RE: Raridades Discos, rescuing quality Brazilian music with style.

It's great that you're writing about this. I'm currently listening to Robson Jorge's album ‘The Mauro Motta Sessions’ – it's extraordinary. I think this music would be successful in Europe. Maybe there will be a chance to get it on our continent.

https://tidal.com/browse/track/266559029?u

At my company POLVINYL, we're currently working on a reissue of Madaline Bell's 1990s album ‘Soulmates’. The artist had her own solo career but also participated in recordings for Elton John, among others.

In my opinion, it is worth returning to old music, which today is sometimes unavailable on streaming services. Today, more and more artists are giving up streaming, despite its significant success among listeners. Why? Because today, 100k+ songs appear on streaming services every day. It is a sea of sound, largely already littered with AI. (For example, DEAD STAR TALK, whose album ‘Solid STATE Chemicals’ is not available for streaming, only on vinyl and CD.
I think what vinyl offers is important today. Do you know why? Because it makes music stand out. Pressing is expensive and not everyone can afford it. Music connoisseurs will always choose vinyl because it usually means good production. Someone who makes vinyl understands what this medium is and cares about the sound on it. Streaming offers crappy sound, but for someone listening on their phone or Bluetooth speaker, it doesn't matter, because they're not looking for a sound experience in music, but something else.

Music from the years before the digitisation of recording studios (before 1979) has a different recording philosophy and represents the highest understanding of sound quality. With the advent of digitisation, of course, high-quality recordings were not completely eliminated, but it allowed a much larger number of people to record ‘democratically’, more cheaply and without much skill. Today, you can be completely musically illiterate, but AI will fill that gap and you can be an ‘artist’. And the labels you write about are people who perfectly understand what sound used to be, what function it served and what it was used for. I hope that will never die!