David Ayers Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 Ok so Not Two, Fundacja Słuchaj! and No Business I know about. Beacons in the darkness. Who else is out there? Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Musica Genera (Poland). Dormant now; its earlier releases are great. https://www.discogs.com/label/32021-Musica-Genera?sort=year&sort_order=asc Monotype (Poland). I guess this one is not active any more either, but they had a good run. Bôłt (Poland). http://www.boltrecords.pl/ Also in Poland, Mikołaj Trzaska's Kilogram: https://kilogramrecords.bandcamp.com/ Mikroton (Russia) https://toneditions.bandcamp.com/ If Slovenia counts as Soviet block, then (also defunct) l'innomable. https://www.discogs.com/label/49927-Linnomable?sort=year&sort_order=asc That Dörner / Capece release is great. Budapest Music Center (guess from where): https://bmcrecords.hu/albumok?genre=jazz&search= . Everybody here needs to hear this one: https://bmcrecords.hu/albumok/dresch-quartet-archie-shepp-hungarian-bebop Long Arms (Russia): https://www.longarms.net/ Edited March 9, 2021 by Д.Д. Quote
mjazzg Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 (edited) Second vote for Kilogram, bought some good stuff from that label 10 years or so ago. Also Multikulti Project and For tune. Both Polish I think. Edited March 9, 2021 by mjazzg Quote
Pim Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 Yeah Multikulti Project is great. I love the two Hera discs! from Romania: 7 dreams. both of course not former soviet states but does the Warsaw Pact count as well? Quote
David Ayers Posted March 9, 2021 Author Posted March 9, 2021 Great answers and more than I thought! I guess I could have been more literal about what I meant by Soviet. It’s not like I’m unfamiliar with the topic... Quote
clifford_thornton Posted March 9, 2021 Posted March 9, 2021 who's towing the free improv line out in Kazakhstan? Quote
Д.Д. Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 From Slovakia there was (is?) HEyeRMEarS/DISCORBIE: https://www.discogs.com/label/181201-HEyeRMEarSDISCORBIE I just got a couple of their excellent Jon Rose releases. Quote
EKE BBB Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 (edited) Czech label ARTA records has put out some interesting discs by Jiří Stivín, Emil Viklický, Karel Růžička or even George Mraz. It is connected to AghaRTA jazz club in Prague, nice cave where I have been a couple of times. https://www.discogs.com/label/162923-Arta-Records Edited March 10, 2021 by EKE BBB Quote
David Ayers Posted March 10, 2021 Author Posted March 10, 2021 This is great. I only knew about BMC. Checking them all out. Maybe in due time start a thread on musicians from these countries? Except for those with an international profile I suspect there’s a lot I don’t know. Quote
EKE BBB Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 And, if Berlin qualifies as the capital of a former Soviet state, we have the well-known AMIGA label: https://www.discogs.com/es/label/33495-AMIGA-JAZZ Quote
EKE BBB Posted March 10, 2021 Posted March 10, 2021 These are four labels which were state-owned at some point in time, and with strong focus on classical music. However, all of them released quite a few jazz discs, among them a bunch by Romanian marvel pianist Iancsy Körössy: https://www.discogs.com/label/21873-Supraphon (Czech) https://www.discogs.com/label/57574-Qualiton (Hungarian) https://www.discogs.com/label/11624-Electrecord (Romanian) https://www.discogs.com/label/34482-Polskie-Nagrania-Muza (Polish) Quote
David Ayers Posted March 10, 2021 Author Posted March 10, 2021 2 hours ago, EKE BBB said: These are four labels which were state-owned at some point in time, and with strong focus on classical music. However, all of them released quite a few jazz discs, among them a bunch by Romanian marvel pianist Iancsy Körössy: https://www.discogs.com/label/21873-Supraphon (Czech) https://www.discogs.com/label/57574-Qualiton (Hungarian) https://www.discogs.com/label/11624-Electrecord (Romanian) https://www.discogs.com/label/34482-Polskie-Nagrania-Muza (Polish) Ah! Now a couple of those I know through the classical side, the others not so much... Quote
David Ayers Posted March 10, 2021 Author Posted March 10, 2021 Ok - so. On Spotify I found Mikroton (search label:mikroton) and Kilogram, search (label:kilogram). Couldn't locate Musica Genera with a label search but did find one title I searched for https://open.spotify.com/album/3i0ffjjnWpddSYCGjQklQD?si=bMYSXQ7eRLuUJCqoo-lCfQ That's as far as I got so far. Oh and Arta is on Spotify too. And for monotype search label:monotyperec Quote
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