A West Lothian report label and recording studio has simply bought a signed vinyl report for over £1200 with the intention to increase funds for refugees fleeing from the battle in Ukraine.
Werra Foxma, the report label primarily based in Armadale, listed a 12” LP check urgent of ‘La Fenëtre Magique’ by Scanner on Ebay just lately.
Fifty bids had been forged for the report, however the remaining profitable bid went to somebody in Switzerland, and was finalised at £1243 - which is able to go in its entirety to the Purple Cross Ukraine enchantment.
The West Lothian report label additionally plan on donating 100 per cent of their digital gross sales remodeled the weekend alongside the public sale to assist the help effort.
This Bandcamp Friday weekend, we're donating 100 per cent of all digital gross sales to assist the help effort.
The LP was signed by Robin Rimbaud (Scanner) who's extremely well-known within the digital music scene, getting his stage-name from his trademark use of police and mobile phone scanners when producing his music.
Robin’s signature graces the outer sleeve, interior sleeve, and the label of his personal private copy - solely performed as soon as with the intention to approve the urgent earlier than the album went into manufacturing.
Fra Brown, founding father of Werra Foxma, spoke concerning the charity public sale, he stated: “Actually my expectation was to boost £100 - however earlier than it it had jumped as much as £300.
“Then inside half an hour on Saturday it shot from £300 to £1100, which actually suspended all disbelief.
“The ultimate complete was slightly below £1245, which for one single vinyl report is completely insane.
La Fenëtre Magique is Scanner’s newest album - initially recorded as a session for a radio present in August, 2021 - the LP incorporates a 30 minute monitor referred to as ‘Blinking In Time’ and ‘After Magnetism’ which is described as ‘a blanket of scorched earth sound’.
Fra continued: “I can perceive why it bought so nicely although, Scanner has been on the vanguard of other digital music for 30 years, collaborating with Wire and even Brian Eno, the godfather of ambient music.
“I’m certain Robin auctioned off an previous 7” single just a few years again and the customer ended up being Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth.
“However I feel the ultimate complete even shocked Robin - I gave him a name after we broke £1000 as he was coming off-stage at a gig in London and he couldn’t consider it both!
“All that being stated, we’re only a small a part of the digital music scene making an attempt to assist folks in Ukraine - so many others locally are elevating cash and waiving charges for the trigger - we’re simply completely happy to be part of it.”
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