolds, Hugh Cornwell
BPI UK Indie Synch Sampler November 2005 includes Rob Reynolds Change My World
* deleted
** never released