Fred Gales

Fred Gales is an anthropologist, ethnomusicologist and radio maker who founded Sound Reporters, an Amsterdam label and production company for ethnomusicology, sound art and musical archaeology active since the 1980s. Several of his releases were made with Walter Maioli. Gales and Maioli composed Javakade 8485 from sounds recorded at the End of the World and its surroundings in Amsterdam in 1984 and 1985. Sound Reporters issued it on tape, and Villa Lontana Records in Rome later edited it for its first vinyl release.