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Discos Qualiton Argentina
Parent company Fonema S. A.
Founded 1961
Founder Nelson Montes-Bradley, Ivan Cosentino, Nora Raffo, Carlos Melero. Nelson Montes-Bradley was born in Rosario, Argentina, in September 12, 1935.
Distributing label Discos Qualiton
Genre Various
Country of origin Argentina
Location Rosario, Buenos Aires

Discos Qualiton was an Argentine record label, one of the labels published by the extinct recording studio Fonema. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. In the Music industry, a record label can be a Brand and a Trademark associated with the Marketing of music recordings and Music A garage experiment born in Rosario, Argentina in 1961, Qualiton would later became a major independent project influencing an entire generation of artists, writers, musicians, poets and filmmakers. For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Argentina topics. Year 1961 ( MCMLXI) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. It left a significant footprint similar to what Blue Note Records had done in the 1940s and 1950s.

Contents

Early days

The first attempts by Cosentino and Montes-Bradley to produce and publish vinyl records in Argentina was made as Fondo Cultural, a business incorporated in Buenos Aires. A vinyl compound is any Organic compound that contains a vinyl group (also called ethenyl) &minus C[[Hydrogen H]] =CH sub>2 Fondo Cultural resorted to the use of the name Qualiton, which eventually lead to the establishment of a close relationship with the homonymous Qualiton of Hungary, the state owned record company during the communist years. Hungary (Magyarország 'mɔɟɔrorsaːg) officially in English the Republic of Hungary ( Magyar Köztársaság, literally Magyar (Hungarian Republic Communism is a Socioeconomic structure that promotes the establishment of an egalitarian, classless, stateless Society based

The first recording made by Discos Qualiton was “Catares de los pajes de la nao”, a choral work by Joaquin Rodrigo performed by the Coro Estable de Rosario and directed by Cristián Hernández Larguía in 1961. Joaquín Rodrigo Vidre ( 22 November 1901 &ndash 6 July 1999) was a composer of classical music Soon, the idea of producing choruses became a perfect venue to establish the company in the local arena. Editions of no more than 300 LPs, were being quickly absorbed amongst the members of the chorus ensemble and their close relatives[1]. By 1965, the early catalog of Discos Qualiton produced by Fondo Cultural, was beginning to develop into a greater ordeal. Fondo Cultural became extinct and Fonema incorporated thus allowing Nora Raffo and Carlos Melero, newest members of the Qualiton team, to joined in the corporation[2].

The following Fonema years, were mostly but not exclusively dedicated to produce classical music with a particular emphasis in baroque and colonial periods in Latin America under its Qualiton label. Baroque art redirects here Please disambiguate such links to Baroque painting, Baroque sculpture, etc Also worth mentioning, are the recordings of ethnographic music harvested in the field and gather under the label Serie del Conocimiento and the unique recordings of literary works known as Juglaría.

The 1970's period

During the 1970’s Fonema expanded its catalog. New investors were seduced by the idea of creating a major independent label. Curt von Simpson and Gertrudis Moser joined Fonema bringing in the needed contacts with local banks (namely Banco Oddone) and a state-of-the-arts 24 channel recording studio was built to specs. The original concept of a small and family orientated garage experiment had grown out of proportion. By 1976, a military putsch lead by Jorge Rafael Videla, ousted Argentine president Isabel Martínez de Perón making life quite difficult for the arts in general and in particular for domestic labels linked to the previous years of social unrest. Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo (born August 21, 1925 in Mercedes Buenos Aires) was the dictator and President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981 María Estela Martínez Cartas de Perón (born February 4, 1931) better known as Isabel Martínez de Perón or Isabel Perón, is a former

Only a few complete-collections of Discos Qualiton and other labels associated to Fonema and Fondo Cultural, have survived and are available in a hand full of libraries, mostly in research institutes in Europe and the US and a few private collections.

Catalogue

According to what has been reconstructed from catalogues, newspaper articles and vinyl records still available, Qualiton was one of five labels published by Fonema in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The other four labels were: Colección privada (Private Stock), Serie del conocimiento (Knowledge Series), Archivo Colonial de América Latina (Colonial Archive of L. A. ) and Juglaría. Each new album released by Fonema was identified with an alphanumeric code in one of the five labels. Some of the sequences in the catalog are interrupted and this is perhaps due perhaps to the fact the albums were never released or that we have not yet been able to identify it's contents. In order to facilitate the research we have presented each album (LP) in the following categories: Classical Music, World music, Voices, Pop Music and Others. Classical music is a broad term that usually refers to mainstream music produced in or rooted in the traditions of Western liturgical and Secular music The term world music includes Traditional music (sometimes called Folk music or roots music of any culture that are created and played by indigenous musicians

Classical

La Nación, Nov. 24, 1967
La Nación, Nov. 24, 1967
Poeta de la legua
Poeta de la legua

Private Stock

(Colección Privada). A total of five titles were released by Fonema under the label Colección Privada (Private Stock):

Juglaría

Spoken Word: Parallel to the recording of timeless musical works by the great masters and contemporary Argentine authors Discos Qualiton published a unique catalogue of literature on vinyl. A vinyl compound is any Organic compound that contains a vinyl group (also called ethenyl) &minus C[[Hydrogen H]] =CH sub>2 Authors such as Federico García Lorca, Dylan Thomas, Jacques Prévert or local icon Tejada Gómez were either publish in their own voice or read and interpreted by others. Federico García Lorca' ( 5 June 1898 &ndash 19 August 1936) was a Spanish Poet and dramatist also remembered as Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953 was a Welsh poet who wrote exclusively in English Jacques Prévert (ʒak pʀeˈvɛʀ in French February 4, 1900 - April 11, 1977) was a French Poet and Screenwriter At least eleven titles (a total of twelve LP's), were released under this category. Half way through the series, the ID numbers that identify each title in a catalog were changed. The denomination “QH” corresponds to the original Qualiton, the following known as the series that begin with “JC” and “JQ” were inscribed in the attempt by Fonema to create label exclusively for literary works. The later was known as Juglaría.

World Music

The Artwork

Fonema's distinct catalog was acknowledged not only from its content of original and unusual recordings, but also for its commitment to the visual arts. Each LP jacket was carefully designed with the works of local artists such as Mele Bruniard, Battle Planas, Luis Seoane, Antonio Berni and Mario Loza. Luís Seoane (1910-1979 was a lithographer and artist Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina on June 1, 1910, of Galician immigrants he spent much Delesio Antonio Berni ( 14 May 1905 &ndash 13 October 1981) was a neofigurative artist, born in Rosario, province The graphic corporate image of Qualiton was created by Oscar Díaz. Díaz was a prestigious local graphic artist who also conceived the unique logo of Discos Qualiton, Juglaría and Colección Privada. A graphic designer (also known as a graphic artist and communication designer) is a professional within the Graphic design and Graphic arts industry Qualiton's logo, a spiral to its center representing the groove in a vinyl record, incorporated the illusion of a human eye. The concept merged the idea of music and the visual arts in one label. Pablo Barragan, also a graphic designer, joined Qualiton as the in-house artist during the last years of Fonema.

Notes

  1. ^ La Prensa, October 30, 1967. Article by Eduardo Lagos. Title: @Tango y Folklore
  2. ^ La Nación, Nov. 24, 1967

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