I started [Amalgam] in 2015. I started to get more involved with the improvised experimental community in Chicago; I was seeing a lot of younger folks doing what I thought was really important work and not really getting recognized by anybody. | ✍️ imleor
Pittsburgh native Bill Harris moved to Chicago in 2011 because he wanted to play improvisational and experimental music. Four years later, the drummer, engineer, and composer launched Amalgam, a record label that also serves as an umbrella for a loose creative collective.
I created it with the intention of it being a collective of creative folks in Chicago. It’s kind of morphed into more of a label, which I still don’t really want it to be. I don’t want to be a curator or an arbiter or someone that’s making creative decisions. This year we had guest curators—Allen Moore, Carol Genetti, Keefe Jackson, Emily [Rach] Beisel—and we’re gonna keep doing this every year, where we ask guest curators to take the keys of Amalgam and do whatever they want with it, whether it’s their own project or some project that someone has contacted them about or whatever. They have free rein. Only one of them has been released this year: Emily’s [album]. Some of the other stuff has been delayed—it will be coming out soon.
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