Spool (record label)

Spool was a recording label from 1998–2008 started by Vern Weber and Daniel Kernohan. During its life it put out 41 CDs primarily of improvised music, but also electro-acoustic music, experimental & new composition and avant-rock. The label divided its releases into 4 series, LINE, FIELD, POINT, and ARC. Roughly, LINE was the improviser series, POINT, the composer series, FIELD, electro-acoustic series and ARC, the avant-rock series.

In December 2001, Mark Miller writing in The Globe & Mail said talking about the state of Jazz: "It's work supported not by the majors, but by smaller companies, as small as the Uxbridge, Ont., label Spool, which released two of the most interesting Canadian CDs of 2001, West Coast guitarist Tony Wilson's melancholic Lowest Note and a boisterous collaboration between trombonist/composer George Lewis and Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, The Shadowgraph Series."[1] Spool was profiled in Coda magazine by Greg Buium. Spool releases received reviews by Mark Miller (Globe & Mail), Geoff Chapman (The Toronto Star) and in several magazines such as Down Beat, Cadence, Signal to Noise, Exclaim, Georgia Straight, The Province, The Wire, ImproJazz (France), JazzLive (Germany. The label was nominated twice by the National Jazz Awards of Canada.

The label featured such prominent jazz artists as Dewey Redman, Anthony Braxton, Paul Rutherford (trombone player), George Lewis (trombonist), Mats Gustafsson & Ken Vandermark. A particular feature of the label was the documentation of the Vancouver scene covering then up & coming musicians and veterans alike including: Paul Plimley, François Houle, Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff, Tony Wilson, & NOW Orchestra. Toronto and Montreal scene were also covered with artists such as François Carrier, Lori Freedman, Marilyn Lerner, Brett Larner, Sarah Peebles, Gayle Young, Allison Cameron, John Oswald & AIMToronto Orchestra. European performers of note were Fred Frith, John Butcher, Joelle Leandre, Michael Moore, & Tobias Delius.

Discography

Series LINE

LINE: noun: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

Series FIELD

FIELD: noun: a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1

Series ARC

ARC: noun: the apparent path described above and below the horizon by a celestial body

Series POINT

POINT: noun: a geometric element that has position but no extension

References

  1. ↑ Mark Miller, "Burns, Krall and all that hype", Globe & Mail, December 27, 2001, p. R3.

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