Over 25,000 records lie dormant in Joaquim Paulo’s collection. Found in Paris or New York, in São Paulo or London and collected with every drop of lifeblood that the old hand of the music biz carries in his chest. Music is music and should have nothing to do with skin color – it should, because in the past it was unfortunately different and black music as such was a genre of its own, which Marvin Gaye, James Brown, Michael Jackson or Prince helped to rise. It’s funk and soul and a whole lot of love for music that turns us into true rock stars, our toothbrush into a microphone and our shampoo bottles into an audience. What Spotify is today was the record store back then, where LPs nestled close together like sardines in oil, cover to cover, artwork to artwork. And it is precisely to these works of art that collector Joaquim Paulo has dedicated a book, published by TASCHEN, 432 pages long and a treat for anyone whose heart leaps at the sound of the first note.
Joaquim Paulo & Julius Wiedemann, “Funk & Soul Covers”, TASCHEN, 432 pages, approx. 70.-
