New York - Galt MacDermot, composer of Hair and Two Gentlemen of Verona has formed Kilmarnock Records, an independant label.  The new firm will concentrate on specialized product, which will be marketed via mail orders, a few "unorthodox retailers" and independant distributors.

Kilmarnock's initial release of 10 albums includes "Ghetto Suite" poems of Harlem and Bronx grade school children set to music by   MacDermot, interpreted by Angie Ortega; a film soundtrack, "Fortune and Men's Eyes"; the original cast recording of MacDermot's "Isabel's a Jezabel"; three otherMacDermot offerings, "Hair Cuts," "Shapes of Rhythm" and a soundtrack, "Martine's Movie (Woman is Sweeter)"; two separate LPs introducing Fergus MacRoy, a Nova Scotia folksinger, and "The ENglish Experience" a rock album.

Kilmarnock executives are MacDermot, president; Walter Robinson, managing director; and John Holden, chairman of Kilmarnock North, the new companies Canadian affiliate.

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