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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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Henceforth Records produces music by soloists and groups whose vision and musicality adds to creativity. 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. The first three have been receiving rave reviews. 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.
Lisle Ellis's Sucker Punch Requiem: An homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat is now out (February 2008). 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, each one a leader in their own right: 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. We have more plans about which we will keep you in suspense.
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