Constellation Records (Canada)
{{Short description|Canadian record label}}
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{{Infobox record label
| name = Constellation Records
| image = Constellation Records Logo.png
| image_size =100
| caption =
| founded = {{start date|1997}}
| founder = Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie
| genre = Experimental rock, experimental, indie rock, folk
| country = Canada
| location = Montreal, Quebec
| url = {{url|cstrecords.com}}
}}
Constellation Records is a Canadian independent record label based in Montreal, Quebec. It has released albums by many post-rock bands, including Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think.
Label philosophy
The package of the Godspeed You! Black Emperor album Yanqui U.X.O. was especially noteworthy, containing an extensive chart which demonstrated the links between four major record labels—AOL Time-Warner, BMG, Sony, Vivendi Universal—and various arms manufacturers. The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate.{{cite web |url=http://cstrecords.com/html/yanquiartworknote.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030409051707/http://cstrecords.com/html/yanquiartworknote.html |archive-date=2003-04-09 |title=A Note On the Artwork for Godspeed You! Black Emperor's Yanqui U.X.O. |access-date=2009-04-18 |url-status=dead }}
On 25 February 2010, Constellation Records founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid.{{cite web |url=http://www.tadamon.ca/post/5824 |title=Tadamon! » 500 Artists Against Israeli Apartheid |publisher=Tadamon.ca |date=2010-02-25 |access-date=2015-03-18 |archive-date=2011-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110128135842/http://www.tadamon.ca/post/5824 |url-status=dead }}
In 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the label announced that the artists on its roster would be receiving 100% of revenue from their webstore and Bandcamp sales. Constellation also announced that it had "set aside an additional contingency fund for label-affiliated artists who might find themselves in particularly precarious or dire straits in the weeks/months to come, and for other precarious workers in our proximate cultural economy and community – independent music venues for example".{{Cite web |url=https://cstrecords.com/blogs/news/digital-download-revenue-will-be-paid-in-full-to-artists-for-the-rest-of-the-year |title=Digital Download Revenue Will be Paid in Full to Artists for the Rest – Constellation |access-date=2021-04-30 |archive-date=2021-04-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210430161716/https://cstrecords.com/blogs/news/digital-download-revenue-will-be-paid-in-full-to-artists-for-the-rest-of-the-year |url-status=dead }}
Artists
List of artists Constellation Records have released records for:
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- 1-Speed Bike
- ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT
- Automatisme
- Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche
- Black Ox Orkestar
- Carla Bozulich
- Clues
- Colin Stetson
- Do Make Say Think
- Efrim Menuck
- Elfin Saddle
- Elizabeth Anka Vajagic
- Eric Chenaux
- Eric Chenaux Trio
- Erika Angell
- Esmerine
- Exhaust
- Feu Thérèse
- Fly Pan Am
- Frankie Sparo
- FYEAR
- Glissandro 70
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Hangedup
- Hiss Tracts
- HṚṢṬA
- Jerusalem in My Heart
- Jason Sharp
- Jem Cohen
- Jessica Moss
- Joni Void
- JOYFULTALK
- Kanada 70
- Kee Avil
- Khora
- Ky
- Land of Kush
- Les Momies de Palerme
- Last Ex
- Light Conductor
- Lungbutter
- Lullabye Arkestra
- Markus Floats
- Matana Roberts
- Nick Kuepfer
- Off World
- Ought
- Pacha
- Pat Jordache
- Polmo Polpo aka Sandro Perri
- Rebecca Foon
- Re:
- Sackville
- Saltland
- Siskiyou
- Sofa
- Steve Bates
- T. Griffin
- T. Gowdy
- The Dead Science
- Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra
- Those Who Walk Away
- Tindersticks
- Vic Chesnutt
- WE ARE WINTERS BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN
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See also
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References
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External links
- [http://www.cstrecords.com Official site]
- [http://www.deadmetaphor.com/artnoise/?p=103 2004 Interview with Don Wilkie, co-founder of Constellation Records (ARTNOISE/DFB).]
- [http://75minutes.com/podcast/15-minutes-w-constellation-records/ Audio Interview with Don Wilkie, co-founder of Constellation Records]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20081022113126/http://cstrecords.com/cst_images/cst024addart1.jpg Chart from Yanqui U.X.O. packaging] Archived from [http://cstrecords.com/cst_images/cst024addart1.jpg the original] on 2008-10-22. Retrieved 2013-01-21.
- [https://archive.today/20100309054700/http://media.www.theconcordian.com/media/storage/paper290/news/2006/11/01/Entertainment/Constellation.Records-2436821.shtml Media.www.theconcordian.com]
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Category:Record labels established in 1997
Category:Canadian independent record labels
Category:Indie rock record labels