History
Vulpiano Records was launched in November 2009 by synth musician Marilyn Roxie, initially as a place to house unsigned and independent artists they had gotten to know from networking on Last.fm and submissions to Roxie’s music blog A Future in Noise. These artists got on board with Roxie’s vision of a free music collective. The music is licensed under Creative Commons to encourage sharing of this fabulous music with friends and through blogs and podcasts.
“Vulpiano” was spotted in a name book listing the word as having the Latin meaning of “sly as a fox”. Roxie has long felt a connection to foxes as a sort of “power animal” and felt that a name imbued with a fox meaning may add luck to the endeavor of starting a netlabel. The additional appearance of “piano” within the word resonates with Roxie being a keyboardist. In June 2011, Solange Gularte of Natural Snow Buildings designed a logo of a fox curled up (one eye shut, one eye open) for the label.
Top-listened to artists on the label as of early 2012 according to Last.fm scrobbles are Natural Snow Buildings, Fire Island Pines, and Anton Rothschild.
Vulpiano Records Artists:
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