BVA has the ears of someone who spends too much time in the back of record stores. These aren't obscurities for obscurity's sake; they're signals the mainstream missed. Music that was always powerful, always meaningful, just never amplified. BVA is the amplifier they've been waiting for.

Transmission 01: Water Over Old Stones

October 26, 2023

The crate-digger sensibility arrives fully formed. Cortex, the French jazz-funk group whose albums were dollar-bin staples until rediscovery. Black Merda!, one of the first all-Black rock bands, whose records barely circulated outside Detroit. Pastor T.L. Barrett and the Youth for Christ Choir, whose gospel-funk "Like a Ship" was recorded in a Chicago church and forgotten for decades.

Transmission 02: High Wind Warning

November 9, 2023

The dig continues. More lost records pulled from the bins, more signals that never got their due.

Transmission 03: The Valley Finds Its Voice

November 23, 2023

WITCH: 1970s Zambian psychedelic rock that most Western listeners had never heard before recent reissues. Erick Cosaque's Gwo Ka drum music from Guadeloupe, independently recorded for 45 years with almost no distribution outside the Caribbean. The African continent and its diaspora yield deeper crates.

Transmission 05: The Longest Night

December 21, 2023

The dig goes global. Mbongwana Star's Congolese street music shot through with distortion on World Circuit. Propherts Of Da City's 90s Cape Town hip-hop on Ghetto Ruff. Abel Lima's cosmic Cabo Verdean funana rescued by Analog Africa. Dijf Sanders' field recordings from Java transformed into electronic compositions. El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe, performing dabke since 1979, preserved on DARNA. Records that traveled long distances to reach the valley floor.