Modas Regionais Vozes de Maria Do Natal e António Borges

charles — Tue, 20 May 2008 11:02:00 -0500

In 1954 Maria Do Natal and António Borges walked into a radio station, Rádio Clube de Angra, in the Azores. They were accompanied by guitarists Mário Ranchel and Lauriano Correia and together, the four of them recorded 12 songs. Last week, Maria Do Natal walked into our studio with these recordings on a disc.

It's not every day that a Fado singer walks into your studio with a cd of vintage recordings. And as excited as I was to hear these recordings, I was even more intrigued by two photographs Maria brought with her. Seen above and below, these photographs document a performance given in 1954 for a group of "diplomats" visiting the Azores. Maria had little more to say about the performance than that and the ambiguity of her description makes me all the more curious about the event. Diplomats from where? The neighboring town? The mainland? What sort of diplomatic meeting could this be?

The top photograph offers little in the way of clues. The group assembled certainly looks distinguished. The military officers standing in the back, left-hand corner of the room bring an air of seriousness to this photograph (as do those in the audience dressed in tuxedos and ball gowns). But just when you start to think that the fate of the free world lies in the balance of this ballroom detente, all of the orthagonals in this photograph's composition point to Mr. Black-Bow-Tie who, seated in the center of the room, looks like the Portuguese version of the Maytag repairman, hatless and wearing a self-conscious grin.

But my attempts at Luc Sante-ish musings have nothing to do with our real work on this project. As well as scanning these photos for use as part of the label, we duplicated 100 copies of Maria's cd, now in her hands and entitled "Modas Regionais Vozes de Maria Do Natal e António Borges." The photograph below is what ended up on the face of cds themselves, a close up of the quartet in action, back in 1954, playing Fado songs for diplomats from the corner of a small ballroom somewhere in the Azores.

Duplicating the Localist

charles — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 12:15:00 -0600

This week we've been tackling a duplication job for the Localist. We're turning out a limited edition run of 300 cds for this weekend's Localist Dance Party (see below). The cd's look terrific, thanks to the design work of Paul Delostritto. We are printing the above cover art on the face of the cds themselves and then packaging the cd with an insert in clear polypropylene envelopes. The 22 track cd features contributions from a wide variety of local bands, MCs, and songwriters. All in all, it makes a cool giveaway for the event.

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Final product looks like this:

Duplication

charles — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:09:00 -0500

CD & DVD DUPLICATION:

• Short Runs

• Quick Turnaround

• Local Service

Full color inkjet printing on disc! Call for quote.

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Duplicate @ the dog.

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Modas Regionais Vozes de Maria Do Natal e António Borges

Duplicating the Localist

Duplication