World-compilation label Putumayo successfully sells high concepts to well-heeled base
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While the rest of the music industry downsizes like mad, an 11-year-old independent label the majors used to snicker at has scored a 15 percent sales increase over the past two years. Not only surviving but thriving, Putumayo World Music — based in New York but named for a picturesque river valley in Colombia — is getting the last laugh largely because it breaks the rules. Continue reading “Putamayo: The Little Label That Could”