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 blues, but has expanded to cover a 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 ...
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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 blues, but has expanded to cover a 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.
From late 1970s to throughout the 1980s, it also acted as a concert promoter organizing series of concerts...
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