Flyer from UK label Cordelia Records, listing releases for sale from their own label and from others they were distributing, circa 1994.
While I can’t recall how I stumbled across the Cordelia Records label, it must have been through their New Zealand connection in some shape or form. Here they list an entire section of releases for sale on the German Raffmond label, known in the 90s for issuing some of the more experimental Kiwi music of the time—less Flying Nun, more Xpressway. And in among the Terminals and Cakekitchen releases are those from some of the (many) bands of Cordelia main man Alan Jenkins.
But the real prize for me here was that Dolly Mixture 12″ listed for a mere £3. The band’s final release during their initial existence, The Fireside E.P. was a low-key, chamber pop coda. And it was only one of two Dolly Mixture releases—the other being their ultra-rare Demonstration Tapes double LP—that I had yet to acquire.
I most certainly sent my international money order and IRCs to the label without delay in order to grab that Dolly Mixture record... plus a few other Cordelia label releases while I was at it. Because, with a maximum international shipping charge of £6, why the heck not?
