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The aim is to draw attention to music from independent record labels across the continent (Photo: realSMILEY)

Indie music sector launches European prize

Norwegian lo-fi, Dutch klezmer and Czech jazz on independent record labels - bands and musicians rarely bestowed with such commercially oriented and anglo-obsessed accolades as the Grammys or the Brits - now have a pan-European music award, modelled on the UK's Mercury Prize, to call their own.

Impala, the Brussels-based European Independent Music Companies Association, on Wednesday (16 February) announced its shorlist of albums by 21 artists for the inaugural European independent music...

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The aim is to draw attention to music from independent record labels across the continent (Photo: realSMILEY)

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