Creative Works Records
| Creative Works Records | |
|---|---|
| Active years | since 1983 |
| founder | Mike Wider |
| Seat | Root |
| Website | www.creativeworks.ch |
| Genre (s) | Classical music , jazz |
Creative Works Records is an independent Swiss record label .
history
The Creative Works Records label was founded in 1983 by Mike Wider in Root in the canton of Lucerne . Wider, who at the time helped set up a recording studio in Lucerne and worked as a music producer, recorded the American alto saxophonist Marion Brown on his first album . With the solo LP he then toured record stores and also a trade fair in Paris, where he was personally welcomed by the French Minister of Culture, Jack Lang, because of his commitment .
Since then, the label has published between two and four productions a year. Modern and contemporary jazz and avant-garde music in particular are published. The label is run by Wider on a part-time basis and is not designed to be profit-oriented: the profits generated always flowed fully into the next productions.
Concept of the label
Musicians such as Corin Curschellas , Urs Blöchlinger , John Wolf Brennan , Christy Doran , Urs Leimgruber , Evan Parker , Alfred Harth , Marion Brown , Bernd Konrad , Peter Schärli , Ned Rothenberg , Hans Kennel , Lucas Niggli , Tscho Theissing and Franz have released on the label Koglmann . The label also published albums by the late musicians Klaus Koch and Werner Lüdi . Both recordings and DVDs have been released.
Currently, the focus is on Swiss musicians from the jazz and improvisation scene , such as Luigi Archetti , Christy Doran or Peter A. Schmid , and the Swiss composers who work with Marianne Schroeder and Brennan in the Groupe Lacroix (including collaboration with the Moscow Rachmaninov Trio Russia and the Ensemble Sortisatio from Germany). The philosophy of the label today includes “accompanying a band or an artist for several years and giving them the opportunity to introduce themselves with different projects at different intervals.” a. John Wolf Brennan's five solo albums for piano as well as his INITIALS retrospective have been published.
The label relies on building up the musicians over a longer period of time without curtailing their artistic freedom. Quote Wider: “With certain productions I am already involved in the creation process, but I am not someone who speaks everywhere. But it is important to me that I find a personal connection with the musicians. ”Unlike many other labels, the rights remain with the musicians.
literature
- KD Zeh: 20 years of Creative Works Records: Against shallow pop. Jazz Podium 5/2004: 28
Web links
Remarks
- ↑ a b c Tom Gsteiger The patron without gold donkey (2006) ( Memento of the original from December 7, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The range extends to preludes and fugues from Bach's well-tempered piano , which, in addition to the piano composition, monograms by Alfons Karl Zwicker can be found on an album.
- ↑ Widmer cit. n. Zeh, Jazz Podium 5/2004
- ↑ This retrospective continues until 1991. See interview with Brennan ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Concerto 4/2006
