It Landed
Turntable Stories - Narratives, Memories and Histories from In-between the Grooves - Fraser Mann
Matt Leonard [+]
Matt Leonard was a professional musician.
Now he works in a psychiatric hospital.
The musical tendrils remain in the shape of a studio in a low rent area of Bolton, a
podcast, three bands, two distribution deals and a partridge in a pear tree.
Description
1998: An unlisted mixtape made by a soon-to-be-dead friend leads to a search for a record that takes place over the last twenty years via bands, record label contacts and blind luck. Spoiler: Ends with a grown man crying at a parcel from France on a pavement. THEN Searching for music in a pre-internet world was an absolute pleasure. But was it? NOW Screening every bit of available music on the world wide web is as giving as it is taking. A man lost in a swirling fog of his own making tries to find a way out via releasing his own records, building up contacts for his band but it all the while trying to search out this mystery sound. And then, it landed.