NoBusiness Records - new jazz label from Lithuania

Delivering an experience of “true art of music”

In this hard for the recording industry time we see our mission in delivering to listeners an experience of what we consider “true art of music”. It is our ambition to produce and release exceptional creative acts giving priority to live performances which take place in Vilnius. We are also looking to promote Lithuanian jazz musicians.
The first release on NoBusiness titled “The Vilnius Explosion” is a clear mission statement in itself.

Our portfolio of “to-be-released” music includes a number of absolutely incredible performances documented in both audio and video format. Two of them - solo performance by Mats Gustafsson and ground shaking concert by Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval and Jay Rosen (known as Trio X) just came out as LPs.

Although our preferences lay in sphere of modern jazz and improvising music we are not limited by any particular genre.

As it follows from the label’s name NoBusiness Records is a completely non-commercial venture; all profits from sold records go towards future releases and/or concerts organization.

During the last 4 years we have carried out 14 concerts!

Lithuania seems to have a relatively active jazz life with at least 4 annual festivals and intensive club life. However appearances of truly great internationally recognized musicians performing creative music are rather rare and irregular.

We had been passive participants (spectators and listeners) until our love to music and an experience gained from listening and collecting records prompted a simple solution: to invite our favourite artists to Lithuania.

Since 2004 we have organized 14 concert events of non-commercial music. We are proud to name our guests: William Parker, Matthew Shipp, Piotr Mamonov, Leonid Feodorov, “Aukcyon”, Max Nagl, Steven Bernstein, Noel Akchoté, Bradley Jones, Joe McPhee, Dominic Duval, Jay Rosen, Sergey Letov, Yuri Jeremchuk, David S Ware, Jameel Moondoc, Roy Campbell, Hill Green, Klaus Kugel, Mats Gustafsson, Liudas Mockūnas, Roman Stolyar and others!