Island Book of Records - Volume One: 1959-68. The Moomins Renaissances

Renaissances

Part the story of a twenty-first century artist who achieved chart-topping mainstream success without ever becoming part of the mainstream

The cover of the album was shot in front of a bingo hall in Cleethorpes

There Comes A Time

curating the history making Once And Future Sounds: Roots and Revolution set for the Newport Folk Festival in 2021 and mobilizing this year’s triumphant Love Rising All-Star benefit concert in support of LGBTQIA+ causes in Nashville

Island Book of Records - Volume One: 1959-68. The Moomins RenaissancesNominated for the 2024 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Awards for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. Every album released between 1959 when Chris Blackwell founded Island in Jamaica through to the end of 1968 in the UK is included. Each is fully illustrated to include labels, booklets, die cut covers and foreign editions as well as scheduled but ultimately unreleased LPs. Hardback and vinyl sized, the IBoR runs to 392 pages