Open Century Music is a record label focused on blues. Our goal is to recreate the energetic spirit of the small, regional labels that captured the formative years of the blues in the 20th century, while leveraging the ability to reach blues fans in the 21st through the open paths enabled by the web. Originally founded by Brian Lee in 1999 as Blues Orbiter Music, the label released two albums by Brian's band the Blues Orbiters: "Blast Off" and "Falling Leaves". As the band evolved to become today's Brian Lee & the Orbiters and the Brian Lee Trio, the label expanded it's mission and was renamed Open Century Music to reflect it's new, broader direction. The first OCM release is the new Brian Lee & the Orbiters album "Identity Theft". Identity Theft has won the Washington Blues Society 2012 "Best of the Blues" award for Best Recording, and is actively being promoted to national radio in concert with Todd Glazer productions. It hit the Living Blues magazine world radio charts at #15 for February 2012. The new album is a vehicle to expand the market footprint of both band and label, and there's more on the way. While the musical direction is traditional, the record label concept is unconventional. With in-house recording, publishing, and graphics skills, the vision for Open Century Music is to be a cooperative conduit to help musicians the label believes in to get their music recorded, published, and distributed in a shared risk approach.
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Brian Lee & the Orbiters' new "Identity Theft" album has charted at #15 in the Living Blues Radio Charts for world-wide blues radio airplay for Feb 2012! |
