Intakt Records is an independent record label, based in
Zürich, Switzerland
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...
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History
The label was founded in 1986 by Patrik Landolt.
[Margasak, Peter (September 2013) "Intakt's Landolt Takes Long-Term Approach to Avant-Garde". ''Down Beat''. p. 16.] In the early 1980s he had co-founded Fabrikjazz, a cultural organization, with Remo
Rau and pianist
Irène Schweizer
Irène Schweizer (2 June 1941 – 16 July 2024) was a Swiss jazz and free improvising pianist.
Life and career
Schweizer was born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland on 2 June 1941. She performed and recorded numerous solo piano performances as well as ...
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"It was due to high-quality festival recordings made by Swiss Radio that Landolt was eventually inspired to start the label": he said that "Irène Schweizer was internationally known at this time, but her music wasn't well documented,
..I decided to bring out the first recordings as LPs".
The first release sold well – 2,000 copies in one month.
In 2003 the 80th album was released
[Gottschalk, Kurt (5 April 2003]
"Intakt Records"
All About Jazz. and by mid-2013 Intakt had released more than 220.
Practices
The label "sees itself as something more than a traditional record company, working with its artists over the long term to produce carefully curated editions."
In the late 1990s, a subscription service was introduced, allowing customers to buy every new release directly from the label at a discount.
Although the catalogue has been made available for digital download, as of 2013 Landolt still enjoys producing CDs as a physical product.
References
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Jazz record labels
Record labels established in 1986
Swiss record labels