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Medium Productions was a record label created in 1993 primarily to publish the music of Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, and Mick Karn, ex-members of the band Japan and Rain Tree Crow. Medium was a means to release their own music with other collaborating artists, without 'big record label' compromise. Fifteen CDs of innovative and largely instrumental music were produced over a ten-year period. Medium Productions folded in 2004 as the founders decided it was time for a change of direction and became more involved in other projects (such as Porcupine Tree, Nine Horses). The entire MP catalog has been re-released on the Voiceprint Music label beginning in 2001.

Releases

  • MPCD1 (1993): "Beginning to Melt" - Jansen/Barbieri/Karn
  • MPCD2 (1994): "Seed" - Jansen/Barbieri/Karn (4-track EP)
  • MPCD3 (1995): "Stone to Flesh" - Jansen & Barbieri
  • MPCD4 (1995): "Other Worlds in a Small Room" - Jansen & Barbieri
  • MPCD5 (1997): "Indigo Falls" (Richard & Suzanne Barbieri)
  • MPCD6 (1997): "Changing Hands" - Jansen/Barbieri/Nobukazu Takemura
  • MPCD7 (1999): "Pulse" - Steve Jansen & Yukihiro Takahashi
  • MPCD8 (1999): "Liquid Glass" - Mick Karn & Yoshihiro Hanno
  • MPCD9 (1999): "_ism" - Jansen/Barbieri/Karn
  • MPCD10 (1999): "Pulse Remix" - Steve Jansen & Yukihiro Takahashi (remixes by 4 Hero, Reflection, Spacer, Fantastic Plastic Machine, DJ Spooky)
  • MPCD11 (1999): "Medium Label Sampler" (selected tracks plus exclusive live track "Life Without Buildings")
  • MPCD12 (2001): "Each Eye a Path" - Mick Karn
  • MPCD13 (2001): "Playing in a Room with People" - Jansen/Barbieri/Karn (live album [one studio track] recorded with Steven Wilson & Theo Travis)
  • MPCD14 (2001): "Kinoapparatom" - Steve Jansen & Claudio Chianura (live soundtrack recorded for the silent film Man with a Movie Camera)
  • MPCD15 (2003): "Each Path a Remix" (remixes by Torn, Chianura, Hanno, Barbieri, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Paul Wong)

Prior to forming the Medium Productions label, Jansen & Barbieri released music as The Dolphin Brothers ("Catch the Fall", 1987, EMI/Virgin), and simply as Jansen & Barbieri ("Stories Across Borders", 1991, Virgin). The former includes vocals by Jansen and has a laid-back 80s electro-pop sound. The latter is an instrumental album very similar to music found on the Medium releases, particularly "Stone to Flesh"; three tracks from "Stories Across Borders" are performed live on MPCD13. Also falling in this time period was the Rain Tree Crow release with David Sylvian in 1991.

See also

The following three websites stock some Medium Productions recordings:


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