A label founded
with a single purpose.
La Sacramental is an independent vinyl label founded in Barcelona, inspired by Madrid, with a single purpose: to reissue gothic, darkwave, deathrock and related music from the eighties and nineties that deserve a second life in physical format.
We are not a company. We are a personal project, driven by the conviction that certain unjustly forgotten music still has something to say.
On the name
In Madrid, sacramental is not a generic religious adjective. It is a word with its own geography.
It designates the historical brotherhoods that, since the 16th century, have managed the city's private cemeteries: the Sacramental of San Justo, San Lorenzo, and San Isidro. These graveyards are perched upon the Cerro de las Ánimas (Hill of Souls) in Carabanchel, where their high walls and cypress trees became part of the daily landscape and the dark imagery of an entire generation.
This is not an abstract tribute. It is a concrete homage to a specific neighborhood aesthetic and the presence of death.
In 1982, while bands like Parálisis Permanente and Gabinete Caligari were rehearsing at the legendary studio on 25 Tablada Street (in the Tetuán district), their creative gaze was fixed on that funereal, "castizo" south. That same year, Edi Clavo founded Tres Cipreses, the definitive record label of the Spanish after-punk1 scene. The name was born from a sketch: while designing their first cover, Edi drew three cypress trees to balance the composition between two tombstones, invoking those very trees that crown the horizon of the Sacramentales.
La Sacramental is the next chapter of that same story.
1 After-punk is the term used in Spain for what English-speaking countries call post-punk.