Bay Area Improvisers Network

Bay Area Creative Music Web Sites

The following links will take you to other interesting Web sites.

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9 Winds Records	Jazz, Classical, Creative, etc.
Artship Recordings
Asian Improv	Creative Music
Balance Point Acoustics	for credit card orders or more info, please vist www.balancepointacoustics.com.
Beta-lactam Ring Records	Beta-lactam Ring Records The label dedicated to releasing uncommon music with unique packaging in this age of mass production. Experimental, electronic, avant-garde, noise, ambient, prog, psych, atonal, fluxus, improvised, drone, "what the..", and other kinds of music can be found here.
Black Hat Records	Black Hat Records is a label specializing in post-modern acoustic Jazz. Started in 1999 by Michael Cooke, Black Hat Records is dedicated to the uncompromising expressions of Jazz music and the Jazz artists we record. We are a Jazz label for the real Jazz fan. Please feel free to contact us about where to purchase our products, about distributing our products or booking our talent, but unfortunately we are not accepting submissions at this time.
Cadence Jazz Records
CIMP	Creative Improvised Music Projects
Clean Feed Records	Clean Feed was founded in 2001. It was born from an urgent need to change the “grey” Portuguese jazz scene and to release the most creative international artists. From the first, Clean Feed set out on a mission to record unsuspected music by recording Portuguese and foreign musicians in separate or cooperative projects The label's goal was to use the whole world as its operating ground, taking advantage of the internet revolution and the increasing global music market. Very quickly, Clean Feed found herself at the vortex of the international creative jazz scene, releasing projects that reached far beyond what was initially imagined. In four years Clean Feed reached the impressive mark of 40 releases, featuring works by such musicians as Steve Swell, Lou Grassi, Ken Filiano, Roy Campbell, Wilber Morris, Will Holshouser, Bernardo Sassetti, Gerry Hemingway, Ellery Eskelin, Ray Anderson, Carlos Barretto, Kevin Norton, Rodrigo Amado, Zé Eduardo, Carlos Zíngaro, Paul Dunmall, Ken Vandermark, Whit Dickey, and Steve Lehman, among others. 2005 has already revealed itself as yet another turning point for the label, with its distribution reaching as far as Japan, the United States, Germany, the UK, Spain, Italy, Poland, Belgium and Switzerland. New artists are joining the rooster including: Michael Blake, Herb Robertson, Joe Morris, Charles Gayle, Rob Brown, Vinny Golia, James Finn, Paul Flaherty, Ravish Momin, Pandelis Karayorgis, Joe Fiedler, Mark Dresser, Bruno Chevillon, Jean-Marc Foltz, George Schuller, Jeff Arnal, Adam Lane, Paal Nilssen-Love. Clean Feed aims to record innovative contemporary jazz projects that can make a difference, building a catalogue that will be internationally recognized for its quality and coherence. Made in Lisbon
Ecstatic Yod
Edgetone Records	From idealism to realism, independent saxophonist/composer/producer Rent Romus launches Edgetone Records, the newest recording and distribution artist run label for new and experimental avant music and modern jazz! After years of independent touring and producing Rent Romus strengthens the ranks of musicians taking control over their destiny with the opening of Edgetone Records. Joining forces with Jazzheads Records, Romus will present some of the most creative musicians that the SF Bay Area, West Coast, and beyond has to offer. Each custom packaged CD release embodies the pure sound of the artist without compromise to a preconceived market. In addition to the three new releases in April, Edgetone is in the planning stages for new music from bassit Bill Noertker, reed master Tony Passarell, electronic iconoclast Scott Looney, and drummer Phillip Everett. Also, jazz violinist Yehudit will debut her second CD on the Edgetone Modern Jazz Series.
Evander Music	Evander Music presents Original Compositions, Improvised Music & New Jazz on nearly 40 titles by mostly west coast recording artists. Look for upcoming 2006 releases by: Aaron Novick's Kipple, Damon Zick quintet, Sarah Wilson, Phillip Greenlief - Andreas Willers duo & Greenlief - Joelle Leandre duo. For submissions, please contact Phillip Greenlief by email at pgsaxo@pacbell.net - snail mail to Evander Music - PO Box 22158 Oakland, CA 94623-9991 or call (510) 652-7914
Evolving Ear
Garuda Records
Grinder
Hat Hut Records	Jazz
Herman & Sherman
Hypnos Recordings
Isotope Records	Serving emerging musicians as well as those long-overlooked by label representation, Isotope Records was conceived as a visionary approach to presenting artists of diverse backgrounds and cultures. Rather than pigeonhole musical styles into rigid categories, Isotope strives to embody the ever-changing musical landscape by presenting innovative new artists who bridge styles of world, jazz, rock, hip-hop, and electronic music. Boldly introducing themselves in 1999, Isotope unleashed its flagship recording of the dynamic improvisational group The Supplicants. As the name of their debut album implies, 1st Encounter is a fully unrehearsed and spontaneous collaboration of three inventive and imaginative musicians. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, Isotope Records first extended its welcoming hand to those musicians it found to possess the inherent qualities of musical expression: creativity, spontaneity, fertility, openness, and vibrant energy. The label has now already expanded to the fertile grounds of New York in adoption of its creative music-seeking mantra. True to its mission, Isotope Records plans to incorporate and unite artists across the country and abroad.
Knitting Factory Works
Limited Sedition	Creative music from Bay Area in Limited Editions
Mary Joy Recordings
Music and Arts	An Independent Classical and Jazz Label
New Albion Records	Jazz
New World Records	Our mission is to record the music of American composers that would not otherwise be represented in the catalogues of the commercial recording companies.
Nuscope Recordings	Producer Russell Summers started nuscope recordings in 1998 to document the daring and life-affirming musics of musicians whose goals are to stimulate, mystify, and move These musicians also have the great gift to shatter preconceived perceptions of what music and sound are all about.
Odd Shaped Case	There is music that springs up at the crossroads, where cultures meet, where ideas are exchanged and grow, where new sounds come into being. There is music made outside known categories, new music that grows from traditions while pushing boundaries towards a truly contemporary and international art. Odd Shaped Case came into being to promote, support and distribute this music.
Pax Recordings	In 1997, San Francisco composer/guitarist Ernesto Diaz-Infante began the Pax Recordings record label which is dedicated to the documentation, perservation, and contagion of music from the margins of our culture and psyches. He and filmmaker/musician Marjorie Sturm co-conspire and run Pax Recordings. Their most recent release is a compilation CD of twenty-six artists titled "Voices In the Wilderness: Dissenting Soundscapes and Songs of GW's America. Buy Pax CDs at CD Baby!
Peer Music	A unique blend of Rock, Classical, Folk, Dance, Alternative, World, Contemporary and Latin music.
Phthalo
Public Eyesore
Racer Records	Intelligent rock, folk rock, experimental pop, freeform jazz
Rasbliutto Recordings	while opinions vary, often to the point of fisticuffs, rasbliutto recordings has been described as a sober game of asshole, an impossibly hopeless vanity label, an anticapitalist sweatshop, a socio-political put-on, a raunchy late-night tryst between a philosopher and an elephant, a feeble attempt at legitimacy, the fully-baked realization of an impossible pipe-dream, and so much more. what rasbliutto *is*, of course, will not be fully known until it has ceased to exist, since (aside from the inscrutable "fun foundation") it's sole raison-d'etre is the music. music? yes, freely-improvised, partially structured, accidental, found, and through-composed new music have been, are, or will be represented here. in addition, rasbliutto recordings reserves the right to do anything else it can muster up the resources to do. rasbliutto recordings is owned and operated by musicians, despite overtures from madonna, stephen spielberg, and rupert murdoch, and its operating budget and debt-to-earnings ratio will remain a mystery as a result. rasbliutto recordings has already issued a small but potent catalog of rare and out-of-print small-batch recordings featuring improvising musicians and composers from the portland, oregon region. from the dysfunctional uber-freedom of super unity to the whiskey-addled electronic ravings of jack lunetti to the primordial nonlinguistic communication of don brown and dan reynolds, rasbliutto recordings has been proud to branch and weave rhizomatically from the initial tour-only offerings of the foster/jenkins/eubanks trio and BEDS. rasbliutto recordings focuses on small releases and x-ray attention to artistic details. so many of our releases do not last long, however they can always be copied from the masters upon request.
Rastascan Records	Creative music from the Bay Area and Beyond
Road Cone
Shanachie	Eclectic collection of AMERICANA, BLUES, COUNTRY / WESTERN, FOLK / ACOUSTIC GUITAR, GOSPEL, IRISH / CELTIC, JAZZ, JEWISH / KLEZMER, LATIN / SALSA, NEW ORLEANS / CAJUN, REGGAE, ROCK / POP, R & B, SKA , WORLD
Sonore
SoundGallery	SoundGallery Productions 1527 48th Ave San Francisco, CA 94122 SoundGallery Productions, is dedicated to the enhancement and cultivation of jazz, world, and experimental music. As a record label, producer, and a promoter, The SoundGallery would like to invite you to try our services. We will develop your online presence by creating your own homepage within our site, post your MP3s, advertise your music, and sell your CDs via the internet.
Sparkling Beatnik Records	World and comtemporary experimental music
Spring Garden Music	Freely improvised music
The Beak Doctor	The Beak Doctor, keen on living up to the responsibility of the ancient Codes of Construction, has committed its vast resources to the investigation of all auditory pathogens, and the exposure of these same sonic germs to the saliva of hungry ears. These viruses include Evan Parker, Derek Bailey, Greg Goodman, Rova, Henry Kaiser, Mats Gustafsson, and George Cremaschi. There is no immunization.
Tzadik	Tzadik is dedicated to releasing the best in avant garde and experimental music, presenting a worldwide community of contemporary musician-composers who find it difficult or impossible to release their music through more conventional channels. Tzadik believes most of all in the integrity of its artists. What you hear on Tzadik is the artists's vision undiluted.

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