Mort de Patrick Mathé New Rose Records avec Discographie *complète, histoire, photos, liens et vidéo (Libération 19 novembre 2018) et par moi

Mort de Patrick Mathé, fondateur du label New Rose — Libération 19 novembre 2018

In Memoriam: Patrick Mathé of New Rose & Last Call Records

Posted By *Alex Greene

Today, the French journal Libération reports that Patrick Mathé, co-founder of New Rose Records and Last Call Records, has died.

The details are not available at this time. He was 69.

originally linked by Alex Greene, editor Memphis Flyer, in his Memphis-centric tribute to Patrick Mathé

Mort de Patrick Mathé, fondateur du label New Rose

— 19 novembre 2018 à 20:16

Figure importante du rock en France, Patrick Mathé est mort dimanche.

Né en 1949, il avait ouvert en 1980 le magasin New Rose à Paris, après avoir participé à l’importation du punk dans la capitale dès 1976.

New Rose deviendra rapidement l’un des centres névralgiques du rock dans la capitale.

Mathé lancera un label du même nom quelques mois plus tard, avec son associé Louis Thévenon.

 

     Important figure of rock in France, Patrick Mathé died Sunday.

Born in 1949, he opened the New Rose store in Paris in 1980, after having participated in the importation of punk into Paris in 1976.

New Rose will quickly become one of the nerve centers of rock in the capital.

Mathé will launch a label of the same name a few months later with his partner Louis Thévenon.

 —

my little bagatelle

 — 

Patrick  Mathé, fondateur du New Rose Records, est décédé subitement, tout à fait trop jeune 

 par moi

On Facebook, the night before, Patrick  Mathé was happily doing what he loved doing;
playing videos for himself, happy if others liked them (tasteful chestnuts, American outliers, Punk, obscure classics, soulful blues, New Orleans jazz, French pop and croon).

He and his label will be familiar to half of Memphis or wherever erudite music-lovers gravitate.

my connection:

Our Favorite Band! 

"Pink Cadillac"

James Barber

New Rose picks up distribution, and releases my band's debut, only LP, 

Our Favorite Band

Saturday Nights...Sunday Mornings

Label:

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright (p) – Big Time Records (America) Inc.
• Copyright (c) – Big Time Records (America) Inc.
• Manufactured By – RCA Records
• Distributed By – RCA Records

Credits

• Performer – Donald W. Spicer, Maury O'Rourk
• Performer [Guest] – Doug Easley, Grady Pinkerton, Jason Ringenberg, Jeff Johnson (4), Jody Mallory, Leanne Smith, Mark Redding, Michael Stipe, Peter Hyrka, Randy Chertow, Ross Johnson, Steve Forbert, Tim Krekel, Tim Prudhomme, Ward Gros, Warner Hodges
• Producer – Donald W. Spicer

New Rose Records ‎– ROSE 120

Country:

France

Released:

1987

Genre:

Rock

Notes

Michael Stipe appears as guest

Coincidentally, renowned Memphis rebound artist, Alex Chilton and OFB shared the same path from Big Time Records in America, having been signed by Jim BARBER in 1985, as well as the added distinction of both having been contemporaneously signed for exclusive distribution in all European markets by Patrick Mathé, New Rose Records.

I later went on to record and produce projects for New Rose, including LGL's LP, when I called Linda Gail the year before from the Memphis telephone book at Doug Easley's famous console, and asked her to duet with me on 'Oh, Boy!'

Approached by me after my duet with Linda Gail on 'Every Day's a Holly Day,' she jumped at her first chance to make a record  in 10 years!  

OFB

Oh Boy

Bass – Ron Easley

Drums, Tambourine – Michael Radovsky

Guitar, Lead Guitar, Recorded By – Doug Easley

Guitar, Producer – Donald W. Spicer

Vocals – Linda Gail Lewis, Maury O'Rourk

I remain eternally grateful to Patrick, who provided belief and support, enabling me, and providing much-needed boost for already legendary sister of Jerry Lee Lewis, Linda Gail Lewis, whose decade-long-dormancy was about to recover with the release of this album:

Linda Gail Lewis

'International Affair'

comeback album extraordinaire

Label:

New Rose Records ‎– ROSE 238 CD

Format:

CD, Album

Country:

France

Released:

1990

Genre:

Rock

*alex greene played on two tracks of my Linda Gail Lewis-produced record, released by New Rose, 1991, International Affair, as did Doug Easley, Lamar Sorrento,  Steve Forbert and a cast of all-Memphis musicians too numerous to recount

from

Patrick Mathé

New Rose Disque

Paris FR

1990

produced by *me

(*Doug "K-Dough" Easley pretty much did everything else).

@rxgau #thanks (the producer) #LindaGailLewis
International Affair [New Rose, 1991]
The long-ago costar of the lowbrow gem Together registers more twang per syllable than prime Duane Eddy, belting and screeching like a flat-out hillbilly--Jeannie C. Riley https://t.co/dq8SGxo5O1

— mrjyn (@mrjyn) 23 juin 2018

 

Linda Gail Lewis

• International Affair

• A-

Consumer Guide Review:

Robert Christgau

The long-ago costar of the lowbrow gem Together registers more twang per syllable than prime Duane Eddy, belting and screeching like a flat-out hillbilly--Jeannie C. Riley, say. But though I'd love to hear her "Harper Valley P.T.A." (or "Fist City," or "9 to 5"), she's Jerry Lee's sister, wild-ass before she's anything else.

She doesn't ignore country on this band-centered studio job, but except for Billy Swan's "I Can Help" ("If your child needs a mama we can discuss that too"), the standouts are from Wolf-Justman, Dave Edmunds, Bob Dylan, all of whom should be damn proud.

Covering "They Called It Rock," she gets up to "Someone in the newspaper said it was shit," and instead of rushing discreetly on to the next line she draws out that last word with the relish of a gal who's waited to sing it all her life. A-

Glowingly praised (that's about the best thing she or I have ever read) from Robert Christagau in his essential, annual Village Voice, Pazz and Jop best-of.

International Affair

Tracklist 

1	I Can Help Written-By – Billy Swan	3:23
2	We Were Both Wrong Written-By – B. Murray*	2:40
3	Cry One More Time Written-By – Wolf*, Justman*	2:47
4	They Call It Rock Written-By – Dave Edmunds, Nick Lowe	4:10
5	Clean Cut Kid Written-By – Bob Dylan	3:47
6	A.I. On The Jukebox Written-By – Dave Edmunds, Will Birch	3:23
7	Suddenly Single Written-By – Hutch Hornsby	3:13
8	Tongue And Cheek Written-By – D. Gillespie*	4:11
9	I Feel So Bad Written By – Johnson, Tample	3:00
10	Las Vegas (With Maury O'Rourk, Live) Written-By – G. Parsons*, Rick Grech	4:41

• Engineer – Davis McCain, Doug "K-Dough" Easley*
• Photography By – Doug Easley, Trey Harrison
• Producer – Maury O'Rourk
• Sleeve – Huart/Cholley

Recorded and mixed at Easley Recordings, Memphis, TN

*This album is dedicated to the greatest entertainer in the word: my brother JERRY LEE LEWIS.

I've learned so much from him: not just about music, but about myself and life.

He will always be my greatest inspiration! He told me something recently that I will never forget, he said,

"Linda, play music because you love it, not for any other reason but just because you love it."

— Linda Gail Lewis 

 

Patrick Mathe and New Rose front-loaded a small but graciously accepted all-in budget of $6,000 1990 dollars.

Recorded at Doug Easley's original backyard studio, i themed out a strange Memphis Honky Tonk gumbo absorbed by mine and Doug Easley's frequent outings to Hernando's Hideaway, enshrining its atmosphere, and hiring some of its house band to capture the anomaly which was HH; proudly constructed  sans provenance as an organic, hand-picked, all-Memphis group of disparate but weirdly compatible coequal friends and HH musicians.

My project, Linda Gail Lewis "International Affair," propelled her from Hernando's Hideaway to Van Morrison and beyond, reinstating her filial supremacy as lifetime opener for her brother Jerry Lee Lewis and current, outrageously successful tour of Rockabilly Heaven, Sweden.

This project was a joy to put together, generously mentored by the ever-inspired, ever-inspiring Doug Easley (tell him hello when you see him, and show him this).

referencing International Affair, CD, Album, ROSE 238 CD

Linda Gail Lewis ‎– International Affair

Credits

Engineer – Davis McCain , Doug "K-Dough" Easley*
Photography By – Doug Easley , Trey Harrison
Producer – Maury O'Rourk
Sleeve – Huart/Cholley

Notes
Recorded and mixed at Easley Recording, Memphis, TN

Easley Recording

Easley Recording (also Easley Studios) was a recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee founded in the late 1970s by Doug Easley.

The studio was renamed Easley McCain Recording around 1990 when Easley was joined by business partner Davis McCain and moved into larger premises.

From there, Linda Gail Lewis spent the equivalent probationary period as her brother had suffered, following his infamous London debacle with new bride, 13-year-old cousin Myra Gail Lewis.

Arduous years of networking the Rockabilly Trail from Memphis to Malmo, LGL has reemerged as the natural force of nature she is, recovered and fully-bloomed as we speak.

Patrick Mathé collected a truly eclectic stable of artists, most of whom will remember his quick-dealing, non-interference and polite but firm confidence; signing bands from the gut and heart
(Memphis will recognize Patrick in its own original fulminator, Sam Phillips).

Memphis-talent Patrick Mathé intuitively signed:

 

Tav Falco and Panther Burns, Alex Chilton, Jim Dickinson Mudboy and the Neutrons, Country Rockers, Our Favorite Band, Hellcats, Linda Gail Lewis and Charlie Feather's masterwork (and that's just a greatest-hits of Memphis).

His perfect ear corralled disparate bands (not to him) into an exclusive club, forming a massive catalogue, both varietal and cohesive with a continuity borne from his process:

sell immediately,
recycle small profits,
reinvest in ever-increasing label and catalogue,
exponentially fund newer, less marketable acts,
REPEAT.

Patrick Mathé either started your career in European markets, parlayed in America with a more mature, confidence, or gave them the shot needed to more easily ween-off an old back catalogue, creating a new following; all because of one man.

Patrick Mathé and his label held belief in artists such as these, in many cases representing a first interest or investment for a decade.

h c

 
The super-luxe, shiny New Rose upgrade was due to the gifted design team of Huart & Cholley, two unheralded geniuses whose loyalty and mutual respect for Patrick Mathé shown in every detail — finely produced for approval from their friend, whose enthusiasm never wavered, album to album.

H&C consistently created album art never to be seen this way again; lush, decadently rich design, unrivaled by, yet out-spent, by the majors.

Whether you noticed or not, their covers are unequal to their investment, inspiring bands to deliver quality.

I refer to their secret weapon as a fine Champagne.

Elan, énergie oozing from each LP, a suppurating, small-batch Bourbon.

A discretely placed stamp whispered exquisite restraint, continuity, and sublime distinction,
reading in 9-pica brand-chic typography, "Made in Paris," issued from small but mighty New Rose Disque-fondateur du label New Rose.

Maury O'Rourk

Vocals
		Our Favorite Band!* - Pink Cadillac
Praxis Records		1981		1 1
		Oh Boy Various - Everyday Is A Holly Day
New Rose Records		1989
Instruments & Performance
		OFB* - Saturday Nights...Sunday Mornings ‎(LP, Album)	Big Time	6041-1-B	1987
Writing & Arrangement
		Our Favorite Band!* - Pink Cadillac
Praxis Records		1981		1 1
Production
		Linda Gail Lewis - International Affair
New Rose Records		1990
Visual
		Kim Fowley - Sex Cars & God ‎(2xCD, Album)	Koch International	333352	1998
		Timothy Prudhomme - With The Hole Dug ‎(CD, Album)	Smells Like Records	slr047	2002

 

Two new essay collections, published by Duke University Press

Book Reports features reviews of not only the pop-music tomes you'd predict but also literary fiction, Marxist-adjacent cultural commentary, feminist debates over pornography, and even books about the past decade's financial crisis. It follows a collection that Christgau published last year,

Is It Still Good to Ya? Fifty Years of Rock Criticism, 1967-2017, which includes Christgau's takes on, among many other things, classic rock, Kanye West, the music of Desert Storm, Lollapalooza, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, and so-called guilty pleasures--a category that Christgau rejects, since, for rock critics, as he puts it, "pleasure is where meaning begins." Together, these collections make the sneaky case that Christgau is not just the Dean of American Rock Critics, his self-awarded and perhaps slightly off-putting nickname, but one of America's sharper public intellectuals of the past half century, and certainly one of its most influential--not to mention one of the better stylists in that cohort. Fun is a big part of why.

--David Cantwell, The New Yorker

Posted by mrjyn 08/07/2019 at 5:14 AM