Umlaut Records

Umlaut Records is a Swedish independent record label focused on contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music. The label operates a bilingual (French/English) website and maintains an online shop, a concert agenda, and its own festival, the Umlaut Festival, which was held in 2023. Its catalogue features releases by artists and ensembles such as Die Hochstapler, Simon Rummel Ensemble, The New Songs, Fenêtre Ovale, La Soustraction des Fleurs, Georges Aperghis, Hanakana, Toile-Etoiles, and The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog. The label's output spans composed contemporary music, free jazz, and improvised chamber music, with a strong European, particularly Franco-Scandinavian, orientation. Umlaut Records is a small, artist-driven imprint rather than a major corporate label, and it distributes its releases primarily through its own web shop and specialist channels. Its identity is closely tied to the European experimental and improvised music scene, and it presents itself as a curator of adventurous, boundary-crossing work.

Umlaut Records is a Swedish independent record label dedicated to contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music. It is documented as a Swedish record label in public knowledge bases. The label maintains a bilingual French/English website, reflecting a strong presence in both Scandinavian and Francophone European musical circles. Its catalogue includes releases by ensembles and artists such as Die Hochstapler, Simon Rummel Ensemble, The New Songs, Fenêtre Ovale, La Soustraction des Fleurs, Georges Aperghis, Hanakana, Toile-Etoiles, and The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog. The label also organizes the Umlaut Festival, an event held in 2023, and operates an online shop and concert agenda. As a small independent imprint, Umlaut Records focuses on curating adventurous, boundary-crossing work rather than pursuing mainstream commercial release strategies.

• 2023

  Umlaut Festival held

Independent, artist-driven European label for contemporary jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music.

• The Music of Alvin P Buckley – The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog (Die Hochstapler)

• Odeon – Nichts Fur Alle (Simon Rummel Ensemble)

• Cartographie de rythmes #1 – Vitesses approchantes

• Je Suis l’Epine d’un Pin – The New Songs

• Con Moto – Fenêtre Ovale Deuxième Volet

• En Forme de Gallinace – Airs de Moyenne Montagne (La Soustraction des Fleurs)

• First Movement – [ro]

• Homage à Enzo Grillo – Nichts für Alle (Simmon Rummel Ensemble)

• Récitation 07 – Tourbillons (Georges Aperghis)

• Can't Get My Motor To Start (Carla Bley) – Hanakana

• Toile (extrait) – Toile-Etoiles

• Variation sur Ernst – Fenêtre Ovale

1. 1Umlaut Records official websiteumlautrecords.com
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