Got my fairly substantial Pure Pleasure/Strata East order. They’d split it into two mailers and one turned up Sat, one today. Not the best mailers, the kind that make me cringe as they lack good corner protection when loaded with several albums, but everything got here fine without the slightest corner ding (the RM posties here are great, mostly women, and really careful with deliveries).
Anyway really happy with these; great music, great recordings and nice pressings. Maybe not the flattest records I’ve ever seen, but nothing that justifies getting the flattener out, and (after a clean) quiet too. Covers are typical Speakers Corner/Pure Pleasure, so around ‘80s UK quality wise, not nice heavy tip-on or anything, but a great and affordable way of getting hold of some very rare and very good obscure ‘70s jazz. Filled a nice gap in the collection! A bargain at the asking price, which appears to be about half the Discogs median!
PS Side 2 of the Sanders is very long at 28:50, so sonically the weakest of the ones I bought, but it is what it is and is wonderful in that joyful uplifting Pharoah Sanders way!