Blanco y Negro Records

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

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

• List of record labels

References

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

External links

• Blanco y Negro Records discography at Discogs