Aeron Bergman “Bostonpopsreverbformydeadgrandpa” (1997)

Gorgeous reverb piece. Full of personality, emotion and memory. From the Ubu page:

My grandfather was an avid sound collector, but instead of collecting records, he bought them, taped them onto cassette tapes, meticulously typed the song titles and label information on the tape inserts, and then threw out the vinyl. To him, the most important thing was the easy access and storage of the music he loved. (Sadly he didn’t survive to see MP3 culture. -aa 2007) After he died of a heart attack in 1997, I inherited a strange, bulky package, excessively taped in brown paper. It was a box of blank tapes in a brown paper bag, duct taped shut, a rubber band around the whole thing, and a type-written note that said “blank tapes”. To commemorate him and his habit, I pulled out a “Boston Pops” record he hadn’t got around to taping yet, put a reverb device between the record player and the cassette recorder, and recorded all 20 blank tapes with “Bostonpopsonreverbformydeadgrandpa”.