FMP/Free Music Production

Free Music Production (FMP ) is called an independent Berlin label, which was mainly located in the area of ​​free jazz. In February 2003, FMP announced the license agreement with its distribution and introduced in 2004 for a temporary production activity a. Productions of the labels are now (eg Atavistic / Unheard Music, Intakt Records or Jazzwerkstatt ) re-released on several other labels. 2008, production was resumed, to be finally set to 2011.

History of Labels

FMP was founded in 1969 by musicians Peter Brötzmann, Peter Kowald, Alexander von Schlippenbach and Jost encoder, the future producers and initially operated jointly. Behind this was the desire to work as a musician better if the means of production - has also for the production and distribution of recorded music itself, " so it can determine the conditions themselves, instead of going for a few hours in the studio and his stuff in a very short time having to " deliver. Due to high friction losses, the collective was disbanded in 1976 and encoder appointed the sole manager. Latter until the end of the production activity was the driving force behind the label. Since 2007 he is the sole owner of the successor FMP Publishing.

FMP documented in the 1970s and 1980s regularly the work of the founder of the label, but also of other musicians such as Manfred Schoof, Rüdiger Carl, Hans Reichel and Irène Schweizer. In addition to LPs, which were always held to conversion available on CD, also singles were released sporadically. In sub-labels such as SAJ and later Uhlklang the activities of musicians from the FMP area as Sven -Åke Johansson, Alfred Harth and Keith Tippett, Steve Lacy, John Tchicai, Misha Mengelberg and Noah Howard acquired. Since 1973, it came in addition to productions from LPs with musicians from the GDR. Here, FMP began to exchange with the GDR: The label first produced records of the GDR incurred, there unpublished radio recordings, but also co- productions with Amiga. Since 1978, musicians from the GDR could also play on FMP projects and were taken there. This is particularly the West Berlin Jazz Concert Series Now. To mention jazz from East Germany ( August 1979 ), which led to a double album in which all relevant groups of the free jazz scene of the GDR were presented.

At the end of the eighties / early nineties could show ( from 1988 as Leaf Palm Hand ) a special showcase of free jazz FMP with Cecil Taylor and its about 20 publications during this period: The label brought specially from recordings of the June / July 1988 a box out with 11 CDs ( " Cecil Taylor in Berlin '88 "). It is also a Cecil Taylor presenting in collaboration with Günter Sommer duo recording with the title " In East Berlin " was released, which was also produced as part of the stay of Taylor in the then divided city of Berlin.

Beginning of 2011 ended the record company with the twelve- CD box " FMP in Retrospect ", which is included with a book of the same with contributions by various authors as well as photos of Dagmar encoder, its activity. The website of the FMP label is documented that encoder is separated from the used executors in dispute and this had to answer now before the court.

Effect of FMP

The label appeared as early pioneer of European free jazz and made his musicians especially known in the U.S.; Albums like Machine Gun recorded in 1968 by Peter Brötzmann were crucial to the development of the European scene. Compared to other well-known labels in German-speaking as ECM, Winter & Winter ( Germany ) and HatHut ( Switzerland ), the partial publications in stylistic range FMPs ( especially with the latter also FMP musicians ) muster the programmatic claim was clear, therefore, stylistic orientation close and thus the target audience smaller. A large conceptual framework and existing publication from her likeness was initially to other record companies in possession of musicians such as the Dutch Instant Composers Pool or the UK Incus label, subsequently, the Swiss label Intakt Records, which is also committed to FMP musicians. FMP can not be generally associated with high production standards, especially since there initially consisted of the claim, as comprehensively as possible to document activities of the label musicians. Especially when the said Machine Gun (1968 ) by Peter Brötzmann ( which, however, appeared only in the self-published and was then accepted into the program of FMP) was noted in discussions on the crude production.

Awards

Free Music Production Distribution & Communication

On 1 January 2000 took on the basis of 2003 terminated license contract with the label Helma Schleif the manufacture and sale of FMP CDs. Since then, FMP Free Music Production Distrubution & Communication exists as sales, who conducted the Total Music Meeting 2001 to 2008 and annually.

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