There's only one copy in the world. It's a fabled album only heard by a handful of people. And now, it will be on display in a museum for the first time, with limited listening events.
.. It’s the rarest album on earth, only listened to by a handful of people.
But now, the public is going to get the chance to finally give it a spin. Only snag – you'll have to shell out for a ticket to Australia. The Australian island of Tasmania, to be precise.
The sole copy of Wu-Tang Clan's 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' will be played to the public for the first time at The Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) in Hobart. The institution will be holding limited listening events as part of its upcoming exhibition, , during which visitors can experience a curated 36-minute mix from the album, played from a personalised Wu-Tang PlayStation 1 in Mona's own recording studio, Frying Pan Studios. These sessions will be held from 15 – 24 June.
"Every once in a while, an object on this planet possesses mystical properties that transcend its material circumstances," Mona's director of curatorial affairs, Jarrod Rawlins, said about the album. "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin is more than just an album, so when I was thinking about status, and what a transcendent namedrop could be, I knew I had to get it into this exhibition." So, what makes this album so special? The lone copy of 'Once Upon a Time in Shaolin' is Wu-Tang Clan’s seventh album, a 31-track opus recorded in secret by members RZA, GZA, .