Mot-Tel Records

Mot-Tel Records (legally registered as Mot-Tel Records, Incorporated in English and Les Disques Mot-Tel, Incorporé in French) was a record label and audio recording studio located in the Saint-Henri district of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It was founded in 1991 by two Canadian-Italians, Lucio Tomaro and Bob Telaro. The pair also owned and operated the music publishing firm Tel-Tom Publishing. The record company folded in 1998. The name of the company is taken from the first three letters from each of the owners' names: Telaro and Tomaro, thus forming Tel-Tom Publishing. The name of the record label/studio was one of the words reversed. The company was originally incorporated under the name Proson Pyramide Studio in 1990 by Tomaro and Telaro. It was only in late 1991 that the pair legally changed the name of the company (keeping the same company number) to Mot-Tel Records. Therefore, Mot-Tel Records' recording studio did not have a separate name nor entity; it was registered as part of the same incorporation. For that reason, most of the releases crediting the recording studio simply credit it as "Mot-Tel", "Mot-Tel Records", "Mottel", "Mottel Records", or in such a manner as "recorded at Mot-Tel Records studio" or "enregistré au studio Disques Mot-Tel" in French. Sound engineer Joe Vieira is frequently affiliate with recording or producing material recorded at Mot-Tel Records' studio. See also: Mottel Records Inc.