ECM Records
 ECM (Edition of Contemporary Music) is a record label founded in Munich Germany in 1969 by Manfred Eicher. While ECM is best known for jazz music the label has released a wide variety of recordings and ECM's artists often refuse to acknowledge boundaries between genres. ECM's motto is the Most Beautiful Sound Next to Silence taken from a 1971 review of ECM releases in CODA a Canadian jazz magazine.The label was distributed in the USA by Warner Bros.