The culture, on record. In the family.
Featuring Cyril Darensbourg of Big Red NOLA Publishing — the producer, engineer and field archivist behind the Soul Butterfly preservation arm. Field recordings, master ownership, publishing splits, and a working museum of the New Orleans sound.
Cyril, on the work — in his own room.
Cyril Darensbourg · Big Red NOLA Publishing · 2022. Captured in the original room.
Capture the room before the room is gone.
Field recordings, oral histories, master tapes, photographs, instruments. Every session in the bunker is an archive entry — catalogued, backed up, and rights-cleared for the next generation.
Don't just save the culture — pay it forward.
Big Red NOLA Publishing puts the masters, the publishing splits, and the production credits back into the hands of the artists and the neighborhoods that made the sound in the first place.
From the porch to the platform.
Streaming, sync, broadcast, vinyl, and live. The digital real estate is owned and managed by the company — so the culture keeps earning for the culture.
Five frames from the archive in progress.
CSR funds the field work. The field work becomes the archive. The archive feeds the catalog. The catalog funds the next field session.
Masters and publishing stay with Big Red NOLA Publishing and Soul Butterfly. The digital real estate is owned and managed by the company. Nothing leaves the family.