Be With Records continue their library music odyssey of the French Tele Music label – eight more albums reissued in September, which fetch fortunes

One of the UK’s foremost reissue labels – Be With Records – continues its love affair with the cult Parisian library music label Tele Music. There will be eight albums reissued throughout September that cost collectors hundreds in their original format.

Pierre Dutour’s 1979 album Top Fiction kicks off the September bonanza. Also in September will be Pierre-Alain Dahan’s Continental Pop Sound (1972), its sequel Rythmiques (1973) – with synth pioneer Mat Camison – and Dahan’s Neo Rythmiques (1976) with Slim Pezin.

French composer Dahan was a drummer/percussionist and was a key member of the legendary outfits Arpadys, Disco & Co, Voyage, Tumblack (with Wally Badarou and Mallia) and the Jef Gilson Septet.

Slim Pezin played with Voyage, Manu Dibango and Nino Ferrer.

Next up in mid-September, the Be With spotlight will fall on the earliest of the Tele Music eight. The label was founded by French library music pioneer Roger Tokarz in 1966, and an early jazz monster was by fellow countryman Guy Pedersen with Contrebasses (1970). Pedersen was a superb jazz-soul-funk double-bass player.

Label head Rob Butler explains: “Forget library, this is basically a sublime, straight-up moody jazz record with monster breaks. It’s brimming with sensational psychedelic/jazzy bass-heavy moments throughout; it’s absolute gold.

“It’s one of the most outstanding – yet puzzlingly slept-on – releases in the library’s catalogue.”

Also out in mid-September is the Phasing News double header.

Michel Gonet’s albums have been collector’s items for many a year, manly thanks to their level of perfection, unique sound, as well as their sumptuous expanse and depth – as Tele Music themselves said, they contain “tense and mysterious underscores in a range of styles”.