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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".
Dec 1, 2011 · Speaking from his home in Santa Fe, New Mexico, 4AD founder Ivo Watts-Russell recalls when he first heard the Bulgarian voices. My introduction to Le Mystère Des Voix Bulgares was fantastic. I was helping Pete Murphy, the singer from Bauhaus, make his first solo record. And at the end of the first day in the studio Pete pulled out a cassette ...
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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 ...
Oct 10, 2013 · Little was known about Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, the enigmatic founders of celebrated indie label 4AD, until they were tracked down in the US Martin Aston Thu 10 Oct 2013 14.00 EDT
Oct 21, 2013 · The story of 4AD is a cautionary tale of how arduous it is to retain one’s principles within the music industry, and it’s one told in great depth by Martin Aston in his new, thrilling, but necessarily sombre history of the label, Facing The Other Way. For Watts-Russell, it’s a tough read: the former boss is clearly a little uncomfortable ...
Feb 1, 2006 · J Spot: Finding the Plot. In the late '70s and early '80s, Ivo Watts-Russell, who moved to Santa Fe 3½ years ago, began working at the London record store belonging to-and downstairs from the offices of-established label Beggars Banquet. Bands dropped off demo tapes by the dozen each day, and Watts-Russell soon found enough materiel from them ...
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 ...
