Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1

 

“It was a huge effort to get an LP recorded and pressed privately back in the ’60s and ’70s. While some artists are primitives and some are highly skilled, these people made their music in a pre-internet time where it was still possible to be isolated and serendipitously stumble across a genuine self-expression that was without precedent and untainted by quality control. Their true personalities are captured, I feel like I am inside their brains when I hear them.”

Paul Major interview with Noisey

Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1
LP // CD // DIG

 

Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1

Paul Major—pioneering record dealer and frontman of the band Endless Boogie—has spent over a half-century immersed in the weirdest albums cast aside by the music industry, honing a world-renowned knowledge of the most unique, rare, and uncannily strange tunes of the rock and roll era. Feel the Music Vol. 1 compiles the fruits of his hard-won expertise, presenting cuts chosen by Paul from the far reaches of psychedelia, lounge, and loner folk: twelve utterly singular takes on musical expression, yielding a somehow cohesive and sublime whole.

Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1

Paul is a longtime champion of “Real People” musicians, one-of-a-kind artists operating wholly outside the industry, and this compilation gives us ample evidence of these distinct forms of genius. Though it moves through genres as diverse as the broken-down blues rock of Ray Harlowe & Gyp Fox, the ethereal psych-folk of Justyn Rees, the earnest schmaltz of balladeers Sebastian, and Darius, and the unclassifiable eeriness of Jerry SolomonFeel the Music is permeated by a genuine feeling of no-holds-barred creativity and an unbridled love of musical expression. Listeners attuning themselves to these twelve parallel universe radio hits will undoubtedly come away feeling the same.

Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1

LP includes 12-track LP and download code, plus a folded obi-style insert featuring Paul Major’s handwritten track descriptions and eye-popping art from his legendary record catalogs.

Paul Major: Feel the Music Vol. 1