From & Inspired By

At the end of October, Lawrence, Kansas, art supply store and gallery, Wonder Fair, released two soundtracks for their store. Musician Jade Rose composed an album entitled The Sounds of Wonder Fair, Volume 1, and co-owner Paul DeGeorge and his brother Joe, along with musician Jon Linn, produced Sounds from the Haunted Bathroom. Site-specific soundtracks have been a thing before -- see also Light In The Attic's Japan Archival Series triple LP, Kankyo Ongaku: Japanese Ambient, Environmental & New Age Music 1980-1990, as well as RPM Records' Gypsy Creams & Ginger Nuts - Sounds That Swept The Supermarkets for but a couple -- but we've never had a chance to discuss this sort of thing on the show. We sat down with Jade and Paul at the Lawrence Public Library's Sound+Vision Studio the day after they played a release party for the recordings and discussed how everything came to be, which is why this is likely the best-sounding episode we've ever done.