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Spool
Founded1998 (1998)
FounderVern Weber
Daniel Kernohan
Defunct2008 (2008)
GenreJazz, experimental
Country of originCandada

Spool was a record label from 1998–2008 started by Vern Weber and Daniel Kernohan. During its life it put out 41 CDs primarily of improvised music, but also electroacoustic music, experimental music, and avant-rock.

The label divided its releases into four series, LINE, FIELD, POINT, and ARC. Roughly, LINE was the improviser series, POINT, the composer series, FIELD, electro-acoustic series and ARC, the avant-rock series.

Spool featured such prominent jazz artists as Anthony Braxton, Dewey Redman, George Lewis, Paul Rutherford, Ken Vandermark, and Mats Gustafsson.

A particular feature of the label was the documentation of the Vancouver scene, covering up and coming musicians and veterans alike including Paul Plimley, François Houle, Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff, Tony Wilson, and NOW Orchestra.

Toronto and Montreal scene were also covered with artists such as Allison Cameron, François Carrier, Lori Freedman, Marilyn Lerner, Brett Larner, Sarah Peebles, Gayle Young, John Oswald & AIMToronto Orchestra.

European performers of note were Fred Frith, John Butcher, Joëlle Léandre, Michael Moore, and Tobias Delius.

Spool was profiled in CODA by Greg Buium. Spool releases received reviews by Mark Miller (The Globe and Mail), Geoff Chapman (Toronto Star) and in several magazines such Cadence Magazine, Down Beat, Exclaim!, The Georgia Straight,, ImproJazz, JazzLive, Signal to Noise, The Province, and The Wire. The label was nominated twice by the National Jazz Awards of Canada.

In December 2001, Mark Miller writing in The Globe & Mail said, "It's work supported not by the majors, but by smaller companies, as small as the 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 trombonist/composer George Lewis and Vancouver's NOW Orchestra, The Shadowgraph Series."[1]

Discography

Series LINE

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

  • SPL130 Anthony Braxton & the AIMToronto Orchestra Creative Orchestra (Guelph) 2007
  • SPL129 Box-Cutter New Rules for Noise (w/ Francois Houle & Gordon Grdina)
  • SPL128 Box-Cutter Unlearn (w/ Francois Houle & Gordon Grdina)
  • SPL127 Dewey Redman & Francois Carrier Open Spaces
  • SPL126 Paul Rutherford/Ken Vandermark/Torsten Muller/Dylan van der Schyff HOXHA
  • SPL125 Taking Pictures with Wayne Horvitz Intersection Poems
  • SPL124 Peggy Lee Band Worlds Apart
  • SPL123 Rake-Star Some RA
  • 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
  • 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, Richard 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
  • SPL102 Peggy Lee, Dylan van der Schyff These Are Our Shoes
  • SPL101 Chris Tarry, Dylan van der Schyff Sponge

Series 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
  • SPF302 Francois Houle Au Coeur du Litige
  • SPF303 John Butcher, Mike Hansen & Tomasz Krakowiak Equation
  • SPF304 Mike Hansen & Tomasz Krakowiak Relay
  • SPF305 Smash & Teeny with John Butcher Gathering

Series ARC

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

  • SPA401 The Skronktet West EL
  • SPA402 John Shiurba Triplicate
  • SPA403 Matthias von Imhof Mental Scars

Series POINT

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

  • SPP201 Bradshaw Pack Alogos (with Talking Pictures, Pacific Baroque Orchestra, Standing Wave & David Maggs)
  • SPP202 Allison Cameron Ornaments
  • SPP203 John Korsrud Odd Jobs, Assorted Climaxes (with Hard Rubber Orchestra, Combustion Chamber, Ron Samworth and Joe Keithley)

References

  1. ^ Mark Miller, "Burns, Krall and all that hype", Globe & Mail, December 27, 2001, p. R3.

Further reading

  • Greg Buium, "Box...One...Spool...Eight (And Counting) Spool: Canada's Bright New Record Label," Coda Magazine, Issue 291, May/June 2000.
  • David Dacks, "Label Life; Spool," Exclaim Magazine,
  • 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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