{{short description|French independent record label}} {{for|the film production company|Rogue Arts}} {{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}} {{Infobox record label <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Music --> | name = RogueArt | image = RogueArt logo.svg | founded = {{start date|2005}} | founder = Michel Dorbon | distributor = | genre = Jazz, avant-garde jazz, improvisation | country = France | location = Paris | website = {{URL|roguart.com}} }}
'''RogueArt''' (also written '''Rogueart''' and '''Rogue Art''') is a French independent record label based in Paris. It was founded by record producer Michel Dorbon in 2005 and specialises in jazz and improvised music.
==History== RogueArt was founded by record producer Michel Dorbon in 2005, and its first release was the album, ''Bindu'' by jazz percussionist Hamid Drake.<ref name=Gottschalk/>
In the 1960s and 1970s, Dorbon listened to rock groups like Cream, Soft Machine and Henry Cow because of their use of improvisation. His first exposure to free jazz was at an Archie Shepp concert in the 1970s. His interest in this type of jazz led him to start working for various record labels. In the late 1990s he began producing records for Bleu Regard, a French record label. After several years, Dorbon decided he wanted more control of the production process, and in 2005, he established his own record label, RogueArt in Paris.<ref name=Gottschalk/>
[[File:Bindu cover.jpg|thumb|210px|right|''Bindu'' by Hamid Drake, RogueArt's first release, showing the label's distinctive cover design]]
Dorbon said {{"'}}RogueArt' is a natural name for a label that provides shelter for music that is outside the mainstream."<ref name=Gottschalk/> He wanted the RogueArt covers to be "original, sober, noticeable and beautiful", and asked artist {{ill|Max Schoendorff|fr}} for ideas. Schoendorff proposed a design of a white cover with no images or pictures, plain red and black text in the middle, and red and black stripes on the left and right borders. Dorbon accepted the design without any changes and used it for all RogueArt's releases.<ref name=Gottschalk/><ref name=Bloch/>
RogueArt features some European musicians, but mostly American artists because of Dorbon's "love for American, and particularly New York, jazz".<ref name=Gottschalk/> {{As of|2020|12}} RogueArt had released over 100 albums.<ref name=Discogs/> Included in their catalogue is ''Passages'' (2012), a concept album by cellist Didier Petit and writer Alexandre Pierrepont. It was made during a 2011 trip across America during which they stopped at Los Angeles, Woodstock, Chicago and New York City to improvise and record with local musicians, including Drake, Gerald Cleaver, Marilyn Crispell, Nicole Mitchell and Michael Zerang. Pierrepont's contribution was a booklet of texts describing their trip and musical encounters.<ref name=Bloch/>
In addition to audio releases, RogueArt has also published several books, including ''Conversations'', ''Conversations II'' and ''Conversations III'' by free jazz double bassist William Parker. The three volumes comprise photographs and interviews conducted by Parker.<ref name=RogueArt-Conversations/> All RogueArt books have the same white covers with red and black text as their albums.
==See also== *Lists of record labels
==References== <references>
<ref name=Gottschalk>{{cite web |last=Gottschalk |first=Kurt |url=https://www.allaboutjazz.com/rogueart-by-kurt-gottschalk.php |title=RogueArt |website=All About Jazz |date=24 July 2008 |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=Bloch>{{cite web |last=Bloch |first=Armel |url=https://www.culturejazz.fr/spip.php?article2080 |title=Labels de France : RogueArt |website=CultureJazz |language=fr |date=5 March 2013 |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=Discogs>{{cite web |url=https://www.discogs.com/label/54856-Rogueart |title=Rogueart |website=Discogs |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name=RogueArt-Conversations>{{cite web |url=https://roguart.com/product/conversations-conversations-ii-conversations-iii/136 |title=Conversations, Conversations II Conversations III by William Parker |website=RogueArt |access-date=28 January 2021}}</ref>
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==External links== {{Commons category|Music album covers by RogueArt}} *[https://roguart.com/ RogueArt homepage] *[https://roguart.com/artists RogueArt artists] *{{Discogs label|Rogueart}}
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