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"Are you the Tom Lubin who produced and engineered the band Prufrock in 1967?” |
This is the story of a band and an album that took 40 years to get its first release. |
The futurist I’ve become often talks about how the Internet removes original context. As a digital object moves away from its creator, new creators rip it, deconstruct it, and repurpose it into a new creation. But for John and I, a long separated fragment of our creative lives has journeyed its way back to us. 20th century communication supposed we are all connected by only six degrees of separation. In the 21st century the internet separates us by only a single degree. In this time of digital deconstruction, there is also opportunity for fragments to regain context and reconstruction by people like Raymond, and his label RD Records. Prufrock’s Visions is an improbable and fantastic journey which — had I not taken it myself — I would find hard to believe. The release on vinyl of Visions did well, and in mid 2008 Visions was released on CD along with the follow-up Revision album that was recorded in 1982. |