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Music Box Records a new record label dedicated to film music
releases the scores composed by Francois de Roubaix
for Jean-Claude Roy's movies
In the nineties, with some friends,
we wanted to launch a magazine for movie buffs,
we were a bunch of six friends sharing the same interest in soundtracks.
One of our friends offered us the opportunity to join him on this review.
This magazine was "Music Box : pellicule sur ecoute".
As you can see, this issue was dedicated to Philippe Sarde.
The magazine title was a reference and a tribute to film music and to Philippe Sarde.
We thought Music Box was a good title for the magazine,
That's why we chose the french term "pellicule sur ecoute" ("reel to be heard"),
to pay tribute to Cinema and to music as well.
We created the fanzine before internet exists.
It included soundtrack reviews, interviews with composers and directors.
It was released every two months
but because we were all students at that time,
it was difficult to keep regular publications.
It lasted until 1996.
Mastering session at Art et Son Studio
It's Valerie piano waltz, original theme, right?
It was a period of our lives that we had enough time to ask ourselves,
what we really wanted to do professionally,
a job we can enjoy totally putting together our hobbies.
So it was obvious for us.
Why not creating a record label dedicated to film music?
We are soundtrack collectors and now label managers.
Maybe we were frustrated that
there were so many great unreleased soundtracks
that we would like to have in our CD collection.
Mathilde Casadesus, only came for one or two days of shooting.
She played the part of the butcher.
Monique Tarbes played her daughter.
It was a pity that we did not cut the two other segments of "Comment les seduire",
but the producers were running out of money.
Gilles Loison, writing liner notes for the CD booklet
CD artwork design
I worked just like it was a movie poster, with this scenography.
That was how I began.
I had to use these elements according to the visual style guidelines of Music Box Records.
The banner was good with the cover setting.
I chose purple for the banner in order to balance with pink and this dark purple.
And black is complementary to these colors.
I wanted to put women figures on the cover
and show different face gestures.
The characters look fixedly in order to catch the eye
with different expressions like fright and panic.
I thought it was in teresting.
The idea was to mix the three characters in order to tell their common story
and to create a futuristic but ancient world with geometrical shapes.
David has done an outstanding work on our first CD releases.
We are very thankful to him because
he created the visual identity of our record label.
That's why CD really matters to us.
Cyril had some specific graphic ideas about the logo.
I had to deal with themes of film music of course.
In order to refer to Cinema, it was obvious to use a reel
which I specially designed for the logo
and inserted on a boy's t-shirt.
CDs delivery
We have planned to release some scores by great French composers.
There are plenty of them such as
Philippe Sarde, Michel Magne,
Alexandre Desplat, Bruno Coulais, and also Philippe Rombi...
We hope to release six CDs this year. Anyway, it's our goal.
For beginning, we will release movie scores from the seventies and eighties.
We also hope to release more contemporary film scores pretty soon.