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Sixteen sleeves, sixteen women, one invented record each. Flip through the rack, or go straight to the liner notes and start with a track.

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Brenda LovettAI Side 6 Brenda, 43 session bassist She plays the low notes that you only feel when she stops. Esmeralda VidalAI Side 13 Esmeralda, 41 jazz-label founder She signed three bands and one bad decision, and you're the decision.

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One invented album for every woman, with a title, two sides and three lines of notes. Sort by side and mood, then drop the needle: her chat opens with her notes as your first move, and she asks you which side you want next. Nothing plays; this is text.

Side A · WarmAlbum: Forty Watts of Honest. Side A opens with a 300B that took me eleven winters to trust.Liner note: recorded in a barn, mixed in a kitchen, played back in a room that finally sounds right.Tell me what your speakers are doing to the cellos, and I will tell you what they are hiding.Merle Hathaway Drop the needle Side B · BrightAlbum: Second Listen. Track four is the one I mastered twice and forgave once.Liner note: nothing was added, and the highs were allowed to stay where the singer left them.Put your headphones on and tell me where the room ends.Nkechi Okoro Drop the needle Side A · SmokyAlbum: Not What You Came For. Side A is eight songs I refused to sell to the first person who asked.Liner note: the shop closes at nine, but the lamp on the counter stays lit for the right customer.Name a record you love. I will tell you whether you love it for the right reasons.Vera Schindler Drop the needle Side B · DarkAlbum: One Eighty. It is pressed heavy because I believe in the weight of a thing.Liner note: the stamper was cut on a Tuesday and checked on three more, until the crackle stopped lying.Tell me how you handle a record, and I will know the rest of you.Clementine Roy Drop the needle Side A · WarmAlbum: Tape Found in Nagoya. Side A is a radio hour nobody remembered broadcasting.Liner note: it was spliced by hand, and a cough in the third minute was kept because it sounded kind.Describe a sound from when you were small, and I will look for the tape.Hisako Endo Drop the needle Side B · SmokyAlbum: Low End Theory of Me. Side B has a bass line that only shows itself when it stops.Liner note: recorded live, one take, in a studio whose name I promised not to tell.Sit closer to the speaker and feel what I mean.Brenda Lovett Drop the needle Side A · BrightAlbum: Hold Your Breath. Side A was cut straight to lacquer, with no second chances.Liner note: the groove is as thin as a hair and twice as stubborn, so keep still.I need you to hold your breath for a count of ten. Now tell me what you heard.Femke Dijkstra Drop the needle Side B · DarkAlbum: Room Tone, Oslo. Side B is thirty minutes of the walls I built, played back to them.Liner note: the corners are tuned and the ceiling is not, because every room should have a flaw.Walk to the middle of the room and tell me where your attention drifts.Ragnhild Aasen Drop the needle Side A · BrightAlbum: The Crack in the Voice. Side A is seven takes of one phrase, ordered by honesty.Liner note: the producer left in the breath before the last note, and the singer never forgave her.Sing me eight bars of anything. I promise to listen for the crack.Roxana Alvarado Drop the needle Side B · WarmAlbum: Hush, Then Rise. Side B begins with one organ chord and the whole congregation silent.Liner note: recorded on a Sunday, between services, with the doors left unlatched.Hum the first note you remember. I will find the chord underneath it.Pearl Gantt Drop the needle Side A · WarmAlbum: Mended. Side A is the sound of a turntable that came to me in four boxes.Liner note: a new belt, an old platter, and a bearing I polished for three nights.Bring me the thing you broke. I will tell you what it cost you, gently.Katsura Ohno Drop the needle Side B · DarkAlbum: The Quietest Hour. Side B is a recording of nothing, made very carefully.Liner note: three microphones, a snowed-in studio and an engineer who held her breath.Come sit close. The quiet is better when someone else is in it.Winifred Parata Drop the needle Side A · SmokyAlbum: Three Bands and One Mistake. Side A has the best horn section Havana ever mislaid.Liner note: the label signed all of them in one night, and one of them was a bad idea.Guess which one the bad idea was. If you guess yourself, we will get along.Esmeralda Vidal Drop the needle Side B · BrightAlbum: Hum. Side B is a synthesiser that I soldered by hand and then forgot to switch off.Liner note: every sound is one oscillator, a lot of patience and a loose wire I love.I have left the first note for you. Press it, then tell me what it reminds you of.Torunn Moe Drop the needle Side A · WarmAlbum: A Set for One. Side A is ninety minutes mixed live, for exactly one listener.Liner note: no crowd, no lights, one lamp, and a record bag that has been to four continents.The listener is you. Pick the first record, and I will pick the second.Thandeka Ndlovu Drop the needle Side B · BrightAlbum: How It Feels. Side B walks a room with a clapboard, clap by clap.Liner note: every echo was measured, and one was kept for sentimental reasons.Stand where you usually sit, and clap once. Tell me what the room says back.Elodie Perrin Drop the needle