Sonic vista music
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Sonic Vista Music is an independent English
record label
, founded in Hull
in 2005, notable for having business connections in Japan
and Canada
.
editor, Ken Foster
, the label sought to escape the confines of the heavily London weighted UK
music industry by exploring overseas markets, particularly Canada and Japan. This has led to the formation of Jaded Rebel Entertainment in Canada and Sonic Vista Japan.
The first release was Pimps, B**ches (and Superheroes) by Ernest in 2005. Ernest were the only band on the label until Foster joined later that year. With the second Ernest EP release Puppies, the band were able to secure slots at the Leeds Festival
in 2006. and then a mini-tour of Japan in 2007.
The label also released a compilation album
, World of Expectation, featuring Goldblade
and Roovel Oobik in the same year. The Japan trip attracted interest from BMG Japan who having heard the album demo's had requested a fully mixed and mastered copy. The band split up during this process without any official announcement although a review of the band's final gig
goes some way to explaining the fractures that were appearing. The album remained unreleased although it was given the catalogue number SVRCD006.
The label had already signed acts such as the avant garde indie jazz
outfit, Eveline, from Bologna
, Italy
and the singer-songwriter
, Steph Fraser
.
The label has continued to release music which eschews the mainstream and has focused much of its energy into developing the careers of Steph Fraser in the UK and Canada and also Man-made Noise in Japan. Man-made Noise embarked on a 20 date tour of Japan, and will be returning for a second tour in October 2009. Fraser toured Canada in August 2008 and showcased at Canadian Music Week. in 2008 and 2009.
The label is distributed physically in the UK and Worldwide by Code 7, and digitally by Believe.
2009 saw the release of the label's first DVD
which formed part of the package for the release of the CD
by IT.
2010-2011 saw the label focus more on Progressive Rock and a shift away from commercial genre's. The first fruit of this new direction was the release of new Italian signings Dropshard and a concept CD
album called 'Anywhere But Home' on February 15th, 2011.
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
record label
Record label
In the music industry, a record label is a brand and a trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Most commonly, a record label is the company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing and promotion,...
, founded in Hull
Kingston upon Hull
Kingston upon Hull , usually referred to as Hull, is a city and unitary authority area in the ceremonial county of the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It stands on the River Hull at its junction with the Humber estuary, 25 miles inland from the North Sea. Hull has a resident population of...
in 2005, notable for having business connections in Japan
Japan
Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...
and Canada
Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
.
History
Founded by the members of the band Ernest, and shortly afterwards by promotor and Strummer music magazineMagazine
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editor, Ken Foster
Ken Foster
Kenneth James Foster was the Lord Mayor for the city of Plymouth in Devon, England from May 2009 to May 2010. Prior to the post he worked in the dockyard and later a councillor for Plymstock Radford.- Personal life :...
, the label sought to escape the confines of the heavily London weighted UK
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
music industry by exploring overseas markets, particularly Canada and Japan. This has led to the formation of Jaded Rebel Entertainment in Canada and Sonic Vista Japan.
The first release was Pimps, B**ches (and Superheroes) by Ernest in 2005. Ernest were the only band on the label until Foster joined later that year. With the second Ernest EP release Puppies, the band were able to secure slots at the Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival
Leeds Festival may refer to:*Reading and Leeds Festivals , a rock music festival in Leeds , West Yorkshire, England*Leeds Festival , European classical music festival in Leeds...
in 2006. and then a mini-tour of Japan in 2007.
The label also released a compilation album
Compilation album
A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...
, World of Expectation, featuring Goldblade
Goldblade
Goldblade are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar.The band signed to...
and Roovel Oobik in the same year. The Japan trip attracted interest from BMG Japan who having heard the album demo's had requested a fully mixed and mastered copy. The band split up during this process without any official announcement although a review of the band's final gig
Gig (musical performance)
Gig is slang for a musical engagement in which musicians are hired. Originally coined in the 1920s by jazz musicians, the term, short for the word "engagement", now refers to any aspect of performing such as assisting with performance and attending musical performance...
goes some way to explaining the fractures that were appearing. The album remained unreleased although it was given the catalogue number SVRCD006.
The label had already signed acts such as the avant garde indie jazz
Jazz
Jazz is a musical style that originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States. It was born out of a mix of African and European music traditions. From its early development until the present, jazz has incorporated music from 19th and 20th...
outfit, Eveline, from Bologna
Bologna
Bologna is the capital city of Emilia-Romagna, in the Po Valley of Northern Italy. The city lies between the Po River and the Apennine Mountains, more specifically, between the Reno River and the Savena River. Bologna is a lively and cosmopolitan Italian college city, with spectacular history,...
, Italy
Italy
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and the singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriter
Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose and sing their own musical material including lyrics and melodies. As opposed to contemporary popular music singers who write their own songs, the term singer-songwriter describes a distinct form of artistry, closely associated with the...
, Steph Fraser
Steph Fraser
Stephanie Fraser , is a pop-folk, singer-songwriter from Lancashire, England.-Career:Fraser has toured extensively in the UK and Canada including 2007 performances at the BBC Radio 2 Blackpool Illuminations Switch On Event where she played in front of 19,000 people and shared the bill with McFly,...
.
The label has continued to release music which eschews the mainstream and has focused much of its energy into developing the careers of Steph Fraser in the UK and Canada and also Man-made Noise in Japan. Man-made Noise embarked on a 20 date tour of Japan, and will be returning for a second tour in October 2009. Fraser toured Canada in August 2008 and showcased at Canadian Music Week. in 2008 and 2009.
The label is distributed physically in the UK and Worldwide by Code 7, and digitally by Believe.
2009 saw the release of the label's first DVD
DVD
A DVD is an optical disc storage media format, invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasonic in 1995. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than Compact Discs while having the same dimensions....
which formed part of the package for the release of the CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
by IT.
2010-2011 saw the label focus more on Progressive Rock and a shift away from commercial genre's. The first fruit of this new direction was the release of new Italian signings Dropshard and a concept CD
Compact Disc
The Compact Disc is an optical disc used to store digital data. It was originally developed to store and playback sound recordings exclusively, but later expanded to encompass data storage , write-once audio and data storage , rewritable media , Video Compact Discs , Super Video Compact Discs ,...
album called 'Anywhere But Home' on February 15th, 2011.
Artists past and present
- Andy Stedman
- Aron Paul
- The Automatic Heart
- Cascade Sounds
- Dropshard
- Ernest
- Eveline
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- Fonda 500Fonda 500Fonda 500 are a British band hailing from Kingston upon Hull.-Background:Formed by Simon Stone and Nicholas Broughton in 1995, Fonda 500 have been releasing albums since 2000...
- GoldbladeGoldbladeGoldblade are an English punk rock band from Manchester, England. The band formed in early 1995 when ex Membranes frontman, John Robb, put the band together with Wayne Simmons and former A Witness vocalist Keith Curtis on bass, Rob Haynes on drums and Jay Taylor on guitar.The band signed to...
- IT
- LitterbugLitterbug (band)litterbug is a Canadian indie rock band formed by Marc Simao and Janie Cranfield.- Overview :Formed in Edmonton, Alberta in 1999, litterbug has had numerous line up changes, while maintaining its two original members. In 2002, the band released its debut album pablo on its own record label...
- Man-made Noise
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- Roovel Oobik
- Steph FraserSteph FraserStephanie Fraser , is a pop-folk, singer-songwriter from Lancashire, England.-Career:Fraser has toured extensively in the UK and Canada including 2007 performances at the BBC Radio 2 Blackpool Illuminations Switch On Event where she played in front of 19,000 people and shared the bill with McFly,...
- Sinister Footwear
- Unspeakable Easels
Discography
- Ernest - Pimps, B**ches (and Superheroes) EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD000, 2005) - Ernest - Puppies EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD001, 2006) - Cascade Sounds - Hope in Sound EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD003, 2007) - Eveline - Waking Up Before Dawn (SVRCD004, 2008)
- Steph Fraser - Purple Sun EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD005, 2008) - Ernest - Crash Tested (Unreleased Album) (SVRCD006, 2008)
- Man-Made Noise - Man-made Noise (SVRCD007, 2008)
- Steph Fraser - Pretend EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD008, 2009) - Andy Stedman - "You Keep Me Up 'Till 3 O'Clock" singleSingle (music)In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
(SVRCD009, 2009) - IT - Departure CD/DVD (SVRCD010, 2009)
- Litterbug - Speaking Through The Gaps (SVRCD011, 2009)
- IT - Over & Out (SVRCD012, 2009)
- Steph Fraser - Recession Proof EPExtended playAn EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...
(SVRCD013,2010) - Aron Paul - The Stranger I Know (SVRCD014, 2010)
- Man-made Noise - Photocopy Machine singleSingle (music)In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
(SVRCD015, 2010) - Aron Paul - Angel Calling (SVRCD016, 2010)
- Dropshard - Anywhere But Home (SVRCD017, 2011)
External links
- SonicVistaMusic.co.uk – Official site
- Sonic Vista channel at YouTubeYouTubeYouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos....