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Xenophile Records

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Parent company
  
Compass Records

Genre
  
World music

Location
  
Nashville, Tennessee

Founder
  
Wendy Newton

Distributor(s)
  
Ryko Distribution

Country of origin
  
U.S.

Official website
  
www.greenlinnet.com

Founded
  
1992

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Albums
  
Jews with Horns, Kedu America, Aitara, Amar de Nuevo, Lejanía

Xenophile Records is a Nashville, Tennessee based sublabel of Green Linnet Records that specializes in world music from Madagascar, Nigeria, Haiti, Chile, Argentina, Finland and other countries. The label was started in 1992 in Danbury, Connecticut by Wendy Newton as a subsidiary of Green Linnet. In 2006, Newton sold Green Linnet and Xenophile to Digital Music Group, an aggregator of downloadable music. DMG in turn sold the rights to manufacture and distribute Green Linnet and Xenophile physical compact discs to Compass Records.

Artists released under the Xenophile label include Inti-Illimani, Värttinä, Boukan Ginen, Sabri Brothers, Chief I. K. Dairo MBE, Dembo Konte, Milli Bermejo, Daniel Diaz (musician), John Santos, Conjunto Céspedes, Boca Livre, The Klezmatics, Simbi and Tarika. The Xenophile catalog remains available through Compass/Green Linnet, which is based in Nashville.

References

Xenophile Records Wikipedia