{"product_id":"join-the-ritual-glowing-orb-vinyl","title":"Join the Ritual (Glowing Orb Vinyl)","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMidway through his long, earnest and often very, very funny essay \u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eon the role playing game Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons in the September 2006 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eissue of The Believer, writer Paul La Farge proposes that Dungeons \u0026amp; \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDragons is not a game at all but rather a ritual. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLa Farge notes the marked difference between game and ritual. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhereas a game seeks to demonstrate how unequal or distinct players\/ \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eteams are from one another, rituals seek to do the very opposite. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"Ritual, on the other hand, is the exact inverse, for it brings about a \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eunion,\" La Farge writes, himself paraphrasing anthropologist Claude \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLevi-Strauss. \"Or in any case an organic relation between the initially \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eseparate groups.\" \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAnd so, across the 25-year history of Jagjaguwar, an independent \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erecord label curiously named using a Dungeons \u0026amp; Dragons name \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egenerator, we find this idea of ritual as a conjoining practice. We \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esee it early on when Jagjaguwar joins forces with a midwestern label \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecalled Secretly Canadian for a powerful fusion. We see it in familial \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003erelationships and collaboration among Jagjaguwar artists, and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eways those artists' most treasured collaborators make their ways to the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJagjaguwar game board. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eJoin The Ritual, the third piece of Jagjaguwar's 25th Anniversary \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecelebration, looks to pay homage to the labels and artists that, whether \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethey know it or not, invited Jagjaguwar to the table, to this wild, dark \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emagic ritual of music. We're talking about independent titans like Drag \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eCity, Too Pure, K Records and Touch \u0026amp; Go. We're talking about heroes \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elike R.E.M., Slint, Stereolab and Tracy Chapman. These songs captured \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe imaginations of our founders Darius Van Arman and Chris Swanson \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e- and ultimately, opened up worlds to them.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e1\u003c\/span\u003e Red Dress\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e2\u003c\/span\u003e Good Morning, Captain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e3\u003c\/span\u003e The Seeming and the Meaning\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e4\u003c\/span\u003e Cold Blooded Old Times\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e5\u003c\/span\u003e Feel the Pain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e6\u003c\/span\u003e Fast Car\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e7\u003c\/span\u003e Car\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e8\u003c\/span\u003e Weight of Water\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e9\u003c\/span\u003e The Concept\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e10\u003c\/span\u003e One for the Catholic Girls\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"aec-tracknum\"\u003e11\u003c\/span\u003e Nightswimming\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Various Artists","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53607232503989,"sku":"ftn1793031379732","price":7.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1018\/0716\/1525\/files\/join-the-ritual-glowing-orb-vinyl_1.jpg?v=1793031388","url":"https:\/\/handcraftedstyle.shop\/products\/join-the-ritual-glowing-orb-vinyl","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}