![]() Even tougher, you have to stop the thing and restart after each track. You have to have friends round to listen with you or else you simply can’t listen. That’s difficult, maybe impossible, to achieve with fewer that 3 people, which immediately breaks out of the album as solitary experience. The album comes on 4 cds, all of which must be played at the same time. Mark was good enough to tweet into our little listening party which really helped to create the sense of event which ‘Zaireeka’ was conceived to deliver. If you’re really interested you should buy Mark Richardson’s excellent book on the subject. You know all this already, and if you don’t i’m not going to go into great detail. ‘Zaireeka’, you see, is not a normal album. It’s taken 14 years for me to get enough like-minded individuals together to actually play it. I bought ‘Zaireeka’ when it came out in 1997. This is the album that Devon Record Club was made for. ![]() ![]() When Tom chose ‘albums you’ve never listened to before’ as this week’s theme, there was only one choice for me.
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