The label's musicians include John Butcher, Mark Dresser, Ben Goldberg, Georg Graewe, Guillermo Gregorio, Barry Guy, Denman Maroney, Barre Phillips, Sten Sandell, Fred Van Hove, Biggi Vinkeloe, and many other notable improvisers.
Influences
Manfred Eicher (ECM), Werner Uehlinger (HatHut), Josef Muller-Brockmann, Max Huber, Jan Tschichold, Krzysztof Kieslowski, Andrei Tarkovsky, Tadao Ando, Piet Mondrian, Mark Rothko, Schlippenbach Trio, Graewe/ Reijseger/Hemingway, Anthony Braxton Quartet with Marilyn Crispell, Mark Dresser, and Gerry Hemingway, Jimmy Guiffre trio with Paul Bley and Steve Swallow, J.S. Bach, Bela Bartok, Claude Debussy, Morton Feldman, Olivier Messiaen, Toru Takemitsu, and King Crimson.
Sounds Like
According to the press:
nuscope is already making an indelible impression. With an unswerving diligence to quality in both sonics and graphics, nuscope can take its place among larger and better established labels such as Winter and Winter, Songlines, Tzadik, Hat Hut, and ECM.
Allen Huotari / All About Jazz web site
nuscope recordings, which is now celebrating its 10th anniversary, is a label that documents daring and life-affirming music with roots in jazz, free jazz, free improvisation, and modern avant-garde classical composition. The musicians who perform this music have the ability to stimulate, mystify, and move; they also have the gift to shatter preconceived perceptions of music and sound.
With sound artists such as Fred Van Hove, Georg Graewe, and others, nuscope recordings hopes to bring about fresh perspectives of improvised and related music. Although the music on the nuscope recordings label will vary—one thing remains consistent. That is, all of these musicians present their music, regardless of label, with added artistic value.
