| Thirsty Ear Recordings | |
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| Founded | 1977 (1977) |
| Distributor(s) | Alternative Distribution Alliance |
| Genre | Jazz,hip hop,funk |
| Country of origin | U.S. |
| Location | Norwalk, Connecticut |
| Official website | www |
Thirsty Ear Recordings is an Americanindependent record label. It was founded in the late 1970s as a marketing company for the then-unnamedalternative music field, and expanded to issue its own records in 1990.
Thirsty Ear came to prominence in the mid-1990s with a series of CD reissues of earlyindustrial albums by artists such asFoetus,Einstürzende Neubauten,Marc Almond,Swans, andTest Dept. The label also released new albums byalternative rock bands such as Baby Ray,Madder Rose, and The Church. Foetus would remain on the label, recording original music on Thirsty Ear through 2001.
More recently, Thirsty Ear has released jazz albums as part of itsBlue Series. EnlistingMatthew Shipp as the artistic director. TheBlue Series has released albums by artists such as Shipp,William Parker,Charlie Hunter andTim Berne, while also invitingelectronica artistsDJ Spooky,Meat Beat Manifesto, andSpring Heel Jack, hip-hoppersEl-P andAntipop Consortium, and evenSlayer drummerDave Lombardo.
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