Welcome to European Phonographic.
Our 100% independent record label is built on several principles and concepts that we would like to share with you:
– Europe is (still) a fractured space. There is great music – obscure and popular – from all four corners of Europe, not just the UK, France, Germany and Sweden. We will be releasing music from the North to the South, from the East to the West, across borders and into the centre of it all.
– It is our goal to feature and release great music from these four corners – to use Peter Jenner’s term, the so-called “Musika Periphérika” of Europe… the good things you don’t hear about everyday, no matter what genre… the best kept secrets… quality not quantity.
– Artist singles, EP’s, albums, special releases, OST’s, field recordings, instrumental music, new and old instruments… European musical culture, new and old.
– We believe Artists should have something to say; they must be creating music that is worth creating, it must be original and have something special in order to interest us. No clones! (Sorry, Dolly.)
– Especially now that we are in the digital age, artists should benefit from 50/50 royalty splits with labels. EP as a label champions transparency, subscribing whole-heartedly to the WIN (World Independent Network) Fair Digital Deals Declaration. We are distributed by Level:UP Distribution, a MERLIN member.
– Also, we don’t believe in traditional recouping. Any investment we make on promo (for example via our partners EU Radio Plugging and other freelance PR) comes strictly out of our 50%, not the artist’s.
– We love proper recording studios. We love analogue. We love vinyl.
We love Europe. We love having no borders. We love speaking languages other than English (although of course English is the language of rock n roll, ultimately.) And of course we love people who are into seeing and treating others as equals – so we defend the European project and stand steadfast against racism, sexism, populisms and other (unfortunately) current trends being talked about in Europe and throughout the world.
We believe music CAN make a difference, the way it used to last century.
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