Angora Archival Sound

Music Consultants to the Entertainment Industry

Period movies and historical TV features can be seriously marred by the use of inappropriate or anachronistic music. Whether this is due to poor advice or to limited archival resources, the result is generally the same : a loss of basic production credibility, which in turn puts investment at risk. To address these problems, Angora can provide initial counselling on musical style, period, locale and idiom, then supply historically plausible, digitally-restored vintage recordings from an extensive, primary-source analog archive.

20th century music research for film, TV and radio.

Customized supply of digitally-restored vintage music recordings (from 25,000 originals on 78, LP and analog tape).

Mac-based ProTools® studio platform, using Cedar® restoration technology.

 Recent Assignments (2003):

"Bakelite Express" - 13-part series of vintage music and spoken word for Australian Broadcasting Corp., Sydney, plus CD albums of this show remastered from 78 r.p.m. originals.

"Hot Women" (Kein & Aber, Zürich) - CD album of vintage World Music produced with cartoonist R. Crumb from 1920s-40s originals.

 Media Acclaim:

Angora's restoration work for Frémeaux & associés (Paris) has received the coveted Diapason d'Or three times: once in 2001 (Cab Calloway - "Wa Dee Dah") and twice in 1999 (Fred Astaire - "Fascinating Rhythm" ; Duke Ellington - "The Duke and His Men").

 Who are we?

Angora Productions Ltd. is a U.K.-based company with studios located in southern France. Director and Chief Engineer Tony Baldwin (left) worked in radio and TV in Australia (ABC) and Japan (NHK), before relocating to Paris in 1992. Clients include NPR, BBC, EMI, Timeless, Past Perfect, Paris Jazz Corner, ABC Records (Sydney), Kein & Aber, Frémeaux & associates, Masters of Jazz.