John Coxon

The Founder Effect Signals That Treader Is Alive And Well!

by John Eyles
February 14, 2014

The Treader label released its first CDs in late 2004. The label's distinctive Frauke Stegmann-designed sleeves, featuring embossed gold pictures of animals on plain backgrounds, made them instantly recognisable and collectable design classics. Rather than singly, the label always put out releases in series of three, the animals of each series sometimes being connected--mammals or birds, for instance. The music was made by a close-knit group of musicians centred around the label's proprietors and producers, Ashley Wales and John Coxon ...