Sold Date: August 30, 2020
Start Date: August 6, 2020
Final Price: $75.00 (USD)
Seller Feedback: 394
Buyer Feedback: 16

Hello and thank you for checking out my listings.  I am a lifelong record-head who's selling his archives of about 4,000 lps out of sheer and terrifying financial duress, so my asking prices are towards the top end of what I think is reasonable.  Most listings will be open to offers.

Abdul Rahim Ibrahim (Doug Carn) Al Rahman! Cry of the Floridian Tropic Son OG LP RARE
The album plays great EXCEPT for the fatal abrasion on Side One Track One that renders playback choppy at best.  Sad, because otherwise this album really sings.
I lifted this quote from an AMAZON review of the LP, which took it from the original liner notes for the record:
"Part of the purpose of this album is to show the members of the funk-pop-rock and jazz-afro-cuban-latin and the traditional-blues-gospel oriented subcultures in western societies, that the Arabic language and Islamic Din are not necessarily alien to them. And more specifically, to show that the syllabilistic expression of the be-bop language and the evolved musical ideas of the great innovators John Coltrane and McCoy Tyner are equally Arabic in nature, as Jazz itself is a word of Arabic Origin....
To some Sheiks of Quran and Islamic Jurist, the preceding paragraph is pure heresy. However with all due respect, this album is not for them... Part of the problem lies in the fact that the intelligence arms of certain rival military and religious groups in centuries past saw fit to inject many false ideas into the hadiths (traditions of Muhammad P.B.U.H.) as an effective means of countering the threat Islam posed to their own ideas and to gain control over the territory held by the Muslims, i.e. The Fertile Crescent. Another aspect of the problem is a matter of Education - as most of us do not accept music for what it really is... The basic component of music is sound. And sound is but the audible vibrations of matter. In addition, all sound vibrations produce notes. Notes in reality are any phenomina indicating or producing pitch, frequency, wave length, wave form, modulation and duration, etc..
When these phenomina are duplicated or mathematically considered in any way, they produce harmony and rhythm. Therefore, any sound can be considered music just as any music can be considered likeable or dis-likeable. The smashing of atoms, street noise, spoken languages, the chirping of birds, the blowing winds, and rock and roll are all forms of music - music that is variously organized or dis-organized in different ways...
Therefore I hope that this album will help man to transcend the "misconceptions" that causes a Priest to chant Holy Scriptures in a perfect oriental scale (mode), and then turn around and say that music is evil, and that what he himself is creating is not equally music...
But most of all I hope that this album will help us to transcend the intellectual and spiritual barriers that have placed all music that is pleasurable, listenable, fashionable and danceable within the confines of pimp culture."
In May of 2018 I racked up $100,000 worth of credit card debt making my first feature film entitled: WRETCH.  If you're interested in 80's sci-fi/horror/arthouse cinema and the work of David Lynch, you might consider renting my film on Amazon iTunes or most streaming platforms.  You can watch the trailer here:  
On May 31st I was in a bicycle accident and shattered my right wrist and now I have a mountain of hospital bills to pay for because I wasn't insured. 

That's my sob story.  Most of the listings are going to be pretty straightforward with one to four pics of the album in question and I've done my best to grade fairly and accurately.  I used to work in a record store and I use pretty standard grading methods: POOR/FAIR/G/VG/VG+/EX/NM.  In my listings, the condition of the album is listed first (VG) / the condition of the jacket is listed second (G) = VG/G I am erring on the side of grading fairly conservatively in most instances.
If you need to see more pictures let me know and I'll take some for you and send through direct messenger.  I encourage anyone who wants to purchase multiple albums to message me with your proposal, we can try to work out a discount.
I will be shipping out all sold albums weekly on Saturdays. So, if you buy, and pay for, a record from me on Monday, you'll have to wait a few extra days...unless you need it rushed and in that case you can reach out to me and we can make other arrangements. Since I am unemployed right now and I have this broken wrist things are going slowly but I am around and available to respond to inquiries and offers readily.

All sales will be final. If you receive your album and you think I was horrendously off and my grading, we can discuss.  I WILL OFFER A COMBINED SHIPPING DISCOUNT ON MULTIPLE LPS. Shipping costs takes supplies and USPS Media Mail rate into account.

So keep checking back as I'll be listing new albums all through August and September until everything is up online.  And please, if you like 80s sci-fi and horror films offbeat quirky surreal and absurdist stuff, please consider checking out my feature film and help spread the word, it'll help me a ton. 
Thank you very much,
-Matthew