Hearing Madge: Pressing human ashes onto records for remembrance

Pressing the ashes of the dead onto records: odd novelty or tender remembrance Subscribe to the Aeon Video newsletter: Watch Hearing Madge on Aeon: Watch more free videos on Aeon: Subscribe on YouTube: Follow us on Twitter: Follow us on Facebook: Follow us on Instagram: When it first made headlines in 2010, Jason Leachs UKbased company And Vinyly which presses the ashes of the deceased into vinyl records for loved ones wishing to hold onto their memory appeared to be something of a macabre novelty. But there might be more to preserving the departed (quite literally) on records than first meets the eye and ear. Hearing Madge explores how Leachs venture was given new meaning when he was approached by a man looking to save his mothers recollections that he had recorded shortly before her death. Surpris