Author: Radi Safi

I’m going to hazard a medical analogy if I may. If a flooded house is like a heart attack you survive then rising damp is like a growth you don’t notice until it smells… What the hell am I talking about? Well folks, Monday Records stores it’s CD stock under my house. Opanoni Stamps &…

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The opening track on Stamps and Coins is Shiny Spinning Wheel. One tries to create a focus point for a song because it is specifically a focal point that inspires that initial thought. I don’t think that ever goes away; even when the lyrics slip off to the side. Check out how close that first…

I called Stamps & Coins an eclectic collections of songs from years of song writing and experimenting. The experimenting wasn’t just the song smithing though. It was the whole process. I remember taking Sebastian Chase a few of the songs I’d done with Tom and he said great, show me some more. I understand what…

Before I dive into the making of the Stamps and Coins EP I’d like to briefly mention Elliott Smith. There’s hardly an indie soul left on the planet who doesn’t know the name and any time I come across a professed music lover who doesn’t know his music I am truly shocked but… I did…

Maxfield Parish was an American painter and illustrator and one of my earlier fine art discoveries. He seemed to be able to combine the truest devotion to art whilst also being able to commercialise it. I was drawn to him for many reasons but the bottom line was the magic of the art. My favorite…

Every musician deserves their first great musical moment to come sooner rather than later. This can take on one of many forms. Writing a great song, winning a contest, hearing your song produced, even hearing a new song* and so on. Even hearing yourself recorded for the first time if a profoundly powerful thing. People…

By 2003 I had a couple of interesting albeit very unique musical contacts. One of them was Colin Seeger, one of the original co-authors of Music Business. He’d been advertising in the Australian Music Industry Directory under the business name Galvanizing Ideas and we hit it off almost immediately. We met up a few times,…

I’m slowly establishing the purpose of this blog. It is to catalogue and publish in one place the process that was the birth of Monday Records and its subsequent bands and musical projects. To be fair however, we must first very briefly look at the years leading up to the first EP in 2004. So this…

An apt albeit a borrowed title for the first official Monday Records blog entry. I’m Radi Safi and I started Monday Records in 2005 after the release of my first EP Stamps & Coins. That was done under the moniker of Opanoni. For the next few weeks I’m going to be re-living and re-establishing the…