Record Label Close-Up: ECM Records

ECM. My instincts after years of purchasing the label’s albums was always that the E would have stood for European, and the M stood for music. While I was half-right there, I had no clue as to what the C was for. I was leaning towards “continental” as I had thought the aim of the … Continue reading Record Label Close-Up: ECM Records

Record Label Closeup – Sackville Recordings

When you hear the term record label, what thoughts spring to mind?  To many, they think of big business, labels that buy and sell bands like they are stocks, and executives that will cut deeply into an artist’s revenue with the ferocity of Freddy Krueger.  While this may be true in some cases, particularly a … Continue reading Record Label Closeup – Sackville Recordings