Gala Records
Gala Records is owned and operated by Jean-Pierre Sévigny in Brossard, Quebec, Canada. The company was founded in 2005 with the aim of preserving and sharing Canadian musical and oral heritages on digitally ‘remastered’ media, together with extensive liner notes, essays, discographies, and rare graphics in attractive and affordable packages.
Gala Records focuses on musical and oral heritages neglected by the music industry and a media-driven culture obsessed with the latest fad. Gala’s primary tool is the sound ‘anthology’. This type of recording is largely misunderstood. Anthologies are in no way related to reissues, compilations, ‘bests of’ or ‘greatest hits’ type packages. Anthologies are knowledge-based products which include in-depth research, interviews, testimonials, rare and unreleased material, etc. Oral history is also used to provide a context for the music, and explore its background and cultural environment.
Gala has been acclaimed as a premier label in the field of Canadian historical recordings and has received excellent reviews from important magazines such as Fanfare and Audiophile. In 2006, our very first recording Diva - Alys Robi and Lucio Agostini Gal-101 was nominated at ADISQ ( the French-Canadian record industry association) in the category ‘anthology of the year.’ And again in 2009, our recording L’ultime rock progressif du Québec Gal-113 was nominated in the same category.
Gala Records has released so far CDs dealing with:
-Post World War II era Gal-106
-Birth and rise of the recording in Canada Gal-112
-Canadian masters and their works Gal-107
-Scottish and Irish folk-lores Gal-102
-A diva and Latin tinged music Gal-101
-The great Canadian contralto Maureen Forrester and her unique interpretation Schumann, Mahler and Robert Fleming Gal-110
-Female vocalists of the golden age of Canadian radio and early television Gal-109
-Oral poetry and radio language Gal-111
-Early progressive Canadian rock Gal-113
Recorded sounds (music and spoken-word) commercially released or unreleased, from the acoustic, electrical and magnetic eras are part of our mission.
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