COLD CAVE to Perform 2009’s “Cremations” Live for the First Time at a Cemetery in LA and Church in Brooklyn

Cold Cave will exhume their earliest transmissions this September with two immersive performances devoted to 2009’s Cremations, bringing the record to the stage in full for the first time.

The special live rituals are set for September 11 at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever in Los Angeles and September 19 at First Unitarian Church in Brooklyn, two rooms well suited to a record that sounds like a dispatch from a mauseleum. For those who first found Wesley Eisold’s work in its rawest state, Cremations remains a crucial artifact of Cold Cave’s formation: bruised synth hymns, industrial abrasion, tape-warped electronics, and a kind of devotional despair pressed into damaged circuitry, where romance came buried in funeral voltage.

Joining Cold Cave at both shows is Berlin-born artist and singer Rosa Anschütz, who will perform material from her fourth album, Sabbatical. Anschütz’s voice moves with a spectral poise through cold wave pressure, avant-garde pop structures, and devotional electronics. These Cremations performances promise a sharper act of return: Cold Cave stepping back into the corroded room where it began, before Love Comes Close opened the door to a wider synth-pop language and before later records gave the project broader emotional architecture. Here, the focus falls on the project’s most damaged early material.