We got a nice little Christmas present late last week. Our Mickey Murray 45s arrived from the plant. They look and sound great. We’ll hand number the labels this week.
Remember, the only way to get one of these super limited edition records (only 250 exist) is by pre-ordering Mickey Murray’s People Are Together LP from our web-store.
We are excited to finally announce the details of our next release. On January 17th, 2012 we are reissuing Mickey Murray’s People Are Together LP. This album was recorded in 1969 by King Records. It was set for release in 1970 on their Federal imprint. According to Murray, the album was never formally released at retail. There are some copies floating around, but the label abandoned the project very quickly after running into some political problems with the radio single.
This reissue comes in a hand numbered gatefold jacket with extended liner notes and never before seen photos. Each LP includes a free MP3 download card good for the entire album. Hear some samples and learn more below.
Details of the limited edition pre-order version will be released soon. Stay tuned!
Intern Paul likes them wax seals.
Come join us Friday, October 14 at Clubhouse Jäger as we celebrate the reissue of Obi Agye Me Dofo by Ghanaian legends Vis-A-Vis. DJs will be spinning Afrobeat and Funk throughout the night. Check out the eclectic styles of Paul Harding, DJ Steely from KFAI’s Kinda Cloudy Radio, General Moses from Steady Rock Sound, Dave Englund from KFAI’s Rhythms and Grooves, And Salif Keita & Brad Wrolstad from KFAI’s African Rhythms.
Make sure to check out our table in the back for some great deals on Secret Stash vinyl – including the limited edition Vis-A-Vis Pre-order pack (only 250 pressed and includes a bonus 7″).
Here are some important details:
– 21+
– No Cover
– $4.50 Tallgrass Tallboys drink special
Cumbia began as the musical folklore and dance celebrating the courtship between the indigenous people of Colombia and the newly arriving Africans being brought to the country. Not being embraced, and looked down on by people of social status, it remained among the lower class. Cumbia is an easy to groove to, two-step rhythm “which became a flexible platform upon which everything from Cuban guaracha to Andean huayño to Spanish criollo traditions could be stacked.”1 The unrefined and always evolving cumbia is seen as gritty, not music your grandmother wants you to be hearing.
Being the musical collaboration of multiple nations and ethnicities, cumbia’s rhythm invites the body to move and moves the soul; the challenge is to stay still. Cumbia cannot stay still either, its rhythm embraces new instruments to help move the rhythm. For instance, according to legend the accordion made its way into cumbia by way of a ship filled with accordions wrecking, washing the instruments on shore.
Enrique Delgado of Los Destellos heard the psychedelic sound waves of California’s surf guitar and rode the waves into the coast of Peru, resulting in Cumbia Peruana. The distinctive sound of Peruvian cumbia is like a storm crashing into the ears making waves throughout the body. Peruvian cumbia has a more suave sound than it’s Colombian predecessors, substituting the electric guitar and some funky reverb for the traditional horns and flutes. Delgado started a revolution of noise and a new generation is starting to take notice thanks to the progression of technology: blogs, online articles, youtube, etc.
Los Destellos’ album Constelación features heavy guitar rippling over traditional cumbia rhythm. So like a good surfer looking at the moon seeing what the tides will bring, look past the moon to the stars, to look at the constellations, and get lost in something out of this world.
-Paul
Secret Stash Intern
