Chigliak is a
record label and imprint of
Jagjaguwar
Jagjaguwar is an American independent record label based in Bloomington, Indiana, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, London, Paris, Amsterdam, and Berlin. Jagjaguwar is a label included in Secretly Group, which also includes ...
dedicated to albums that have had limited or non-commercial releases. It was founded in 2012 by
Justin Vernon of
Bon Iver.
History
Chigliak was named after ''
Northern Exposure
''Northern Exposure'' is an American Northern comedy-drama television series about the eccentric residents of a fictional small town in Alaska that ran on CBS from July 12, 1990, to July 26, 1995, with a total of 110 episodes. It received 57 ...
'' character Ed Chigliak, whom Vernon cited as "
isfavorite in the pantheon of characters in the history of the world.
..H]e's sort of a representation of what we're trying to do at the label: like good music that may not be box office-smashing."
Artists
See also
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List of record labels
References
American independent record labels
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