The project is ambitious and I need your help.
Almost Halloween Time Records is going to release 5 new LPs by the end of this year.
This is the crazy deadline I’ve fixed and this is my hope. I don’t like preorders very much, I usually don’t like to spoil surprises but the cookies have been baked and have been cooking for very long now and it’s time that you all can listen to these gems.
- Inner Truth by Good Horsey. It is no secret that I’m a huge fan of Mark Szabo and I’ve been desperately trying to contact him for years, like a truffle hunter. The opportunity to talk to him came unexpectedly last year when a friend of mine posted on facebook the picture of a mysterious tape by Mark called Szabotage. This tape was missing in my collection and I asked him info. Then I got his address from another friend and I sent him a letter, rigorously hand written where I requested a a copy of Szabotage and I offered myself to release his next album. When he wrote me back I was over the moon. The opportunity to listen to some new material by Mark and the promise of more to come. Mark had accepted my offer to release his next album and after a few months I received a collection of songs by one of my favourite Szabo’s incarnations: Good Horsey. I could have never hoped for more. New Good Horsey stuff, a collection of songs that had been apparently lying in a drawer for years waiting for a small Italian record label to release them in 2017. The album is ready to be pressed and it is awesome. I’m about to contact the pressing plant. This is going to be a limited edition of 100 copies, with hand drawn sleeves. Release date is October, halloween time, so please preorder your copy now.
- Montavilla by The Debts. After ”The Desert” cassingle, I’m releasing a full lenght by The Debts. I wanted to release ”The desert” on vinyl already, but seven inches are idle objects and none seems to be interested in them anymore, so I decided to release it on cassette, but I had fallen in love with the music of these guys and I knew the appointment was only delayed. When Dane sent me Montavilla, it was love at first hearing and I’ve spent days listening to this album, while I was working on other projects, when I was relaxing in my apartment, through the streets of Puglia, every occasion was perfect to listen to this album. I don’t see any other possible format for this album than vinyl. This is going to be another limited edition of 100 copies with hand drawn sleeves and the release date is November, just after halloween. You can preorder your copy now.
- Wio’s new album. I’m not kidding! I’m serious. After several tapes on Studio Muscle, Zoologic, Cactus Gum, Toothpick and Unread that I’ve consumed to the bones, after ”I Can See Where I Am Now”, the milestone of the wafflerock. the universally recognized masterpiece of the belgian lo-fi pop, after its follow up on (K-raa-k)3 that has never left my car cd player since the time of its release, after a very long pregnancy and gestation, after many emails, beers, visits to belgium, encouragements, stalking and bullying, I’m excited to announce this new album is going to see the light of the day. The demo versions of the songs contained in this album have been in my possession for years, the final versions are in my hands now and Wio has done the magic again. If the demo versions were awesome, the final versions are stellar. This is going to be a limited edition of 100 copies and the sleeves are going to be hand drawn. If you don’t want to miss the plane, it is better you preorder your copy now. Release date is November.
The other two projects will remain top secret for now, but you won’t be disappointed and if you preorder one or all of the above albums you will help me to release the other two before the end of 2017.
