Numero Group: The Majestic Arrows

…Enter the Numero Group. Foun­ded by Tom Lunt, Rob Sevier, and Ken Shi­pley in 2003, the three self-proclaimed “record obses­si­ves” deci­ded to approach the record busi­ness back­wards. No cor­po­rate hie­rarchy; no com­pany sta­tio­nary. Just a big pile of music that no one had ever heard of.

The mis­sion was sim­ple: to dig deep into the reces­ses of our record collec­tions with the goal of fin­ding the dus­tiest gems beg­ging to be relea­sed from their exile on geek street. No lon­ger would $500 sin­gles sit in a temperature-controlled room dying for a chance to be pla­yed. No more would the artists, wri­ters, and entre­pre­neurs who made these records hap­pen go unk­nown and unappreciated.

Numero relea­ses are sound with subs­tance, living at the nexus of song and story. Scru­pu­lously researched, pains­ta­kingly re-mastered, and with an atten­tion to detail that is unmatched in the reis­sue field, the end result is a top-of-the-line com­pact disc.

There is no “Numero” sound; ins­tead, Numero offers an aesthe­tic. A shelf of Numero discs feels less like a “record collec­tion” and more like a library. The library to date is a mix of thrift shop soul, skinny tie pop, Beli­zean funk, and hill­billy gos­pel. Numero makes records for peo­ple who may have everything from indi­ge­nous Cen­tral Ame­ri­can drum­ming to Cana­dian chan­teu­ses stac­ked next to their CD players.

This track is from their third release “Eccen­tric Soul: The Ban­dit Label” and this par­ti­cu­lar track is towards the end — merely a rehear­sal. I ins­tantly fell in love with this song, I implore you to lis­ten to it.

Title: 18. If I Had A Little House (Rehear­sal)

Artist: The Majes­tic Arrows

Album: Eccen­tric Soul: The Ban­dit Label