Hor Music

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HOR Music
Founded1998
StatusInactive
GenreRussian rock, punk rock, jazz, reggae

Hor Music (Hor Records or simply HOR, Russian: ХОР Мьюзик) is a Russian independent record label specializing in independent music (mainly on Russian rock music, including Yegor Letov's works).

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Hor Music issued and reissued, in particular, Grazhdanskaya Oborona and other projects of Yegor Letov, Yanka, the , Adaptatsiya, , bands, the projects of Sergey Letov.[1] According to their own information, the label's main musical genres and styles are rock, punk, jazz, reggae, avant-garde music, classical, ethnic music.[2]

HOR also distributed several albums by other labels, which include , , and .[2]

Label was owned by Evgeny Kolesov, the former director of the Grazhdanskaya Oborona band.[3] By the time, the almost complete discography of Grazhdanskaya Oborona was reissued on audio cassettes and CDs.[4]

In 1999, Alexander "Ales" Valedinsky came to work for the label. In 2001, he creates the "Wyrgorod" label as a subsidiary of HOR. Wyrgorod later became an independent company.[5][6]

The last releases of HOR Music were released in 2003. For some time (at least two years) the company existed only as a distributor of audio products. The last announcement from the label is from 2008. Currently, there is no publishing or business activity under this name.[2]

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References[]

  1. ^ "ХОР Label". Discogs. Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  2. ^ a b c "Рассылка новостей лейбла "ХОР"". Информационный канал . Retrieved 2019-08-21.
  3. ^ "О лейбле "ХОР" на сайте rockmusic.ru". Archived from the original on 2006-04-18.
  4. ^ "Дискография и музыка. Дискография Гражданской Обороны и других проектов Е. Летова". The official website of Grazhdanskaya Oborona.
  5. ^ Александр Валединский. "История Выргорода, 2001—2006 (ч.1)". Музыкальное издательство «».
  6. ^ "Александр Валединский: "У меня подход к изданиям не коммерческий, а просветительский"" (19) (Музыкальная газета (Минск) ed.). 2003. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  • Русский рок. Малая энциклопедия. М: Леан, Антао. Ред. . 2001. ISBN 5-85929-068-3.
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