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Touching Your Feelings

by Jim Marks

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  • Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

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    Heavyweight Vinyl / Original glued prints on Thick Cardboard 700 gram / 2 Separated parts hand-glued / Glossy lamination / PVC outer sleeve / Bandcamp Limited Edition Insert with condensed interview by Tony Higgins and exclusive pictures.

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    Includes unlimited streaming of Touching Your Feelings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    DETAILS:
    Heavyweight Vinyl / Original glued prints on Thick Cardboard 700 gram / 2 Separated parts hand-glued / Glossy lamination / PVC outer sleeve / Bandcamp Limited Edition 30 pages paperback booklet printed on “Favini Tintoretto Bianco” 350 gram cardboard / “Watoji” Japanese hand-bound with black cotton / hand painted cherry red fore-edge / Full interview to Jym Marks by Tony Higgins printed on 90 gram “Fedrigoni Constellation Snow”/ full album lyrics printed on 90 gram “Favini Seaweed Paper”and exclusive full format B&W picture printed on high quality photographic paper, Books front cover printed on 300 gram Moldmade paper.


    SHIPPING:
    We use only DHL EXPRESS WORLDWIDE TIME DEFINITE service.
    Door-to-door delivery by the end of the next possible business day.
    Records shipped into double wave mailer made to measure with stiff safety zone.

    NO DIGITAL DOWNLOAD NOR STREAMING

    Includes unlimited streaming of Touching Your Feelings via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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Track Listing:

A1. Music And Song
A2. I Ought To Watch That-Ego
A3. Gifted-For Cecilia
A4. Eulegy For Dewey
A5. It´s Time To Become

B1. Touchin Your Feelings
B2. Jazz Is Ourselves
B3. On Black
B4. Baaad News For Mr. Blues
B5. Rhythm Is Accenting Time
B6. Greater Than Pain

After two years of preparation, we are thrilled to announce the reissue of the most precious hidden gems of Soul Jazz / Spoken Word albums from a key era. Originally released in 1974 as a private pressing of fewer that 100 copies, Touching Your Feelings by Jim Marks is a crucial missing piece of the proto-rap era lying firmly between Gil Scott Heron and Amiri Baraka, with whom he made a strong friendship. Jym Marks' mix of deep, expressive poetry and solid jazz sits on the edge of works by The Last Poets and fellow west coast rhyme smiths, the Watts Prophets. Upon hearing Jym Marks for the first time, it will remind you of those other great strangers of music who suddenly returned to the fore; you will experience the same emotions as when first listening to Terry Callier or Darondo.

Now 83, Jym (with y) has written 8 poetry books and recorded two albums. We found him, where he has always been, behind the windows of his barber shop in Palo Alto, where he worked for 50 years.

Touching Your Feelings will take you on a musical journey of 11 poems written by Jym between 1968 and 1974 that talk about social and political issues, the human condition, our relationship with ourselves and each other, the inner self. In a wide ranging interview, Jym Marks told Tony Higgins about his life, musical inspirations, artistic motivations and much more. This is an opportunity to hear a truly remarkable record that sells for thousands of dollars on the collector circuit, and is unknown even to the most attentive!

And yes! Jym entrusted us with the original master tape, directly transferred with all analogue process!

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released December 13, 2021

Personnel:
Drums – Scott Sprague
Electric Bass – John W. Smith
Percussion, Effects – Don Hendon
Piano, Electric Piano – Jym Marks

Thanks go to:
Jym Marks and Tony Higgins for Interview.

Manufactured By – Eating Standing Publishing
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