Never, not even like a hundred dollars or something. Tom Rapp of the band Pearls Before Swine claimed that: "We never got any money from ESP. The label's motto is "The artists alone decide what you will hear." īernard Stollman faced allegations of not paying royalties to the artists that were signed to ESP-Disk. ESP also released recordings by uncommercial underground rock acts including the Fugs, The Godz and Pearls Before Swine. Early releases included albums by Paul Bley, Pharoah Sanders and Sun Ra. Though it originally existed to release Esperanto-based music, beginning with its second release (Albert Ayler's Spiritual Unity), ESP became the most important exponent of what is commonly referred to as free jazz. American record company and label ESP-Diskįree jazz, free improvisation, folk rock, underground rockĮSP-Disk is a New York-based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.
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