Wax Treasure (Vinyl)

[68degreesorless]

Lima scores

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless excellent score

I have zero clue who any of these artists are (intended as the sincerest form of compliment)

[68degreesorless]

@GraemeE I didn't either until a week or two ago. Been reading up on Latin/Peruvian tunes in prep for Lima record store crawling and (unsurprisingly) finding the music addictive. These are all from the touristy Miraflores area, new, and priced accordingly. Tomorrow I'm headed to the Quilca area near old town, which I think will be a little grungier and cheaper and dustier and better for older press digging.

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless I have some close friends outside of Tingo Maria who live in dome type houses in the jungle

[68degreesorless]

Well that is fking cool

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless for sure - I am the much less cool friend who lives in the suburbs with a desk job and 4 kids.......

[GraemeE]

My wife and i are spending the week (kid free) at the coast to celebrate our 20th anniversary

These are today's finds between thrift stores and antique/vintage malls

https://open.spotify.com/album/3SXCY4kFMM4T4egq5DSUTa?si=QaHqjstgTaWLFZqPeSTv1g

( intentionally specifying that this one was released and more importantly titled in the 1950s)

Disclaimer from a later re-issue :
"The liner notes to this album include language that dehumanizes incarcerated musicians. Smithsonian Folkways has updated our descriptions of albums recorded in prisons to avoid frameworks that wholly attach artists’ identities to their experience in prison. This album is a historical document of not only the stories of its performers, but of the racism of the prison system and the music industry at that moment"
https://open.spotify.com/album/7J1vB1yn7iaNR6GX3htJiy?si=yKOlm12zRV2hk6CaN29SgQ

https://open.spotify.com/album/0G4TXPW4k3hYS5hFbIrDLv?si=Kbb5f3lpQcGeSrtATijpxw

https://open.spotify.com/album/3V91v9OV3nQc1YskTgoDA9?si=gs_sV12DT0-teeHkHYdgfA

[68degreesorless]

@GraemeE nicely done. Particularly jealous of the lomax

[GraemeE]

@68degreesorless it was criminally (no pun intended) underpriced.....

[68degreesorless]

Hahaha

[68degreesorless]

[endo]

Fueled by @68degreesorless 's awesome finds in Peru and in preparation for a trip to Colombia (hopefully) taking place next year, I went looking for something cool from there and found this:

[Brian]

About 50m away from home the local rsl community hall had a big record sale on

Place was packed and nothing in any real order and some of the prices were mind blowing

[68degreesorless]

@endo damn that’s good. Added to my want list.

[endo]

The story behind it is quite interesting, too. The festival was apparently a defining moment for the Colombian music scene. Unfortunately, the live recording of the gig didn't work out, so it had to be re-recorded in the studio later, with live crowd noise layered over it. Sadly, this meant the sound quality suffered.

[68degreesorless]

The YT sounded fine to my ears. Excited to hear the vinyl. Like most of the great Peruvian records I found, very few original pressings (discogs median >$300usd). Glad it’s been reissued. And surprised it’s not available on streaming platforms.

[GraemeE]

@Mizmazzle now that your student loans are payed off....
https://pitchfork.com/news/you-can-now-buy-records-from-tom-verlaines-personal-collection/

[endo]

found a nice 1970 issue of this

[GraemeE]

@endo that is an excellent score

[endo]

I have to say, that thread played a part in it, too; it trains the ear. I don't know if listening to this record a few years ago would have been as enjoyable for me as it is now. Almost certainly not.