P-Vine Records
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| P-Vine Records | |
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| Parent company | Space Shower Networks Inc. |
| Founded | December 24, 1975 |
| Founder | Yasufumi Higurashi Akira Kochi |
| Genre | blues, soul, etc. |
| Country of origin | Japan |
| Official website | http://p-vine.com http://www.bls-act.co.jp/ |
P-Vine Records is a record label started by Blues Interactions, Inc., a firm in Tokyo, Japan established in 1975 by Yasufumi Higurashi and Akira Kochi. It started out as a label specializing in black music such as blues and soul music, but it has expanded to cover wider range of music including, jazz, latin music, funk, j-pop, to garage punk.
Though the label has released some newly recorded materials, its primary focus has been on reissuing vintage recordings. P-Vine has released materials from labels such as Chess, Delmark, Modern/Kent, Black Top, Alligator among many others. It was also responsible for releasing previously unreleased live and studio recordings by Parliament-Funkadelic.
Apart from P-Vine label, Blues Interactions has been running other labels including Substance and P-Vine NonStop. It has also been engaged in publishing magazines (such as Blues & Soul Records and Black Music Review) and books. At one point it also acted as a concert promoter bringing artists like Albert Collins, Eddie Vinson, and John Lee Hooker to Japan.
Blues Interactions had been independently owned by the two founders until November 2006 when Space Shower Networks Inc., a cable television enterprise focusing on music, acquired 49% of its stock. In November 2007, Blues Interactions became wholly owned subsidiary of Space Shower and the two founders withdrew from management. The new management announced that the company would maintain the P-Vine label and its name[1].
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