Rattle Records, established in 1991, is a contemporary art-music label based in Auckland, New Zealand. It releases compositions generally by New Zealand composers in contemporary art genres. It has been described as "the de facto home of New Zealand music that didn't fit the three-minute pop song format"
History
Rattle Records as a label and a studio was established by Steve Garden, Tim Gummer and Keith Hill in 1991 to publish music 'outside of the usual commercial musical imperatives'. They used the German label ECM Records as an inspiration. Rattle was owned by Victoria University of Wellington's publishing division for a time and when that ended Steve Garden took over again.
There have been over 150 releases and over 44 award nominations. In the Aotearoa Music Awards 2020 all three finalists in the Best Classical Artist category were Rattle recordings with 11 Frames by Andrew Beer & Sarah Watkins winning.
Artists
Rattle has represented over 100 different artists since its inception including:
Whirimako Black
Jonathan Besser
Jack Body
Chris Gendall
Michael Houstoun
Diedre Irons
Natalia Mann
Hirini Melbourne
Jian Liu
Sam Leamy
Jenny McLeod
NZ Guitar Quartet
Nga Tae
Keith Price
Richard Nunns
John Psathas
Jenny Wollerman
Sounddome
Eve de Castro-Robinson, Roger Fox Gillian Whitehead Te Koki Trio Ariana Tikao
See also
List of record labels
Music of New Zealand
External links
Rattle Records website
Directory
References
Sources
Audio Culture, The noisy library of New Zealand music. Sourced 21 March 2020. NZ Musician, a print and online music magazine that deals with music in and from New Zealand.