BYG Records

BYG is synonymous with the ground-breaking avant-garde jazz artists of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, but the label was never defined by a single genre of music. The catalogue has a substantial amount of recordings that span anything from progressive rock and blues rock to experimental electronica and subversive singer-songwriters. 

Artists as disparate as Daevid Allen/Gong, Aynsley Dunbar, Alice, Musica Elettronica Viva, Freedom, Coeur Magique and Areski & Brigitte Fontaine all released albums that are universally acknowledged as classics. Drawing on western and non-western traditions, and using electric and acoustic tonal palettes, all of the aforementioned made music that had a daring, if not defiant spirit and spontaneous, maverick energy.

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BYG is synonymous with the ground-breaking avant-garde jazz artists of the late ‘60s and early ‘70s, but the label was never defined by a single genre of music. The catalogue has a substantial amount of recordings that span anything from progressive rock and blues rock to experimental electronica and subversive singer-songwriters. 

Artists as disparate as Daevid Allen/Gong, Aynsley Dunbar, Alice, Musica Elettronica Viva, Freedom, Coeur Magique and Areski & Brigitte Fontaine all released albums that are universally acknowledged as classics. Drawing on western and non-western traditions, and using electric and acoustic tonal palettes, all of the aforementioned made music that had a daring, if not defiant spirit and spontaneous, maverick energy.

Records such as MEV’s The Sound Pool and Areski & Brigitte Fontaine’s L’Incendie are still emphatically contemporary with regard to both words and music. A batch of 7” singles from the likes of Alan Jack Civilization, Tribu and Ame Son also underlines BYG’s status as a champion of music that blurred the line between pop and ‘art’, complete with graphic design that has an irresistible charm.

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