Aerophonic Records

Aerophonic Records

By Dave Rempis

Artist-run free jazz & improvisation label founded by Dave Rempis in Chicago, 2013. No Spotify. Buy direct, support the…

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Audiographic Records

Audiographic Records

By Ken Vandermark

Ken Vandermark's Chicago label for avant-garde jazz and art objects. Limited 500-copy editions. Sound and vision as a s…

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Kontrans Records

Kontrans Records

By Jaap Blonk

Jaap Blonk's Dutch label for sound poetry and electronic experimentation since 1992. The human voice as pure instrument.

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Pleasure of The Text

Pleasure of The Text

By Nate Wooley

Nate Wooley's Brooklyn label for experimental trumpet and sound-philosophy crossover. Music conceived as much to be rea…

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PNL Records

PNL Records

By Paal Nilssen-Love

Paal Nilssen-Love's Oslo label for Large Unit and high-energy free jazz collaborations since 2007. Global improvisation…

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Relay Recordings

Relay Recordings

By Tim Daisy

Tim Daisy's Chicago label for percussion-driven free jazz. Limited CDs, direct Bandcamp releases, zero intermediaries s…

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Riti Records / Glacial Erratic

Riti Records / Glacial Erratic

By Joe Morris

Joe Morris's dual imprint for avant-garde guitar and string improvisation. Two decades of radical self-documentation. C…

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Sonic Transmission Records

Sonic Transmission Records

By Ingebrigt Håker Flaten

Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's label connecting Norwegian jazz and Chicago avant-garde. Raw, muscular, unmediated improvisati…

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Sound American

Sound American

By Nate Wooley

Nate Wooley's multimedia platform — journal, label, and archive mapping American experimental and improvised music.

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TERP Records

TERP Records

By Terrie Hessels

Terrie Hessels' Amsterdam label — home of The Ex and four decades of post-punk, free jazz, and radical creative indepen…

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Unsounds

Unsounds

By Andy Moor

Andy Moor's Amsterdam imprint since 2001 — electroacoustics, free improvisation, and contemporary composition across ge…

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Wig Records

Wig Records

By Ab Baars / Ig Henneman

Ab Baars & Ig Henneman's Dutch label — 35 years, 35 titles. A defining archive of European free improvisation. Closed 2…

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