The box itself is sold out, so good luck hunting it down if you haven’t gotten it already. But the fantastic little label from Brussels run by Jean-Marc is a new initiative to keep the 3″ format alive. Taalem always did an advent calendar the last couple of years by choosing 24 random releases from their amazingly 140+ catalogue and presenting one each day for ‘pay what you want’. The advent calendar led up to Christmas Day, which saw their annual massive (!!!) release ‘Homework’ with fresh contributions of all the past artists if they had time or wanted to participate. After many hours of fresh drones, noises, and ambience again, ‘pay what you want’, I think I have them all.
But this year is different, and Jean-Marc decided to release a gorgeous little wooden box with 24 FRESH pieces of artists and, to us, your Vital Crew, the task to let you know what’s on these discs. But without spoiling the surprise, because, well, that wouldn’t be nice of us 😉 So, after some deliberation, we’ve chosen to write about this box in the coming few weeks, and each week, we’ll look back on the past seven releases or the number of releases leading up to that day. As today is December 3rd, we’ll present you with numbers 1 to 3; next week, it’ll be 4 to 10, et cetera. You could, of course, also subscribe to the Taalem mailing list or click the ‘follow’-button on Bandcamp; I think both will give you the information even before you get it from us. Enjoy the cold December month with these warm words and sounds.
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