Pressing human ashes onto records for remembrance | Hearing Madge

Pressing the ashes of the dead onto records: odd novelty or tender remembrance?
Director: Andrea Lewis
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When it first made headlines in 2010, Jason Leach’s UK-based company And Vinyly - which presses the ashes of the deceased into vinyl records for loved ones wishing to hold onto their memory - appeared to be something of a macabre novelty. But there might be more to preserving the departed (quite literally) on records than first meets the eye - and ear. Hearing Madge explores how Leach’s venture was given new meaning when he was approached by a man looking to save his mother’s recollections that he had recorded shortly before her death. Surprisingly touching, Andrea Lewis’s short documentary is both a profile of an unusual business and a thought-provoking contemplation of the ways we chose to remember the dead.
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Пікірлер: 74

  • @ramxtreme
    @ramxtreme7 жыл бұрын

    Love you, Juliet. Our ashes will remain together on a record; the ground. And the world will forget about us. Sad, and beautiful.

  • @KitwiSauce
    @KitwiSauce6 жыл бұрын

    Did anyone else cry when they heard the ashes on the record in the end? I always try to take dust off my records and I hate hearing that noise, funny how life can play with your emotions that way

  • @rafaelo.2861
    @rafaelo.28614 жыл бұрын

    Bruh just turn me into Van Halen’s 1984 album

  • @shavonegranville6004
    @shavonegranville60047 жыл бұрын

    well i know what im gonna do with my body

  • @alphonsuschng883

    @alphonsuschng883

    3 жыл бұрын

    "never gonna give you up"

  • @flammingremy7263

    @flammingremy7263

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@alphonsuschng883 bruhhhhhh you too?

  • @tonymazz9912
    @tonymazz99124 жыл бұрын

    The ashes/body is supposed to be together . This is a beautiful way of doing that.

  • @kevinmiller2676
    @kevinmiller26764 жыл бұрын

    I’d like to be pressed into: Otis: Blue by Otis Redding Harvest by Neil Young Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd So awesome

  • @cristinadiaz4774

    @cristinadiaz4774

    2 жыл бұрын

    YESSSS

  • @andreflores4486
    @andreflores44865 жыл бұрын

    So they finna play me when I'm dead just like when I was alive

  • @zxcv8291

    @zxcv8291

    3 жыл бұрын

    copy

  • @washedsoup3421

    @washedsoup3421

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zxcv8291 yeah I saw that before

  • @LlyonaFang
    @LlyonaFang3 жыл бұрын

    when I die i'd like for my organs to be donated but the rest of my body to be pressed into a record with the music i've written and recorded in my life on it

  • @crimsonwolf739
    @crimsonwolf7394 жыл бұрын

    they played me when i was alive, now the gonna play me when im dead...

  • @doodlecaboodle9298

    @doodlecaboodle9298

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good job you stole a tweet

  • @kvzhdist
    @kvzhdist2 жыл бұрын

    the ultimate rick roll

  • @ogfrescobeats
    @ogfrescobeats7 жыл бұрын

    great and beautiful idea. i'd love to do that with my ashes!

  • @Sswoom
    @Sswoom6 жыл бұрын

    7:32

  • @skyboundzoo7529

    @skyboundzoo7529

    6 жыл бұрын

    sen. fx thanks. Man, this is haunting in a way

  • @tylerfoster76
    @tylerfoster766 жыл бұрын

    I think its a really cool concept. Maybe set a few moments per year to add something to the record. Talk about what things are like in the present time, maybe tell a story about a significant event you witnessed, or even just about a good time hanging out with old friends. It would be cool as a child to be able to hear a record of an aging grandparent or of one that has passed. I will have to bookmark this for when I remember to write my will. I'd like to do this. Thank you for your great idea!

  • @ricardoibarra9792

    @ricardoibarra9792

    4 жыл бұрын

    tylerfoster76 this is just great I wished someone in my family did something like that

  • @wildchicken679

    @wildchicken679

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is fantastic. Imagine many generations down being able to listen to your ancestors grow up.

  • @joemama8175
    @joemama81757 жыл бұрын

    that's beautiful and so much more

  • @leofrieri7820
    @leofrieri78204 жыл бұрын

    So they finna play me just like they did when I was alive

  • @sahulianhooligan7046
    @sahulianhooligan70466 жыл бұрын

    Can you press it into mp3 format?

  • @oiseaudenuit
    @oiseaudenuit7 жыл бұрын

    I love the idea but it is too expensive! already going to all the process of the funeral it need to be more affordable for the middle class!

  • @Schodboyblves

    @Schodboyblves

    7 жыл бұрын

    it's fine for me, I don't want a funeral

  • @oiseaudenuit7941

    @oiseaudenuit7941

    7 жыл бұрын

    batboy tell them to smoke the ashes!😂

  • @Schodboyblves

    @Schodboyblves

    7 жыл бұрын

    nah snort em like keith richards did with his dad

  • @sasquatchman321

    @sasquatchman321

    3 жыл бұрын

    I looked it up though and this seemed to be about half the price of an average funeral for costs

  • @oiseaudenuit

    @oiseaudenuit

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sasquatchman321 but still you need the cremation they only press a bit of ashes in each vinyl! A better idea would be ashes in a pendant as jewelry if you really want to keep staring at ashes of a dead person! But the best of the best is still a picture!

  • @michaelmcmahan8140
    @michaelmcmahan81405 жыл бұрын

    amazing Love it!

  • @AndrewSyiek
    @AndrewSyiek6 жыл бұрын

    Fantastic!

  • @tylergraham3851
    @tylergraham38512 жыл бұрын

    Would I be able to choose what songs I want on a record to be pressed into even if they are by different bands and artists?

  • @TheDylls

    @TheDylls

    11 ай бұрын

    Sounds like a legal nightmare for the seller at first... But imagine being the first group to sue him! 😅

  • @paolomendioro1187
    @paolomendioro11875 жыл бұрын

    THAT is just so cool.

  • @spectralv709
    @spectralv7097 жыл бұрын

    Chills

  • @jaegs1935
    @jaegs19354 жыл бұрын

    Ah bloody hell I'm welling up

  • @jackmontreal1
    @jackmontreal15 жыл бұрын

    Incroyable et vraiment émouvant. bravo, belle idée.

  • @JenniferSteel
    @JenniferSteel7 жыл бұрын

    press my ashes to vinyl. appropriate. i love vinyl.

  • @onutube6392
    @onutube63924 жыл бұрын

    I'm gonna make a compilation album of songs about dying. Like hallowed be thy name, and highway to hell, and if I was murdered, there will be songs about people being murdered. Like killers, or murders in the rye morgue

  • @ilikenougat8892
    @ilikenougat88923 жыл бұрын

    Question: what song should I have my ashes compressed into

  • @TheDylls

    @TheDylls

    11 ай бұрын

    I know mine! We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) - Trooper

  • @RentonRC
    @RentonRC7 жыл бұрын

    This is beautiful.

  • @VendettaAustralia
    @VendettaAustralia5 жыл бұрын

    That's the best way to go out.

  • @dzhettblek5615
    @dzhettblek56152 жыл бұрын

    I would love to do this with my mother when she dies, it would a great reminder of her for me. I'm donating my body to a body farm, so i actually will have done something good for once.

  • @jakechan2671
    @jakechan26716 жыл бұрын

    wait until someone said they wan gucci gang as their death vinyl

  • @holliestevenson8577
    @holliestevenson85774 жыл бұрын

    Wow

  • @annewheadon7396
    @annewheadon73965 жыл бұрын

    how ? how much? who dose it? who would I have to contact? From NL and I want this done

  • @bellathedog-fu8ny
    @bellathedog-fu8ny4 жыл бұрын

    Know what ima do when I die

  • @viennabuhl1449
    @viennabuhl14495 жыл бұрын

    this is the only way to bury me

  • @aldokurti3272
    @aldokurti32722 жыл бұрын

    Only one song comes to mind:Queen-made in heaven.

  • @alexandrsaussure4882
    @alexandrsaussure48826 жыл бұрын

    This is how i die

  • @esperanzajurado5636
    @esperanzajurado56367 жыл бұрын

    This and civet,s coffee , is the same kind of thing !!

  • @-t4173
    @-t41733 жыл бұрын

    i finally know

  • @CroissantLoser
    @CroissantLoser2 жыл бұрын

    press me into 04 Gatsu

  • @gener8tionlemon
    @gener8tionlemon Жыл бұрын

    Here me out, IM ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL

  • @DaimPlayYT
    @DaimPlayYT4 жыл бұрын

    I’ll have mine play all star by smash mouth

  • @amateoer

    @amateoer

    4 жыл бұрын

    absolutely! And staying alive!

  • @CYoung-fv4vu
    @CYoung-fv4vu5 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely.. Side A all J-Dilla Instrumentals Side B early 80s Hip Hop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes Im Wittit!!

  • @shalashaska69420
    @shalashaska694204 жыл бұрын

    Everybody gangsta till my ashes start playing 6ix9ine

  • @wrdhq

    @wrdhq

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ew bruv

  • @wrdhq

    @wrdhq

    2 жыл бұрын

    They'd throw your vinyl into a garbage bin then

  • @nsclan3643
    @nsclan36436 жыл бұрын

    Darude sandstorm vinyl

  • @ocramknight
    @ocramknight4 жыл бұрын

    As a vinyl lover, am I the only one who finds this creepy??

  • @GIUSAF

    @GIUSAF

    16 күн бұрын

    Yes. Because this is an amazing tribute and keepsake!!!

  • @deangutierrez
    @deangutierrez7 жыл бұрын

    and years later they throw the record away...

  • @disability3343

    @disability3343

    7 жыл бұрын

    D Gutierrez Who the fuck would do that? Yes, let me throw away my grandad's ashes they're not valuable to me anymore

  • @Franklin-qn8dy

    @Franklin-qn8dy

    6 жыл бұрын

    disability have you ever been to a garage sale?

  • @christofa9797
    @christofa97977 жыл бұрын

    plan A

  • @brazenbull636
    @brazenbull6364 жыл бұрын

    This guy has to listen to black metal..

  • @slippingmaggots
    @slippingmaggots Жыл бұрын

    Id have Snuff (by Slipknot) Home (by Blue October) Glued (by Melanie Martinez) Carry on (by Xxxtentacion) Most definitely on my record