Rattle Records

An active advocate for instrumental art music for thirty-five years, Rattle Records proudly boasts some 220 releases of handsomely produced and presented albums featuring top-quality composers and performers from a range of genres, including jazz, chamber music, world music and immersive soundscapes that defy easy categorisation. With fifty-six music industry award nominations to its credit, almost half of which were winners, Rattle is one of the few defiantly non-conformist, artist-friendly, art music-focused advocates of contemporary music you are likely to find anywhere in the world. That this modest, under-resourced label has managed to sustain an unshakeable commitment to artists reaching beyond the confines of genre while surviving the crushing limitations of the draconian world of legitimised piracy, otherwise known as streaming, is impressive

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An active advocate for instrumental art music for thirty-five years, Rattle Records proudly boasts some 220 releases of handsomely produced and presented albums featuring top-quality composers and performers from a range of genres, including jazz, chamber music, world music and immersive soundscapes that defy easy categorisation. With fifty-six music industry award nominations to its credit, almost half of which were winners, Rattle is one of the few defiantly non-conformist, artist-friendly, art music-focused advocates of contemporary music you are likely to find anywhere in the world. That this modest, under-resourced label has managed to sustain an unshakeable commitment to artists reaching beyond the confines of genre while surviving the crushing limitations of the draconian world of legitimised piracy, otherwise known as streaming, is impressive. That they also deliver music of exceptional quality is nothing short of miraculous considering how little-known they are beyond the shores of their Antipodean homeland in Aotearoa, New Zealand.

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