Silkheart Records | |
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Founded | 1985 |
Founder | Lars-Olof Gustavsson Keith Knox |
Genre | Jazz |
Country of origin | Sweden |
Location | Stockholm |
Official website | www |
Silkheart Records is a Swedish record company and label dedicated to improvised music and free jazz.
Lars-Olof Gustavsson and Keith Knox founded Silkheart in 1985. In 1991, Jimmy Johnson of Forced Exposure suggested that Silkheart "could easily be considered for the new ESP-Disk throne." [1] The Penguin Guide to Jazz describes the four albums that Dennis González recorded for the label as "part of a determined effort to wrest creative initiative back from New York and the West Coast". [2] : 513–514 Charles Brackeen (whom Silkheart's management [3] and González [2] : 513–514 had coaxed out of retirement) recorded three albums for Silkheart. [2] : 159
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