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Él Records

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él is an English independent record label based in London that was founded by Mike Alway, later becoming a subsidiary of Cherry Red Records. [1]

74 relations: Alan McGee, Ali Akbar Khan, Andrés Segovia, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Avengers (band), Baden Powell (guitarist), Blanco y Negro Records, Brigitte Bardot, Chamber pop, Cherry Red Records, Cornelius (musician), David Axelrod (musician), Edda Dell'Orso, Edgard Varèse, Elis Regina, Ennio Morricone, Erik Satie, Everything but the Girl, Eyeless in Gaza (band), Felt (band), Flamenco guitar, Gary McFarland, Gábor Szabó, Geoff Travis, Gilberto Gil, Henry Mancini, Independent record label, J-pop, Jacques Brel, Jazz, Jonathan King, Juan García Esquivel, Kahimi Karie, Karl Blake, Latin music, Leonard Rossiter, List of independent UK record labels, List of record labels, London, Louis Philippe (musician), Malcolm McLaren, Marine Girls, Momus (musician), Nino Rota, Orson Welles, Pillows & Prayers, Pizzicato Five, Post-punk, Powell and Pressburger, Quarteto em Cy, ..., Ravi Shankar, Richard Briers, Rough Trade Records, Roy Budd, Sabicas, Shibuya-kei, Shock Headed Peters, Simon Fisher Turner, Soundtrack, Sunshine pop, The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, The Four Freshmen, The Good Life (1975 TV series), The Guardian, The Monochrome Set, The Prisoner, The Soft Boys, UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts, United Kingdom, Vic Godard, Vinicius de Moraes, Warner Bros. Records, Would-Be-Goods, 20th-century classical music. Expand index (24 more) »

Alan McGee

Alan McGee (born 29 September 1960) is a Scottish businessman and music industry executive.

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Ali Akbar Khan

Ali Akbar Khan (14 April 192218 June 2009) was a Hindustani classical musician of the Maihar gharana, known for his virtuosity in playing the sarod.

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Andrés Segovia

Andrés Segovia Torres, 1st Marquis of Salobreña (21 February 18932 June 1987), known as Andrés Segovia, was a virtuoso Spanish classical guitarist from Linares, Spain.

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Antônio Carlos Jobim

Antônio Carlos Brasileiro de Almeida Jobim (January 25, 1927December 8, 1994), also known as Tom Jobim, was a Brazilian composer, pianist, songwriter, arranger and singer.

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Avengers (band)

The Avengers is an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in San Francisco, California.

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Baden Powell (guitarist)

Baden Powell de Aquino, usually known simply as Baden Powell (6 August 1937 – 26 September 2000), was one of the most prominent and celebrated Brazilian guitarists and guitar composers of his time.

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Blanco y Negro Records

Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of Cherry Red.

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Brigitte Bardot

Brigitte Anne-Marie Bardot (born 28 September 1934) is a French actress, singer, dancer, and fashion model, who later became an animal rights activist.

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Chamber pop

Chamber pop (sometimes called ork-pop, short for "orchestral pop") is a style of rock music characterized by an emphasis on melody and texture, the intricate use of strings, horns, piano, and vocal harmonies, and other components drawn from the orchestral and lounge pop of the 1960s.

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Cherry Red Records

Cherry Red Records is a British independent record label founded by Iain McNay in 1978.

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Cornelius (musician)

, also known by his moniker, is a Japanese recording artist and producer who co-founded Flipper's Guitar, an influential Shibuya-kei band, and subsequently embarked on a solo career.

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David Axelrod (musician)

David Axelrod (April 17, 1931 – February 5, 2017) was an American composer, arranger, and producer.

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Edda Dell'Orso

Edda Dell'Orso (born Edda Sabatini, February 16, 1935) is an Italian singer, especially known for her collaboration with composer Ennio Morricone for which she provided wordless vocals to a large number of his film scores.

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Edgard Varèse

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse (also spelled Edgar Varèse;Malcolm MacDonald, Varèse, Astronomer in Sound (London, 2003), p. xi. December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965) was a French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States.

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Elis Regina

Elis Regina Carvalho Costa (March 17, 1945 – January 19, 1982), popularly known as Elis Regina, was a Brazilian singer of popular and Jazz music.

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Ennio Morricone

Ennio Morricone, Grand Officer OMRI (born 10 November 1928) is an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and former trumpet player.

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Erik Satie

Éric Alfred Leslie Satie (17 May 18661 July 1925), who signed his name Erik Satie after 1884, was a French composer and pianist.

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Everything but the Girl

Everything but the Girl (sometimes referred to as EBTG) was an English musical duo, formed in Hull in 1982, consisting of lead singer and occasional guitarist Tracey Thorn and guitarist, keyboardist, producer and singer Ben Watt.

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Eyeless in Gaza (band)

Eyeless in Gaza are an English musical duo of Martyn Bates and Peter Becker, based in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

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Felt (band)

Felt were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1979 in Water Orton, Warwickshire and led by the mononymous Lawrence.

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Flamenco guitar

A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar but with thinner tops and less internal bracing.

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Gary McFarland

Gary McFarland (né Gary Robert McFarland; October 23, 1933 – November 3, 1971) was an influential composer, arranger, vibraphonist and vocalist, prominent on Verve and Impulse! Records during the 1960s, when he made "one of the more significant contributors to orchestral jazz".

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Gábor Szabó

Gábor István Szabó (March 8, 1936 – February 26, 1982) was a Hungarian American guitarist whose style incorporated jazz, pop, rock, and Hungarian music.

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Geoff Travis

Geoff Travis (born 2 February 1952) is the founder of both Rough Trade Records and the Rough Trade chain of record shops.

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Gilberto Gil

Gilberto Passos Gil Moreira (born 26 June 1942), known professionally as Gilberto Gil, is a Brazilian singer, guitarist, and songwriter, known for both his musical innovation and political activism.

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Henry Mancini

Enrico Nicola "Henry" Mancini (April 16, 1924 – June 14, 1994) was an American composer, conductor and arranger, who is best remembered for his film and television scores.

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Independent record label

An independent record label (or indie label) is a record label that operates without the funding of or outside major record labels.

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J-pop

J-pop (often stylized as J-POP; ジェイポップ jeipoppu; an abbreviation for Japanese pop), natively also known simply as, is a musical genre that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.

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Jacques Brel

Jacques Romain Georges Brel (8 April 1929 – 9 October 1978) was a Belgian singer, songwriter, poet, actor and director who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jonathan King

Jonathan King (born Kenneth George King, 6 December 1944) is an English singer-songwriter, record producer, music entrepreneur, and former television and radio presenter.

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Juan García Esquivel

Juan García Esquivel (January 20, 1918 – January 3, 2002), often simply known as Esquivel!, was a Mexican band leader, pianist, and composer for television and films.

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Kahimi Karie

is a Japanese Shibuya-kei musician.

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Karl Blake

Karl Blake (born 1956 in Reading, Berkshire, England) is a vocalist, bassist, guitarist and multi-instrumentalist.

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Latin music

Latin music (Portuguese and música latina) is a genre that is used by the music industry as a catch-all term for any music that comes from Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking areas of the world, namely Latin America, Spain, and Portugal, as well as music sung in either language.

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Leonard Rossiter

Leonard Rossiter (21 October 1926 – 5 October 1984) was an English actor.

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List of independent UK record labels

This is a list of independent record labels based in the United Kingdom.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Louis Philippe (musician)

Philippe Auclair (24 June 1959), also known by his moniker Louis Philippe, is a French singer-songwriter, musician, news correspondent and football journalist who has been active from the mid-1980s onwards.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.

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Marine Girls

Marine Girls were a post-punk group from Hatfield, Hertfordshire.

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Momus (musician)

Nicholas "Nick" Currie (born 11 February 1960), more popularly known under the artist name Momus (after the Greek god of mockery), is a Scottish songwriter, author, blogger and former journalist for Wired.

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Nino Rota

Giovanni "Nino" Rota (3 December 1911 – 10 April 1979) was an Italian composer, pianist, conductor and academic who is best known for his film scores, notably for the films of Federico Fellini and Luchino Visconti.

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Orson Welles

George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985) was an American actor, director, writer, and producer who worked in theatre, radio, and film.

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Pillows & Prayers

Pillows & Prayers (subtitled, Cherry Red 1982-1983) is compilation album released Christmas 1982 featuring artists on the Cherry Red record label at the suggestion of A&R head Mike Alway.

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Pizzicato Five

Pizzicato Five (formerly typeset as Pizzicato V and sometimes abbreviated to P5)Yang Jeff, Dina Can, Terry Hong, (1997) Eastern Standard Time pg 277 New York: Mariner Books was a Japanese pop band formed in Tokyo in 1979 by multi-instrumentalists Yasuharu Konishi and Keitaro Takanami.

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Post-punk

Post-punk (originally called new musick) is a broad type of rock music that emerged from the punk movement of the 1970s, in which artists departed from the simplicity and traditionalism of punk rock to adopt a variety of avant-garde sensibilities.

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Powell and Pressburger

The British film-making partnership of Michael Powell (1905–1990) and Emeric Pressburger (1902–1988)—together often known as The Archers, the name of their production company—made a series of influential films in the 1940s and 1950s.

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Quarteto em Cy

Quarteto em Cy (a play on words of the Portuguese for Quartet in B by poet and lyricist Vinicius de Moraes) is a Brazilian girl group originally composed of four sisters hailing from Ibirataia, a town located in the Brazilian state of Bahia: Cybele, Cylene, Cynara and Cyva – their real first names.

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Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar (Bengali: রবি শঙ্কর) (7 April 192011 December 2012), born Rabindra Shankar Chowdhury, his name often preceded by the title Pandit ('Master'), was an Indian musician and a composer of Hindustani classical music.

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Richard Briers

Richard David Briers (14 January 1934 – 17 February 2013) was an English actor.

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Rough Trade Records

Rough Trade Records is an independent record label based in London, England.

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Roy Budd

Roy Frederick Budd (14 March 1947 – 7 August 1993) was a British jazz pianist and composer known for his film scores, including Get Carter and The Wild Geese.

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Sabicas

Sabicas (proper name: Agustín Castellón Campos) (16 March 1912 – 14 April 1990) was a flamenco guitarist of Romani origin.

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Shibuya-kei

is an eclectic form of pop music and an aesthetic that flourished in the mid to late 1990s.

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Shock Headed Peters

Shock Headed Peters were a British post-punk band, formed in 1982.

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Simon Fisher Turner

Simon Turner (born 21 November 1954) is an English musician, songwriter, composer, producer and actor.

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Soundtrack

A soundtrack, also written sound track, can be recorded music accompanying and synchronized to the images of a motion picture, book, television program or video game; a commercially released soundtrack album of music as featured in the soundtrack of a film, video or television presentation; or the physical area of a film that contains the synchronized recorded sound.

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Sunshine pop

Sunshine pop (originally called soft pop) is a lightly produced subgenre of pop music that originated in Southern California in the mid 1960s.

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The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin

The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin is a series of novels written by David Nobbs.

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The Four Freshmen

The Four Freshmen is an American male vocal band quartet that blends open-harmonic jazz arrangements with the big band vocal group sounds of The Modernaires (Glenn Miller), The Pied Pipers (Tommy Dorsey), and The Mel-Tones (Mel Tormé, Artie Shaw), founded in the barbershop tradition.

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The Good Life (1975 TV series)

The Good Life is a British sitcom, produced by BBC television.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Monochrome Set

The Monochrome Set are an English post-punk/new wave band, originally formed in Hornsey, London in 1978.

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The Prisoner

The Prisoner is a 17-episode British television series first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, then in the United Kingdom on 29 September 1967, and in the United States on 1 June 1968.

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The Soft Boys

The Soft Boys were a rock band led by Robyn Hitchcock primarily during the 1970s, whose initially old-fashioned music style of psychedelic/folk-rock became part of the neo-psychedelia scene with the release of Underwater Moonlight.

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UK Independent Singles and Albums Charts

The UK Independent Singles Chart and UK Independent Albums Chart are charts of the best-selling independent singles and albums, respectively, in the United Kingdom.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Vic Godard

Vic Godard (born Victor John Napper) is a British singer-songwriter formerly of the punk group Subway Sect.

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Vinicius de Moraes

Marcus Vinicius da Cruz e Mello Moraes (19 October 1913 – 9 July 1980), also known as Vinícius de MoraesAccording to current Portuguese orthography, the name would be spelled Vinícius de Morais.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Would-Be-Goods

Would-Be-Goods are a British indie pop band fronted by singer Jessica Griffin, noted for her precise received pronunciation accent when singing.

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20th-century classical music

20th-century classical music describes art music that was written nominally from 1901 to 2000.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Él_Records

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