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Does anyone else like this French reissue label, which seems to do a lot of different stuff, but specializes, as far as I can tell, in old French and Latin American music? I have a few that I like a lot, but I'm really happy with the latest one I got, Latin American Divas, Brésil, Mexique, Argentine, Cuba: 1926-1954

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually there's no "American" in the title, it's just Latin Divas Brésil, Mexique, Argentine, Cuba 1926-1954

― k/l (Ken L), Monday, 11 July 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I like them a lot. They do a lot of early blues and country stuff as well. Their Rock N Roll series (1927-45 and then one for each year after, IIRC) is pretty cool, too.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Monday, 11 July 2005 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I really want to get the one called Choro Samba Frevo

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

they have great collections, as matos says, but their remastering is way below the level of jsp or any of the major american reissue labels.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

but some of the pre-war "world music" stuff is hard or impossible to find elsewhere. and the low-fi aspect can be kind of charming i'll admit.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

That's pretty much what I am getting from them.

― k/l (Ken L), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

go for it!

i expected these things to be cheaper in france, but they weren't. boo.

they have a set of quebecois country music which is something to behold.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:46 (twenty-one years ago)

although it's actually a reissue of the same thing on a different label which appears to have been pressed in a run of about 100 one of which i found at a used bookstore in montreal. it has a neat cover illustration.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

i have since found about 5 lps of old quebecois country music. most of it isn't terribly interesting except to hear french-canadian variations on familiar country-music tropes. although willie lamothe (sp?) is kind of awesome, and i like marcel martel's (sp?) train songs. he has a lot of them.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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