Artists
The first business aim of Discipline Global Mobile is "to help bring music into the world which would otherwise be unlikely" to be released unless "under conditions prejudicial to the music and/or musicians". DGM has released music by King Crimson, Robert Fripp, and other artists. DGM's catalog features more than a hundred releases by King Crimson, including remastered albums with bonus tracks and DVDs with archival footage. Fripp's DGM catalog has been called "vast".
Other DGM albums feature rock and jazz music, often of an experimental type. Adrian Belew, the lead singer and co-lead guitarist of King Crimson, has released several albums with DGM. Artists who had played with Fripp during the 1970s, such as Peter Hammill and Bill Nelson, have released DGM albums. Experimental albums have also been released by John Paul Jones; Jones and DGM worked without a written contract. DGM also released an album by The Rosenbergs, who retained control of their master recordings and received DGM funding for touring and promoting their album, according to band-member Evan Silverman. The Rosenbergs had been in public conflict with their previous commercial label, Universal Records, which had demanded control of the band's domain name.
DGM releases music by Robert Fripp and The League of Crafty Guitarists (RFLCG), a performance ensemble of students from his Guitar Craft courses. The Crafty Guitarists played acoustic Ovation guitars; Fripp performed with either an Ovation Legend or an electric guitar. Crafty Guitarists Bert Lams, Paul Richards, and Hideyo Moriya formed the California Guitar Trio, which has released albums with DGM. The California Guitar Trio and a fourth Crafty Guitarist, Trey Gunn, became the supporting members of another DGM recording artist, the Robert Fripp String Quintet (RFSQ). In the RFSQ, the California Guitar Trio played acoustic guitars (Richards doubled on a fuzz EBow guitar), Gunn played a Chapman Stick, and Fripp played electric guitar and "Frippertronics" (soundscapes). Trey Gunn (along with drummer Pat Mastelotto) joined King Crimson in 1999.
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