Setola di Maiale is an Italian record label founded by Stefano Giust and Paolo De Piaggi in 1993. The label was created to catalogue and release music in the fields of

experimental music Experimental music is a general label for any music or music genre that pushes existing boundaries and genre definitions. Experimental compositional practice is defined broadly by exploratory sensibilities radically opposed to, and questioning of, ...

and avant-garde, including free improvisation, free jazz,

electroacoustic music Electroacoustic music is a genre of popular and Western art music in which composers use technology to manipulate the timbres of acoustic sounds, sometimes by using audio signal processing, such as reverb or harmonizing, on acoustical instrumen ...

, and electronic music. Since its founding, Setola di Maiale has released over 400 recordings from musicians and ensembles from all over the world. Artists on the label include

Peter Brötzmann Peter Brötzmann (born 6 March 1941) is a German saxophonist and clarinetist. Biography Early life Brötzmann was born in Remscheid, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He studied painting in Wuppertal and was involved with the Fluxus movement ...

, Lawrence Casserley,

Philip Corner Philip Lionel Corner (born April 10, 1933; name sometimes given as Phil Corner) is an American composer, trombonist, alphornist, vocalist, pianist, music theorist, music educator, and visual artist. Biography After The High School of Music & Ar ...

, Vinny Golia, Joe Morris,

Michiko Hirayama was a Japanese singer, noted for her interpretation of Giacinto Scelsi's "Canti del Capricorno". Biography Hirayama was born in 1923 in Tokyo. Her parents were lawyers and she had a good education. One of her first musical influences was the Ja ...

, Tim Hodgkinson,

Tristan Honsinger Tristan Honsinger (born October 23, 1949) is an American cello player active in free jazz and free improvisation. He is perhaps best known for his long-running collaboration with free jazz pianist Cecil Taylor and guitarist Derek Bailey. Born ...

, Ken Hyder,

Xabier Iriondo Xabier Iriondo (Milan, 9 February 1971) is an Italian guitarist. He was born in Isola neighborhood in Milan in 1971, Basque father and Italian mother. At the age of 17 he started to play the guitar. This passion for the strings still accompanie ...

Joëlle Léandre Joëlle Léandre (born 12 September 1951 in Aix-en-Provence, France) is a French double bassist, vocalist, and composer active in Contemporary classical music, new music and free improvisation. In the field of contemporary music, she has perfor ...

Gianni Lenoci Gianni Lenoci (6 June 1963 – 30 September 2019) was an Italian jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Lenoci studied with pianists Paul Bley and Mal Waldron Malcolm Earl "Mal" Waldron (August 16, 1925 – December 2, 2002) was an Ame ...

Anton Lukoszevieze Anton Lukoszevieze (born 1965) is a British-Lithuanian cellist, composer and visual artist. He is the director of the ensemble Apartment House, who are known for their advocacy of experimental and avant-garde music and frequent international perfo ...

Bart Maris Bart Maris is a Belgian trumpet player. He has performed in a very large number of bands, either as a group member or a guest musician on records or in concert. He was one of the original members of Fukkeduk with Niek Roseeuw, Kristof Roseeuw, ...

Ela Orleans Ela Orleans (born 1971 in Oświęcim, commonly known by its German name of Auschwitz) is a Polish composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer. Orleans uses electronic and acoustic instruments (including synthesisers, guitar, violin, piano) to creat ...

, Evan Parker, Ivo Perelman, Gino Robair, Paul Rogers,

Bruno Romani Bruno Romani (Udine, 9 January 1960) is an Italian saxophonist, flutist and composer. He was the founder of ''Detonazione'' (one of the most influential Italian post-punk bands of the 80s), author of contemporary jazz albums and collaborator as ...

Giancarlo Schiaffini Giancarlo Schiaffini is an Italian jazz trombonist and tubist most associated with avant-garde music, free improvisation and free jazz. A member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, Schiaffini has worked with such artists as Mario Schiano, Lol Coxh ...

Benedict Taylor Benedict Sean Taylor (born 18 April 1960) is a British actor. Taylor was born in Hampstead, London, the eldest of six children of father, Richard, a documentary film maker, and Allegra, a writer. Taylor lived in Nigeria until 1965 and then wa ...

Gabriel Vicéns Gabriel Vicéns (born March 16, 1988) is a Puerto Rican guitarist, composer, bandleader, and visual artist currently based in New York City. Early life and education Born and raised in Guaynabo, Puerto Rico, Vicéns began his musical training ...

, Philipp Wachsmann, and

Mia Zabelka Mia Zabelka (born 1963 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian contemporary violinist, improviser, and composer of Czech, Jewish and French familiar background. Comprehensively educated in classical music from early age on she opened up the traditional ...

Discography

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