“…the enigma of enigmas…”

Talk about an ironic compliment!

I’d pretty much forgotten that anyone had ever written anything about Oblivion Records itself, rather than our records. In fact, this Bob Rusch paragraph from a 1975 Down Beat review of Friends might be our only company shout out. In the retrospect of 35 years I couldn’t ask for anything better.

The “indies” for the most part stand out as enigmas aside the commercially-oriented giants, usually pushing a favorite idiom/era or style of jazzed sounds, with a particular artist as the focal point. Set into this pattern comes the enigma of enigmas, Oblivion Records, which over the past 3 or 4 years has managed to push out a total of 4 LPs and one 45 record. The material has ranged from rural field blues to urban blues to mainstream jazz to electronic jazz/rock. Their one constant quality of music along with the humor and personal approach to production and packaging.