Far Out Recordings
London, United Kingdom
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In 2009 Far Out Recordings celebrates its 15th anniversary. By next year Joe Davis and Far Out will have released close to 150 albums on CD, 125 Vinyl releases and enough digital releases to take the full catalogue well past the 300 mark.
In 25 years Joe Davis has gone from hunting treasures in dusty old record stores across Brazil, to running a successful record company with impressive world-wide sales and an international reputation. What started out as a desire to feed the... Read more
In 2009 Far Out Recordings celebrates its 15th anniversary. By next year Joe Davis and Far Out will have released close to 150 albums on CD, 125 Vinyl releases and enough digital releases to take the full catalogue well past the 300 mark.
In 25 years Joe Davis has gone from hunting treasures in dusty old record stores across Brazil, to running a successful record company with impressive world-wide sales and an international reputation. What started out as a desire to feed the UK jazz scene`s taste for rare Brazilian jazz, has resulted in Far Out Recordings - a label dedicated to all angles of Brazilian music from jazz to samba to bossa nova to rock to electronica.
The progression for Joe from buying records, to selling them, to producing them for his own label was a logical one. He explains: `Whilst I was growing up I was always involved in the street music scene - whatever clubs were going on, in and around London, and all types of dance music. Suddenly innovative DJs like Gilles Peterson were playing Brazilian, Latin, and jazz out in the clubs, and people were going crazy over it. Gradually the scene moved on but the new music being played didn`t really capture my imagination, so I returned to Brazilian music, which I really loved and which had always held a very instant appeal for me`
At this point Joe decided to take his interest further, spending several intense years traveling to Brazil and developing an encyclopedic knowledge through buying obscure Brazilian music, which was in great demand in Europe and Japan. Along the way he also got to know a lot of the musicians whose records he was buying. His personal friends include Marcos Valle, Joyce, Wilson Das Neves, Celia Vaz, Jorge Ben and various other leaders of the Brazilian scene
In the UK, his reputation was growing in connection with all things Brazilian and he had an increasing desire to use all the knowledge and contacts he had made for a new project. In 1995 as a creative experiment he hired a studio in Brazil for a month and recruited some of the dons of Brazilian music, as well as some of Rio`s most exciting young musicians. They spent the time recording an album of new material and old classics called `Friends From Rio`, which featured Marcos Valle and Wanda de Sa. This album put the label on the map and set out the Far Out philosophy. Show less
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