Constellation Records (Canada)
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| Constellation Records | |
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| Founded | 1997 |
| Founder | Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie |
| Genre | Experimental rock, experimental, indie rock, folk |
| Country of origin | Canada |
| Location | Montreal, Quebec |
| Official website | cstrecords |
Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think.
Label philosophy[edit]
The package of the Godspeed You! Black Emperor album Yanqui U.X.O. was especially noteworthy, containing an extensive chart which demonstrated the links between four major record labels—AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal—and various arms manufacturers. The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate.[1]
On 25 February 2010, Constellation Records founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid.[2]
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the label announced that the artists on its roster would be receiving 100% of revenue from their webstore and Bandcamp sales. Constellation also announced that it had "set aside an additional contingency fund for label-affiliated artists who might find themselves in particularly precarious or dire straits in the weeks/months to come, and for other precarious workers in our proximate cultural economy and community – independent music venues for example".[3]
Artists[edit]
List of artists Constellation Records have released records for:
- 1-Speed Bike
- ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT
- Automatisme
- Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche
- Black Ox Orkestar
- Carla Bozulich
- Clues
- Colin Stetson
- Do Make Say Think
- Efrim Menuck
- Elfin Saddle
- Elizabeth Anka Vajagic
- Eric Chenaux
- Esmerine
- Exhaust
- Feu Thérèse
- Fly Pan Am
- Frankie Sparo
- Glissandro 70
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Hangedup
- Hiss Tracts
- HṚṢṬA
- Jerusalem in My Heart
- Jason Sharp
- Jem Cohen
- Jessica Moss
- Joni Void
- JOYFULTALK
- Kanada 70
- Kee Avil
- Khora
- Ky
- Land of Kush
- Les Momies de Palerme
- Last Ex
- Light Conductor
- Lungbutter
- Lullabye Arkestra
- Markus Floats
- Matana Roberts
- Nick Kuepfer
- Off World
- Ought
- Pacha
- Pat Jordache
- Polmo Polpo aka Sandro Perri
- Rebecca Foon
- Re:
- Sackville
- Saltland
- Siskiyou
- Sofa
- Steve Bates
- T. Griffin
- T. Gowdy
- The Dead Science
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
- Those Who Walk Away
- Tindersticks
- Vic Chesnutt
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "A Note On the Artwork for Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Yanqui U.X.O." Archived from the original on 2003-04-09. Retrieved 2009-04-18.
- ^ "Tadamon! » 500 Artists Against Israeli Apartheid". Tadamon.ca. 2010-02-25. Archived from the original on 2011-01-28. Retrieved 2015-03-18.
- ^ "Digital Download Revenue Will be Paid in Full to Artists for the Rest – Constellation". Archived from the original on 2021-04-30. Retrieved 2021-04-30.
