{"product_id":"derek-baron-the-holy-restaurant","title":"Derek Baron - The Holy Restaurant","description":"\u003cp\u003eLabel: Recital – R116\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Vinyl, LP\u003cbr\u003eCountry: US\u003cbr\u003eReleased: 31 Oct 2025\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Non-Music, Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle: Field Recording, Musique Concrète,  Experimental, Minimal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eCasual classical collides with fragments of everyday life from NYC composer and Reading Group label head Derek Baron for Recital.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eA table for one please at The Holy Restaurant. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eA musical scrapbook both diaristic and digressive, Baron’s world is assembled through fragments of improvisations, half-baked ideas, musical mistakes and recordings of typical day-to-day banalities.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAlthough through genius use of juxtaposition, the whole thing comes to life.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIn a world where nothing makes sense, Baron fabricates new realities.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eIt’s an abrupt and tangential slideshow that captures, recognises and intensifies the mundanities of rural America - the happy\/sad interviews with a family-run casket company are beautifully reinforced with lugubrious strings whilst a rogue guitar solo wails over cosy, melancholic keys leading to a sense of hilarious bemusement.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eAt times the music is arrestingly beautiful, brief vignettes appear out of the fog before a brash mid-western radio skit takes over, lending a fly-on-the-wall documentary quality to the piece, echoing the strangely familiar yet surreal world of filmmaker John Wilson.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eYou could have heard these sounds before, but now stitched together in a seemingly casual way creates a whole new story, recalling American greats such as Blue Gene Tyranny and Ernest Hood, or even some of the great Lambkin \/ Lescalleet combos.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003eSeriously, I haven’t enjoyed a record more than this all year.\u003cspan class=\"Apple-converted-space\"\u003e  \u003c\/span\u003e(Mint \/ New - with big printed booklet - shops pls ask for wholesale).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTracklist\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1. Intro 01:44\u003cbr\u003e2. Oven Girls\u003cbr\u003e3. Lottery\u003cbr\u003e4. Hover!\u003cbr\u003e5. Palisades\u003cbr\u003e6. b2\u003cbr\u003e7. The Wounded Hussar\u003cbr\u003e8. Trace 3\u003cbr\u003e9. Gamers 03:06\u003cbr\u003e10. Flattery\u003cbr\u003e11. Music in the Casket\u003cbr\u003e12. Our Lady of the Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e13. The Holy Restaurant\u003cbr\u003e14. Closing Trace\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"All Night Flight Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57868895060350,"sku":"R78","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/7755\/6791\/files\/IMG_0304_fe5edfa1-e573-4f0b-8d19-ce32ab7d5c8a.jpg?v=1761822993","url":"https:\/\/allnightflightrecords.com\/products\/derek-baron-the-holy-restaurant","provider":"All Night Flight Records","version":"1.0","type":"link"}