The Emanem label was founded in 1974 by film director, producer, screenwriter and television director Martin Davidson. It is specialised in free improvised music.
On Emanem's home page we see:
"The EMANEM COMPACT DISC SERIES features improvised music at its very best - unadulterated new music for people who like new music unadulterated. Every CD is a labour of love - every one an important masterpiece - too good to discontinue. (Why waste time, effort and resources on anything less?) Most feature total improvisation, but some use partly composed material. The presentation of each CD and this web site concentrates on clarity (as does the music) - there is no desire to emulate the current fashion of obscuring and/or omitting vital information. But then, Emanem is not about fashion, it is about substance."
Emanem has released numenous works by John Butcher and his collaborations with Rhodri Davies, John Edwards, Phil Minton, Chris Burn and Mark Sanders.
Sources/ More about Emanem:
On the label's homepage, Eddie Prevost writes:
"Since the mid-1960s there has been determined and persistent presence in music making that owes nothing to establishment preferences, fashionable nuances or market forces. Experimentalism and improvisation speak of enquiry, curiousity and adventure in music. And, albeit that these practices have had to exist within the corrosive slipstream of the aforementioned tendencies, the search for meaningful and fulfilling musical expression can only become real through and towards self-empowerment."
Matchless Recordings has released works by the Butcher-Prevost collaborations.
Sources/ More about Matchless Recordings:
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/
http://www.discogs.com/label/Matchless%20Recordings
http://www.matchlessrecordings.com/node/405
Monotype Records is a Polish label working various artists in the electronic, ambient, experimental, noise and jazz music domains. They have released John Butcher and Toshimaru Nakamura's album Dusted Machinery.
Sources/ More about Monotype Records:
http://www.monotyperecords.com/en/index.html
http://www.myspace.com/monotyperec
Weight of Wax is John Butcher's label founded in 2004. Four albums have been released so far under this label.
Sources/ More about Weight of Wax:
http://www.discogs.com/label/Weight%20Of%20Wax
http://www.johnbutcher.org.uk/Wax.html
Potlatch is a french record label specialising in free improvised music. The word Potlatch is used by ethnologists to describe the old ceremonies that were organised by native american tribes.
They have released works by The Contest of Pleasures trio and by the Butcher - Kurzmann collaboration as well as works by Frederic Blondy and Toshimaru Nakamura.
Sources/ More about Potlatch:
Relative Pitch Records is a label that operates in the free and avant-garde jazz as well as free improvisation domain. It is based in the US.
They have released works by the trio Way Out Northwest and Matthew Shipp.
Sources / More about Relative Pitch:
http://www.relativepitchrecords.com/
http://rateyourmusic.com/label/relative_pitch_records
Unsounds is a record label based in Amsterdam and it was founded by by guitarist Andy Moor, composer / sound artist Yannis Kyriakides, and designer / photographer Isabelle Vigier. They specilise in free improvisation, contemporary music and sound art.
They have released albums by John Butcher, the Butcher-Stangl-Buck collaboration and Thermal trio.
Sources / More about Unsounds:
http://www.unsounds.com/
Rastascan Records is a label specialised in improvised music and operates since the early 1980s. It is run by Gino Robair. On their homepage they display a quote from Billboard magazine:
"A label devoted to the kind of improvised music that makes even the term "cutting edge" seem dull."
They have released works by the John Butcher and Gino Robair duo.
Sources/ More about Rastascan Records:
http://www.rastascan.com/index.html
Another Timbre Records is a label specialising in contemporary and improvised music and is based in Sheffield. They have released numerous works by John Butcher (including The Contest of Pleasures performance at the 2006 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival), Rhodri Davies, Alex Dorner, Thomas Lehn and Phil Minton.
Sources / More about Another Timbre:
http://www.anothertimbre.com/index.html
http://www.discogs.com/label/Another%20Timbre
Grob is a german record label founded by Hans Grob and they are specialised in free improvising music. In the 'about us section' they write:
"...it is the intention of the producers to support and publish this kind of Improvised Music that is not submitted to the well known clishés of post-serialism, free jazz and free rock but that come up with different perspectives and different insights about commerciality and zeitgeist-compatibility."
They have released the album Apples of Gomorrah by John Butcher and Phil Minton and also works by artists such as Lehns, Lovens, Tilbury and Bailey.
Sources/ More about Grob:
http://www.churchofgrob.com/Churchofgrob/grobhome.html
Fataka is a new improvised music label founded by Trevor Brent in 2012. They have released four albums so far, including the Butcher - Shipp duo's performance, as well as works by John Edwards and Eddie Prevost.
Sources/ More about Fataka:
http://fataka.net/
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=43208#.UX0XEOAzzQc
Auricle Records is a record label run by Gerry Hemingway for releasing his own works, including his recorded improvisations with John Butcher and Thomas Lehn.
Sources/ More about Auricle:
http://www.gerryhemingway.com/auricle.html
Other labels that have released John Butcher's work:
Japanese label Ftarri
nuscope
Greek label kukuruku
Qbico Records
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