Various - The BYG Deal

Featuring rare tracks by the likes of Vangelis, Gong, Brigitte Fontaine, Art Ensemble Of Chicago –
many of which have never appeared on any format away from their original releases.

On paper a label like BYG shouldn't have worked. A
collapsed business plan salvaged from the flames of a
Molotov cocktail. A makeshift label built around second
hand music, handshake deals, alter egos and backstabs
after scratches; resulting in an unexpected explosion of
positive and spiritual energy emerging from political
turmoil in an unsympathetic era united and guided under
a divine symbol - that was stolen as a marketing mascot
from a plastic key fob.

‘The BYG Deal’ featuring early, rare, desperate and
covert recordings by Vangelis, Gong, Art Ensemble
Of Chicago, Brigitte Fontaine, Jean-Claude
Vannier and members of Soft Machine, Procol
Harum, Popera Cosmic, Visitors, MAGMA,
Aphrodite’s Child and Los Bravos.

Between 1968 and 1974 the combination of B, Y and G
might not have been the surefire code to financial
fulfilment but the indelible contribution to experimental
pop, free jazz, spiritual prog rock and total space music
would continue to send positive vibrations through
future generations of progressive pop.

Tracklisting:

Alice - Que Pouvons - Nous Faire Ensemble? * François Wertheimer - L’Automne *
Brigitte Fontaine And Areski - Ca Va Faire Un Hit * Gong - Hip Hypnotise You *
Alan Jack - Ny Change Rien * Couer Magique - Madmoiselle Marie * Valerie
Lagrange - Si Ma Chanson Pouvait * Alpha Beta - Astral Abuse * Jacques
Barsamian - Rockers En Liberté * Ame Son - Je Veux Justre Dire * Rock Out - Art
Ensemble Of Chicago * Gong - Rational Anthem * Freedom - Dirty Water *
Vangelis - Stuffed Tomato * Ame Son - Eclosion (Marie Aux Quatre Vents) * Paul
Semama - Mon Petit Garcon * Inter-Groupie Psychotherapeutic Elastic Band -
Floating * Banana Moon - All I Want Is Out Of Here * Alice - Viens * Couer
Magique - Pacha * Joachim And Rolf Kuhn - Bloody Rockers * Gong - Mother Long
Shanks (Oh Mother I Am Your Fantasy)

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