Bead Records dates back to the early 1970’s and is proud to include a large number of musicians who share a commitment to the development of their work and improvisation, and to what they publish. It started with Milk Teeth (Pete Cusack and Simon Mayo) and followed with Chamberpot (Richard Beswick / Simon Mayo / Philipp Wachsmann / Tony Wren). From there it took off as a collective with most LPs being financed by the musicians. Subsequent feed-back shows that its music has been very influential for subsequent generations.It has adapted to the changes of recordings and now includes CD issues and the remains of a rare back stock of LPs and now is also embarking on the addition of downloading. Its management has been sustained by Philipp Wachsmann and Matthew Hutchinson and now welcomes the energetic fresh input addition of Emil Karlsen taking it to a new phase, building on its history of over 60 musicians on over 40 titles.

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Musicians featured on Bead Records

Maarten van Regteren Altena / Roy Ashbury / Chris Burn / Clive Bell / Ian Brighton / John Butcher / Martin Blume / Michael Bunce / Paul Burwell / Richard Beswick / Steve Beresford / Gunter Christmann / Mark Charig / Nigel Coombes / Peter Cusack / Terry Day / Will Evans / Nestor Figueras / Wolfgang Fuchs / Bruno Guastalla / Mats Gustafsson / Matthew Hutchinson / Mike Hames / Teppo Hauta-Aho / Jari Hongisto / Guus Janssen / Peter Jacobsen / Jan Kamphuis / Dominic Lash / Jim Lebaigue / Jim Livesey / Paul Lovens / Paul Lytton / Chas Manning / Hugh Metcalfe / Marcio Mattos / Mark Meggido / Martin Mayes / Radu Malfatti / Simon Mayo / Tony Oxley / Evan Parker / John Russell / Harri Sjostrom / Larry Stabbins / Raymond Strid / Roger Smith / Sten Sandell / Alan Tomlinson / David Toop / Paul Termos / Roger Turner / Trevor Taylor / Bernard Watson / Colin Wood / Harry de Wit / Parny Wallace / Phil Wachsmann / Tony Wren / Wolter Wierbos / Kees van Zelst / David Leahy / Lawrence Casserley / Emil Karlsen / Martin Hackett / Neil Metcalfe / Alex Bonney / Pierre Alexandre Tremblay / Mark Sanders / Paul Dunmall / Daniel Thompson / Phil Durrant