“My Dad has an enormous vinyl collection and I remember being old enough to understand what they were and realizing how cool it is that he still has them, and in pristine condition, I must say.”
“He’s got a really extensive collection including Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Woodstock Era records, Fleetwood Mac, Jimi Hendrix, Chick Corea, Keith Jarrett, and that’s to name a few. Before he left Lebanon after the war broke out, he also had his parents’ collection, which have been lost with all the Jazz greats like Etta James, Nat King Cole, and Louis Armstrong.
It’s a real shame that some of those were lost, but I know he remembers all of them fondly. He loves to tell me stories about how he would go to the local record shops when he was a teenager and spend hours deciding which record would be the latest addition to his collection, back then they would sometimes have as little as ten records to chose from! It’s a big difference to the infinite amount of music we can now access on the internet, with just a click of a button.
It makes me pretty happy to see that vinyl records are coming back in trend, as there is something really quite special about hearing music in that way. A few of my friends have caught on and have been collecting records—I got to listen to a Mumford & Sons vinyl recently, which was pretty awesome and I saw a Beyoncé vinyl at Urban Outfitters not too long ago, which was a pleasant surprise.
I think its important to realize how valuable music is, and when you feel like you need to have a tangible, physical copy of something is when you know that you want to treasure an album to show your children later on life.”
—Sofia Boust
Sofia will be joining Siv Jakobsen on a tour of the UK in January 2015.
