Back then,
if your record wasn't getting played
on mainstream radio,
if you weren't in jukeboxes
or if you weren't invited to play on TV,
the odds were completely against you.
Releasing an album
as an independent artist
was so much more difficult
than it is today,
both in terms of being heard
and just distributing the thing.
So, soon after,
he released a second album,
kept a busy schedule playing piano
in various clubs in the city,
but his records started
to accumulate dust slowly.
And those 2,000 copies
in the span of 30 years
easily started to get lost
until only a few copies
in the world remained.
Then in the mid-2000s,
a Montreal record digger
that goes by the name Kobal
was doing his weekly rounds
of just hunting for records.
He was in a flea market
surrounded by thousands
of other dirty, dusty, moldy records.
That's where he found the "Piano" album.
He wasn't specifically looking for it.
Actually, you could say
it sort of found him.