Who remembers the old times when most music albums were not available on streaming services and couldn’t be bought online as downloadable archives? In the pre-online music era, there was a lot of amazing recordings by non-mainstream artists that are no longer available nowadays.
I was lucky a couple of times and discovered great old CDs in some “forgotten” e-shops or in second-hand stores. A few of those old recordings were released again. But most of them are unfortunately inaccessible, maybe forever.
One of the recordings that I’ve missed were albums by Natalika. That amazing world music band was quite popular for a few years around 2000 (in the sense that it even appeared on TV several times). And then the band disappeared for long time. IIRC their CDs were never available in normal distribution so I’ve never seen them in CD shops. And I think their online presence was irregular during the time. From time to time, I recalled the band but couldn’t find their CDs anywhere at the moment.
I’ve recently recalled the band again and found out that they have a working web site and their 20 years old CDs are still available. What a discovery! I ordered the CDs and now I can enjoy listening to those great pieces of music, which were previously missing in my music archive. AFAIK those CDs are the last unsold pieces, which won’t be available anymore in any form once they are sold out. If you like that kind of music, grab them while you can, they are worth it.
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