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YO,

Your name's in your profile :). I have the Agharta on vinyl, just will upgrade it to CD at some point I think. Michel's solo album was also on the JAM label, called "Esprit des Vents". That is a pretty cool one, Miroslav Vitous plays on it too. I think those are the only two albums on the JAM label, don't think much of that type of music was selling at that point.

Regards,
Sean

Alain,

Cool! Well I'm glad it's out on CD and I will have to pick up a copy.

Regards,
Sean

Cool, where did you pick it up? Andre wanted to work with us but we were not able to schedule it fast enough I think.

Regards,
Sean / ProgQuebec

Our first September release will be an archive by Maneige, which I posted out in the main prog forum in the "Maneige and Conventum" thread. We'll have two more to announce pretty soon :).

Regards,
Sean

L'O.S. and Laferrière are not household name,but I believe Morse Code and Sloche would sell like hot cakes,so would some Octobre and Vos Voisins.

For Aut'Chose,it's Ronald McGregor who told me so,he's the band's webmaster.

Salut.

The Rock

What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop"

The Rock wrote:

Funny thing,I was in a local record shop this afternoon,and was talking with other like minded prog freaks,and most of us already own all of the mezzo catalogue.

Most of us basically shared the same opinion;that is, a little frustration with so many great quebec titles not out yet,while some others,(Maniege,Conventum,Pollen) could have waited a bit...

Probably out of selfishness,but nonetheless frustrating.

Fair enough, but then I would expect that our non-Mezzo titles like Orchestre Sympathique and Yves Laferriere should sell more in Quebec than the Mezzos, but they do not. So I don't know what to say.

The Rock wrote:

Another phenomenon I 've noticed lately,a lot of Mezzo CDs finding their way into used record shops for less than 10$ each.That could hurt the sales of your editions,I guess.

Yeah, always a risk.

The Rock wrote:

I know Aut'chose have contacted you to put out their 3 70's albums but you guys didn't want to put out their third(cauchmar américain),and wanted to put out a compilation instead.Why?

These would have done good I guess.\
And Francoeur has mint,still wrapped copies of those lps,ready for re-issue!

Where did you get this info? It is news to me.

Regards,
Sean / ProgQuebec

The Rock wrote:

Still,I think that some albums needed re-issuing much sooner than those 5 already out on cd re-re-iisues.

The list is just endless,and what do we get instead?

3 Maneige albums that have been out for over a decade on cd,while those who badly needed reissing are still left un issued(the first couple and the later ones)

I can tell you without doubt there is greater demand for the middle period of Maneige than for the final period. The early studio stuff is gated by EMI. We plan to do it all in time.

The Rock wrote:

Both Conventums-no emergency in re-re-issuing them IMHO

The early response to these has been quite good though.

The Rock wrote:

Pollen-dito,the kozzak edition was just fine

Sure, if you already had it, it was fine. The fact is that Pollen is our best international seller. If it didn't need to be done urgently it would be a weak seller. The ones that have been previously on CD (which were all long unavailable by the time we came along) have been among our best sellers. It is important to distinguish between what you personally want and what the market wants. Of course I'd like to do stuff that has not been on CD at all because I have all the Kozak catalog already. But the market is not my personal collection.

The Rock wrote:

Now that you're done with all the Kozak/Mezo catalogue,let's hope we'll see some albums that are crying for re-issuing like those I've listed and then some....

You guys are doing a fine job,but I don't think those 5 were that urgent.

Fair enough. I am familliar with all the albums you listed and we have plans towards most of them. As I'm sure you know it's not simply a question of saying "Well I like these ones the best so we'll do those.". That's what Tachika can do but for us it's not that simple. We have to consider:

* Who has the rights? Will they work with us?

* Can we track down the artists? Will they work with us?

* Where are the tapes? If they're missing or destroyed, do we do it from vinyl or do we wait to find the tapes?

* How expensive is this to put out? For a label of our size, to put out nine in a year, some have to be less expensive than others to do.

* How will this sell in Quebec?

* How will this sell internationally?

The Rock wrote:

On the other hand it's nice to see Contraction,VEBB,Toubabou,Orchestre Sympatique,Laferière and Kascinsky finally out on cd.

Yes, and I have to say for many of these the sales prospects are far from certain. Some of the releases we have done like Pollen have allowed us to fund a release like OS or Laffy that, as much as I like them, do not get a lot of attention around the Internet.

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These won't happen yet, as the later two albums have less commercial potential and the first has not sold strongly enough at this point to make doing the next two a good idea right away.

Regards,
Sean / ProgQuebec

smcfee wrote:

The Rock wrote:

Despite the fact that these aren't legitimate and unofficial,they do sound amazingly good,almost like if they were done from the master tapes.

Don't worry, they're not :).

Regards,
Sean / ProgQuebec

I know,but they do sound good nevertheless.

What's gonna come out of my mouth is gonna come out of my soul."Skip Prokop"

The Rock wrote:

Now this is all very nice,but they should stop reissuing stuff that's already been released on CD

Some could not get them the first time though!

Regards,
Sean / ProgQuebec

sorry i haven t see sloche but they are make in japenesse pressing cds

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