The Long Player Volume Two: Notes on listening.

48 page full colour mini-zine. Printed on 55gsm newspaper. Featuring selected posts from Aly Gillani / DJ Gilla's LP Club Instagram project. More info below....

All profits will be donated to War Child.

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The Long Player is back! Last year I compiled some of my digital scribblings about the albums I listened to in 2021 into a physical zine. I’ve always had a love of magazines - my volumes of Grand Royal, The Face, Wax Poetics and Straight No Chaser are some of my most prized possessions. Having my own modest offering sitting alongside them is a real thrill, and despite not being able to write as much as I’d like this year I still felt there was enough material in the vaults to warrant a second volume.

I know that some of you who picked up last year’s edition use it as a reference point or inspiration for what to listen to when the algorithm runs out of juice. Hopefully this volume will provide another entry point to artists and records you weren’t familiar with, and a reminder of those that you had forgotten about over the years. To that end I've tweaked the format: last time the posts were in chronological order, this year I have themed them by genre.

All profits from the zine will be donated to War Child, an organisation I’ve admired since the ‘Help’ album was released back in 1995. In the last couple of years I’ve worked with them (in a minor way) on their ‘The Right To Dance’ project, and the energy they put into helping those who need their assistance is remarkable. Their work is vital, as the events of the last couple of months have shown us all too clearly. For more information about what they do see their website: www.warchild.org.uk

Sending love to you and yours - happy listening…..

Aly Gillani, London, December 2023