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.
Quote from: Spineur on June 21, 2016, 10:28:24 AM
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. :o 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!
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Naive is a great label. As Gurn mentioned, I'd hate to see them go under.
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
They need to finish the Vivaldi bassoon concertos series!
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...
Quote from: Que on June 21, 2016, 10:39:49 PM
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!
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Quote from: Gurn Blanston on June 22, 2016, 04:50:44 AM
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!
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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?
Quote from: Scarpia on June 22, 2016, 09:03:17 AM
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! :o
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... ::)
Quote from: Jo498 on June 21, 2016, 11:51:21 PM
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.
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According to "Les Echos", "Believe Digital", a french company will buy the Naive label for 10 millions euros.
Quote from: Spineur on August 23, 2016, 08:34:07 PM
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.
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