Naive label-chapter 11

[Spineur]

Well the french equivalent.  If they can find a buyer, this will lead to bankruptcy.  Hopefully a label will take their catalog over.
Qobuz found a buyer and is saved for now.

[Gurn Blanston]

Well the french equivalent.  If they can find a buyer, this will lead to bankruptcy.  Hopefully a label will take their catalog over.
Qobuz found a buyer and is saved for now.

Losing this catalog would be a disaster.   So much of my favorite music is on Naive and its affiliated label names. Let's hope the buyer is a guardian angel and not a terminator!

[Mirror Image]

Naive is a great label. As Gurn mentioned, I'd hate to see them go under.

[Que]

There might be an interested party willing to invest.... "not one of the majors"

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/06/21/musique-le-label-naive-en-quete-d-un-investisseur_4955134_3234.html


My bet is that is is OuthereMusic, home of Alpha, Ricercar, Æon, etc.
Would be a perfect fit...And they are a lot more business minded and tech savy - because the lack of thereof seems to be Naïve's major flaw (and where the @#&% are the recordings from the back catalogue?  )

Q

[The new erato]

They need to finish the Vivaldi bassoon concertos series!

[Jo498]

I never figured out these relations: Was op.111 taken over by Naive or was it the same label with a different name? Apparently Naive had also acquired some recordings from Audivis Valois (like the Vegh stereo Beethoven).
No clue. I sure hope the catalogue will be saved...

[Gurn Blanston]

There might be an interested party willing to invest.... "not one of the majors"

https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=fr&tl=en&u=http%3A//www.lemonde.fr/economie/article/2016/06/21/musique-le-label-naive-en-quete-d-un-investisseur_4955134_3234.html


My bet is that is is OuthereMusic, home of Alpha, Ricercar, Æon, etc.
Would be a perfect fit...And they are a lot more business minded and tech savy - because the lack of thereof seems to be Naïve's major flaw (and where the @#&% are the recordings from the back catalogue?  )

Q

That would be an outstanding development if true! Outhere have some great labels and seem to be a bunch of good business people (a quality sadly lacking in many of the 'Art Indies'). Well, we can always hope!

[Parsifal]

That would be an outstanding development if true! Outhere have some great labels and seem to be a bunch of good business people (a quality sadly lacking in many of the 'Art Indies'). Well, we can always hope!

Naive is one of those mysterious labels that thinks it is a viable business strategy to have large swaths of their catalog out of print and/or impossible to purchase. They already paid to record two entire Mozart string quartet cycles. There is no point in pressing a few copies so that I can maybe buy them?

[Que]

Naive is one of those mysterious labels that thinks it is a viable business strategy to have large swaths of their catalog out of print and/or impossible to purchase. What does it take to figure out that if you paid to record two entire Mozart string quartet cycles, maybe you should press some copies so that someone can actually buy them?

My thoughts exactly!

Someone could make a viable business just on the basis of Naïve's catalogue alone, the revival of the ARCANA catalogue is a good example in case...

I never figured out these relations: Was op.111 taken over by Naive or was it the same label with a different name? Apparently Naive had also acquired some recordings from Audivis Valois (like the Vegh stereo Beethoven).
No clue. I sure hope the catalogue will be saved...

Naïve took over quite a few labels, like Ambroisie, Astrée Auvidis (hence the Vègh Quartet recordings, which were inexplicably out of print for decades... ), Montaigne and Opus 111.

Q

[Spineur]

According to "Les Echos", "Believe Digital", a french company will buy the Naive label for 10 millions euros.

[Gurn Blanston]

According to "Les Echos", "Believe Digital", a french company will buy the Naive label for 10 millions euros.

I promise to do my very best to support them (well, I already do). Can't wish them better 'good luck' than I already do. Maybe there will be a wise one in power who will maximise the brilliant back catalog to better advantage.