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[camwyn]

Bandcamp's doing a fundraiser in honor of today being Juneteenth. Don't know if any of the musical artists you like are available through them, but the site is directing their cut of all sales money to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

This seemed like a good day to actually buy ambient tracks from some of the artists I found through Pandora. (I haven't been streaming music since work from home began- didn't want to take up too much bandwidth when I was dealing with wifi through a building constructed in 1910.) Even better, given the day and the circumstances, one of those artists is an African-American gentleman named Laraaji; I don't think I'd ever heard of him anywhere else but Pandora. Seems like an appropriate day to buy a bunch of the man's albums.

I have no idea why his prices are all denominated in pounds. I assume All Saints Records is based in the UK.

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[derien]

Is he perhaps African-British? (I happened to catch some day-time talk-show host - Geraldo, perhaps? - introducing his guests as "African-Americans from England". Struck me funny.)

[camwyn]

No, I checked on that. The wiki article about him says he was born in Philadelphia, studied music in New Jersey, and attended Howard University. No mention of the UK at all.

[camwyn]

Aah, found it- it's not him setting the currency, it is his record label. All Saints Records is based in the UK. All their artists, including one I randomly selected who turns out to be based in Los Angeles, are denominated in pounds.

[derien]

Weird, somehow I just wouldn't have thought of someone in the US going with a UK record label. I wonder if All Saints has significantly good relationships with their artists. It's the draw I would think would be most relevant. :)

[camwyn]

I think it might have more to do with it being Brian Eno's record label than anything else. From what I remember seeing on various Pandora tracks, commentaries, etc., he's a super huge name in ambient music, and most of the All Saints stuff on Bandcamp is very firmly in the ambient category.