Cantaloupe Music

Cantaloupe Music is the record label created in March 2001 by the three founders of New York's legendary Bang on a Can Festival: composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe Music is making waves across the country for its adventurous new sounds, and has formed a partnership with harmonia mundi for exclusive U.S. and U.K. distribution, SonArt for distribution in Australia, Sunny Moon for Germany, MA Recordings for Japan, and SRI for Canada. In 2001, all five of Cantaloupe's premiere releases were selected for a major publication's Top 10 list. The raves continued for Cantaloupe's 2002 releases, with Top 10 accolades from the Boston Herald, The Wire, WNYC-FM, and more.

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Cantaloupe Music is the record label created in March 2001 by the three founders of New York's legendary Bang on a Can Festival: composers Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe, and Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson. Cantaloupe Music is making waves across the country for its adventurous new sounds, and has formed a partnership with harmonia mundi for exclusive U.S. and U.K. distribution, SonArt for distribution in Australia, Sunny Moon for Germany, MA Recordings for Japan, and SRI for Canada. In 2001, all five of Cantaloupe's premiere releases were selected for a major publication's Top 10 list. The raves continued for Cantaloupe's 2002 releases, with Top 10 accolades from the Boston Herald, The Wire, WNYC-FM, and more.

Cantaloupe Music provides a home for music that slips between the cracks. Through Cantaloupe, Bang on a Can forges ahead in its mission to spread the gospel of risk-taking music with a vengeance. Each release has extensive background information on the web in the form of individual internet pages with the composers' own words about their music, artist bios, and links (see www.cantaloupemusic.com). The CD's are available for purchase on Bang on a Can's new website store as well as at national and international record (and online) stores.

Dedicated to the work of composers across the entire aesthetic spectrum, Bang on a Can has created a home for musical inventors, misfits and pioneers. Founded in 1987 by Gordon, Lang and Wolfe, Bang on a Can has grown from a one-day festival to a multi-faceted organization. Their decision to launch Cantaloupe Music represents the culmination of 15 years of ground-breaking concerts and a decade of successful recording projects on multiple major record labels.

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