If there’s a cultural artefact capable of withstanding the vagaries and fickleness of the digital age as well as the printed book, it’s the vinyl record . . .

In Listening to the Wind, Ian Preece sets out on an international road trip to capture the essence of life for independent record labels operating in the twenty-first century. Despite it all – from algorithms and streaming to the death of the high street and the gutting of the music press – releasing a record to serve its ‘own beautiful purpose’, as 4AD’s Ivo Watts Russell once said, is a flame that still burns through these pages.

With countless labels, albums and artists to be discovered, this book is for those who share that inextinguishable love for music.

Author: Ian Preece
Publisher: Omnibus Press
Page Count: 352pp
Size: 6 x 9.25 x 2.25
Notes: paperback
Date of Publication: July 30, 2020
ISBN: 978-1785586309