LEGENDARY 1960’S FRENCH LABEL 
RELAUNCHED WITH EXCLUSIVE SAMPLER ALBUM & REMASTER SERIES

Newly mastered from original BYG tapes
Based on the original 1967 BYG ‘Special Disc-Jockeys’ LP sampler 

1. Alice - Le Nouveau Monde
2. Areski & Brigitte Fontaine - Ragilia
3. Gong - Change The World
4. Aynsley Dunbar - Willing to Fight
5. Coeur Magique - Le Cocotier (Part 2)
6. Daevid Allen - Time of Your Life
7. Freedom - Enchanted Wood 
8. Ame Son - Seventh Time Key 
9. Sun Ra and His Solar-Myth Arkestra - Ancient Ethiopia
10. Art Ensemble Of Chicago - Dexterity 
11. Don Cherry - Terrestrial beings 
12. Archie Shepp - Blasé
13. Musica Elettronica Viva - The Sound Pool (Part 1)
14. Clifford Thornton - Pan African Festival
15. Jacques Coursil Unit - Duke 

Mastered By Nick Robbins
Artwork by Phil Rogers 

Format: 12'' Vinyl / CD / Digital 
Pre-order: bit.ly/BYGSP2-BC

“BYG were passionate in supporting diversity, against prejudice and narrow-mindedness so I am proud we fought for all our artists and their music, no matter what they were, who they were or where they were from [...] This sampler is a testament to their creativity...” Jean-Luc Young, BYG co-founder.

A BYG Production 
Executive Producer for this compilation: Jean-Luc Young
Compilation produced for release by Geoffrey Cousin
P&C 2021 Charly Acquisitions Ltd.

Original BYG Recordings
Courtesy of Charly Acquisitions Ltd. 
Licensed from LicenseMusic.com ApS. 

BYG will reissue their now rare and collectable original albums as a deluxe facsimile editions. Newly remastered from the original tapes, each BYG album will be released on LP, CD & Digital formats with exclusive sleeve notes by Kevin Le Gendre and John Masouri.

BYG – change of the century.

The laughing Buddha is one of the great symbols of modern-day record company artwork. It is a perfect blend of reverence and irreverence, a nod to religion and philosophy that is playful as well as earnest. It captured the counter-cultural, rebel spirit of BYG, the label with three large letters taken from the second names of its visionary founders: Fernand Boruso, Jean-Luc Young and Jean Georgakarakos. 

Launched in the late ’60s in Paris, a city then in the throes of great social upheaval, BYG became the home of music that was uncompromisingly new. The label issued a batch of seminal recordings by Americans who were creating a school of jazz that became known as ‘avant-garde’ - Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Anthony Braxton, Archie Shepp, Alan Silva, and Don Cherry to name but some – as part of a series called Actuel (‘Current’). A hugely ambitious Actuel festival in Amougies, Belgium also brought together iconoclasts such as Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, Pink Floyd, Gong and Soft Machine, who were all taking rock into excitingly fresh areas by way of a maverick marriage of improvisation, surreal imagery and technology. 

BYG subsequently championed artists who pushed the envelope in terms of lyric writing, such as the legendary French duo Areski & Brigitte Fontaine, or experiments in sound, such as the international ensemble, Musica Elettronica Viva. Decades after its inception, the label remains a key repository of ground-breaking music of the second half of the 20th century that still informs the first half of the 21st.  

Kevin Le Gendre

Beautiful Young Generation

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Avant-Garde / Free Jazz / Experimental / Psychedelic & Prog Rock from the 60s & 70s.

Launched in 1967 in Paris, BYG were a pioneering independent record company, one of the first labels to actively promote diversity and support black African-American musicians and multi-cultural artists worldwide.

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