Warble Records

About Warble Records

WarbleRecords.com is the web-cave for musicians Sustentacula, Seance Crasher, Julian Snow, David Liabraaten, Daniel Rafn, & Coronation. While our styles may differ, our dedication is the same. Warble is a deliver-er of hotly contested art, curated by perfectionists eager to learn. We live in Portland, Salem & Silverton, Oregon.
Mr. Warble debuted in the mid-1990s as an unusually unstable microcassette message. The first Warble long-player was pretty unremarkable, but nonetheless did feature drum wizardry from one "Skippy", later of Black Francis' band. The die was firmly cast with Julian Snow's third Warbler, "Doodle" (1998). Concurrently the elder Rafn (David) set up with his "seminal Portland post-rock" band Kremlin Bronx.

The two trains (J. Snow + Rafns) collided in the fall of 2001 at a Bloody Muse show in Keizer. Meanwhile, the Warble imprint took up temporary hibernation while David LiaBraaten and Julian launched Subsun. Sneaking back into circulation c.2007 with low-profile releases led by Keizer lo-fi legend Peter DeGroot, Warble consolidated its position in 2010 with Daniel's sharp website and a friendly takeover of the Subsun catalog (including releases by Root Villa and Anbot Rodroid). David L. returning to the fold c. 2011, the big tent now warbles into the future.

Warble Records' ninth annual compilation, Directionless Draining Delve was curated by Sam McBride, and features fiercely new material from the Warble family. An exception being a previously unreleased middle-of-the-night basement jam from 2010, Hunga Fury Blip.

Mastered by David Liabraaten. Art and design by Sandwiches You Will Like and Daniel Rafn
compilation

Warble Records' eighth annual compilation, Endogenous Esper Energy is a two-volume love-letter to the past and ray of hope for the future.

Curated by Katy Allen-Farris. Mastered by David Liabraaten. Art and design by Daniel Rafn and Katy Allen-Farris.
compilation

Warble Records' eighth annual compilation, Endogenous Esper Energy is a two-volume love-letter to the past and ray of hope for the future.

Curated by Katy Allen-Farris. Mastered by David Liabraaten. Art and design by Daniel Rafn and Katy Allen-Farris.
compilation

On release Dedication, Daniel Rafn further develops his personal hybrid of exploratory pop and rap to a more crystallized state from where he left off in his 2016 album The Hanged Man. If the previous record drew upon study of one particular card from the tarot, Dedication is more wrapped around verses from the Tao Te Ching, selfishly re-interpreting some of its musings. Comfortable drawing on mystic and philosophical systems as much as the angst and bravado of pop culture, the resulting intersection is so idiosyncratic, it can't help but be completely personal.
Featured right in the middle of Dedication's five song tracklist is Portland rapper and painter Old Grape God - one of the most unique voices in the city's hip-hop scene.
Exploratory Pop