Did you ever have that uncanny sensation that there just must be something even though you know perfectly well it isn't? That is broadly speaking what the medical term "phantom limb" describes, the feeling that a missing body part is still there and functional. When James Vella came across it in a paper by the neuroscientist Vilayanur Subramanian Ramachandran, he knew that he had found the perfect name for his new project. "I had spent so long working for bigger labels, coming to understand the mechanics of releasing at that level, but that time was spent on other creatives' wishes and desires," he explains. ""The motivation, having worked in independent music for some years, was to fulfil my own creative vision." And thus, out of the desire to create something that just wasn't there, he founded the Phantom Limb label in 2017.
Kristoffer Cornils
Berlin
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