Saydisc
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Saydisc, launched in 1965 by Gef Lucena[1], is an independent British record company. Early records were by Bristolian singers, including the first record release by Fred Wedlock[2], along with records of mechanical music, transcriptions from old sound carriers, and church bells. In the 1970s it also specialised in barbershop and spoken word, adding world music in the 1980s[3], including field recordings made by David Fanshawe[4]. Many now household names recorded for Saydisc, including Kenneth Williams (an LP of Parlour Poetry), Johnny Morris (an Animal Magic tie-in about a sealion[5]), Maddy Prior (with the Carnival Band), Lucie Skeaping (with the Burning Bush) along with Kathryn Tickell's first album.
The Village Thing sub-label was set up in 1970 by Ian A. Anderson, John Turner and Gef Lucena to release records by (mostly) British folk musicians, and it has become known in later years as an important 'acid folk' or psych folk' label[6]. Prior to this, the Matchbox label (and the later Flyright-Matchbox and Matchbox Bluesmaster offshoots) had been formed to reissue classic pre-war American blues[7]. The Matchbox Bluesmaster series included extensive sleeve notes by noted blues authority, Paul Oliver. In the early years, Saydisc also contract-pressed records for small, independent blues and jazz labels, including Pete Moody's Sunflower label[8], and Ted Griffiths and Trevor Huyton's Kokomo[9] and Highway 51[10] labels. It also acted as UK manufacturer and distributor for the Austrian Roots[11] label and the American Ahura Mazda[12] label.
The Amon Ra sub-label, set up in 1973, focussed on chamber music played on original instruments[13] and later aligned itself with the Finchcocks collection of historic keyboards and related musicians, releasing early records by such now well-known ensembles as Fretwork (Amon Ra released the group's first CD, In Nomine in 1987, an event that the group celebrated in 2018 with the issue of In Nomine II[14]).
The label was wound down in 2001, but resurrected when it became technically possible for distributors, Wyastone/Nimbus, to manufacture short-run and one-off CD pressings[15], meaning that deleted titles could be reinstated and pressed on demand.
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- ↑ Not attributed. "Saydisc". Seventies Sevens. Retrieved 15 February 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "Fred Wedlock". 45cat. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "Saydisc - Vinyl Albums - Label Discography". 45worlds. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "Fanshawe Discography". Fanshawe One World Music. Retrieved 6 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "Johnny Morris". 45cat. Retrieved 5 March 2022.
- ↑ Anderson, Ian A. (18 September 2020). "Podwireless Village Thing 50th". Podwireless: Local Music From Out There. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wirz, Stefan. "Matchbox Bluesmaster series discography". Wirz' American Music. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Moody, Pete (December 1988). "Matchbox Days". British Blues Review. 5: 16–17.
- ↑ Wirz, Stefan. "Kokomo Records discography". Wirz' American Music. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wirz, Stefan. "Highway 51 Records discography". Wirz' American Music. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wirz', Stefan. "Roots Records discography". Wirz' American Music. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wirz, Stefan. "Ahura Mazda discography". Wirz' American Music. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "Amon Ra". Discogs. Retrieved 30 December 2021. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Wilson, Brian. "In Nomine II". MusicWeb International. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
|url-status=ignored (help) - ↑ Not attributed. "CD/DVD Duplication & Replication". Wyastone Estate Limited. Retrieved 5 March 2022. Unknown parameter
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