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ECM Records Named Label of the Year
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Published: October 21, 2009
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ECM Records, currently celebrating its 40th anniversary year, picked up two awards acknowledging the place in holds in the field. On October 2, ECM's founder and producer Manfred Eicher accepted The Classic FM Gramophone Award 2009 at a presentation ceremony in London. The special awards issue of Gramophone magazine notes, "In an age of increasing standardisation, it’s good to salute genuine individuality. Each year we pay tribute to a record label that demonstrates a winning blend of creativity, imagination, business acumen, style – all adding up to that word again: individuality. This year we turn the spotlight on a label that has been ploughing its particular furrow with notable success for 40 years, ECM, and more particularly for 'classical music' fans, its New Series."
On this side of the Atlantic, in the 2009 DownBeat's Annual Critics Poll ECM was voted label of the year and founder Manfred Eicher producer of the year for the second consecutive year. (—Condensed from the press release)
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