Occupation Records: The 99 per cent to launch a record label

Occupation Records: The 99 per cent to launch a record label.Occupation Records announces first album – Folk the Banks – for mid February release featuring Ani Di Franco, Tom Morello, Tao Seeger, Bill Bragg and Sam Duckworth

• Original album artwork by Jamie Reid, known particularly for his artwork for the Sex Pistols’ God Save the Queen
• Launches crowd-funding drive for start up costs for the record label
• All profits from Occupation Records releases will go to Occupy London, occupations across the UK and Ireland, and the global Occupy movement

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Occupation Records, the record label created by the 45 Revolutions Per Minute Collective – an autonomous collective made up of members of Occupy London – have announced details of their first album, Folk the Banks, which will be released mid February to support and fund the Occupy movement in London, around the UK and Ireland, and globally. [1] [2]

Announced as Occupy London marks 100 days in occupation, the Folk the Banks album will feature a stellar line up of artists including: Ani Di Franco, Tom Morello, Tao Seeger, Billy Bragg and Sam Duckworth of Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly. Folk the Banks will be released digitally mid February, followed by a worldwide physical release. [3] Full details will be announced shortly.

Artwork for the album has been created especially for the Folk the Banks album by acclaimed punk rock British artist Jamie Reid, famed for the Sex Pistol’s single God Save the Queen artwork. [4]

New crowd-funding initiative
To provide start up costs for Occupation Records as it prepares for the release of the Folk the Banks album – and the other four albums currently being lined up – Occupation Records is launching a new crowd-funding project via Sponsume.com and the Occupation Records’ website. Musicians and others have offered a range of rewards to those donating, including a signed prints of the album artwork by Jamie Reid and copies of the Folk the Banks album in digital, CD and vinyl formats.

A short video has been created for the crowd funding project, which intends to raise £20,000 in four weeks, in association with “You and I Films”. The video features interviews with members of the collective and Sam Duckworth at locations across Occupy London’s sites. The initial funding asked for includes office set up costs, marketing, licensing, manufacturing and worldwide distribution costs.

Adam Jung, Artist and Industry Relations for Occupation Records and supporter of Occupy London, commented: “Much of the music industry has its roots in social justice movements and it’s great that artists from around the world are coming out in support of Occupy. From Motown Records providing the soundtrack for the civil rights movement, to the music of Billy Bragg inspiring striking miners, artists and the industry have historically provided fuel for social change.”

Occupations Records and The 45 Revolutions Per Minute Collective
The 45 Revolutions Per Minute Collective was created when a number of occupiers came together with the aim of facilitating the music industry supporting the Occupy movement. With the combination of experience within the music industry, PR, web design, and direct action, the collective was formed.

Adam added: “Occupy London and other occupations have created spaces for dialogue about social and economic injustice around the world like never before. Whether we are evicted from St Paul’s and other occupations or not, the movement will continue to grow. Music has the power to inspire and reach people who haven’t heard about Occupy yet – and that’s what Occupation Records intends to do. We’ve already begun at St Paul’s and the Bank of Ideas with performances by Thom Yorke and Massive Attack, Billy Bragg, Ani DiFranco, Tom Morello and others. Now it’s time to release that energy.”

Notes
[1] Occupation Records / The 45 Revolutions Per Minute Collective – occupationrecords.com/
[2] Occupy London – occupylsx.org/
[3] Ani DiFranco – righteousbabe.com/ani/; Tom Morello – nightwatchmanmusic.com/; Tao Seeger – taoseeger.com/fr_home.cfm; Billy Bragg – billybragg.co.uk/; Sam Duckworth – samduckworth.co.uk/
[4] Jamie Reid – jamiereid.org/

Video Produced by “You and I Films”
http://www.youandifilms.com