Another record that I picked up from my recent trip to the States is ome that I had been watching for about three months. Every week I get an email from Wanna Hear It Records listing their latest batch of used records for sale. Three months or so ago they got a text press of a Zozobra 2xLP which I was immediately interested in. However, what often happens is that I see something for sale, don't buy it, wait a few weeks, and then when I am thinking about actually buying it, I go back to find it has sold and gone. In this case, however, the record sat in the shop for several weeks.
Roughly a month or so after the record first appeared for sale, back at the start of October, Mike went to the shop and I asked him to send me a pic of the record. The pic he sent confirmed that I wanted it. However, I didn't want to ask him to buy it for me. Instead, I planned to order it. However, a few weeks later and I still hadn't gotten around to it, and somehow it had still not sold. So I decided that I would leave it down to fate. I knew I would be going to the shop at the end of my trip in mid December. So I just figured that I would buy it then. And if it sold in the interim then so be it.
Well, this time my luck was in and I was able to pick it up in person. A pretty satisfying way to close out the year.
Zozobra was a project band put together by Caleb Scofield (ex Cave In bass player who sadly passed away in 2018). They put out two full length LPs, 'Harmonic Tremors' (2007) and 'Bird Of Prey' (2008), both of which were released by Hydrahead Records. I actually picked up test presses of both records back in 2020. This double LP pack that combines both records in one sleeve was made specifically to raise money for Caleb's family following his passing in 2019. There were 600 copies of the set pressed on random colour vinyl, and they sold out uber fast when released, and I missed out. So picking up this test pressing all these years later makes me very happy.
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