Spool (record label)

Spool
Founded 1998 (1998)
Founder Vern Weber
Daniel Kernohan
Distributor(s) CD Baby
Genre Jazz, experimental
Country of origin Canada
Location Uxbridge, Ontario, Canada
Official website www.spoolmusic.com

Spool[1] is a Canadian record label which was founded 1997 in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada by partners Daniel Kernohan and Vern Weber. Their first releases were in 1998. They relocated to Uxbridge, Ontario in 1999. The name comes from the play by Samuel Beckett: Krapp's Last Tape. In the play the play Krapp becomes fascinated by the word "spool" and repeats it several times. On December 27, 2001, Spool was given national notice in an article in the Globe and Mail by Canadian jazz critic Mark Miller, who said "It's work supported not by the majors, but by smaller companies -- as small as Uxbridge, Ont., label Spool which released two of the most interesting Canadian CDs of 2001, West Coast guitarist Tony Wilson's melancholic Lowest Note and a boisterous collaboration between George Lewis and Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, The Shadowgraph Series."[2] Spool releases also received reviews in the Toronto Star by Geoff Champman, as well as Coda (magazine), DownBeat, Vancouver Province, La Scena musicale, The Wire (magazine), Exclaim magazine, The Georgia Straight. In 2004, Daniel Kernohan was nominated for "producer of the year" by the National Jazz Awards of Canada.

Discography

[3]

Line

Line: noun: a spatial location defined by a real or imaginary unidimensional extent

  • SPL130 Anthony Braxton & the AIMToronto Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007[4]
  • SPL129 Box-Cutter New Rules for Noise (w/ Francois Houle & Gordon Grdina)
  • SPL128 Box-Cutter Unlearn (w/ Francois Houle & Gordon Grdina)[5]
  • SPL127 Dewey Redman & Francois Carrier Open Spaces[6]
  • SPL126 Paul Rutherford/Ken Vandermark/Torsten Muller/Dylan van der Schyff HOXHA[7]
  • SPL125 Taking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz Intersection Poems[8]
  • SPL124 Peggy Lee Band Worlds Apart[9]
  • SPL123 Rake-Star Some RA[10]
  • SPL122 Jonathan Segel & Shoko Hikage GEN
  • SPL121 Brett Larner, Joelle Leandre & Kazuhisa Uchihashi No Day Rising
  • SPL120 Fred Frith, Joelle Leandre & Jonathan Segel Tempted To Smile
  • SPL119 Tobias Delius, Wilbert de Joode & Dylan van der Schyff The Flying Deer
  • SPL118 Michael Moore/ Peggy Lee/ Dylan van der Schyff Floating 1..2..3[11]
  • SPL117 Peggy Lee Band Sounds from the Big House
  • SPL116 Fred Frith, John Oswald, Anne Bourne dearness
  • SPL115 Travis Baker, Sara Shoenbeck Yesca One
  • SPL114 Brett Larner Itadakimasu. Duos: A. Braxton, Jim O’Rourke, Gianni Gebbia, Taku Sugimoto,+
  • SPL113 George Lewis & the NOW Orchestra The Shadowgraph Series
  • SPL112 Tony Wilson Sextet The Lowest Note
  • SPL111 Queen Mab close
  • SPL110 Mats Gustafsson, Kurt Newman, Mike Genarro Port Huron Picnic
  • SPL109 John Butcher, Gino Robair, Matthew Sperry 12 Milagritos
  • SPL108 Rake
  • SPL107 The NOW Orchestra with guests George Lewis, Vinny Golia Wowow
  • SPL106 Jacques Israelievitch, Reinhard Reitzenstein, Jesse Stewart, Gayle Young The Test Tubes
  • SPL105 The Peggy Lee Band
  • SPL104 Eyvind Kang, Francois Houle, Dylan van der Schyff Pieces of Time
  • SPL103 Henry Kaiser, Paul Plimley (with Danielle DeGruttola) Passwords[12]
  • SPL102 Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff These Are Our Shoes
  • SPL101 Chris Tarry, Dylan van der Schyff Sponge

Field

Field: noun: a set of elements such that addition and multiplication are commutative and associative and multiplication is distributive over addition and there are two elements 0 and 1

  • SPF301 Broken Record Chamber Free Improv For Robots[13]
  • SPF302 Francois Houle Au Coeur du Litige[14]
  • SPF303 John Butcher, Mike Hansen & Tomasz Krakowiak Equation[15]
  • SPF304 Mike Hansen & Tomasz Krakowiak Relay[16]
  • SPF305 Smash & Teeny with John Butcher Gathering[17]

Arc

Arc: noun: the apparent path described above and below the horizon by a celestial body

  • SPA401 The Skronktet West EL[18]
  • SPA402 John Shiurba Triplicate[19]
  • SPA403 Matthias von Imhof Mental Scars[20]

Point

Point: noun: a geometric element that has position but no extension

Spurn

Spurn: verb: reject with disdain or contempt.

References

  1. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/spool-canada-mn0000846323
  2. ↑ Globe and Mail, December 27, 2001, p. R3.
  3. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/artist/spool-canada-mn0000846323
  4. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/creative-orchestra-guelph-2007-mw0001473025
  5. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/unlearn-mw0000484365
  6. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/open-spaces-mw0001485149
  7. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/hoxha-mw0000433837
  8. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/intersection-poems-mw0000346715
  9. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/worlds-apart-mw0000353249
  10. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/some-ra-mw0000353248
  11. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/floating-123-mw0000696786
  12. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/passwords-mw0001550442
  13. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/free-improv-for-robots-mw0000336081
  14. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/au-coeur-du-litige-mw0000336080
  15. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/equation-mw0000320198
  16. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/relay-mw0000346716
  17. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/gathering-mw0000702733
  18. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/el-mw0000696788
  19. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/triplicate-mw0000353502
  20. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/mental-scars-mw0000346357
  21. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/alogos-mw0000776158
  22. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/ornaments-mw0000536843
  23. ↑ https://www.allmusic.com/album/odd-jobs-assorted-climaxes-an-eclectic-collection-of-new-music-compositions-mw0000435087

Further reading

  • Nick Storring, "Spool: Music in the Margins" Musicworks Issue 129, Winter 2017.
  • Buium, Greg (2000). "Box...One...Spool...Eight (and Counting) - Spool: Canada's Bright, New Record Label". Coda. pp. 10–13.
  • David Dacks, "Label Life; Spool," Exclaim Magazine, Dacks, David (December 2004). "Spool". Exclaim!. Retrieved 2018-06-04.
  • Alexander Varty, "Preaching Improv's Gospel: The minds behind the Spool record label have a missionary zeal," Georgia Straight, February 3–10, 2000.
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