About

Our mission is to allow the music industry to work for the common musician. We connect musicians with engineers and each other, and provide the space and equipment to create. We aim to be part of a music industry that gives power to the musicians and consumers, not a small set of record label middlemen and executives.

In the dinosaur days of the music industry, these executives and middlemen were extraordinary, powerful enough to shoot a fledgeling singer into international pop stardom. However, these extraordinary middlemen were generally extraordinary only in the depths of their well-connected rolodexes, flush with the heavy-hitters at the heads of radio stations and media conglomerates. They pampered their partners and gave the bill to the musicians who provided their product.

But oh, how these dinosaurs flail at the sight of an incoming asteroid. The internet upended the music industry, and in a panic of losing their stranglehold on music, they flailed. And in their wild, politically influential flailing, they have inflicted deep wounds in our privacy and speech, in the interest of propping up their dying business model. 

And it's a damn shame. Because music is so damn beautiful.

We've been making music for millennia and we didn't need an industry to do it. It is innately human, as essential as the rhythmic expansions and contractions of our heart and lungs.

That is the foundation on which Ursa Polaris Records stands. We reject the idea of a label as a barrier between music and the people who want to hear it. We don't want to trample your creativity. We don't want to hoard intellectual property. All we want to do is help you make the music you want.

about the name:

Ursa Polaris (proper noun)

ursa f ‎(genitive ursae); (masc. ursus)

1. a she-bear, female bear

polāris m, f ‎(neuter polāre); 

1. (Late Latin) Of or pertaining to the poles (northern and southern).

Ursa Minor

1. (astronomy) A circumpolar constellation of the northern sky, said to resemble a bear. It includes the northern pole star Polaris