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Ivo Watts-Russell. Ivo Watts-Russell (born 1954) is a British music producer and record label executive. He was joint-founder with Peter Kent of the indie record label 4AD. [1] He has produced several records, although he prefers to use the term "musical director".
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4AD. 4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group....
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This Mortal Coil were a British music collective led by Ivo...
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4AD. 4AD is a British record label owned by Beggars Group. It was founded in London under the name Axis Records by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent in 1980 as an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records. [1] [2] The name was changed to 4AD after the release of the label's first four singles. Later that year, Watts-Russell and Kent purchased the label ...
Dec 1, 2011 · Thirty-five years on from 4AD's reissue of the first volume of recordings of Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares, label founder Ivo Watts-Russell describes the epiphany that led to his tracking down the mysterious voices of the Bulgarian folk singers to release their music on his label. Interview by Richie Troughton. The Quietus Published 5:41am 1 ...
Dec 12, 2013 · Ringleader among them was Ivo Watts-Russell, scion of faded aristocracy who co-founded the label in 1979 (its original name was Axis, after Jimi Hendrix) and steered it through the 80s and into ...
This Mortal Coil were a British music collective led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom were otherwise associated with 4AD, including members of Cocteau Twins, Pixies and Dead Can Dance.
Oct 26, 2022 · Ivo Watts-Russell/4AD interview, 1988. In 1988, inspired by my first real job, in an office with a photocopier capable of multi-colour printing, I decided to start a fanzine. I had a name for it, The Rosenberg Summer (taken from the first line of Sylvia Plath’s ‘The Bell Jar’) and I had an obsession: the music, flowing prolifically out of ...
Oct 21, 2013 · Ivo Watts Russell. Back when Watts-Russell first set up 4AD, it had arguably never been easier to create a label. Punk had helped expand the avenues of distribution, and technology was making it possible for individual musicians – albeit expensively – to make music in a wholly new way.
