Minim­al Wave is proud to pre­sent an LP of 6 songs by cult U.K. pro­ject Scenes de la Bohème, en­tit­led ‘Stand­ing in the Rain’. Scenes de la Bohème was for­med by An­thony Waites in Lon­don, in 1981 with an in­nate de­sire to create poetic, sub­ver­sive pop music. With­out any in­ten­tion of ever sign­ing to a re­cord label, he self-released one un­tit­led 7” single in 1982, an edi­tion of 150 co­p­ies, with money fund­ed to him by his parents for his 21st bi­rthday. He often used bor­rowed syn­thesiz­ers to re­cord his music in vari­ous be­droom studios and friends’ houses sup­plemen­ted by his be­loved cher­ry red Hagstrom guitar. The two songs that he re­leased were ‘Zara’, an ear­worm of a pop song about a lon­ged for girl stand­ing in the rain, and ‘The Tale of the But­terf­ly’. Un­like many other bands of the time, he never sent the single or his demos to John Peel, The NME, Be­ggars Ban­quet, nor Rough Trade and so it was lost to ob­scur­ity until a few re­cord col­lec­tors ‘dis­covered’ it some 15 years ago. Scenes de la Bohème’s Un­tit­led 7” single con­tinues to fetch ex­or­bitant prices in col­lec­tors’ cir­cles so we are es­pecial­ly happy to be able to make this re­lease avail­able in the form of a newly mas­tered LP, which in­cludes four un­released tracks that Waites had re­cor­ded at the time. The LP is pre­ssed on 180 gram vinyl, as a li­mited edi­tion of 600 (300 black and 300 trans­parent yel­low), and fea­tures be­autiful­ly re­stored im­ages of Waites and his main partn­er in crime, Seamus Fitzsim­mons. The inner sleeve holds Waites’ story, his mus­ical in­spira­tions and ex­plora­tions as an Irish youth grow­ing up in Lon­don in the early 1980s and dis­cover­ing the avant-garde. Re­lease date is April 23rd. Pre-order avail­able here. Di­git­al re­lease to fol­low.

Zara
Leap into the Void
Avant - Garde Guitar
A City Such as This
Hello Dorian Gray
The Tale of the But­terf­ly