Nonesuch Records

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Nonesuch Records
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Parent company	Warner Music Group
Founded	1964
Founder(s)	Jac Holzman
Distributing label	Warner Bros. Records (In the US)</td></tr>
Genre(s)	World
Country of Origin	US
Website	Official site of Nonesuch Records

Nonesuch Records is an American record label, owned by Warner Music Group and distributed through Warner Bros. Records

[edit] Company history

Nonesuch was founded in 1964 by Jac Holzman to license European recordings of classical music. Upon its formation, Nonesuch operated as a subsidiary label of Elektra Records—which Holzman launched in 1950. In the late 1960s, the Nonesuch Explorer Series made Nonesuch a pioneer in the field of world music, before the term had even been invented. The series, which Nonesuch released from 1967 to 1984, consisted of field recordings made primarily in Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Eastern Europe.

For non-travelers, it was the first exposure to musical idioms such as music produced by a gamelan. In 1977, a few of the recordings were chosen for the Voyager Golden Record, and sent into outer space aboard the Voyager spacecraft. The analogue original recordings have been digitized, and the series, remastered and with new packaging, is currently being re-released in CD format.

In 1970 Holzman sold Elektra and Nonesuch to Kinney National Company, which later became Warner Communications (then Time Warner). Bob Hurwitz became head Nonesuch in 1984, and still runs the company today. In the late 1990s, as Elektra began to falter, many of Nonesuch's releases were distributed outside of the Elektra umbrella—through other Warner Music Group labels. In the early 2000s, Nonesuch briefly operated under Atlantic Records, before moving to Warner Bros. Records in 2004.