Denovali Records

Denovali Records
Logo of the label
Active years	since 2005
Seat	Germany
Website	denovali.com
Genre (s)	Ambient , Electronica , Experimental, Drone Doom , Jazz , Dark Jazz , Modern Classical, Sound Art

Denovali Records is an independent label founded in 2005 .

history

The label was founded in 2005 by Timo Alterauge and Thomas Hack. The name is a reference to Novalis .

Denovali has curated and organized international music festivals since 2007 (Denovali Swingfest until 2015, since then Denovali Festival). They found u. a. in Essen (since 2009), London and Berlin . In connection with the label's launch in 2005, Denovali opened an online record store that also sells albums from other music labels.

A trademark of Denovali are the record covers, which are designed uniformly without images of the performers.

Focus

Denovali explicitly focuses on niches. The program is dominated by publications of avant-garde music from the pop-cultural spectrum, ranging from electronic music such as ambient and electronica to titles in the field of tension between jazz , drone doom , dark jazz , modern classical and sound art .

Artist (selection)

• Bersarin Quartet
• Blueneck
• Celeste
• Contemporary Noise Sextet
• Dale Cooper Quartet & the Dictaphones
• Dictaphone
• Electric Guzzi
• Ricardo Donoso
• Greg Haines
• Hidden Orchestra
• The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble
• Thomas Köner
• The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation
• Nadja
• Nadia Struiwigh
• Povarovo
• Omega Massif
• Sankt Otten

Web links

• Denovali Records at Discogs

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Noe: The intoxication and the rhythm. Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 9, 2014, accessed on September 4, 2016 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} http://www.denovali.com/about
3. ↑ http://denovali.com/festival/berlin/?history
4. ↑ Denovali Records - "We are pure idealists". Deutschlandfunk , January 9, 2016, accessed September 4, 2016 .