Since 2003, Eric Isaacson has run Mississippi Records, a shop in Portland, Oregon, that launched a wonderfully eclectic and idiosyncratic label in 2004; late last year, he turned over the label half of the operation to filmmaker Cyrus Moussavi and experimental musician Gordon Ashworth. “We agreed to do it if we could leave Portland,” Moussavi says. And so Mississippi Records is moving to Chicago—though it doesn’t yet have a physical HQ, and it’s been on pause since mid-December while Moussavi and Ashworth transport its stock via a monthlong tour that ends at the Co-Prosperity Sphere on Friday, February 1. They’ll screen Isaacson’s documentary A Cosmic and Earthly History of Recorded Music According to Mississippi Records as well as shorts from Raw Music International, a film collective Moussavi cofounded. Golden Wilson of Olvido Records DJs, and tickets are $10.
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