The 62nd Gramophone Company was founded in 2019 by Alan Davies, Barry Lamb and William Hayter initially to deliver the album "Miniatures 2020", which served as 40th anniversary honouring of Morgan Fishers "Miniatures" LP which brought together an eclectic pool of artists to deliver a collection of one minute masterpieces.
In 2025 it delivered a 50th anniversary celebration of Pink Floyd's mythical abandoned album "Household Objects" and has subsequently morphed into a community project, born from a desire to explore more conceptual, art-based, and collaborative projects than a standard label structure typically allows.
Its name deliberately echoes the early era of recorded sound—the age of the Gramophone Company and the tactile ritual of listening—while the “62nd” element injects a sense of playful myth-making, suggesting a fictional lineage rather than a literal historical connection (or a word play on 60 seconds, connecting the Miniatures origin). It positions the imprint as something parallel to the mainstream history of recorded music: familiar, yet entirely its own invention.
The label serves as a home for projects that require a curatorial, archival, and conceptual framework, rather than simply a distribution channel. The first major initiative, Miniatures 2020, set the tone: a large-scale collaborative work drawing on cassette-culture influences, avant-garde traditions, and the spirit of independent experimentation from the 1970s onward.
From there, The 62nd Gramophone Company has now become an umbrella for:
More to come...
In 2025 it delivered a 50th anniversary celebration of Pink Floyd's mythical abandoned album "Household Objects" and has subsequently morphed into a community project, born from a desire to explore more conceptual, art-based, and collaborative projects than a standard label structure typically allows.
Its name deliberately echoes the early era of recorded sound—the age of the Gramophone Company and the tactile ritual of listening—while the “62nd” element injects a sense of playful myth-making, suggesting a fictional lineage rather than a literal historical connection (or a word play on 60 seconds, connecting the Miniatures origin). It positions the imprint as something parallel to the mainstream history of recorded music: familiar, yet entirely its own invention.
The label serves as a home for projects that require a curatorial, archival, and conceptual framework, rather than simply a distribution channel. The first major initiative, Miniatures 2020, set the tone: a large-scale collaborative work drawing on cassette-culture influences, avant-garde traditions, and the spirit of independent experimentation from the 1970s onward.
From there, The 62nd Gramophone Company has now become an umbrella for:
- Art-rock and avant-garde collaborations
- Concept-album reconstructions and reimaginings
- Projects involving cult, underground, and experimental musicians
- Limited editions, often with distinctive visual and historical aesthetics
- Releases that intentionally blur the lines between music, art, history, and storytelling
More to come...