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'''Shandar''' was a French record label specializing in avant-garde material that did seminal work during the 1970 releasing, among others, recordings by [[Albert Ayler]], [[Karlheinz Stockhausen]], [[Steve Reich]], [[Sunny Murray]], [[Philip Glass]], [[Charlemagne Palestine]], [[La Monte Young]], [[Alan Silva]], [[Pandit Pran Nath]], [[Terry Riley]], [[Cecil Taylor]] and [[Sun Ra]]. The records often carry, besides the name Shandar, also the logo [[Shanti]]. |
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The label was financed by Aimé and Marguerite Maeght, creators of the [[Maeght Foundation]] which organized modern art exhibitions and concerts. Consequently, much of the label's catalog consists of recordings of Maeght-sponsored concerts, as in the cases of [[Cecil Taylor]]'s and [[Albert Ayler]]'s [[Nuits de la Fondation Maeght]]. Among the works in its catalog, one of the most unusual is [[La Monte Young]]'s [[Dream House 78' 17"]], containing the music for one of Young's installations (The Dream House): both sides were almost 40 minutes long for a total duration of 78' 17", a length unheard of at the time but made necessary by the nature of the work. |
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Must be also mentioned the unique "Guitares Dérive" (catalog number Shandar 83516), written and performed live by Vincent Le Masne and Bertrand Porquet, a classical guitar duo in a very brilliant repetitive way, unusual in that style because of a never systematic writing, in constant harmonic and dynamic evolution. |
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In spite of the unique material it owned, the label was short lived. According to the magazine [[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]], a cellar beneath an art gallery in 40 Rue Mazarine in Paris where founders [[Daniel Caux]] and [[Chantal Darcy]] worked was flooded in 1979, damaging irreparably both vinyl stocks and recordings. The gallery closed soon thereafter and Shandar vanished. |
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Some of its catalog was subsequently bought by other small labels and is therefore still available, but much of it has disappeared. |
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===References=== |
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* Shandar record covers / sleeve notes |
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* [http://home.comcast.net/~ed_maurer/Shandar/index.htm Ed Maurer's Discography of Shandar Records] |
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* January 3, 2003 issue of "[[The Wire (magazine)|The Wire]]" |
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[[Category:French record labels]] |
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