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A personal.message for duco01 from Nat Birchall

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***Please note – from this (Afro Trane) album onwards I should be getting better worldwide distribution, so if you’re outside of the UK it may be worthwhile ordering from your favourite record shop and saving on the dreadful UK shipping costs and import fees*** P.S Anyone who has just bought the record in the last few seconds before I posted this message can ask me for a full refund! Thanks, Peace, Nat

https://natbirchallmusic.bandcamp.com/track/acknowledgement-a-love-supreme-pt-1

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    • That’s been a problem with Nat for a while. It’s vinyl or download only. At least, it’s good news that an artist like him, who is brilliant but can’t be making big money, has a worldwide distribution deal. He does it for love, driven to create, dedicating almost his entire life to his art. Good on him.

    • Apologies if I’m missing the point, but you can download from Bandcamp in WAV format and burn it to CD.

      I went to Rough Trade East for the first time in 2 years earlier this week. It was always a great place to buy CDs. The selection of CDS has shrunk enormously. It reminded me of when vinyl was dying out in the early 90s. In 1992 I finally gave in and bought CD player. I think I will have to start downloading all my new albums now.

      • Yebbut, for me the issue is the poorer longevity of CD-Rs compared to commercially made discs. I’ve had very few commercial discs give up the ghost, but CD-Rs are much more likely to fail over a depressingly short period of time.

        I bought ‘Ancient Africa’ and did as you suggest, and I love it. If I burn it to a disc – for listening in the car for example – I never store it with my other CDs, it stays in the little car CD wallet, because I expect it to fail at some point, whereupon I’ll bin it and burn another copy to another CD-R. It would be more satisfying to just have a commercially produced disc from the get-go.

  2. Thanks, Tigger!

    Yes, I saw Nat Birchall’s message yesterday. I’m on the emailing list from his Bandcamp page.
    It’s good that he’s now got better distribution for his physical product. It took me months to find a non-UK site that was stocking Birchall’s last vinyl LP, “Ancient Africa”.

    Yes, as Alias says, I could buy the WAV files from the Bandcamp page, and then burn a CD. This is what I did with quite a few albums up until last year, when my ancient old computer from 2005 started refusing to allow me to open up zipped music files from my mail inbox, so that I can download them to my hard disc for burning to CD. And I’m just too lazy to go out and buy a new computer. I’m such a hopeless technophobe.

    But most of all … a big shout-out to the incredible Nat Birchall. His album Akhenaten was one of the two Gondwana albums that kick-started the fertile new wave of UK jazz 13 years ago. Since then he’s made about 11 albums (including his brilliant collaborations with Al Redfern), and they’ve all been quality, quality quality. Hats off!

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