Below is a list of contact information for world music labels.
Monterey Bay Area Sources
Greater Bay Area Sources
Interesting web sites related to world music
Publications related to folk and/or world music
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Aga Rhythm Records
lisegeorge@earthlink.net
Tel. (510) 525-4342
AGFB Productions (I Muvrini)
Route D'Orezza
20213 Folelli France
Tel. 011 33 4 95 36 81 89
Fax: 011 33 4 95 59 81 70
http://www.muvrini.com/
i.muvrini@wanadoo.fr
Allegro Music
http://www.allegro-music.com
Alula Records
P.O. Box 62043
Durham, NC 27715-2043
Tel: 1 800 932-5852
alulasales@aol.com
http://www.alula.com/
AlmaSud (Portuguese music)
http://www.almasud.com/
jmarques@almasud.com
Al Sur
Média 7
15, rue des Goulvents
92000 Nanterre
France
Amigo Records (Swedish)
http://www.amigo.se
Amiata Records
http://www.amiatamedia.com
Aniar Records
P.O. Box 210481
San Francisco, CA 94121
http://www.aniar.com
Appleseed Records
P.O. Box 2593
West Chester, PA 19380
folkradicl@aol.com
http://www.appleseedrec.com
ARC Music US
P.O. Box 2453
Clearwater, FL 34617
http://www.arcmusic.co.uk
Arion Records
36 Avenue Hoche
75008 Paris
info@arion-music.com
Ark 21 Records
14724 Ventura Blvd
Penthouse Suite
Sherman Oaks, CA 91403
Tel. (818) 461-1700
Fax (818) 461-1745
http://www.ark21.com/arkmain.htm
Arco Iris (distributed by Harmonia Mundi in this country)
5 Passage Saint-Sébastien
75011 Paris France
iris@mservices.com
http://www.mservices.com/iris/
| Arhoolie 10341 San Pablo Ave El Cerrito, CA 94530 Fax (510) 525-482 Tel. (510) 525-2129 http://www.arhoolie.com mail@arhoolie.com
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Auvidis
Productions Sunset France
96, rue du Château
92100 Boulogne
France
Tel. 0ll 33 1 46 03 32 25
Fax 0ll 33 l 48 25 97 70
Azalea City Recordings
Tel. (301) 588-0326
azalea@beartrack.com
Batish's Music Institute Recording Enterprise
1310 Mission Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
Tel: (831) 423-1699 or 1-800-RAG-MALA
Fax: (831) 423-5172
http://batish.com/ & http://RagaNet.com/
Bembé Records
P.O. Box 1730
Redway, CA 95560
http://www.bembe.com/
bembe@bembe.com
Biber Records
Vollton Musikverlag GmbH & Co. KG
Leimbachweg 11
D-79283 Bollschweil
Germany
http://www.vollton.com/EnglishIndex.htm
music@vollton.com
Blue Jackel Entertainment
322 Hicksville Rd.
Bethpage, NY 11714
Tel: (800) 856-6021
Fax: (516) 932-1608
http://www.bluejackel.com
bluejackel@earthlink.net
BMG
1540 Broadway
New York, NY 10036-4098
http://www.bmgstudios.de/
Boheme Music
(Music from Russia--classical, jazz, traditional)
http://www.bohememusic.com/
Brambus Records
P.O. Box 44
Ch - 7000 Chur, Switzerland
http://songs.com/brambus/index.html/
brambus@access.ch
Buda Records
188, Boulevard Voltaire
75011 Paris, France
http://www.budamusique.com
buda@imaginet.fr
Candela Records is a division of
Tinder Records
Canyon Records (Native American)
4143 North 16th St. Suite 6
Phoenix, AZ 8501
http://www.canyonrecords.com/
Caprice Records
Sveriges Radio P2
Stockholm Sweden
http://www.srk.se/CAPRICE/captrice.htm
capriceinfo@srk.se
Carlee Records
628 East 9th St. #3D
New York, NY 10009
Tel. (212) 254 0802
Celestial Harmonies
P.O. Box 30122
Tucson, AZ 85751
http://www.harmonies.com/
Celluloid (also Mélodie)
180 Varick St.
New York, NY 10014
http://www.afromix.org/disco/labels/celluloid/index.en.html
or
50, rue Stendhal
75020 Paris
France
http://www.melodie.fr/page/tbcel.html
http://www.melodie.fr/
Cielozero Associazione Culturale
Teatro Del Sole (Music of Sicily and Southern Italy)
Via Onorato 26
90139 Palermo Sicily Italy
http://users.libero.it/trad-arr/cielozero.html/
cielzero@tin.it
CNI and Compagnia Nuove Indye (Italian music--website is in Italian, French, and English)
via Luigi Luciani 7
00197 Roma, Italy
http://www.cnimusic.it/
staff@cnimusic.it
Compass Records
117 30th Ave. South
Nashville TN 37212
Tel. (800) 757-2277
Fax (615) 320 7378
info@compassrecords.com
http://www.compassrecords.com
Corn Beans & Squash
Thrush Records
928 Broadway Suite 405
New York, NY 10010
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CramWorld Discs/Crammed Discs
43 rue General Patton
1050 Brussels, Belgium
Fax 011 32 2 648 83 69
http://www.crammed.be/craworld
Culburnie Records
P.O. Box 3304
Glasgow G66 2BN Scotland
or
P. O. Box 219
Nevada City, CA 95959
http://www.culburnie.com/
Dancing Cat Records
Dept. SK
P.O. Box 639
Santa Cruz, Ca 95061
http://www.dancingcat.com
Descarga Latin Music Catalog
328 Flatbush Ave. Ste 180
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Tel: (800) 3772647
Fax: (718) 693-1316
descarga@aol.com
Diaphonica Productions (Kitka)
120l Martin Luther King Jr. Way
Oakland, Ca 94612
Tel. (510) 444-0323
Discos Fuentos
http://www.discosfuentes.com
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Drone Music (Swedish)
http://www.drone.se/index.html
Ellipsis Arts
20 Lumber Rd.
Roslyn, NY 11576
elliarts@aol.com
EMI
(Division of Capitol Records)
Hollywood and Vine
Hollywood, CA
EPM Musique
(Division of Buda Records)
E. Thomas
145 Main St.
Northampton, MA 01060
Tel. (413) 586-3095
Felmay Records (Italy)
Corso Moncalieri 331
10133 Torino
Italy
Tel. & fax ++39 - 011 - 6614 306
http://www.felmay.it
info@felmay.it
Folk Legacy
P. O. Box 1148
Sharon, CT 06069
http://www.folklegacy.com/
Fonit-Cetra
http://www.afi.mi.it/associati/aficli39.html
fonitmm@tin.it
FonoAstur (Spain--music from Asturias, website in Spanish)
http://www.fonoastur.com
Fono Records Ltd.
1116 Budapest
Sztregova u.3 Hungary
http://www.c3.hu/~fono/
fono@mail.c3.hu
slaszlo@e77.hu
FM Records S.A.
7 Knossou St.
11146 Galatsi
Athens Greece
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/1574/fmrec.html
Friends of LeLe Records (Voluta Vox)
P. O. Box 7523
Santa Cruz, Ca 95061
annecl@surfnetusa.com
Frozen Chosen Productions (Klezmer)
2018 Kenwood Drive West
Maplewood MN 55117-2226
http://www.MinnesotaKlezmer.com
klezmer@frozenchosen.com
Gael-Linn
26 Merrion Sq.
Dublin 2, Ireland
http://www.gael-linn.ie/
Gallo Records (African music)
http://www.gallo.co.za
Gema Records
http://www.demon.co.uk/gemarecords/gemcat.html
245 West 29th St.
New York, NY 10001
Tel: (212) 695-6024
Fax: (212) 695-6025
Globe Style
48-50 Steele Rd.
London NW 10 7AS
Great Britain
http://www.acerecords.co.uk/labels/globlabel.html
Golden Horn Records
P.O. Box 5776
Walnut Creek, CA 94596, U.S.A.
Tel:1-800-969-9455
Tel:1-925-930-7184
Fax: 1-925-938-8447
http://www.goldenhorn.com/
info/music@goldenhorn.com
Grappa Records
Norway
grappa@sn.no
Greek Video, Records & Tapes, Inc. (not a label; but a distributor. Catalog available)
25-50 31st. Street
Astoria, NY 11102-1748
Tel. (718) 932-8400
Fax. (718) 932-4911
http://www.greekmusic.com/
Green Linnet
43 Beaver Brook Rd.
Danbury, CT 06810
grnlinnet@aol.com
http://www.greenlinnet.com
Greentrax Records
Cockenzie Business Centre
Cockenzie, East Lotian
EH32 OHL3
Scotland
http://members.aol.com/greentrax/cat1.htm
Hannibal (see Rykodisc)
Harmonia Mundi (distributes Auvidis and many other French labels in this country)
2037 Granville Ave.
Los Angeles, Ca 90025-6103
http://www.harmoniamundi.com
Hearts of Space
P. O. Box 31321
San Francisco, CA 94131
http://www.hos.com/
Hemisphere Records ( division of Metro Blue)
Henry Street Records (division of Rounder)
http://www.rounder.com/rounder/profiles/hstr.html
Heritage Records
(also Interstate Music Ltd.)
P. O. Box #74
Crawley
West Suxx RHll 0LX
England
Hugo Media Group (Music from China, traditional, modern, classical)
P. O. Box 450890
Cleveland OH 44145
http://www.hugocd.com
info@hugomedia.com
Institut du Monde Arabe
1, rue des FossésSaintBernard
75236 Paris cedex 05
Tél. 01 40 51 38 38
Fax 01 43 54 76 45
http://www.imarabe.org/accueil_v4.html
Johanson & Vennad Ltd (music from Estonia)
Vene 14
10123 Tallinn, Estonia
http://www.johanson.ee
mart@johanson.ee
JVC
3800 Barham Blvd. Suite 305
Los Angeles, CA 90068
K617 France
http://www.k617.com/pages_fr/somm.htm
Lionel.Lissot@wanadoo.fr
Kalan Muzik Yapim (Turkish)
http://www.kalan.com
Keltia Musique
1, place au Beurre
2900 Quimper France
Keltia@eurobretagne.fr
http://www.keltiamusique.com/
Kereshmeh Records (Persian music)
12021 Wilshire Blvd. #420
Los Angeles, CA 90025
Tel: (310) 470-5177
Fax: (310) 470-5117
http://wwwpersianmusic.com/
comments@kereshmeh.com
Knitting Factory Records
74 Leonard St.
New York, NY 10013
Tel: (212) 219-3006
Fax: (212) 219-3401
http://www.knittingfactory.com
Koch World
http://www.kochint.com/
Krywanoga Productions (San Francisco Klezmer Experience)
3832 Cerrito Ave.
Oakland, Ca 946ll
Tel: (510) 658-4528
Krywanoga@jps.net
Kuntzertu (Sardinian label)
http://www.kuntzertu.com/
Le Chant du Monde is distributed by Harmonia Mundi
L'empreinte Digitale (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
Domaine de la Garde
13510 Eguilles
Marseilles France
Lion Harp Music
205 Ellsworth St.
San Francisco, CA 94110
lionharp@sirius.com
http://www.lionharp.com/
Lirio Azul Productions
P.O. Box 2125
El Cerrito, CA 94530
http://www.lirioazul.com
Long Distance
Directeurs :Alain Weber et Armand Amar
8, passage de la Bonne Graine
75011 Paris
lgdartis@imaginet.fr
http://www.mcm.asso.fr/le_guide/structures/disques/long_distance.htm
Luaka Bop
Distributed by Warner Bros.
3300 Warner Blvd.
Burbank, CA 91505-4694
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019-6908
http://www.luakabop.com
Lyra/Musurgia Graeca (Greek Music)
4 Zalokosta str
106 71 Athens Greece
musurgia@lyra.gr
http://www.lyra.gr
lyra@otenet.gr
Lyrichord Discs
141 Perry St.
NY, NY 10014
http://www.lyrichord.com/
M A Recordings
4728 Park Encino Ln. #117
Encino Ca 91436
Tel: (818) 907-9996
Fax: (818) 783-49-38
http://www.marecordings.com/
info@marecordings.com
Magda (Middle Eastern music)
http://www.magda.co.il
| Mango (division of Island Records) 14 E. 4th St New York, NY 10012 |
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Metro Blue Records
1290 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10104
Milagro Acustico
I Storie Ò Cafè Di Lu Furestiero
(Self-produced demo c.d. in search of a label)
http://milagroacustico.virtualave.net
bobsalmieri@tiscalinet.it
Misty Rhythms (Savina)
P. O. Box 7126
Berkeley, CA 94707-0126
Savina's web site
http://www.sfo.com/~savina
Mondo Melodia
(see ARK 21)
Monitor Records (part of Smithsonian Institute, now)
Movieplay Portuguesa, S.A.
R. Alfredo Gulendo
1500 Lisboa Portugal
Multicultural Media
RR 3 Box 6655 Granger Rd
Barre, VT 05641
TEl. (802) 223-1294
Fax (802) 229-1834
http://www.multiculturalmedia.com
mcm@multiculturalmedia.com
Music and Words
P. O. Box 1160
3430 BD Nieuwegein
the Netherlands
http://www.musicwords.nl
Music Collection International (Music Club)
36-38 Caxton Way
Watford, Herts
WD1 8UF UK
Music of the World (also Nomad Records)
P.O. Box 3620
Chapel Hill, NC 27515
http://www.Musicoftheworld.com/index2.html
My Label (Kathy Chiavola)
PO Box 90629
Nashville, TN 37209
http://www.nashville.net/~kate/chiavola.html
Navras Records Ltd. (Indian music)
22 Sherwood Rd.
London NW4 1AD
United Kingdom
Music@navrasrecords.com
http://www.navrasrecords.com
Network/World Network
http://www.networkmedien.de
Nightwatch Recording
P. O. Box 721010
Berkeley, MI 48072
inngate@nightwatchrecording.com
http://www.nightwatchrecording.com
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Nonesuch Explorer Series
Divison of Warner Communications Inc.
75 Rockefeller Plaza
New York, NY 10019
or
9229 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles, Ca 90069
Norsk Ltd. (Imports Scandinavian music)
770 Linden Ave.
Boulder, CO 80304
Tel: 303 442-6452
Fax:303 443-7538
http://www.csd.net/~sodaling
Norsk@csd.net
North Pacific Music
P.O. Box 82627
Portland, OR 97282
Tel/fax: 1-800-757-7384
Northside (Scandinavian--division of Omnium Records)
530 North 3rd St.
Minneapolis, MN 5540l
http://www.noside.com
Ocora Records--distributed by Harmonia Mundi
Odd Shaped Case Records (The Toids, etc.)
P. O. Box 40478
San Francisco, CA 94140
http://www.oddshapedcase.com
http://www.toids.org
Olarin Musiikki Oy
P. O. Box 20
SF 02211 Espoo, Finland
Tel. 011 358 0 882334
Fax 011 358 0 8043469
Oliver Sudden Productions
P. O. Box 1332
Bonaventure, Montreal
Quebec, Canada HSA 1H1
http://www.oliversudden.com
Olivi Music
Jack Marchal
21 Rue de Pondichéry
75015 PARIS France
Tél.: 33 (1) 45 67 30 66
Fax : 33 (1) 43 06 30 26
Omnium Records
P. O. Box 7367
Minneapolis, MN 55407
http://www.omnium.com
tunes@omnium.com
Original Music
418 Lasher Road
Tivoli, NY 12583
Tel. (914) 756-2767
Fax (914) 756-20027
orimu@aol.com
Oriente Musik
Germany
http://www.oriente.de
oriente@bin.de
Palm Pictures
http://www.palmpictures.com
Pan Records
P.O. Box 155
2300 AD Leiden, Netherlands
Pars Video (Source for Middle Eastern Music)
http://www.parsvideo.com
Periferic Records
1114 Budapest
Bartók B. út. 59
Hungary
StereoPeriferic@mail.datanet.hu
Piranha Records
Piranha Musik
Bergmannstr. 102
10961 Berlin
Germany
Tel: +49 30 318 614 0
Fax: +49 30 318 614 10
records@piranha.de
http://www.piranha.de
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Primarily Acappella
P.O. Box D
San Anselmo, Ca 94979
Tel. (415) 455-8602
Fax (415) 459-1622
Putumayo Records
327 Lafayette St. 7th Floor
New York, NY 10019
http:/putumayo.com/
Qbadisc
P.O. Box 1256
Old Chelsea Station
New York, NY 10011
Qbadisc@interport.net
Radio Netherlands
P. O. Box 222
1200 JG Hilversum
The Netherlands
http://www.mw.nl
Real World
104 W. 29th St.
New York, NY 1001
http://www.realworld.co.uk/index/
realworld@caroline.com
Red Hot Productions
Fighting Aids Around The World
http://www.redhot.org
Red House Records
P.O. Box 4044
St. Paul, MN 55104
http://www.redhouserecords.com
Resistencia Records
San Isidro Labrador
19/28005
Madrid Spain
resistencia@interbook.net
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Rounder Records
1 Camp St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
info@rounder.com
http://www.rounder.com
Rykodisc (also Hannibal)
Earful/USA
c/o REP 9650 Newton Ave. South
Bloomington, MN 55431
Tel: 1-800-232-7385
http://www.rykodisc.com/
info@rykodisc.com
Sain Records
Lllandwrog, Caemarfon
Gwynedd, Wales LL54 5TG/ U.K.
http://www.sain.wales.com
Samsø Records America
http://www.sammsorecords.com
samsomusic@aol.com
Saydisc Records
Chipping Manor
The Chipping
Wotton-Under-Edge
Gloucestershire
GL12 7Ad England
7/8 Music Productions
Kutay Derin Kugay
1325 Vicente Street
San Francisco, CA 94116
Tel: 1 415 242-4085
http://www.sevenEighths.com
music@sevenEighths.com
Shanachie Records
37 E. Clinton St.
Newton, NJ 07860
http://www.shanachie.com
shanach@idt.net
Silex (distributed by Harmonia Mundi)
39, av. P.V. Couturier
94250 Gentilly
France
or
5, rue du Bac
4950 Waimes - Belgium
Silverwave Records
P.O. Box 7943
Boulder, CO 80306
Tel: 1-800 SIL-WAVE
http://www.silverwave.com/
info@silverwave.com
Smithsonian Folkways
Center for Folklife Programs and Cultural Studies
955 L'Enfant Plaza Suite 2600
Smithsonian Institution
Washington DC 20560
http://www.si.edu/organiza/offices/folklife/folkways/genrlist.htm
Snail Records
Comenius straat 67
1065 BJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel/Fax : + 31 20 40 80 931
info@snailrecords.com
http://www.snailrecords.com/
Sonodisc
85 Rue Fondary
75015 Paris, France
Sony Classical
550 Madison Ave.
New York, NY 10022-3211
http://www.sony.com
Sounds True
413 S. Arthur Ave.
Louisville, CO 80027
P.O. Box 8010
Boulder, CO 90306-5292
http://www.soundstrue.com/
Tel. (303) 665-3151
Fax (303) 665-5292
Sottosuono (Italian label)
Via Ariosto, 1/A - 70020
Bitritto (BA) Italy
http://www.sottosuono.net
mail@sottosuono.net
Fax +39 80 634771 -
Tel. +39 80 634772
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Syncoop Produkties (Hungarian source & many other countries)
Slot Assulmburgpad 54
3123 RR Schiedam, The Netherlands
Tel. 011 31 10-4707439
Fax 011 31 10-4716701
http://www.musictrade.com/syncoop
Syncoop@pi.net
Teatro Del Sole (Music of Sicily and Southern Italy)
Cielozero Associazione Culturale
Via Onorato 26
90139 Palermo Sicily Italy
http://www.http://www.cielozero.it
cielo.zero@tiscali.it
cielzero@tin.it
Thrush Records
928 Broadway, Suite 405
New York, NY 10010
Tinder Records
619 Martin Ave Unit 1
Rohnert Park, Ca 94928
Tel. (707) 588-9164
Fax (707) 588-9229
email:info@tinderrecords.com
http://www.tinderrecords.com/
Tonga Productions (Latin music)
8306 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 544
Beverly Hills, CA 90211
FTC86642@aol.com
Tongang Records (Swedish music, especially nyckelharpa)
http://www.algonet.se/~jwinter
per-ulf@algonet.se
Topic Records
50 Stroud Green
London N4 3EF
England
Tradition Records is distributed by Rykodisc
Traditional Crossroads
P.O. Box 20320
Greeley Square Station
New York, NY 1001-9992
tradcross@aol.com
http://www.rootsworld.com/crossroads/
Triloka Records
23852 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90265
Tel: 310.456.9063
Fax:310.456.0118
http://www.triloka.com/
http://www.trilokatrance.com/
Tropical Music
POB 2230 D-35010
Marburg, Germany
Trova Recordings (Conjunto Jardin)
P. O. Box 603
Pacific Palisades, CA 90272
Trova9888@aol.com
Tumi Music (Cuban)
http://www.tumi.music.ndirect.co.uk
Tzadik
61 East Eighth St. pmb 126
New York, NY 1003
http://www.tzadik.com
"UPE" Recording company/Latvian Music Label
13 - 108 Skanstes str.
Riga, LV-1013
Latvia
Phone: +371 7063200
Fax: +371 7063203
http://www.upe.parks.lv
upe@upe.parks.lv
Velas Records (Brazilian)
http://www.velasrecords.com
Vollton Musikverlag GmbH & Co.
(see Biber Records)
Waterbug Records
P.O. Box 6605
Evanston, IL 60204
info@waterbug.com
http://www.waterbug.com
Waterlilly Acoustics
http://www.waterlilyacoustics.com
music@waterlilyacoustics.com
Web of Mimicry
http://www.webofmimicry.com
Wild Boar Music
http://www.wildboarmusic.com
erwin.libbrecht@skynet.be
World Circuit Records
post@worldcir.demon.co.uk
http://www.demon.co.uk/andys/worldcir.html
World Class Records (Hearts of Space)
P. O. Box 31321
San Francisco, Ca 94131
http://www.worldclassmusic.com/
hos@hos.com
Xenophile Records
Division of Green Linnet
Xsource Records
http://www.cabal.se/mnw/xource/index.html
Yazoo Records
Distributed by Shanachie Records
Yikes Records
151 First Avenue
Suite 50
New York, NY 10003
Zero Hour
P. O. Box 460717
San Francisco, CA 94146
http://www.wesweb.net
jwh@armory.com