HatHut Records
HatHut Records is an independent Swiss record label, which is located mainly in the field of free improvisation, avant-garde and new music.
General information on the label
Werner X. Uehlinger HatHut founded in 1975 initially with the aim to distribute the work of saxophonist / trumpeter Joe McPhee. Meantime, may HatHut established musicians such as Anthony Braxton, Peter Brötzmann, Steve Lacy, David Liebman, David Murray, Lauren Newton, Cecil Taylor, Mal Waldron, John Zorn and others boast in his repertoire. Besides Brötzmann, the label has also made other European musicians and groups such as Theo Jörgensmann, Franz Koglmann, Max Nagl, the Vienna Art Orchestra and Kate and Mike Westbrook accessible through publications to a wider audience. In the field of new music were the sub-label [ now] ART has recorded compositions by Pierre Boulez, John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, George Crumb, Morton Feldman, Charles Ives, Kurt Schwitters, Karlheinz Stockhausen and others.
A feature of the HatHut publications was next to the very high production standard, the elaborate packaging, which could contain comprehensive text supplements, in some cases, such as John Zorn's Cobra double CD even more extras in the form of two postcards and other items.
Like other labels also sets HatHut for larger productions on cooperation with broadcasting companies and / or support from foundations, in the years 1985-2000 there was also a financial backing of the cultural sponsorship by the bank UBS ( since this was created by a merger in 1998, she was previously listed under their predecessors half of Swiss Bank Corporation = Swiss Bank Corporation ( SBC ) ). In December 2000, UBS decided to HatHut be deleted from the portfolio of arts sponsorship. This was met with among other things a new concept for the packaging concept, all (re ) releases only appear in a cardboard sleeve without the previous offerings. In addition, set the based on black and white photographs cover concept for publications outside of New Music, which complements the existing purist design in the field of new music in the form of sans serif large font on a white background, on a continuous recognition feature.
HatHut limited in the past reissues consistently to an edition of 3,000 pieces per CD. The annual publication of volume (re- and new releases ) is about 25 productions.
Because of the orientation of the program on a limited target audience, the sales of labels are well below those of other partially comparable labels such as ECM or Winter & Winter, although they also publish photographs from the area covered by HatHut, to compensate, however, particularly in the case of ECM popular can muster blockbuster like Officium by Jan Garbarek and The Köln Concert by Keith Jarrett, with sales in the hundreds of thousands or go higher, also these labels are aligned stylistically broader. In the field of free improvisation, there is a conceptual similarity to the labels FMP, integrity and Ogun. This manifests itself in the fact that the work of a few musicians finds both HatHut as well as a part of the just-mentioned congenial and other labels.
Articles of HatHut (again) published albums
- Alive in the House of Saints ( Myra Melford )
- Anthony Braxton 's Charlie Parker Project
- Eight ( 3) Tristano Compositions 1989: For Warne Marsh (Anthony Braxton )
- Demon Chaser ( Gerry Hemingway )
- Snijbloemen ( Theo Jörgensmann )
- We Thought About Duke ( Franz Koglmann )
- Ne Plus Ultra ( Warne Marsh )
- Big Four Live ( Max Nagl )
- Oleo & a Future Retrospective (Joe McPhee )
- Trois sur la plan comète (François Raulin )
- By the Law of Music ( Matthew Shipp )
- On Duke 's Birthday ( Mike Westbrook )