Friends, now you can have your remains pressed in vinyl. However, the ash is only added so that the listening experience in the form of crackling and crackling is not affected too much by the ash. But that's nothing negative from my point of view, I think it's nice. I don't know exactly what's going to be on the vinyl that's being pressed from my ashes, only that "A tout le monde" by Megadeth will be there. You have 12 minutes of playing time per side. And Vinyly is a service from Jason Leach, who owns a couple of record labels and a pressing plant in Scarborough on the north west coast of England. Andrea Lewis made a short documentary about him and And Vinyly.
Pressing the ashes of the dead onto records: odd novelty or tender remembrance?
When it first made headlines in 2010, Jason Leach's UK-based company And Vinyly - which presses the ashes of the deceased into vinyl records for loved ones wishing to hold onto their memory - appeared to be something of a macabre novelty. But there might be more to preserving the departed (quite literally) on records than first meets the eye - and ear. Hearing Madge explores how Leach's venture was given new meaning when he was approached by a man looking to save his mother's recollections that he had recorded shortly before her death. Surprisingly touching, Andrea Lewis's short documentary is both a profile of an unusual business and a thought-provoking contemplation of the ways we chose to remember the dead.
If someday it's time for me, please do so. Rest in vinyl! Which songs would you choose?