Ramona Córdova on Naïve: "When I first started working on Naïve I was completely consumed by all of the technical details involved in making a 'professional studio recording' on my own -- one which could not be refuted or disregarded as subpar. My only other hope was to tell some sort of story with whichever songs I could piece together. The content and message of which were much less important to me. The story that Naïveended up telling comes from a cohesion of themes, ceaseless in my personal experiences living day to day in the world. Although the album dares to tread on tact while speaking poetically and lyrically about issues such as systemic oppression, racism, misogyny, policing, and patriarchy -- I think the album really just wants to reflect -- to serve as a reflection -- in order to foster healing and healthy growth towards maturing. I feel it commanding a kind of firm kindness as a reminder to love yourself enough to accept others, by way of accepting yourself. Pressed onto this 180-gram vinyl are ten songs I wrote while living in many different places around the world. Spontaneous recordings of inspired notions of song, written one rainy evening up high above the vineyards in Banyuls-sur-Mer became 'Men on the Mountain'. A scrap of paper holding jots about a sudden storm on a hot day in August while helping friends on their farm in Puglia became 'Mouth of Autumn' and 'Peace Through Violence'. As I dressed myself into the fragile reality of the United States, I became flooded by its manipulative social governing systems. As the monuments of slave-owners, colonizers, and white supremacists came crashing down in the name of responsibility and accountability, 'The Bridge Works' was built, a song about crossing bridges towards empathy and equality. Civil rights activist and American-football quarterback, Colin Kaepernick, taking the knee during the United States national anthem pre-game ceremony, brought about 'So Long'. The incessant murdering of black, brown, and transgender citizens brought 'Woke', 'Scared I'll Bite You', and 'The End'. The murder of Eric Garner and the feeling of being choked-out and suffocated under the weight of systemic oppression brought about 'Still'. From all of this birthed the collection of songs that is Naïve, a title given to the album by French Ghanian artist Eden Tinto Collins. Although written both in Europe and the U.S., most of the songs were performed and recorded at the end of the year 2018 in Philadelphia, during the American-holidays season..."
After nearly a decade of false starts, multiple game plans veering off the rails, and a handful of shattered hopes and/or dreams, the odyssey is finally complete—the new Fusetron site is here.
This is the first phase of a multipart rollout that will span the next few months: the currently browsable stock includes miscellaneous new releases from the past 8+ months (we have a lot of catching up to do), plus approximately a third of our backstock. Note that we’ve reduced/slashed prices on many titles and will continue to do so in order to make room for new stock. We’ll also be expanding / tweaking / improving / debugging the site itself (for example, we still have work to do on the automated international postage system, not to mention the inevitable inventory discrepancies that come with transferring an ancient and massive database to a new system).
Over the next few months, as we take inventory, clean house, and delve into our storage, we will be uploading thousands of additional items, gradually, on a near-daily basis. This will include the majority of the LPs, as well as many titles, in all formats, once thought long-gone. Many currently “sold out” items are likely to resurface.
Finally, once our general backstock is up (probably in the next two or three months) we’ll begin making our extensive stockpile of rarities available online for the first time: tons of random out-of-print titles, "deadstock," warehouse finds, secondhand collectibles, etc., accumulated over the past few decades.
Frequent/returning customers will be getting early access to these items. Details to follow on how this will work (a priority mailing list? a 'frequent flyer'-like program?), but it will not be based on dollars spent. We want to reward those who consistently support us, especially in the discogs marketplace era (to those who show up trying to poach five copies of a one-off rarity, and nothing else, ever… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ).
So—we suggest you take some time to dig through the site—even we’ve been surprised by what’s been turning up, and there’s much more to come.
