Recopilatorio fascinante con 20 canciones oscuras de álbumes originales de cantautores de los 70 y principios de los 80 editados de forma privada.
Un LP editado de forma “privada” es un álbum que ha sido compuesto, interpretado, grabado y editado, generalmente al estilo DIY, por el mismo artista o por un sello de aficionados. Es, ante todo, un acto de pulsión artística, fuera de la industria, realizado por necesidad, por falta de conocimiento, por amor, por impulso, por ambición… puedes elegir entre muchos motivos”.
En este recopilatorio se reúne una veintena de proyectos, en solitario o en formato dúo, algunos conocidos y otros no tanto, pero casi todos totalmente al margen de las listas de éxitos de la época, incluidas las reediciones para conocedores actuales.
La selección es exquisita, no hay ni una sola canción que no emocione en sobremanera por sus melodías tan cautivadoras.
Bajo el título de “One Mile From Heaven”, el título de la estremecedora canción de Bobb Trimble, el recopilatorio de Mapache es un viaje de ensueño de folk rock y country cósmico que te acerca a ese cielo, quizá no el más popular pero si el más creativo, donde se encuentran las mejores canciones de todos los tiempos.
 
ENGLISH
Double album with 20 obscure songs from 70’s and early 80’s singer songwriters original privately pressed albums.
Includes Insert with information and text by Steve Krakow
We couldn’t be happier to announce the first Mapache Records compilation after all these years. ONE MILE FROM HEAVEN is a dreamy travel through the 70’s and beyond private singer songwriters scene.
There have always been privately-pressed records. Such a “private” LP is an album that has been composed, performed, recorded and edited usually very-DIY style by the very artist or by an amateur label. A private press record is, above all, an act of the artistic urge. It’s an act that takes place outiside of the industry out of need, out of a lack of knowledge, out of love, out of a drive, out of ambition… you can choose among the many reasons.
Depending on their genre, origins, time, and above all, quality, some of these efforts have become valuable pieces for the music collector. Having been created behind the “canonical history of music” written by the industry, every now and then an archaeologist will bring to the surface an artifact they have found in some basement or flea market, or that was kept covered in dust in the shell of some old recording studio soon to be torn down.
All these records have their own story, and some are still especially relevant, and others are but small footnotes in the encyclopedia of music that made their way into the margins of the mainstream world. These are the most limited of editions (and mostly locally made ones) of largely unsociable and mostly unobtainable records–and when found, they are often exorbitantly priced. Many of these marginalized and onscure artists have stayed alive only through the wonderful work of tireless song rescuers, music lovers, vocational archivists, collectors, and record labels with an idealistic drive. These romantics have been rescuing and indexing a form of music that very few have showed interest in until recent years. This record is a tribute to all of those who managed to make these songs not be lost to time. Above all, this release is a tribute to all those artists who recorded their songs on their own, mostly because they couldn’t keep the music inside themselves.
 
A1 Maitreya Kali - One Last Farewell
A2 Gary Higgins - Thicker Than A Smokey
A3 Alicia May - Summer Days
A4 Dan Gillmor & Doug McClaran - Ghost Song
A5 Bobb Trimble - One Mile From Heaven

B1 Bob Patterson - Friends Of Mine
B2 Jim Sullivan - Jerome
B3 Chuck & Mary Perrin - Corrine
B4 Dan Modlin & Dave Scott - Loser, Lover
B5 Billy Hallquist - Persephone

C1 Richard Goldman - Sweethearts
C2 Olav Rixen & Ulrich Fausten - Pilgrimade
C3 Naomi Lewis - More Beautiful
C4 Jerry and Nancy Stevens - A Little Resolution
C5 Merrell Fankhauser - On Our Way To Hana

D1 Michael Angelo - Field Of Lonely Eyes
D2 Carm Mascarenhas - In The Sun
D3 Joe & Bing - Daybreak
D4 Philip John Lewin - Diamond Love
D5 Michael Yonkers - And Give It To You