{{Short description|French record label}} {{Expand French|topic=Record Label|date=February 2021}}{{Infobox record label | name = Buda Musique | founded = {{start date and age|1987}} | genre = World music | founder = Gilles Fruchaux, Dominique Buscall | location = France | url = {{URL|budamusique.com}} }}
'''Buda Musique''' is a French record label specializing in world music. It was founded in 1987 by Gilles Fruchaux and Dominique Buscall. After Buscall died in 1990, Fruchaux became the sole owner.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Romero|first=Angel|date=2021-02-10|title=Interview with Gilles Fruchaux, Founder of Buda Musique|url=https://worldmusiccentral.org/2021/02/10/interview-with-gilles-fruchaux-founder-of-buda-musique/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-02-24|website=World Music Central|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210210134640/https://worldmusiccentral.org/2021/02/10/interview-with-gilles-fruchaux-founder-of-buda-musique/ |archive-date=2021-02-10 }}</ref> The label is especially known for its 32 Volume ''Éthiopiques'' series.<ref>{{Cite news | last=Chinen | first=Nate | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/music/22gold.html | newspaper=The New York Times | title=Sounds of Africa (the Four-Hour Mix) | date=2008-08-21 | accessdate=2012-02-01}}</ref>
Buda Musique has released over 400 albums, including recordings by ethio-jazz figures Mulatu Astatke, Mahmoud Ahmed, Alemayehu Eshete, saxophonist Getatchew Mekurya; klezmer musicians as Nano Peylet, Denis Cuniot, Yom; and world-music singers and bands like Les Yeux Noirs, Lo Còr de la Plana, Los Incas, Ray Lema, Cheikha Remitti, Cheb Hasni, Mugar and Jean-Pierre Drouet among others.
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==External links== *[http://www.budamusique.com/ Buda Musique Home Page]
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