There’s a great article by Hobey Echlin from Detroit’s Metro Times on Felton Williams and the Double-U Sound studio featured in last week’s paper. You can read it here.
Filed under: Revival, Smart's Palace | Tags: Downriver Revival, Smart's Palace
We’re so totally immersed in three upcoming projects that we almost forgot that we’ve got two releases hitting the streets today. You can find the new Eccentric Soul: Smart’s Palace and the LP/DVD of Local Customs: Downriver Revival at your nearest record store for your listening and viewing pleasure.
We got a great review for Local Customs: Downriver Revival from Patrick Sisson today in Pitchfork. We’re loving his comments on the DVD, “…that includes a 30-minute documentary and an interactive sound vault with over 200 extra tracks, arranged by individual boxes of tape. It not only makes most bonus DVDs look like cheap wastes of plastic and time, it lets listeners virtually walk into the lost basement studio in Ecorse, Mich., and view some of the people and places that seeped into Double U’s reels of tape.”
Filed under: Revival
Considering we spent almost three years working on this release, we’ve got to say we’re very pleased with the great reviews we’ve been getting on Downriver Revival. Here’s Soul-Sides piece, Now Paging Numero.
The Local Customs: Downriver Revival LPs have arrived and they’re looking tight! We added an extra page inside, chock full of images from Felton’s seemingly endless array of photo albums, and the DVD is also included for your viewing and listening pleasure. You can purchase the LP here. Hey vinyl subscribers: we’re getting everything ready to start shipping these out to you asap and we thank you for your patience.
Oliver Wang gave Local Customs: Downriver Revival a great review on NPR’s All Things Considered this evening. You can listen to it here.
Filed under: Revival
Above is the view from Sonotheque’s DJ booth where we were camped out spinning 45’s all night. Thanks to everyone who made it out and we hope to do something like this again for Eccentric Soul: Smart’s Palace somewhere in May.
After our successful Downriver Revival event in Brooklyn earlier this month, we are going ahead and doing the same thing on our home turf at Sonotheque next Tuesday night March 3rd at 9pm. The event will showcase a screening of the 30 minute documentary on the making of Downriver Revival, we will be playing music from the Double-U Sound vault that includes gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk, and we’ll be hiding out behind the tinted glass spinning some rare cuts from the Numero archive for your listening pleasure into the midnight hour.
Filed under: Revival | Tags: Barbes Brooklyn, Barbes Records, Downriver Revival, WFMU
The first official screening of Downriver Revival took place at Barbes in Park Slope, Brooklyn last night. A great crowd full of Numero subscribers armed with their membership cards, FMU DJ’s, friends from all over the burroughs, and even a woman from Ecorse, MI came by to watch the film blown up on the big screen and listen to the new CD.
Many thanks to Bethany Ryker and Olivier Conan for letting us have this free event at Barbes. Be sure to check out Bethany’s fantastic show on WFMU, Stochastic Hit Parade, & Olivier’s international record label, Barbes Records. We also want to thank Matthew Glasson for snapping the photos.
Filed under: Revival
The Numero Group invites you to a *free* CD/DVD release party in celebration of our 26th release, Local Customs: Downriver Revival at Barbes in Park Slope on Sunday Febuary 8th from 4-7pm.
Between 1967 and 1981 Detroit’s downriver neighbor Ecorse, MI had its very own custom recording studio, Double-U-Sound. Set up in a basement on 18th Avenue, Felton Williams chronicled the musical lives of Ecorse’s citizens and issued them on the Solid Rock, Compose, and Revival labels.
The event will showcase a screening of the 30 minute documentary on the making of Downriver Revival along with a listening party of the new CD covering gospel, group soul, garage-punk, northern, jazz, and funk. Please bring along your friends and family to tune into the raw sounds of Ecorse, MI for this special lazy Sunday afternoon event!
Barbes
376 9th St
Brooklyn, NY 11215
From Manhattan, Take the last car of the F train to 7th Avenue, Brooklyn.
Exit at the southwest corner exit
Make a u-turn and walk downhill on 9th street towards 6th Avenue.
