zOaR Records

zOaR Records is an American independent record label. Its public presence is built primarily around a Bandcamp storefront (zoar-records.bandcamp.com), through which it distributes albums, tracks and merchandise and maintains an artist roster page. The label is closely identified with the New York downtown experimental music scene and, in particular, with composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, who appears throughout the label's roster both as a solo artist and in numerous collaborative configurations. The roster visible on the label's Bandcamp artist page is heavily weighted toward avant-garde, free improvisation, experimental composition and cross-genre projects. It includes Elliott Sharp himself, Elliott Sharp Aggregat, Elliott Sharp Operas, Elliott Sharp Soundtracks, Elliott Sharp & Bobby Previte, Eric Mingus, Eric Mingus & Elliott Sharp, William Schimmel & Elliott Sharp, Joanna Mattrey & Elliott Sharp, Helene Breschand/Floy Krouchi/Zafer Tawil/Elliott Sharp, Anthony Coleman, Pat Thomas & Steve Beresford, Ronnie Burrage/Michael Gregory Jackson/JaiR-Rohm, Bass Bridge Quartet, The AC3, Bootstrappers, Blanco Senex, Gabe Boyarin & Marie Carroll, Anders Nilsson, Peter Freeman, Charles K. Noyes, Yoon-Ji Lee, Agnese Amico, Katia Pesti, Giovanni Mancuso & Debora Petrina, Laura Andel, Los Desinhibidos, Chansons du Crepuscule, Chris Vine, Hubert Sumlin, Studio zOaR Podcasts and others. The geographic spread of the listed artists — New York, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Florence, Boston, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Brazil — indicates that the label operates as an international platform for experimental musicians rather than as a purely local New York imprint. As a label, zOaR Records functions as a release vehicle and digital distribution channel for this network of artists. Its Bandcamp page provides the standard commercial functions of a modern independent label storefront: artist pages, album and track releases, merchandise, a community/fan-following feature, and a recommendation sign-up. The label does not appear to operate as a major corporate entity; it is best understood as an artist-driven independent imprint. Because the label is small and independently run, detailed corporate information — exact founding year, formal corporate structure, registered offices and financial data — is not publicly documented in the available sources. What is clear from the evidence is that zOaR Records is an American record label (as described by its Wikidata entry) whose identity and catalogue are organized around Elliott Sharp and a broad international community of experimental and improvised music collaborators.

zOaR Records is an American independent record label. Public documentation of the label is limited: its Wikidata entry describes it simply as an "American record label," and its principal public-facing presence is a Bandcamp storefront at zoar-records.bandcamp.com. The label is closely associated with the New York experimental and improvised music community and, above all, with composer, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist Elliott Sharp, whose name recurs throughout the label's roster. The label's catalogue, as reflected in its Bandcamp artist page, is organized around a core of Elliott Sharp projects and a wide circle of collaborators. These include Elliott Sharp as a solo artist; Elliott Sharp Aggregat; Elliott Sharp Operas; Elliott Sharp Soundtracks; and duo or group projects such as Elliott Sharp & Bobby Previte, Eric Mingus & Elliott Sharp, William Schimmel & Elliott Sharp, and Joanna Mattrey & Elliott Sharp. Beyond the Sharp-centered projects, the roster includes figures such as Eric Mingus, Anthony Coleman, Pat Thomas & Steve Beresford, Ronnie Burrage/Michael Gregory Jackson/JaiR-Rohm, Bass Bridge Quartet, The AC3, Bootstrappers, Blanco Senex, Gabe Boyarin & Marie Carroll, Anders Nilsson, Peter Freeman, Charles K. Noyes, Yoon-Ji Lee, Agnese Amico, Katia Pesti, Giovanni Mancuso & Debora Petrina, Laura Andel, Los Desinhibidos, Chansons du Crepuscule, Chris Vine, Hubert Sumlin and Studio zOaR Podcasts. The geographic range of the listed artists — New York, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Florence, Boston, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, Santiago and Brazil — shows that the label functions as an international platform for experimental musicians rather than a narrowly local imprint. Its Bandcamp page provides the standard functions of a modern independent label storefront: artist pages, album and track releases, merchandise, a community/fan-following feature and a recommendation sign-up. Because the label is small and independently run, precise corporate details — exact founding year, formal corporate structure, registered offices and financial data — are not documented in the available sources. The label is best understood as an artist-driven independent imprint rather than a major corporate entity, and its identity is inseparable from Elliott Sharp's body of work and his network of collaborators.

Independent, artist-driven label for avant-garde, experimental and improvised music, centered on the New York downtown scene and Elliott Sharp's international network of collaborators.

• Elliott Sharp releases

• Elliott Sharp Aggregat

• Elliott Sharp Operas

• Elliott Sharp Soundtracks

• Collaborative improvisation albums

1. 1Artists | zoar recordszoar-records.bandcamp.com
2. 2zOaR Records - Wikidatawikidata.org