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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Love you, Juliet. Our ashes will remain together on a record; the ground. And the world will forget about us. Sad, and beautiful.
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
Bruh just turn me into Van Halen’s 1984 album
well i know what im gonna do with my body
@alphonsuschng883
3 жыл бұрын
"never gonna give you up"
@flammingremy7263
2 жыл бұрын
@@alphonsuschng883 bruhhhhhh you too?
The ashes/body is supposed to be together . This is a beautiful way of doing that.
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
2 жыл бұрын
YESSSS
So they finna play me when I'm dead just like when I was alive
@zxcv8291
3 жыл бұрын
copy
@washedsoup3421
3 жыл бұрын
@@zxcv8291 yeah I saw that before
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
they played me when i was alive, now the gonna play me when im dead...
@doodlecaboodle9298
3 жыл бұрын
Good job you stole a tweet
the ultimate rick roll
great and beautiful idea. i'd love to do that with my ashes!
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@skyboundzoo7529
6 жыл бұрын
sen. fx thanks. Man, this is haunting in a way
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
4 жыл бұрын
tylerfoster76 this is just great I wished someone in my family did something like that
@wildchicken679
3 жыл бұрын
This is fantastic. Imagine many generations down being able to listen to your ancestors grow up.
that's beautiful and so much more
So they finna play me just like they did when I was alive
Can you press it into mp3 format?
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
7 жыл бұрын
it's fine for me, I don't want a funeral
@oiseaudenuit7941
7 жыл бұрын
batboy tell them to smoke the ashes!😂
@Schodboyblves
7 жыл бұрын
nah snort em like keith richards did with his dad
@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
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!
amazing Love it!
Fantastic!
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
11 ай бұрын
Sounds like a legal nightmare for the seller at first... But imagine being the first group to sue him! 😅
THAT is just so cool.
Chills
Ah bloody hell I'm welling up
Incroyable et vraiment émouvant. bravo, belle idée.
press my ashes to vinyl. appropriate. i love vinyl.
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
Question: what song should I have my ashes compressed into
@TheDylls
11 ай бұрын
I know mine! We're Here for a Good Time (Not a Long Time) - Trooper
This is beautiful.
That's the best way to go out.
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.
wait until someone said they wan gucci gang as their death vinyl
Wow
how ? how much? who dose it? who would I have to contact? From NL and I want this done
Know what ima do when I die
this is the only way to bury me
Only one song comes to mind:Queen-made in heaven.
This is how i die
This and civet,s coffee , is the same kind of thing !!
i finally know
press me into 04 Gatsu
Here me out, IM ON A HIGHWAY TO HELL
I’ll have mine play all star by smash mouth
@amateoer
4 жыл бұрын
absolutely! And staying alive!
Absolutely.. Side A all J-Dilla Instrumentals Side B early 80s Hip Hop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Yes Im Wittit!!
Everybody gangsta till my ashes start playing 6ix9ine
@wrdhq
2 жыл бұрын
Ew bruv
@wrdhq
2 жыл бұрын
They'd throw your vinyl into a garbage bin then
Darude sandstorm vinyl
As a vinyl lover, am I the only one who finds this creepy??
@GIUSAF
16 күн бұрын
Yes. Because this is an amazing tribute and keepsake!!!
and years later they throw the record away...
@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
6 жыл бұрын
disability have you ever been to a garage sale?
plan A
This guy has to listen to black metal..
Id have Snuff (by Slipknot) Home (by Blue October) Glued (by Melanie Martinez) Carry on (by Xxxtentacion) Most definitely on my record