{"product_id":"multi-artistes_kiosque-dorphee-une-epopee-de-lautoproduction-en-france-19731991-3-vinyls_2024_lad","title":"KIOSQUE D'ORPHEE - Une épopée de l'autoproduction en France - 1973\/1991 (3 vinyls)","description":"For a long time, I came across these records without really understanding what connected them, apart from a sticker and that famous logo designed by René Dessirier. Then, by digging a little deeper, I discovered this link of 'self-production'. For choirs, schools, folk singers, young pop groups, community centers, and even great composers who pressed unique copies of certain recording sessions... — The French equivalent of the English 'Derby Service', Le Kiosque d’Orphée, formerly at 7 Rue Grégoire de Tours in the 6th arrondissement, was taken over by Georges Batard in 1967 and moved to 20 Rue des Tournelles in the 4th arrondissement of Paris. The adventure lasted until 1991. Georges Batard was a sound engineer who had a tube-based Neumann lathe to cut acetates from the tapes he received, before pressing the precious vinyls in the pressing plants of the time, where he was able to make very small runs, between 50 and 500 copies. — Of course, there were other structures that allowed people to release their records, such as Voxigrave or, later, FLVM, but none had as many records in their catalog. Le Kiosque d’Orphée was neither a label nor a publisher, but a structure that allowed you to press your own vinyls, at a time when it was quite an adventure to release your first 45 or 33 rpm album! — Georges Batard was described as passionate and very conscientious. His son, bassist Didier Batard, wrote about him: — 'Georges was passionate about sound recording and stereo reproduction of his great passion, music. He paid great attention to distortion rates, signal-to-noise ratios, frequency response curves, rise times, and other damping factors of audio equipment. He sought the exact reproduction of the sound of concert halls in his living room (with the same sound level, if possible...). In the late 50s \/ early 60s, he found other sound enthusiasts within the AFDERS (Association Française pour le Développement de l'Enregistrement et de la Reproduction Sonores - French Association for the Development of Sound Recording and Reproduction). He became its honorary president. Every Saturday afternoon, its members met to test audio equipment. Their opinions were published in the monthly \"la Revue du Son.\"' — You just had to send your tapes and choose the number of copies of records you would leave with, to finally be able to share your creations and, in a way, exist. You could opt for a generic cover, available in several colors, directly customizable with your name and credits, or you could design your dream cover yourself in your living room or at a printer. — This Te","brand":"Multi-artistes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55310248444248,"sku":null,"price":23907208.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/3521381578782_84e9d7c8-729f-4230-8273-bf668027d425.jpg?v=1760318468","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/multi-artistes_kiosque-dorphee-une-epopee-de-lautoproduction-en-france-19731991-3-vinyls_2024_lad","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}