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Henceforth Records is building its catalog slowly but surely. We want to submit music to the world that says something -- has a point of view. While we love virtuosity, we don't love it for its own sake. From the beginning of time, music has carried a message and we want to continue to carry that forward. Hence, the name, Henceforth: from now on. While the music we find important may not always be soothing, we hope it is a conduit for candor. Henceforth Records' quest is to bring to the attention of a contemporary listening audience the work of some of today's most vital artists whose vision crosses the boundaries and expands definitions of contemporary classical, improvised, electronic and experimental music.
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Newest release: Incidental by Mike Olson.
Henceforth Records is proud to release, on January 5, 2010, its 7th CD, Incidental, by Minneapolis based composer Mike Olson. The music encapsulates his new approach to composition, but its diversity, intellectual rigor and sheer sonic splendor make it right at home in our Henceforth catalog.
Our first CD was SOS Live with Lisle Ellis, Marco Eneidi and Peter Valsamis. Second was Baggerboot with violinist Gunda Gottschalk and accordionist Ute Völker from Wuppertal, Germany (home of many of our favorites: Peter Brötzmann, Pina Bausch, and the late Peter Kowald), and bassist Peter Jacquemyn from Belgium. We heard their trio play at the Antwerp Festival in 2004 and realized that we wanted to hear them again. We released Gustavo Aguilar's unsettled on an old sense of place in August, 2007. Minamo is is a duo recording of live performances by Carla Kihlstedt, violin and Satoko Fujii, piano, an example of powerful genre-bending music that we prefer. This was released October 20, 2007 an received a great review from Ben Ratliff of the NY Times. Lisle Ellis's Sucker Punch Requiem: An homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat was released February 2008, also with many stellar reviews. True to the spirit of Henceforth Records, Ellis's creation, inspired by the life and work of one of the most important artists of the last century, brings together an astounding array of musicians: Lisle Ellis, bass, electronics, and sound design; Oliver Lake, saxophone; Susie Ibarra, percussion; George Lewis, trombone; Pamela Z, voice and electronics; Holly Hofmann, flute; and Mike Wofford, piano. Next was Cities and Eyes with Andrea Parkins and Jessica Constable. This CD is an extraordinary debut disc from The Skein, a duo project from internationally lauded improvising artists Andrea Parkins, electric accordion, effects, samples and live processing, synthesizers, piano, voice and Jessica Constable, voice, electronics.
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