Cuchabata Records
David Dion
(Header photo by: Mertin Hoëk)
Montréal, QC
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From the national geography of Christina Bell:

Cuchabata records began approximately 25km away from the island of Montréal in a small francophone town called Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec. In the early 2000s, Valleyfield incubated a particular bout of weirdness resulting in some of the cool and unusual work featured on Cuchabata. This weirdness nurtured the strange sounds of Valleyfield native and Cuchabata founder David Dion.

Now residing in Montréal, Dion is the renaissance man organizing and operating most of this DIY dance voluntarily (and often single-handedly). He began the label, unbound by any expectations of gross success, as a means to put out his own work. Dion quickly partnered up with many like minded musicians to create a community based on spontaneity, experimentation, and DIY ethics.

We met to converse on getting started, building a community beyond the confines of monetary exchanges, and bridging the perceived void between Montréal’s francophone and anglophone art scenes.

(Illustration by: David Dugas Dion)

Why did you start Cuchabata Records in 2003, and why do you keep going? Have the reasons changed?

In the beginning I wanted to produce my own stuff. I never had an expectation of making money or signing a huge … Read More »