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Relative Pitch Records
Founded2011 (2011)
FounderKevin Reilly, Mike Panico
Genre
LocationNew York City
Official websiterelativepitchrecords.bandcamp.com

Relative Pitch Records is an American independent record label specializing in free jazz and avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, and experimental music.[1][2] Run by Kevin Reilly,[1] Relative Pitch has been ranked among the top jazz record labels in The New York City Jazz Record[3][4] and DownBeat[5] year-end lists, and praised by publications and organizations including The Guardian,[6] NPR Music,[7] The Brooklyn Rail,[8] and in Bandcamp Daily's label profile, "Relative Pitch is Built on Enthusiasm for Experimental Music".[1]

History

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Co-founders Kevin Reilly and Mike Panico first met waiting in line at a show[8] and later spent time together as volunteers at The Stone, an experimental music space then located in the East Village.[2] They eventually decided to start a record label, and co-founded Relative Pitch in 2011.[7]

Both Reilly and Panico attended a large number of avant-jazz performances, as noted by many of the label's artists. In a 2013 feature, Mary Halvorson asserted that “What Kevin and Mike share is an unrelenting dedication to and passion for music, which is evident from the sheer number of concerts they attend"; Nate Wooley [de] said, "what makes [Relative Pitch] so special in my mind, is that the people that run the label are faces in the crowd of 90% of the shows you play in New York", and described the two as "missionary in their desire to get the music they think is transcendent out to people that don't have the chance or impetus to go to six or seven shows a week in Brooklyn".[2] They traveled to see shows as well, and the label's roster includes both local and international artists; Reilly has said, "I like the idea that you could look at our catalogue and not know where the label is based".[2]

In 2018, Panico's body was found in Flushing Bay; his death was ruled a suicide.[7] A memorial concert was held at Brooklyn performing arts space Roulette, with performances by a number of artists on the Relative Pitch label.[9] Reilly took over operations following Panico's death.[7]

Reception

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The Guardian has described Relative Pitch as "a label whose roster is the perfect place to start if you're looking to take the pulse of the best jazz and improv players currently on the scene".[6] NPR Music has called Relative Pitch "a small label that has made a big impact in avant-garde and free-improv circles", saying its roster "includes some of the most acclaimed artists in the style [of avant-garde jazz], like guitarists Mary Halvorson and Susan Alcorn; bassists Joëlle Léandre and Michael Bisio; and saxophonists Evan Parker, Vinny Golia and Matana Roberts".[7] The publication also noted Matthew Shipp, Bill Frisell, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, and Kirk Knuffke as among the "dozens of prominent artists who have released albums on the label".[7]

Wooley invited cofounder Reilly to contribute to "The Listeners Issue" of the journal Sound American, describing him as "represent[ing] a model of listening: the critical audience member" who "approaches every concert and, as you will see, every recording with the rigor of an academic and the intensity of a man possessed".[10]

Notable releases

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The annual NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll has included Mary Halvorson's Reverse Blue (2014),[11] James Brandon Lewis's An UnRuly Manifesto (2019),[12] and the Susan Alcorn Quintet's Pedernal (2020).[13][14] Lewis's An UnRuly Manifesto was also included in year-end lists in JazzTimes,[15] The New York City Jazz Record, and DownBeat;[16] the New York Times counted Alcorn's Pedernal in their Best Jazz Albums of 2020.[17]

Along with Lewis, many Relative Pitch releases have received a top rating in DownBeat: Continuum (2012) by Book of Three, the trio of Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hébert, and Gerald Cleaver;[18] Greg Cohen's Golden State (2014);[19] Evan Parker and Sylvie Courvoisier's Either Or And (2015);[20] Courvoisier and Halvorson's Crop Circles (2017);[21][22] and John Butcher's Last Dream Of The Morning (2018).[23]

Other critically-acclaimed albums include Matthew Shipp and Michael Bisio's Floating Ice (2012);[24] Jemeel Moondoc's The Zookeeper's House (2014);[25] Tomas Fujiwara's Variable Bets (2014);[3] the Matthew Shipp Trio's Root of Things (2014);[26] Matana Roberts' Always (2015);[27] Halvorson's Reverse Blue (2015);[28] Alcorn's Soledad (2015);[29] Pulverize The Sound, the self-titled debut of trio Peter Evans, Tim Dahl, and Mike Pride (2015);[30] Mette Ramussen and Chris Corsano's All The Ghosts At Once (2015);[31] Bisio and Kirk Knuffke's Row for William O. (2016);[32] The Out Louds, the eponymous debut of trio Halvorson, Fujiwara, and Ben Goldberg (2016);[33] Steph Richards' Fullmoon (2018);[34][35] Geometry of Caves (2018)[36] and Geometry of Distance (2019),[37] both by the improvisational quartet of Tomeka Reid, Kyoko Kitamura, Taylor Ho Bynum, and Joe Morris; and Gregg Belisle-Chi's ‘Koi’: Performing the Music of Tim Berne (2021).[38] Relative Pitch also released Nate Wooley's quartet project with Laubrock, Matt Moran, and Courvoisier in the albums Battle Pieces (2015),[39] Battle Pieces 2 (2017),[40] and Battle Pieces 4 (2019).[41]

Discography

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Relative Pitch Records (RPR)

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Cat. Number Artist Title Year
RPR1001 Joey Baron (with Bill Frisell) Just Listen[42] 2013
RPR1002 Joëlle Léandre & Phillip Greenlief That Overt Desire Of Object[43] 2011
RPR1003 Vinny Golia Quartet (with Cline, Bradford, Filiano) Take Your Time[44] 2011
RPR1004 Aych (Jim Hobbs, Mary Halvorson, Taylor Ho Bynum) As The Crow Flies[45] 2012
RPR1005 Michael Bisio & Matthew Shipp Floating Ice[46] 2012
RPR1006 Way Out Northwest (Dylan Van Der Schyff, John Butcher, Torsten Müller) The White Spot 2012
RPR1007 Urs Leimgruber & Roger Turner The Pancake Tour 2012
RPR1008 Joe Morris, Agustí Fernández [de], Nate Wooley [de] From The Discrete To The Particular 2012
RPR1009 Jemeel Moondoc & Connie Crothers Two 2012
RPR1010 Joëlle Léandre & Jérôme Bourdellon Evidence 2013
RPR1011 Chris Abrahams & Magda Mayas Gardener[47] 2013
RPR1012 Book Of Three (Taylor Ho Bynum, John Hébert, Gerald Cleaver) Continuum 2013
RPR1013 Estamos Trio (Carmina Escobar, Milo Tamez, Thollem McDonas) People's Historia 2013
RPR1014 Sifter (Mary Halvorson, Kirk Knuffke, Matt Wilson) Sifter[48] 2013
RPR1015 FPR (Frank Gratkowski, Phillip Greenlief, Jon Raskin) All At Once 2013
RPR1016 Vinny Golia & Urs Leimgruber Empiricism In The West 2013
RPR1017 Jack Wright & Ben Wright As If Anything Could Be The Same 2014
RPR1018 Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey And Other Desert Towns[49] 2014
RPR1019 Paul Flaherty & Randall Colbourne Ironic Havoc 2014
RPR1020 Greg Cohen Golden State[50] 2014
RPR1021 Bogan Ghost (Anthea Caddy, Liz Allbee) Zerfall 2014
RPR1022 Matthew Shipp Trio (with Michael Bisio, Whit Dickey) Root of Things[51] 2014
RPR1023 Stephen Gauci / Kirk Knuffke / Ken Filiano Chasing Tales 2014
RPR1024 Evan Parker & Sylvie Courvoisier Either Or And 2014
RPR1025 Mary Halvorson (with Opsvik, Fujiwara, Speed) Reverse Blue[52] 2014
RPR1026 Jemeel Moondoc (with Shipp, Campbell, Swell, Greene, Baker) The Zookeeper's House[53] 2014
RPR1027 Michel Doneda Everybody Digs Michel Doneda[54] 2014
RPR1028 Tomas Fujiwara Trio (with Brandon Seabrook, Ralph Alessi) Variable Bets 2014
RPR1029 Joe Morris Solos Bimhuis[55] 2015
RPR1030 Birgit Ulher & Leonel Kaplan Stereo Trumpet 2015
RPR1031 Nate Wooley [de] Battle Pieces 2015
RPR1032 Susan Alcorn Soledad[56] 2015
RPR1033 Dead Neanderthals (Otto Kokke, René Aquarius) Worship The Sun[57] 2015
RPR1034 Leila Bordreuil & Michael Foster The Caustic Ballads[58] 2016
RPR1035 Matthew Shipp Chamber Ensemble (with Michael Bisio, Mat Maneri) The Gospel According to Matthew & Michael[59] 2015
RPR1036 Matana Roberts Always[60] 2015
RPR1037 Mette Rasmussen & Chris Corsano All The Ghosts At Once[61] 2015
RPR1038 Jessica Pavone Silent Spills 2016
RPR1039 Pulverize The Sound (Mike Pride, Peter Evans, Tim Dahl) Pulverize The Sound 2015
RPR1040 Michael Bisio Accortet 2015
RPR1041 Thollem / Wimberly / Cline Radical Empathy[62] 2015
RPR1042 Fujiwara / Goldberg / Halvorson The Out Louds 2016
RPR1043 Michael Bisio & Kirk Knuffke Row For William O. 2016
RPR1044 Corsano / Courvoisier / Wooley Salt Task 2016
RPR1045 Sylvie Courvoisier & Mary Halvorson Crop Circles[63] 2016
RPR1046 Mazur / Neuringer Diachronic Paths 2016
RPR1047 Jemeel Moondoc & Hilliard Greene Cosmic Nickelodeon[64] 2016
RPR1048 Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Buoyancy 2016
RPR1049 Catherine Sikora Jersey 2016
RPR1050 Joe Morris Shock Axis 2016
RPR1051 Perch, Hen, Brock, Rain (Ab Baars, Ig Henneman, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey) Live @ The Jazz Happening Tampere 2016
RPR1052 Forebrace (Alex Ward, Jem Doulton, Roberto Sassi, Santiago Horro) Steeped[65] 2016
RPR1053 Tristan Honsinger / Nicolas Caloia / Joshua Zubot In The Sea[66] 2017
RPR1054 Thollem & Mazurek Blind Curves And Box Canyons 2017
RPR1055 JR3 (Jan Roder, Olaf Rupp, Rudi Mahall) Happy Jazz[67] 2017
RPR1056 John Butcher, John Edwards, Mark Sanders Last Dream Of The Morning 2017
RPR1057 Christian Lillinger & Tobias Delius Dicht 2017
RPR1058 Nate Wooley Battle Pieces 2[68] 2017
RPR1059 Fred Van Hove & Roger Turner The Corner[69] 2017
RPR1060 Isabelle Duthoit & Franz Hautzinger Lily[70] 2017
RPR1061 Magda Mayas & Jim Denley Tempe Jetz 2017
RPR1062 Ben Hall's Racehorse Names (with Levin-Decanini, Morris, Dierker, Dobday, Khoury, Zawadi) The New Favorite Thing Called Breathing[71] 2018
RPR1063 Brandon Lopez, Matthew Nelson, Andria Nicodemou, Gerald Cleaver The Industry Of Entropy[72] 2018
RPR1064 Kirk Knuffke & Ben Goldberg Uncompahgre[73] 2018
RPR1065 Mark Nauseef (with Laswell, Quintus, Jarvinen, Tadić, Oxley, Thomas, Courvoisier) All In All In All 2018
RPR1066 Stephanie Richards Fullmoon[74] 2018
RPR1067 Rudi Mahall & Alexander von Schlippenbach So Far 2018
RPR1068 Tomeka Reid, Kyoko Kitamura, Taylor Ho Bynum, Joe Morris Geometry of Caves[75] 2018
RPR1069 Flamingo (Adam Pultz Melbye, Chris Heenan, Christian Windfeld, Roy Carroll) LOUD 2018
RPR1070 Tatakai Trio (Anders Lindsjö, Martin Küchen, Raymond Strid) Happī 2018
RPR1071 Irene Aranda, Johannes Nästesjö, Núria Andorrà Inner Core 2018
RPR1072 Samara Lubelski & Bill Nace Samara Lubelski / Bill Nace 2018
RPR1073 Benjamín Vergara, Keefe Jackson, Jim Baker, Phil Sudderberg The Hallowed Plant[76] 2018
RPR1074 Paul Rogers, Olaf Rupp, Frank Paul Schubert Three Stories About Rain, Sunlight And The Hidden Soil 2018
RPR1075 Fish-Scale Sunrise (Ab Baars, Joe Williamson, Kaja Draksler) No Queen Rises 2018
RPR1076 Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Utter[77] 2018
RPR1077 Michael Foster, Michael Zerang, Katherine Young Bind The Hand(s) That Feed[78] 2018
RPR1078 James Brandon Lewis (with Stewart, Crudup III, Pirog, Branch) An UnRuly Manifesto[79] 2019
RPR1079 Bruce Ackley, Fred Frith, Henry Kaiser, Aram Shelton Unexpected Twins[80] 2019
RPR1080 Guillermo Gregorio & Brandon Lopez 12 Episodes[81] 2019
RPR1081 Tomeka Reid / Filippo Monico The Mouser 2019
RPR1082 Jessica Pavone In The Action 2019
RPR1083 Eugene Chadbourne & Henry Kaiser Wind Crystals: Guitar Duets By Wadada Leo Smith 2019
RPR1084 Michel Doneda & Lê Quan Ninh Thirty Ways To Avoid Talking 2019
RPR1085 Paul Flaherty Focused & Bewildered[82] 2019
RPR1086 Zeena Parkins & Wobbly Triplicates 2019
RPR1087 Steve Baczkowski, Brandon Lopez, Chris Corsano Old Smoke[83] 2019
RPR1088 Christine Abdelnour & Chris Corsano Quand Fond La Neige, Où Va Le Blanc? 2019
RPR1089 Udo Schindler & Jaap Blonk Hillside Talks 2019
RPR1090 Hook, Line And Sinker (Borghini, Dörner, Delius, Honsinger) Fishy Business[84] 2019
RPR1090EP Virginia Genta Amplified Sopranino Sax 2019
RPR1091 Tipple (David Watson, Frode Gjerstad, Kevin Norton) Cartoon Heart 2019
RPR1092 Masahiko Satoh, Otomo Yoshihide, Roger Turner Sea 2019
RPR1093 Ramon Lopez & Mark Feldman Trappist-1[85] 2019
RPR1094 Ig Henneman, Jaimie Branch, Anne La Berge Dropping Stuff And Other Folk Songs[86] 2019
RPR1095 Joanna Mattrey Veiled[87] 2020
RPR1096 Kyoko Kitamura, Joe Morris, Tomeka Reid, Taylor Ho Bynum Geometry of Distance[88] 2019
RPR1097 Nate Wooley Battle Pieces 4[89] 2019
RPR1098 Susan Alcorn, Leila Bordreuil, Ingrid Laubrock Bird Meets Wire 2021
RPR1099 Neuringer, Dulberger, Masri Dromedaries II 2020
RPR1100 John Blum & Jackson Krall Duplexity 2020
RPR1101 Estamos Trio (Escobar, Tamez, McDonas) Dire Warning 2020
RPR1102 Samara Lubelski Partial Infinite Sequence 2020
RPR1103 Tim Berne & Nasheet Waits The Coandă Effect[90] 2020
RPR1104 Peter Brötzmann & Fred Lonberg-Holm Memories of a Tunicate[91] 2020
RPR1105 Alex Ward Frames 2020
RPR1106 Alex Ward Item 4 (with Lisle, Keeffe, Willberg) Where We Were 2020
RPR1107 Birgit Ulher & Franz Hautzinger Kleine Trompetenmusik 2020
RPR1108 Brad Henkel & Jacob Wick Lovely Bag You Have 2020
RPR1109 MoE (Guro Skumsnes Moe & Håvard Skaset) with Mette Rasmussen and Ikuro Takahashi Painted 2020
RPR1110 gabby fluke-mogul threshold 2020
RPR1111 Susan Alcorn Quintet (with Feldman, Halvorson, Formanek, Sawyer) Pedernal[92][93][94] 2020
RPR1112 Leap Of Faith (Glynis Lomon, PEK) Principles Of An Open Future[95] 2020
RPR1113 Signe Emmeluth Hi Hello I'm Signe[96] 2021
RPR1114 Frode Gjerstad & Isach Skeidsvoll Twenty Fingers[97] 2021
RPR1115 Two Much: Reut Regev & Igal Foni Never Enough[98] 2021
RPR1116 Hermione Johnson Tremble[99] 2020
RPR1117 Schubert / Schlippenbach / Blume Forge[100] 2020
RPR1118 Zeena Parkins, Mette Rasmussen, Ryan Sawyer Glass Triangle[101] 2021
RPR1119 Jooklo Trio (David Vanzan, Virginia Genta, Brandon Lopez) It Is What It Is[102] 2020
RPR1120 Magda Mayas' Filamental (with Theriot, A. Davies, Caddy, Abdelnour, Thieke, R. Davies, Parkins) Confluence[103] 2021
RPR1121 Michel Doneda, Frédéric Blondy, Tetsu Saitoh Spring Road 16[104] 2021
RPR1122 Barre Phillips, John Butcher, Ståle Liavik Solberg We Met - And Then[105] 2021
RPR1123 López Trio (Brandon López with Cleaver, Baczkowski, and guest Cecilia López) Live At Roulette[106] 2021
RPR1124 Liz Allbee Rille[107] 2021
RPR1125 Ava Mendoza New Spells[108] 2021
RPR1126 Robbie Avenaim, Chris Abrahams, Jim Denley Weft[109] 2021
RPR1127 Cranes: Matthias Müller, Eve Risser, Christian Marien Formation < Deviation 2021
RPR1128 Jessica Pavone When No One Around You is There but Nowhere to be Found[110] 2022
RPR1129 Violeta García & Chris Pitsiokos Uanmortaim 2021
RPR1130 Alex Zethson Ensemble (with Larsson, Lindal, Toorell, Bergman, Arapis, Runsteen, Ingves, Agnas, Svensson, Hellgren, Lindström, Zetterberg) Some Of Them Were Never Unprepared[111] 2021
RPR1131 Ingrid Laubrock & Tom Rainey Counterfeit Mars[112] 2022
RPR1132 Steph Richards with Joshua White Zephyr[113] 2021
RPR1133 Cecilia Lopez Red[114] 2021
RPR1134 Gregg Belisle-Chi Performing The Music Of Tim Berne Koi[115] 2021
RPR1135 Cath Roberts & Olie Brice Conduits[116] 2022
RPR1136 Lisa Ullén, Elsa Bergman, Anna Lund Space[117][118] 2022
RPR1137 Masked Pickle (Clara Weil, Olivia Scemama, Tom Malmendier) 7[119] 2022
RPR1138 Child Of Illusion (Chris Pitsiokos, Susana Santos Silva, Torbjörn Zetterberg) Khimaira[120] 2022
RPR1139 Matthew Bourne & Emil Karlsen The Embalmer[121] 2022
RPR1140 Kaluza & Roder (Anna Kaluza, Jan Roder) Am Frankfurter Tor[119] 2022
RPR1141 gabby fluke-mogul Love Songs[122] 2022
RPR1142 Forbes Graham (with Brandon Lopez, Cecilia Lopez) Another Day, Another Vector[123] 2022
RPR1143 Joanna Mattrey & gabby fluke-mogul Oracle[124] 2022
RPR1144 Reid, Kitamura, Bynum, Morris Geometry Of Trees[125] 2022
RPR1148 Tamio Shiraishi 月 (Moon) 2022
RPR1149 Rasmussen / Flaherty / Rowden / Corsano Crying in Space[126] 2023
RPR1151 Tristan Kasten-Krause & Jessica Pavone Images of One 2023
RPR1157 Pulverize The Sound (Pride, Evans, Dahl) Black[127] 2022
RPR1158 Kelsey Mines Look Like 2022
RPR1159 Fred Moten, Brandon López, Gerald Cleaver Moten / López / Cleaver[128] 2022
RPR1160 Susan Alcorn, Patrick Holmes, Ryan Sawyer From Union Pool[129] 2023
RPR1161 Dimitriadis, Dörner, Freedman, Parkins, Williams BeingFive[130] 2022
RPR1179 Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois, Guus Janssen VOSTOK Remote Islands[131][132] 2023

Relative Pitch Records: Solo Series (RPRSS)

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Cat. Number Artist Title Year
RPRSS001 Erin Rogers Dawntreader[133] 2019
RPRSS002 Masayoshi Urabe What Hasn't Come Here, COME![133] 2019
RPRSS003 Tamio Shiraishi Sora[87] 2020
RPRSS004 Chris Pitsiokos Speak In Tongues[87] 2020
RPRSS005 Erin Rogers 2000 Miles[134] 2021
RPRSS006 Michael Foster The Industrious Tongue Of Michael Foster[135] 2022
RPRSS007 Violeta García Fobia[136] 2022
RPRSS008 Amidea Clotet Trasluz[137] 2022
RPRSS009 Robbie Lee Prismatist[138] 2022
RPRSS010 Aaron Burnett Correspondence 2022
RPRSS011 Masayo Koketsu Fukiya[139] 2022
RPRSS012 Chris Pitsiokos Art of the Alto 2022
RPRSS013 Sakina Abdou Goodbye Ground[126] 2022
RPRSS014 Marta Warelis A Grain Of Earth[140] 2022
RPRSS015 Don Malfon Mutable 2022
RPRSS016 Jon Lipscomb Conscious Without Function 2022
RPRSS017 Alexandra Grimal Refuge 2022

Relative Pitch Records: Digital Only (RPRDL)

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Year Artist Title Cat. Number
RPRDL001 Matthew Wright with Samples Of Evan Parker, Toma Gouband, Mark Nauseef Locked Hybrids[141] 2020
RPRDL002 Close Scrape (Matthew Wright, Adam Linson) CUTOUT 2021
RPRDL003 Biliana Voutchkova & Michael Zerang The Emerald Figurines[142] 2022
RPRDL004 Biliana Voutchkova & Leila Bordreuil The Seventh Water[142] 2022
RPRDL005 Kelsey Mines To Actually Create Everywhere[143] 2022
RPRDL006 Biliana Voutchkova & Joanna Mattrey Like Thoughts Coming[142] 2022
RPRDL007 Biliana Voutchkova & Susana Santos Silva Bagra[142] 2022
RPRDL008 Biliana Voutchkova & Tomeka Reid Bricolage III [144] 2022
RPRDL009 Biliana Voutchkova & Jeff Surak The Truth About The Key[145] 2022
RPRDL010 Biliana Voutchkova & Charmaine Lee I am going to make an attempt to describe what you mean to me 2022

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