Test Valley Crematorium launches choices for memorial vinyls

A brand new partnership between And Vinyly and Westerleigh Group permits the crematorium to supply the bereaved the prospect to have the ashes of a cherished one pressed right into a vinyl file.

Options embody making a number of 7” or 12” records for the same value to a single vinyl. The file can embody a private message, somebody’s personal soundtrack or simply the sound of silence.

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Robert Metcalf, Test Valley Crematorium supervisor, mentioned: “We are all the time trying to broaden the vary of memorial choices accessible to the bereaved with a purpose to give them the widest doable selection and assist them to create uniquely private memorials for his or her family members.

Jason Leach (left) and Matthew Brook (Image: Test Valley Crematorium)“What you obtain is an actual playable vinyl file containing round 18 minutes of audio on either side, together with a small quantity of the ashes.

“And it isn’t solely music that may type the soundtrack, many individuals select to incorporate recordings of particular events or conversations with their cherished one on the vinyl.

“The course of permits folks to design their very own sleeve and label art work too, if they want, utilizing templates supplied by And Vinyly.”

And Vinyly was established in 2006 by Yorkshire-based music producer and music label proprietor Jason Leach.

He mentioned: “We have developed a novel further course of that permits us to press a small quantity of a cherished one’s ashes into actual vinyl records, creating an audio-visual memento.

“The first step is the collation of the content material. This may be collaborative and is, now we have discovered, typically a cathartic expertise, with family and friends contributing pictures and phrases, voicemails, answerphone messages and recordings of particular instances.

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“Our partnership with Westerleigh Group will allow us to serve much more bereaved and assist them create superbly bespoke vinyl records which may be stored at dwelling, performed and cherished for generations.”

Westerleigh Group is among the UK’s largest impartial homeowners and operators of crematoria and cemeteries, with 40 websites in England, Scotland, and Wales.

More details about the partnership with And Vinyly may be discovered on the Test Valley Crematorium web site.