All Saints Records

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All Saints Records
Founded1991 (1991)
Founder
Warp Records
GenreAmbient
Country of originUnited Kingdom
LocationLondon, England
Official websiteallsaintsrecords.bandcamp.com

All Saints Records is a British independent record label. It was established in 1991 by Dominic Norman-Taylor.[1] The label has published ambient music by Brian Eno and Biosphere.

History

All Saints Records was founded in 1991, named after a street in West London. The first releases were from Opal Records/Land Records which had closed that year as Opal (Brian Eno's management company) wanted to concentrate on artist management rather than being a label.[2] All Saints continued to build upon those initial releases with new acts as well as with artists already associated with the label.

All Saints generally explores the areas where Ambient music embraces other genres of music, but its recent policy of branching out does not seem to have excluded its established artists. Much of the earlier catalogue however is pure ambient. Many of the albums are almost iconic in their stature, such as Biosphere's 1997 Substrata.

The label was distributed by

Warp Records
.

The artwork of the label's releases plays an important part in its general culture and its interest in the visual as well as the musical is very apparent. For example, the label has released three artworks by Eno, Mistaken Memories of Mediaeval Manhattan, Thursday Afternoon (on a single DVD) and 77 Million Paintings.

Roster

See also

References

  1. ^ More Dark Than Shark, [1]
  2. ^ RA News, 'Greater Lengths release'

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