There’s something slightly perverse about hunting for meaning in the era of infinite content. Still, many of us keep at it in this odd ritual of listening for signal, for something real that might surface.
Culture’s new default setting treats art as product and artists as content providers to manage. But a different practice still endures.
It seems we’re being conditioned to consume rather than commune. But sometimes, the right sounds come through. Music that doesn’t seek to simply entertain but to recognise us. That stops us with the uncanny sensation that we’ve been named in a letter we were never supposed to read. Those moments still happen. Still matter. Even now.
Photograph by Philppe Dufour
Violette Records is a Liverpool and Paris-based record label run by Matt Lockett, Pascal Blua and PJ Smith. Since 2013, we've operated on the simple belief that music and art matter to both the people who make it and the people who experience it.
We work with artists whose approach makes sense to us, then we get out of their way. Our role is to provide the space for great music to happen.
Contributors
Risha Alimchandani, Rob Allen, Chris Anderson, Théophile Armani, Arthur Arnold, Stéphane Auzenet, Stephen Beckwith, Marc Bessant, Ian Bickerton, Fiona Bird, Graeme Bird, Paul Birtill, Valerie Bisson, Pascal Blua, Alice Boyd, Gerry Braiden, Dan Brownrigg, Peter Buck, David Butcher, Barry Cameron, Darcie Chazen, Maya Chen, Sam Christie, Amy Collins, Kristian Collins, Iain Conroy, Carl Cook, Kira Courtney, Tim Cunningham, Darcie and Sian, Tim Davidson, Andy Diagram, Matthieu Dufour, Philippe Dufour, John Edge, Carl Egger, Nick Ellis, Donna Enticknap, Brendan Fenerty, Matteo Fernandes, Paul Fitzgerald, Louis Foster, Andy Frizzell, Jane Gallagher, Toria Garbutt, Chris Geddes, David Glover, Matthieu Grunfeld, Austen Harris, Mark "Harry" Harris, Rachael Jean Harris, David Hayden, Joanne Head, Michael Head, Michael Holcroft, Jon Humphreys, Rachel Jack, Simon James, Lindsay Jamieson, Arvin Johnson, John Johnson, Stevie Jones, Eimear Kavanagh, Nik Kavanagh, Tim Keegan, David Keenan, Gilles de Kerdrel, Stuart Kidd, Jake Kyle, Chris Latham, James Leesley, Fred LeFalher, Leo the Intern, Dominic Lewington, Phil Lewis, Russ Litten, Martha Lockett, Matthew Loughlin-Day, David Lovenbury, Anne Lundon, Donna Marsh, Simon Mason, Mary McCombs, Jim McCulloch, David McDonnell, Iain "Skinnie" McFarlane, Raymond McGinley, Dave McGowan, Kevin McGuinness, Brian McHenry, Joe McKechnie, Charlie McKeon, Gordon McNeil, Mark McNulty, Matthew McPartlan, Danny Murphy, Gary "Bandit" Murphy, Phil Murphy, Vicky Mutch, Jasmine Nahal, Ann Nazario, Paul Nowak, Pete Paphides, Alex Pester, Briony Powell, Steve Powell, Tom Powell, Victoria Raftery, Ed Rimmer, Tom Roberts, Sophie Rocks, Dan Rogers, Lee Rogers, Jess Rose, Roy, Ian Salmon, Rob Schofield, All the good people of Shacknet, Nick Sharp, Anna Sheard, Cal Sinjon, Rod Skipp, Martin Smith, Sarah Spoor, Adam Stearns, Michael Stoddart, Brian Sweeney, Jamie Taylor, Louis Teyssedou, Sarah Thomas, Karina Townsend, Yves Tronet, Colin Watt, Karl Whitney, David Wiggins, Eddie Wigin, Peter Wilkinson, Alan Williams, Daniel Williams, Sally Williams, Nina Windsor-Roe, Angie Woolfall, Angela Yates, John Canning Yates and Jeff Young.