Geographic North debuts with pricey but classy single
Monday, July 21st, 2008
After being hit off with a few hushed complaints around town about the high cost of the “(cult of) The Cemetery Flowers (mandolins version)” b/w “Walking Pneumonia” 7-inch from Philadelphia’s A Sunny Day in Glasgow that appeared in local records stores this week, I decided to do some investigating.
The Sunny Day… single is the debut offering from Geographic North, a new, Atlanta-based label launched by former WRAS DJs Farzod Moghaddam and Farbod Kokabi. According to their press release, the label “strives to to release records with the highest quality in both packaging and music alike.”
This is the first installment of a 12-month subscription series, titled “You Can’t Hide Your Love Forever.” The series is sold in 6 month installments for $36 (subscribers receive free postage and “special gifts”). All singles in the series will be pressed on various other colors of vinyl and are limited to 300 copies, which is sort of a standard M.O. for most small labels these days.
