Brazilian bus owner boasts the world's largest record collection
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A Brazilian bus owner is buying up the world's biggest vinyl record collection.
The bus magnate so far owns more than 5 million records.
STORYLINE:
This LP - or Long Play - vinyl record is just one of the 5 million owned by an avid collector from Brazil.
62-year-old Zero Freitas owns stacks of records, which he keeps in a former candle factory warehouse in Sao Paulo.
He collects records from across the world, and there's no sign of him stopping.
This warehouse has the capacity to hold millions more, he says. "People ask me 'you have five million records and how many more will you have?' I don't know how many I will have, but the space for another five million certainly is available, right here".
Freitas purchased a large chunk of what was believed to be the world's largest record collection, Paul Mawhinney's 3 million plus Reccord-Rama library from the United States.
The Library of Congress in the US considered buying the collection, but backed out, and so it was placed on eBay. Freitas purchased about one third of the collection.
His precious vinyl stack comes from different sources, in Brazil and abroad. They include many private collections such as American comedian Bob Hope's and important record stores like New York's Time Square Colony Records and Rio's Modern Sound and LA's Music Man Murray's.
He would like to see the candle factory become a cultural centre where visitors have access to the collections and can listen to rare recordings.
But Brazilian music is his priority.
About once a month Freitas visits S�o Paulo's largest used records store, Eric Discos.
Freitas has become the city's main record collector and many in S�o Paulo scout for records to sell to Freitas. In a universe counting millions of titles there's always something new to sell to him.
"He does a lot of upgrading so he'll buy a record because the cover is a little better, so there'll always be merchandise for him. Again there's always something unusual coming in, something autographed or something" says Eric Crauford, the store's owner.
Freitas manages his bus company by day, but vinyl records are his passion. Some of his collection is kept at another warehouse in San Paolo.
While British and American LP's have largely been digitalized, 80% of Brazilian music still remains etched in vinyl.
The main emphasis of this collection is Brazilian records, says Valeria Batista who manages the twelve person team dedicated to making sense out of these enormous boxes of records.
Twelve history students take turns morning and afternoon in the endless task of recording the basic data for each record plus a photograph of the cover. At the current rate of 500 per day the process is expected to take more than twenty years.
Batista explains, "There are 250 000 records here approximately which came from Brazilian record collectors and stores and are our classification priority for being mainly Brazilian music".
But the classified rooms are filling up fast: "Number one began over thee three years ago. This room is already full."
Freitas hopes the students can embark on a musical journey while cataloguing the vinyl.
He says, "The interns they work while listening to music. Each one choses their music and place it on a line. They have different tastes and the idea is they open their minds to accept all kinds of music".
Opening each record cover is a musical experience for Freitas. He reminisces over John Lennon's Wedding Album. He says, "A little of everything. The wedding of John Lennon and Yoko, a very interesting album".
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A Brazilian bus owner is buying up the world's biggest vinyl record collection.
The bus magnate so far owns more than 5 million records.
STORYLINE:
This LP - or Long Play - vinyl record is just one of the 5 million owned by an avid collector from Brazil.
62-year-old Zero Freitas owns stacks of records, which he keeps in a former candle factory warehouse in Sao Paulo.
He collects records from across the world, and there's no sign of him stopping.
This warehouse has the capacity to hold millions more, he says. "People ask me 'you have five million records and how many more will you have?' I don't know how many I will have, but the space for another five million certainly is available, right here".
Freitas purchased a large chunk of what was believed to be the world's largest record collection, Paul Mawhinney's 3 million plus Reccord-Rama library from the United States.
The Library of Congress in the US considered buying the collection, but backed out, and so it was placed on eBay. Freitas purchased about one third of the collection.
His precious vinyl stack comes from different sources, in Brazil and abroad. They include many private collections such as American comedian Bob Hope's and important record stores like New York's Time Square Colony Records and Rio's Modern Sound and LA's Music Man Murray's.
He would like to see the candle factory become a cultural centre where visitors have access to the collections and can listen to rare recordings.
But Brazilian music is his priority.
About once a month Freitas visits S�o Paulo's largest used records store, Eric Discos.
Freitas has become the city's main record collector and many in S�o Paulo scout for records to sell to Freitas. In a universe counting millions of titles there's always something new to sell to him.
"He does a lot of upgrading so he'll buy a record because the cover is a little better, so there'll always be merchandise for him. Again there's always something unusual coming in, something autographed or something" says Eric Crauford, the store's owner.
Freitas manages his bus company by day, but vinyl records are his passion. Some of his collection is kept at another warehouse in San Paolo.
While British and American LP's have largely been digitalized, 80% of Brazilian music still remains etched in vinyl.
The main emphasis of this collection is Brazilian records, says Valeria Batista who manages the twelve person team dedicated to making sense out of these enormous boxes of records.
Twelve history students take turns morning and afternoon in the endless task of recording the basic data for each record plus a photograph of the cover. At the current rate of 500 per day the process is expected to take more than twenty years.
Batista explains, "There are 250 000 records here approximately which came from Brazilian record collectors and stores and are our classification priority for being mainly Brazilian music".
But the classified rooms are filling up fast: "Number one began over thee three years ago. This room is already full."
Freitas hopes the students can embark on a musical journey while cataloguing the vinyl.
He says, "The interns they work while listening to music. Each one choses their music and place it on a line. They have different tastes and the idea is they open their minds to accept all kinds of music".
Opening each record cover is a musical experience for Freitas. He reminisces over John Lennon's Wedding Album. He says, "A little of everything. The wedding of John Lennon and Yoko, a very interesting album".
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