Beautiful Young Generation, by Various Artists

Beautiful Young Generation

by Various Artists

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Record/Vinyl + Digital Album
Comes in a deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve.

Mastered from original BYG tapes by Nick Robbins
Lacquers cut by Cicely Balston at AIR STUDIOS
Introduction by surviving BYG co-founder Jean-Luc Young
Track-by-track notes by author and journalist Kevin Le Gendre

SIDE 1
1. Alice - Le Nouveau Monde
2. Areski & Brigitte Fontaine - Ragilia
3. Gong - Change The World
4. Aynsley Dunbar - Willing to Fight
5. Coeur Magique - Le Cocotier (Part 2)
6. Daevid Allen - Time of Your Life

SIDE 2
1. Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - Ancient Ethiopia
2. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Dexterity
3. Don Cherry - Terrestrial beings
4. Archie Shepp - Blasé

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Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album
Comes in a deluxe matte laminate gatefold sleeve & printed inner wallet.

Digitally mastered from BYG tapes by Nick Robbins
Expanded with 5 additional tracks
Introduction by surviving BYG co-founder Jean-Luc Young
16-page booklet with photos & track-by-track notes by Kevin Le Gendre

1. Alice - Le Nouveau Monde
2. Areski & Brigitte Fontaine - Ragilia
3. Gong - Change The World
4. Aynsley Dunbar - Willing to Fight
5. Coeur Magique - Le Cocotier (Part 2)
6. Daevid Allen - Time of Your Life
7. Freedom - Enchanted Wood
8. Ame Son - Seventh Time Key
9. Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - Ancient Ethiopia
10. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Dexterity
11. Don Cherry - Terrestrial beings
12. Archie Shepp - Blasé
13. Musica Elettronica Viva - The Sound Pool (Part 1)
14. Clifford Thornton - Pan African Festival
15. Jacques Coursil Unit - Duke

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Purchase the complete album and get a 16-page PDF booklet with track-by-track notes by Kevin Le Gendre + photos.

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1.	Alice - Le Nouveau Monde 02:31	buy track
2.	Areski & Brigitte Fontaine - Ragilia 02:10	buy track
3.	Gong - Change The World 04:07	buy track
4.	Aynsley Dunbar - Willing To Fight 06:36	buy track
5.	Coeur Magique - Le Cocotier (Part 2) 03:12	buy track
6.	Daevid Allen - Time Of Your Life 03:23	buy track
7.	Freedom - Enchanted Wood 03:02	buy track
8.	Ame Son - Seventh Time Key 06:13	buy track
9.	Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - Ancient Ethiopia 02:47	buy track
10.	Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Dexterity 03:59	buy track
11.	Don Cherry - Terrestrial Beings 04:30	buy track
12.	Archie Shepp - Blasé 10:20	buy track
13.	Musica Elettronica Viva - The Sound Pool (Part 1) 03:44	buy track
14.	Clifford Thornton - Pan African Festival 07:47	buy track
15.	Jacques Coursil Unit - Duke 10:06	buy track

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LEGENDARY 1960’S FRENCH LABEL RELAUNCHED WITH EXCLUSIVE SAMPLER ALBUM & REMASTER SERIES

The laughing Buddha is one of the great symbols of modern-day record company artwork. It is a perfect blend of reverence and irreverence, a nod to religion and philosophy that is playful as well as earnest. It captured the counter-cultural, rebel spirit of BYG, the label with three large letters taken from the second names of its visionary founders: Fernand Boruso, Jean-Luc Young and Jean Georgakarakos.

Launched in the late ’60s in Paris, a city then in the throes of great social upheaval, BYG became the home of music that was uncompromisingly new. The label issued a batch of seminal recordings by Americans who were creating a school of jazz that became known as ‘avant-garde’ - Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, and Don Cherry to name but some – as part of a series called Actuel (‘Current’). A hugely ambitious Actuel festival in Amougies, Belgium also brought together iconoclasts such as Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Gong and Soft Machine, who were all taking rock into excitingly fresh areas by way of a maverick marriage of improvisation, surreal imagery and technology.

BYG subsequently championed artists who pushed the envelope in terms of lyric writing, such as the legendary French duo Areski & Brigitte Fontaine, or experiments in sound, such as the international ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva. Decades after its inception, the label remains a key repository of ground-breaking music of the second half of the 20th century that still informs the first half of the 21st.

“BYG were passionate in supporting diversity, against prejudice and narrow-mindedness so I am proud we fought for all our artists and their music, no matter what they were, who they were or where they were from [...] This sampler is a testament to their creativity...” Jean-Luc Young, BYG co-founder.

Album newly mastered from original BYG tapes
Based on the original 1967 BYG ‘Special Disc-Jockeys’ LP sampler

Preview: bit.ly/BYGSP2-SC

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released December 2, 2022

Mastered from original BYG tapes By Nick Robbins
Artwork and graphic design by Phil Rogers

A BYG Production
Executive Producer for this compilation: Jean-Luc Young
Compilation produced for release by Geoffrey Cousin
P&C 2022 Charly Acquisitions Ltd.

Original BYG Recordings
Courtesy of Charly Acquisitions Ltd.
Licensed from LicenseMusic.com ApS.

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BYG Records London, UK

Pioneering French independent record label launched in 1967.

Avant-Garde / Free Jazz / Experimental / Psychedelic & Prog Rock

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