Produccions Blau sell MP3 via Ritmoteca.com

The Mallorcan record company, Produccions Blau, has reached an agreement with the firm Ritmoteca.com, based in Miami to sell music of the Balearics in MP3 format via Internet. Five CDs can already be acquired from Ritmoteca.com by five artists of the Balearics: Biel Majoral, UC, Música Nostra, Ximbomba Atòmica and S’Albaida. Each song can also be acquired independently for $1.99.

Via this initiative, Producions Blau wishes to take advantage of the new technologies and ways of distribution for digital music, to continue with the constant objective of reaching the maximum promotion of the Balearic artists integrated in the record company.

Since it was founded in 1982, Produccions Blau has produced and edited the greater part of Balearic records, including all styles but particularly folk and traditional music. It also carries out an intense activity to promote the Balearic music production abroad, participating in the most important international fairs, such as the latest edition of Midem in Cannes.

Meanwhile, Blau also participates in many other promotional cultural activities in the Balearics. At the moment, Miquel Àngel Sancho, manager of Produccions Blau and the popular music shop, Xocolat, is participating as a consultant for the project for the creation of the first radioformula in Catalan that will be broadcast as from September 1, by SOM Ràdio, a project promoted by the Council of Culture of the Balearic Government and administered by the Grupo Serra.

Miquel Àngel Sancho has collaborated with MallorcaWeb in several projects. The first one, in 1998, was the creation of the web for popular composer-singer from Algaida, Biel Majoral, coinciding with the edition of the artist's first CD, "Vou veri vou per no dormir", where, for the first time in the short history of Internet, the sound of the authentic Mallorcan ximbomba could be heard online all over the world. Later, in the same year, the Especial Música was created which included songs in Real Audio by ten Balearic artistes. At Christmas 1999-2000, the traditional chant of the Sibil·la, interpreted by Pere Antoni Canyelles Pons of Els Blavets de Lluc was put on line. More recently, with the publication of the second record by Biel Majoral, the page for the new record was created, "Temps, temps, temps...".

Finally, mention must be made of the fact that Produccions Blau is also present on the net via the distributor, Discmedi, based in Barcelona, founded in 1989 by Miquel Àngel Sancho, together with other partners.

Date of publication: 25/08/2000

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