Record Label
US record label that is the trading name of [[label:Nonesuch Records]] / [[label:Nonesuch Records Inc.]] Releases with either "Nonesuch" or "Nonesuch Records" logos should use this label. Company credits as on release. References to [[label:Nonesuch Records Inc.]] are the company identity and not the label. [[label:Elektra]] indicates that Elektra Records was founded in 1950 by [[artist:Jac Holzman]]. Under his leadership, Nonesuch was created in 1964 as a budget label for classical releases licensed from large classical record companies in Britain and France that did not have a cost-effective means to directly distribute their releases in North America. [Bill Harvey](/artist/681789) designed the packaging, and releases were marketed as "Recordings at the Price of a Quality Paperback." Nonesuch eventually hosted a large catalog of adventurous music from around the globe, and world-premiere recordings of contemporary composers of avant-garde, electronic and computer music. [[label:Warner Communications Inc.]] provides the most coherent summary of ownership and identity changes from 1969 onward. As a division of Elektra, Nonesuch was also acquired by Warner Communications (Kinney/WEA at the time) in 1970. Releases from Elektra-based labels like Elektra, Nonesuch, and Asylum Records will usually state this affiliation as "A Division Of Warner Communications Inc." ([[label:552180]]). [[label:Elektra/Asylum Records]] states that the Elektra and Asylum Records labels were combined in August 1973 to form label identities [[label:Elektra/Asylum Records]] and [[label:Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records]]. The identity [[label:Elektra Nonesuch]] was used for some releases from 1987 to 1995. Catalog entries for "Nonesuch" or "Nonesuch Records" continue through this period as well. In 1994, [[label:Warner Music International]] became its parent label and later switched to [[label:Atlantic]] approximately 2001 to 2004. A further merger of the Elektra and Atlantic labels took place in mid 2004. Thereafter, Nonesuch has been identified as a sub-label of [[label:Warner Records]] within the [[label:Warner Music Group]], continuing to use the established Elektra UPC prefix and numbering system.