Re: Last chance to order Japanese loot - Recommendations please!

xander@sirius.com
Mon, 8 Apr 1996 22:32:50 -0700


Peter_Wang@gensler.com said:
>I went to the Tower Records on 4th street/NYC and couldn't, for the life of
>me, find what section the likes of Takemura/Spiritual Vibes/Silent Poets
>could be found in. Ask your friend to get all the Bellissima/Toy's
>Factory/Idyllic stuff and I'll be there!! Just let me know when and where.

Any Tower Records can special order these things, unfortunately few of them
bother to do it. Chances are that the average import buyer is clueless.
In fact, the fine fellow who takes care of me doesn't know a thing about
the music on the lists that I give him.

I can't be of much more help - the store I go to is in Emeryville, CA,
somewhere inbetween Berkeley and San Francisco - but hopefully this will
encourage you to bug your local merchant to take better care of your needs.

Alexander

PS My man Henrik in Malm=F6 (who's not on the a-j list as far as I know)
wrote me:

>Why not make this one a public message...
>
>For those of you who are into the Bellissima stuff, they have a British
>distributor called Timewarp, situated in Lonodon. I ordered some records
>from them a while ago, and it went just fine. Expect to pay normal CD
>prices, for Brits that is. And should you feel inclined to go for the
>domestic Japanese releases they have some of them as well.
>
>I have unfortunately lost the fax number for Timewarp, but I think you can
>get it through the Bellissima! web page.

I hope that someone can post the URL for Bellissima! I'll do it next time
I come across it if no one else gets to it first.