Imagination Anthem Volume 8: The Private Press

Don’t tell my wife that I’m currently back in the office writing this. I’m supposed to be getting the oil changed and the car washed. That’ll happen eventually. But this record is something everyone needs in their life. A collection of acoustic, vocal-less recordings of all completely unknown, primarily self-released artists is a dream. Liner notes are wonderfully in-depth and if you need only take away one thing from it all, it’s Joe Bethancourt’s completely transcendent “Raga” which is worth the price of admission alone. If I wasn’t compiling/pressing/overseeing four Vault packages a year I’d love to think that I’d be doing releases more along these lines. I’ve got some in the works, but damn this shit is hard and that’s all the more reason to appreciate the work put into this.