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The Numero Group

"Reissue label of the year" - The Onion

About Me

Recent statements you may have heard:
Anything but another record label. Please, we don't need another one of those clogging up the bins. Accountants with coke habits, lawyers using Pitchfork as a tip sheet, 60 year-old executives awkwardly trying to converse with 17 year-old groupies. Marketing meetings. Junior VP's.
Enter the Numero Group. Founded by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shipley in 2003, the three self-proclaimed "record obsessives" decided to approach the record business backwards. No corporate hierarchy; no company stationary. Just a big pile of music that no one had ever heard of.
The mission was simple: to dig deep into the recesses of our record collections with the goal of finding the dustiest gems begging to be released from their exile on geek street. No longer would $500 singles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be played. No more would the artists, writers, and entrepreneurs who made these records happen go unknown and unappreciated.
Numero releases are sound with substance, living at the nexus of song and story. Scrupulously researched, painstakingly re-mastered, and with an attention to detail that is unmatched in the reissue field, the end result is a top-of-the-line compact disc.
There is no "Numero" sound; instead, Numero offers an aesthetic. A shelf of Numero discs feels less like a "record collection" and more like a library. The library to date is a mix of thrift shop soul, skinny tie pop, Belizean funk, and hillbilly gospel. Numero makes records for people who may have everything from indigenous Central American drumming to Canadian chanteuses stacked next to their CD players.
This is it. Welcome home.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 3/20/2006
Band Website: numerogroup.com
Band Members: Bill Moss, Johnson Hawkins Tatum & Durr, Marion Black, Kool Blues, Four Mints, Ronnie Taylor, Elijah & the Ebonites, Antena , Majestic Arrows, Arrows, Linda Balentine, Johnny Davis, Altyrone Deno Brown, Luxury, Tweeds, Colors , Speedies , Shoes, Sponsors, Bats, Randy Winburn, Toms, Kids, Treble Boys, Tommy Rock, Tactics, Finns, LMNOP, Jack Stack A Track, Trend, Fern Jones, Lord Rhaburn, Harmonettes, Jesus Acosta, Professionals, Web, Soul Creations, Nadia Cattouse, Them Two, Moovers, Helene Smith, Freda Gray, Betty Wright , Johnny K Killens & the Dynamites, Frank Williams & the Rocketeers, Paul Kelly, Becky Severson, Collie Ryan, Linda Rich, Caroline Peyton, Carla Sciaky, Judy Kelly, Shira Small , Jennie Pearl, Mary Perrin, Priscilla Quinby, Barbara Sipple, Marj Snyder, Ginny Reilly, Ellen Warshaw, L. Hollis & the Mackadoos, Edd Henry, Bob & Fred, Soul President, Ms. Tyree "Sugar" Jones, Essence, Mae Young, Performers, Sleepwalkers, Manhattens, Grand Prix's.
Influences: Actuel, Honest Jons, Impulse!, Ace, Rhino Handmade.
Sounds Like: We make the kind of records you didn't even know you wanted to own.
Record Label: The Numero Group
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

Catherine Howe: What A Beautiful Place

We wanted to make a really simple record. After a year of being plagued by complex compilations, multiple trips to Detroit, and a hellacious move, The Numero Group wanted an easy autumn lay up. Our of...
Posted by The Numero Group on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 12:38:00 PST

Our latest: 008 Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The Canyon

008 Wayfaring Strangers: Ladies From The CanyonWhen we started working on this collection two and a half years ago, we had no idea that folk was about to begin its initial climb from the coffee houses...
Posted by The Numero Group on Tue, 21 Mar 2006 08:03:00 PST