Constellation Records is a Canadian

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based in

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, Quebec. It has released albums by many

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bands, including

Godspeed You! Black Emperor Godspeed You! Black Emperor (sometimes abbreviated to GY!BE or Godspeed) is a Canadian post-rock collective that originated in Montreal, Quebec in 1994. The group releases recordings through Constellation Records (Canada), Constellation, an in ...

, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra & Tra-La-La Band and Do Make Say Think.

Label philosophy

The package of the Godspeed You! Black Emperor album '' Yanqui U.X.O.'' was especially noteworthy, containing an extensive chart which demonstrated the links between four major

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s— AOL Time-Warner, BMG,

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, Vivendi Universal—and various arms manufacturers. The band later apologized for some extensions of the chart, conceding that some of their research had been inaccurate. On 25 February 2010, Constellation Records founders Ian Ilavsky and Don Wilkie signed, together with 500 artists, the call to support the international campaign for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli Apartheid. In 2020, due to the

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, the label announced that the artists on its roster would be receiving 100% of revenue from their webstore and Bandcamp sales. Constellation also announced that it had "set aside an additional contingency fund for label-affiliated artists who might find themselves in particularly precarious or dire straits in the weeks/months to come, and for other precarious workers in our proximate cultural economy and community – independent music venues for example".

Artists

List of artists Constellation Records have released records for: * 1-Speed Bike * ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT *Automatisme *Avec le soleil sortant de sa bouche * Black Ox Orkestar * Carla Bozulich * Clues * Colin Stetson * Do Make Say Think * Efrim Menuck *Elfin Saddle * Elizabeth Anka Vajagic *Eric Chenaux *Eric Chenaux Trio *Erika Angell * Esmerine *

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*Feu Thérèse * Fly Pan Am * Frankie Sparo *FYEAR * Glissandro 70 *

* Hangedup * Hiss Tracts * HṚṢṬA * Jerusalem in My Heart *Jason Sharp * Jem Cohen * Jessica Moss *Joni Void *JOYFULTALK *Kanada 70 *Kee Avil *Khora *Ky *Land of Kush *Les Momies de Palerme * Last Ex * Light Conductor *Lungbutter * Lullabye Arkestra *Markus Floats * Matana Roberts *Nick Kuepfer *Off World * Ought *Pacha *Pat Jordache * Polmo Polpo aka Sandro Perri * Rebecca Foon * Re: * Sackville * Saltland * Siskiyou *

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*Steve Bates *T. Griffin *T. Gowdy * The Dead Science * Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra *Those Who Walk Away *

Tindersticks Tindersticks are an English alternative rock band formed in Nottingham in 1991. They released six albums before singer Stuart A. Staples embarked on a solo career. The band reunited briefly in 2006 and more permanently the following year. The ...

* Vic Chesnutt *WE ARE WINTERS BLUE AND RADIANT CHILDREN

References

External links

Official site

2004 Interview with Don Wilkie, co-founder of Constellation Records (ARTNOISE/DFB).

Audio Interview with Don Wilkie, co-founder of Constellation Records

Chart from ''Yanqui U.X.O.'' packaging
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Label philosophy

Artists

See also

References

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