Parent company Cowboy Junkies Official website LatentRecordings.com Country of origin Toronto | Genre rock, alternative rock Founded 1981 | |
Distributor(s) MapleMusic (Canada)
Zoë Records (U.S.)
Strange Fruit (international) Founders Michael Timmins, Brett Wickens Albums Whites Off Earth Now!!, Waltz Across America, Open, Trinity Revisited, The Kennedy Suite Profiles | ||
Latent Recordings is a Canadian independent record label founded in 1981. The label was dormant during the 1990s and early 2000s while the Cowboy Junkies were signed to an American record label, but began to release independently produced albums in the mid-2000s. By the late 2000s, the label had a website selling downloads and CDs of its artists music catalogs.
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History
The label was formed in London by Michael Timmins, Alan Anton, Geoff Railton, and Brett Wickens to produce and distribute their music. After their first three releases, they returned to Canada, where Timmins and Anton formed Cowboy Junkies with Timmins’ siblings Margo and Pete.
In Toronto, the label distributed Cowboy Junkies' first two albums before the band signed with RCA, which rereleased The Trinity Session internationally. For the next few years the label's releases were sporadic offerings produced by Michael Timmins and/or Peter Moore.
After Cowboy Junkies was released from their record contract—by then with Geffen Records— following their 1998 album Miles From Our Home, they revived Latent Recordings and have released their subsequent albums on that label in Canada. The records have been licensed to other independent labels, such as Zoë Records in the United States and Strange Fruit Records in the UK, for international release.
In recent years, the label has again become active in releasing work by other artists as well, including Jim Bryson, Ivy Mairi, Finlayson/Maize, Jerry Leger, Lee Harvey Osmond and Huron.
Catalogue
Most of Latent Recordings releases have been numbered, with the number preceded by “LATEX” (#s 1–5, V14), or “LATEX CD” (#s >5).