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The Red Records Story

A story worth telling. When a cultural enterprise such as Red Records reaches fifty years of uninterrupted activity, many questions inevitably arise in the attempt to offer readers a meaningful perspective. And the readers of our magazine, let’s say it plainly, know this label very well – a label that, still alive and thriving, moves between a sufficiently distant past to be examined through historiographical categories and a future that demands rigorous journalistic methodology. After all, as Francesco Brusco wrote in his excellent book on the Italian music industry: “Record-making creativity is collective by nature. The various agents in the recording process – artist/performer, producer, musician, sound engineer – participate in a type of creativity that, through musical practice, is mutually interdependent with the structure, domain and field of record production” (La voce del padrone, Jaca Book, 2022, p. 161). Now, when speaking about such a long journey through time, […]

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