Almo Sounds
Almo Sounds was a record label which was started in 1994 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss after they sold A&M Records to PolyGram. The intent for the label was to recreate the initial concept of A&M Records as a small, "boutique" label. The label signed artists Gillian Welch, Imogen Heap, Ozomatli and Garbage and several other artists.
Almo Sounds
- Name
- Almo Sounds
- Founded
- 1994
- Founder
- Herb Alpert · Jerry Moss
- Headquarters
- United States
- Dissolved
- 2000
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Almo Sounds was a record label which was started in 1994 by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss after they sold A&M Records to PolyGram. The intent for the label was to recreate the initial concept of A&M Records as a small, "boutique" label. The label signed artists Gillian Welch, Imogen Heap, Ozomatli and Garbage and several other artists.
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Psychic TV did demos that were rejected for the label. Herb Alpert himself released his Second Wind, Passion Dance, and Colours albums on the label. A Nashville division was launched in 1995. Headed by record producer Garth Fundis, it released albums by Paul Jefferson, Billy Yates, and Bekka & Billy. The label has not released new product since 1999 and in 2000 it was sold to Universal Music Group. Commercially viable catalog albums remain available through Interscope Records, a current sister label to A&M.
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• Name — Almo Sounds • Founded — 1994 • Founder — Herb Alpert, Jerry Moss • Parent — Universal Music Group • Status — Defunct • Distributor — * Geffen (1994–1998) • Interscope (1998–99) • Genre — Various
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Albums • Year — Artist — Release — Catalogue • 1995 — Angel Corpus Christi — White Courtesy Phone — AMSD-80000 • The Rake's Progress — Altitude — AMSD-80001 • Peter Bruntnell — Cannibal — ALMOCD002 • Tim Wheater — Tim Wheater — AMSD-80003 • Garbage — Garbage — AMSD-80004 • 1996 — Herb Alpert — Second Wind — AMSD-80005 • Gillian Welch — Revival — AMSD-80006 • Paul Jefferson — Paul Jefferson — AMSD-80007 • Gus — Gus — AMSD-80008 • Victor DeLorenzo — Pancake Day — AMSD-80009 • 1997 — Lazlo Bane — 11 Transistor — AMSD-80010 • Pulsars — Pulsars — AMSD-80011 • Bekka & Billy — Bekka & Billy — AMSD-80012 • ManBREAK — Come and See — AMSD-80013 • Herb Alpert — Passion Dance — AMDS-80014 • Peter Bruntnell — Camelot In Smithereens — ALMOCD14 • Billy Yates — Billy Yates — AMDS-80015 • 1998 — Imogen Heap — iMegaphone — AMSD-80017 • Garbage — Version 2.0 — AMSD-80018 • The Prissteens — Scandal, Controversy & Romance — AMSD-80019 • Ozomatli — Ozomatli — AMSD-80020 • Gillian Welch — Hell Among the Yearlings — AMSD-80021 • 1999 — Bijou Phillips — I'd Rather Eat Glass — AMSD-80022 • Gus — Word of Mouth Parade — AMSD-80023 • Various Artists — Return of the Grievous Angel — AMSD-80024 • Herb Alpert — Colors — AMSD-80025 EPs • Year — Artist — Release — Catalogue • 1996 — Pulsars — Submission to the Master — AMSDM-88002 • Lazlo Bane — Short Style — AMSDM-88003
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