The Revolver Club’s outlet at Jio World Drive in BKC is fashioned like a pop-up store with a thela that contains vinyls. Pics/Atul Kamble

There really is no better way to purchase a record than actually trying out the music before making the buy, and Jude de Souza, TRC’s owner, told us a bit about the grand plans he has when it comes to ensuring that listening stations make a proper comeback in Mumbai. “I want to set them up at independent coffee shops, bookstores and design-oriented places, where there is a fundamental overlap between music enthusiasts and an artsy type of crowd. It will be a no-obligation thing; I am not looking to make sales. I just want people to know that hey, records exist and this is what they sound like,” he said.

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Continuing to elaborate on his plans, de Souza also revealed that he is going to rechristen the original Mahim store as a record store-cum-coffee bar. “It’s going to be about heading there, putting on a set of headphones at the listening booths, hearing a bunch of records and drinking a cup of coffee. It’s about bringing a sense of slowness back to music,” he explained.

All of this honestly sounds wonderful especially at a time when streaming platforms have taken the sheen off albums, hooking a younger generation on to playlists with disparate tracks. De Souza told us about the concept of ‘active listening sessions’ that exists in the West, where venues get a high-end system and select seminal records that people listen to in silence, with their phones being confiscated at the point of entry. “It’s something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable because concentration spans have obviously gone down. But it’s still something that I want to start here, where I tell people, ‘Boss, give me your phone and now you’re going to listen to this whole album for an hour.’ And then let’s see what happens, I don’t know yet. Maybe people will say, ‘I can’t handle this; I need to leave.’

Jude de Souza

Maybe they will say, ‘Hey, I finally listened to an album after a while.’ I myself am an album guy, and what a lot of people don’t understand is that an album is what the artiste intended. So if you really like a musician, it’s in your best interest to listen to the music the way he or she envisioned it to be,” he felt, echoing our thoughts because we, too, believe that listening to a full record is like going on a journey that sometimes takes you to places that you never imagined can exist. All you have to do is hop on for the ride.

Time: 11 am to 10 pm
At: The Revolver Club, Jio World Drive, Maker Maxity, BKC
Log on to: @therevolverclub on Instagram
Call: 9833182255