About

Introducing FRIZZ RECORDS...

FRIZZ is a new label based in East London, run by producer, songwriter & Mr Hudson bassist Raphael Mann

FRIZZ doesn’t have a music policy based on genre or style; we subscribe instead to the Duke Ellington Theory: there are only two kinds of music, good music and bad music… We will release anything as long as it’s good…

FRIZZ artists tend to be mavericks...performers who are in search of their own unique style at the expense of fitting in with a scene or following fashion...yet who are also making music which is accessible and deserves to reach a wider audience... These are the Tom Waits, Bjorks, Becks or Princes of the next generation...

Our debut single was "Our Love Is Taking Us Through", the solo debut of Raphael's Mr Hudson band-mate JOY JOSEPH, released as a limited run of 7"s, just to test the water, and give a taste of Joy's forthcoming FRIZZ LP (due next Spring). We followed that with the first LP from Raphael's own AUGUST project, a bewitching, genre-bending record which is slowly seducing listeners, and then DAVID GARSIDE's orchestral pop master work "Modern Mediaeval"...with albums to follow from eccentric singer-songwriter and Resonance FM dj ART TERRY, and 'Nina Simone for the noughties' LEILA ADU with her Steve Albini produced latest "Dark Joan"

We believe in combining the best of new and old techniques for making and presenting music. We think there's something special about vinyl and recording onto tape. At the same time we like to make friends with new technology, and we use it when it helps... There's nothing 'retro' about this, we just do what we think works best...

Our models are labels run by musicians (or at least music lovers), which nevertheless grew to provide the big businesses with competition...Island, Atlantic, Impulse, Studio One, Motown, Stiff & Discos Fuentes are just a few examples...

FRIZZ is the forward thinking old-fashioned record label

We are committed to preserving the LP as an art-form, in the face of our culture of short attention spans and music format chaos...and so we make records that demand to be listened to all the way through...and we release everything we do on vinyl as well as other formats... All our vinyl comes with free mp3s...

FRIZZ is best of both worlds

We also believe that the big business record label model of the 60s-90s is clumsy and outmoded in the internet age. We structure our relationship with the artists we work with as a partnership...

FRIZZ believes artists should keep the rights to what they create

Quality control is important to us in everything we do. We also believe in the magic and mystery of the artistic process. Everything we release will be worth having in it's own right... You won't get YouTube clips of the band rehearsing in the dressing room, or acoustic covers of Sugarbabes songs...you will only get music that we truly love, carefully selected and beautifully packaged...

FRIZZ is a marque of quality


introducing the FRIZZ artists...

AUGUST: think Sly and The Family Stone with Kate Bush on vocals...The Delfonics with lyrics by MF Doom...Laura Nyro & Prince duet with Tom Waits on bass and Genghis Khan on drums...

DAVID GARSIDE: Nick Drake joins The Style Council...David Byrne & Scott Walker join Wings...Joni Mitchell writes songs for Dexy's Midnight Runners, produced by Brian Wilson...

JOY JOSEPH: a true original English Soul voice...P P Arnold produced by Prince...or Janet Kay singing with the Rotary Connection with Lee Perry on the board...

ART TERRY: Marvin Gaye joins The Velvet Underground, or Stephen Malkmus joins The Fifth Dimension...Walt Disney, James Brown & John Cale write a musical, with arrangements by Sun Ra...

LEILA ADU: Nina Simone joins Slint...Minnie Riperton forms a band with Debussy & Scott Walker...or Tim Buckley & Kate Bush fuse into a single being...

FRIZZ release schedule...

FRIZZ4501: JOY JOSEPH "Our Love Is Taking Us Through" OUT NOW

FRIZZLP01: AUGUST "It's Not The Wand, It's The Magic" OUT NOW

FRIZZLP02: DAVID GARSIDE "Modern Mediaeval" OUT NOW

FRIZZLP03: ART TERRY "Anutha Kinda Brotha" Out Oct 19th

FRIZZLP04: LEILA ADU "Dark Joan" Out Nov 9th

Find out more...

http://www.FrizzRecords.com

http://www.myspace.com/FrizzRecords

http://www.Twitter.com/FrizzRecords

http://www.YouTube.com/user/FrizzRecords