BOHEMIAN
RECORDS
Bohemian Records was a DIY label. It managed one
single. Limited to 150 Copies with Hand-Pasted Labels and A4 Hand Made
Wrap-Around Covers. It issued singles in AM-100 numerical series.
Distributed By Bohemian Records. Scenes de la Bohème was formed by Anthony
Waites in London, in 1981 with an innate desire to create poetic, subversive pop
music. Without any intention of ever signing to a record label, he self-released
one untitled 7” single in 1982, an edition of 150 copies, with money funded to
him by his parents for his 21st birthday. He often used borrowed synthesizers to
record his music in various bedroom studios and friends’ houses supplemented by
his beloved cherry-red Hagstrom guitar. The two songs that he released were
‘Zara’, an earworm of a pop song about a longed-for girl standing in the rain,
and ‘The Tale of the Butterfly’. Unlike many other bands of the time, he never
sent the single or his demos to John Peel, The NME, Beggars Banquet, nor Rough
Trade and so it was lost to obscurity until a few record collectors ‘discovered’
it some 15 years ago. Scenes de la Bohème’s Untitled 7” single continues to
fetch exorbitant prices in collectors’ circles so we are especially happy to be
able to make this release available in the form of a newly mastered LP, which
includes four unreleased tracks that Waites had recorded at the time. The LP is
pressed on 180-gram vinyl, as a limited edition of 600 (300 black and 300
transparent yellow), and features beautifully restored images of Waites and his
main partner in crime, Seamus Fitzsimmons. The inner sleeve holds Waites’ story,
his musical inspirations, and explorations as an Irish youth growing up in
London in the early 1980s and discovering the avant-garde.
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Scenes De La
Boheme
Bohemian Broadcast Of
Comeliness
BOHEMIAN
AM
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