Name: One Mile From Heaven
Brand: Various

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Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MAPA0023CD

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Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2023-07-07

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Shellshock

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4040824092771

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MAPA0023LP

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4040824092450

Black LP

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Various

Genre GB

Singer Songwriter

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Mapache Records 

Mapache Records is a Barcelona based record label that specializes in reissuing long-lost albums. With a passion for preserving and sharing *forgotten* musical gems, they carefully curate their collection to bring listeners a unique and diverse range of music from various genres and eras.

As an authoritative figure in the industry, Mapache Records takes pride in their extensive knowledge and expertise. They meticulously research each album they reissue, ensuring that every release meets their high standards of quality and authenticity.

With a focus on delivering exceptional listening experiences, Mapache Records offers music enthusiasts the opportunity to discover *rare* recordings that may have been overlooked or unavailable for years. By bringing these hidden treasures back into the spotlight, they not only pay homage to the artists behind them but also contribute to the preservation of musical history.

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One Mile From Heaven is a dreamy trip through the 70's and beyond 'private singer songwriters' scene.

There have always been  privately-pressed records. A private LP is an album composed, performed, recorded and edited usually in a very-DIY style by the 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 outside 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 from the many reasons. 

Depending on their genre, origins, time, and 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 artefact 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, some are still especially relevant, and others are small footnotes in the encyclopedia of music that made their way into the margins of the mainstream world. 

These are the most limited editions (mostly locally made ones) of largely unsociable and mostly unobtainable records--and when found, they are often exorbitantly priced. Many of these marginalized and obscure 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. 

Gary Higgins “Thicker Than A Smokey” 

Dan Gillmor &amp; Doug McClaran “Ghost Song” 

Dan Modlin &amp; Dave Scott “Loser, Lover” 

Olav Rixen &amp; Ulrich Fausten “Pilgrimade” 

Jerry and Nancy Stevens “A Little Resolution” 

Merrell Fankhauser “On Our Way To Hana”

 Michael Angelo “Field Of Lonely Eyes” 