25-04-2015 01:45 via thestranger.com

The Week in Music Memorandum: ESP-Disk Boss Bernard Stollman

'60s experimental jazz and, well, really anything goes, record label, ESP-Disk label founder Bernard Stollman passed away this week at age 85. He had been fighting colon cancer and pneumonia. Stollman's ESP-Disk label began in 1963, after he released an album of Esperanto music, Ni Kantu En Esperanto (Esperanto was shortened to "ESP" for the label's name), but his drive to release records changed in late '63 after he experienced Albert Ayler. ESP then became the label weird-music lovers know, a
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