Blanco y Negro Records

UK record label

This article is about the UK record label. For the Spanish record label, see Blanco y Negro Music.

This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Blanco y Negro Records" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (November 2013) (Learn how and when to remove this message)

|

Record label

Blanco y Negro

Parent company| WEA Records Ltd. (Warner Music Group)
Founded| 1983 (1983)
Founder| Geoff Travis, Mike Alway
Status| Defunct
Distributor(s)| Warner Bros. Records Atlantic Records UK
Genre| Various
Country of origin| United Kingdom
Location| London

Blanco y Negro Records (Spanish: "White and Black"), a subsidiary of WEA Records Ltd., was established in 1983 by Geoff Travis of Rough Trade Records and Mike Alway of él Records. Michel Duval of Les Disques du Crépuscule was also involved with the label.

Blanco y Negro was the label of Queen Adreena, Everything but the Girl, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Eddi Reader, the Dream Academy, Dinosaur Jr., Sudden Sway, Bernthøler, A House, Catatonia, the Veils and, reportedly, Elizabeth Fraser,[1] former vocalist of Cocteau Twins. It also signed folk supergroup Equation and Irish singer Cara Dillon who also was signed to the label with partner Sam Lakeman.

## See also

[edit]

* List of record labels

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Solo album by Cocteau Twins frontwoman Elizabeth Fraser out this spring". Side-line.com. 22 February 1999. Retrieved 24 June 2012.

## External links

[edit]

* Blanco y Negro Records discography at Discogs

Authority control databases |

* MusicBrainz label

|

This article about a United Kingdom record label is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

|

* v
* t
* e

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template