In Paris, there is a music library whose story has been told over the last fifty years by the most talented musicians in France. Brought together for its catalogue, these virtuoso musicians have written the incredible story of extraordinary times, through every genre of music. Whether composers, instrumentalists or arrangers, from classical music, jazz, rock, rhythm ‘n’ blues, pop or, later electronic music, they were all at the very forefront of trends and musical fashion, constantly exploring ever-broadening musical boundaries. All too often this story has been lost in the wider story of music. The sound design produced by the library for advertising, radio, TV and film has stood the test of time, and, in some cases, has travelled to the four corners of the world.
Pedersen, Rubio, Arvanitas, Roy, Bachelet, Dahan, Estardy: these musicians are no longer with us, but their memory lives on through the recordings they have made over the years.
Guiot, Lubat, Chatelain, Gonet, Pezin, Chatereau, Engel, Yared, Mallia: others are still around, some retired, some not, some in fact doing something completely different.
Loubet, Fagot, Pinto, Vedere, Trenet, Babin, Baer, Farrel, Hasdenteufel: they have been replaced by new faces who continue to write the story of the library.
The library feeds the media’s voracious appetite for music, which began in consumer society when an increasing number of programmes were being produced for radio and TV, and libraries were springing up in Europe, France included (Montparnasse 2000, Mondiophone, Musique pour l’Image…). Only one has stood out since then, through the quality and diversity of its catalogue, and has managed to remain resolutely independent. One alone has become legendary, to the extent that it has a foothold in every continent, supported by sub-editors and international partners.
This library is Télé Music, founded by Roger and Claudette Tokarz, almost half a century ago.
This is the entire Tele Music LP series, as stored on their library site, tele-music.com. A few are missing a track here or there. The files came as tagged .wav files, so if there is anything askew, this is how telemusic tagged them. Some instances were checked against discogs and corrected, some were not.
The few albums I have sampled so far sound remarkably better than the Vinyl rips floating around the trading circles.
All albums are 16bit/44kHz FLAC unless otherwise specified
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