Constellation Records (Canada)
Constellation Records is an independent label from Montréal, Canada. The label was known for album releases from bands like Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mt Zion and Do Make Say Think.
Founded in 1997 with the ambition to offer the thriving underground music culture in Montréal a concert venue for performances with later attached label, finally had a result of bureaucratic disagreements, the concept However, soon discarded, so that plate production and live performance (fragile under the title Musique ) anliefen simultaneously.
Originally from a simple apartment in the city center of agierend, Constellation withdrew in 2004 in the highly multicultural Anglophone Mile End District, one of the artistic centers of Montréal.
Ethos
Constellation Records pursues an anti- commercial, anti-capitalist and anti-globalization corporate culture; their mission is, according to the founders is to create a form of independent cultural production that could handle at least the worst investments of the modern music industry ("a mode of cultural production did critiques the worst tendencies of the music industry" ). The label also hopes an ethos of independent (English " independent" ) to restore music and preserve it sees degraded more and more large corporations to a mere commodity.
As a consequence, Constellation tries to prevent their products through retail chains such as HMV and Virgin Records are sold and therefore preferred smaller local companies.
The packaging of the music media picks this adjustment also on: The omnipresent jewel case is replaced by specially handmade cardboard paper wrappers, the elaborately designed CD and record covers are - where possible - created by local artists and craftsmen. According to the company Constellation operates three to four times as much effort for the design of the packaging material such as commercial label.
The most striking result was the back of the album Yanqui UXO the band Godspeed You! Black Emperor, that the connection of the four major label AOL Time Warner, BMG, Sony and Vivendi Universal pointed to the defense industry in a diagram.
On 25 February 2010, the founder Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilke apartheid signed a call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli along with 500 other artists.
Deliveries by Constellations mail order is accompanied by a handwritten thanksgiving.