The Well - The Independent Project Records Collection II
When he launched Independent Project Records in 1980, Bruce Licher saw the label as an opportunity to get his own music out. Housed in striking, instantly recognisable letterpress-printed sleeves, IPR releases soon started to include works by friends, fellow art students at UCLA and new underground musicians Licher admired. If he wanted to hear a band's music and couldn't find it anywhere, he'd release it himself. Through the years, IPR went on to give a platform to voices that didn't quite fit into the stiff boxes of the music industry. The results may not have involved six-figure returns, but, instead, could count on perceptive intuitions (Camper Van Beethoven, of whom a rare early demo is included here, got their start on IPR), fruitful artistic alliances and lifelong friendships. Jeffrey Runnings, a young Savage Republic fan from Nebraska who in 1984 wrote a letter to Licher wanting to increase communication, would three years later release his band's debut album on IPR. That was, of course, For Against, an all-time favourite to many long-standing IPR devotees. The album, Echelons, launched a lasting partnership and brought Licher a Grammy nomination for Best Album Package. In late 2024 Runnings sent a tape-worth of new songs to Bishop, California, where Licher now resides and operates. A few months later, that old-fashioned cassette tape had become Piqued, a stunning album released by IPR shortly after Runnings passed away due to stage 4 cancer. The single 'Heretofore' appears here: a timeless post-punk gem brimming with the warmth and the passion of a gentle soul sharing his lifelong love of music, and his last creations, with longtime friends.
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$10.00The Well - The Independent Project Records Collection II
When he launched Independent Project Records in 1980, Bruce Licher saw the label as an opportunity to get his own music out. Housed in striking, instantly recognisable letterpress-printed sleeves, IPR releases soon started to include works by friends, fellow art students at UCLA and new underground musicians Licher admired. If he wanted to hear a band's music and couldn't find it anywhere, he'd release it himself. Through the years, IPR went on to give a platform to voices that didn't quite fit into the stiff boxes of the music industry. The results may not have involved six-figure returns, but, instead, could count on perceptive intuitions (Camper Van Beethoven, of whom a rare early demo is included here, got their start on IPR), fruitful artistic alliances and lifelong friendships. Jeffrey Runnings, a young Savage Republic fan from Nebraska who in 1984 wrote a letter to Licher wanting to increase communication, would three years later release his band's debut album on IPR. That was, of course, For Against, an all-time favourite to many long-standing IPR devotees. The album, Echelons, launched a lasting partnership and brought Licher a Grammy nomination for Best Album Package. In late 2024 Runnings sent a tape-worth of new songs to Bishop, California, where Licher now resides and operates. A few months later, that old-fashioned cassette tape had become Piqued, a stunning album released by IPR shortly after Runnings passed away due to stage 4 cancer. The single 'Heretofore' appears here: a timeless post-punk gem brimming with the warmth and the passion of a gentle soul sharing his lifelong love of music, and his last creations, with longtime friends.
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When he launched Independent Project Records in 1980, Bruce Licher saw the label as an opportunity to get his own music out. Housed in striking, instantly recognisable letterpress-printed sleeves, IPR releases soon started to include works by friends, fellow art students at UCLA and new underground musicians Licher admired. If he wanted to hear a band's music and couldn't find it anywhere, he'd release it himself. Through the years, IPR went on to give a platform to voices that didn't quite fit into the stiff boxes of the music industry. The results may not have involved six-figure returns, but, instead, could count on perceptive intuitions (Camper Van Beethoven, of whom a rare early demo is included here, got their start on IPR), fruitful artistic alliances and lifelong friendships. Jeffrey Runnings, a young Savage Republic fan from Nebraska who in 1984 wrote a letter to Licher wanting to increase communication, would three years later release his band's debut album on IPR. That was, of course, For Against, an all-time favourite to many long-standing IPR devotees. The album, Echelons, launched a lasting partnership and brought Licher a Grammy nomination for Best Album Package. In late 2024 Runnings sent a tape-worth of new songs to Bishop, California, where Licher now resides and operates. A few months later, that old-fashioned cassette tape had become Piqued, a stunning album released by IPR shortly after Runnings passed away due to stage 4 cancer. The single 'Heretofore' appears here: a timeless post-punk gem brimming with the warmth and the passion of a gentle soul sharing his lifelong love of music, and his last creations, with longtime friends.
