Voiceprint Records | |
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Parent company | Gonzo Multimedia, Ltd. |
Founded | 1990 |
Founder | Rob Ayling |
Status | Active |
Distributor(s) | Floating World Records |
Genre | |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Location | Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne & Wear, England |
Official website | www |
Voiceprint Records was a British independent record label based in England, founded in November 1990 by Rob Ayling. [1] [2] They specialised in re-releasing old material, especially progressive rock, but also had new releases, under the Resurgence and Blueprint labels. [2]
The holding company, Zeit Distribution Ltd., went into insolvency in 2010. [3] It was replaced by the phoenix company, Gonzo Multimedia in 2010. The new company has a broader remit, and releases a much wider range of music. [4]
Voiceprint operated a number of record labels, [5] including some for a single band or set of related artists. Major Voiceprint labels include Blueprint, [6] All Saints , Jazzprint, and Resurgence.
The first release on Voiceprint was a Daevid Allen album, The Australian Years. [1] Among the many other artists whose recordings have been released by the company are Tim Blake, Leonard Cohen, [7] The Fall (whose Cog Sinister label was acquired by Voiceprint in 1997), [8] [ deprecated source ] Fish, [1] Gong, [9] Hawkwind, [9] Steve Hillage, [9] Patrick Moraz, [10] Anthony Phillips, [11] Theo Travis, Rick Wakeman, [9] Gordon Haskell , [9] and Yes. [9]
The company also released classical music and related documentaries. [12]
Dagmar Krause is a German singer, best known for her work with avant-rock groups including Slapp Happy, Henry Cow, and Art Bears. She is also noted for her coverage of songs by Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill and Hanns Eisler. Her unusual singing style makes her voice instantly recognisable and has defined the sound of many of the bands with whom she has worked.
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Live at the Witch Trials is the debut studio album by the Fall. It was released on 16 March 1979 through record label Step-Forward. It is not, despite its title, a live album and was recorded in a studio in a single day and mixed by producer Bob Sargeant.
"Hallelujah" is a song written by Canadian singer Leonard Cohen, originally released on his album Various Positions (1984). Achieving little initial success, the song found greater popular acclaim through a new version recorded by John Cale in 1991. Cale's version inspired a 1994 recording by Jeff Buckley that in 2004 was ranked number 259 on Rolling Stone's "the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time".
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Michael John David Westbrook is an English jazz pianist, composer, and writer of orchestrated jazz pieces. He is married to the vocalist, librettist and painter Kate Westbrook.
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Gong Global Family – Live in Brazil 2007 is a live album and DVD by the psychedelic rock band Gong in their Global Family format, recorded on 20 November 2007 at the SESI theatre in São Paulo, but not released until 2009 by Voiceprint, catalogue number VP520CD. No producer was credited, but mixing and mastering were carried out by guitarist Fabio Golfetti and video editing and DVD were by Flavio Tsutsumi.
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