[78-L] CD reissue business, WAS copyright

[David Lennick]

A number of Living Era titles have been resuscitated on a new label called 
Retrospective, produced by Nimbus..and don't worry, they aren't playing the 
masters on a boom box in a live room and recording them on two mikes, our Alan 
Bunting is remastering them. I don't know what their American distribution is 
yet..possibly the same as Nimbus had.

Naxos titles can be ordered from Michael Saunders at A Web of Fine Music in St. 
Catharines, Ontario. http://www.finemusic.ca/

As for what I'm currently working on..diddly squat. Three labels went out of 
business on me last year, two others that expressed interest in November have 
not been heard from since, Naxos has 7 or 8 titles in the can which they're 
issuing very slowly, and I haven't produced a new master since November. I'm 
working on getting interested parties involved in direct marketing to the crowd 
that still wants older music on CD and aren't interested in downloading or 
streaming (there actually are such people).

Have needle, will transfer.

dl

Mark Hendrix 78L wrote:
> Well... perhaps not the *whole* CD reissue business.  I know I am blessed to
> live in the San Francisco Bay Area, where there are still some good
> independent record stores.  But within the past month, I have purchased
> reissue CDs on Timeless, Frog, Rivermont, and Archeophone, all in "bricks
> and mortar" record stores.  I don't know how long my good fortune will last,
> but I am making a priority of purchasing things in the stores, rather than
> on line.
> 
> Mosaic and Marston keep putting out impressive reissues, the former largely
> direct mail-order and the latter a subscription service.  That leaves only
> Retrieval and Naxos as CD reissue labels (that I regularly purchase) that I
> have to track down on line.
> 
> Most of the commercial CDs I have with your name on it, David, are on either
> Naxos (expensive and a pain to get in the USA) or ASV Living Era (sadly
> defunct).  Would you consider announcing what you're working on and where
> people can get it?  Or produce more low-cost, homemade issues?  That Homer &
> Jethro CD I bought from you a little while ago has received many, many spins
> at my house, and with EFREM at your disposal, I'm sure you could produce
> many more.
> 
> --Mark Hendrix
> 
> 
>> This "June 1957" cutoff is new to me. Tell me more..the whole CD reissue
>> business has been in the outhouse for several months and I
>> suspect that it's
>> going to stay there. An audience still exists, but Retail
>> effectively told them
>> to drop dead even before this recession began to take hold.
>>
>> dl