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Forteana, Hauntology, Odd Music, Weird Fiction, and Cultural Curiosities.
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@otranto.bsky.social
Forteana, Hauntology, Odd Music, Weird Fiction, and Cultural Curiosities.
"Play these recordings to your children, play them to your friends, and hopefully you will find them as odd, magical, spooky, and as inspiring as I do." - from the liner notes by Jonny Trunk.
04.12.2025 03:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Carl Orff & Gunild Keetman – Music For Children (Schulwerk) [Trunk Records. 2013]
A collection of instructional pieces designed for early music education. The selections are drawn from a pair of LPs originally released in 1958.
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Tempus fugit!
03.12.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blurt – Smoke Time [Moving Target. 1987]
Jagged skronk that alternates between Beatnik cool and seriously wired hysteria. I dearly love the music of Blurt.
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Krampus vs Cads!
03.12.2025 16:06 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The original electronic soundtrack for Circle Of Light by Delia Derbyshire and Elsa Stansfield was recorded in 1972. The soundtrack was commissioned by director Anthony Roland for his art film “Circle Of Light,” which premiered at the Academy Cinema in Oxford Street on March 28, 1972
03.12.2025 16:02 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Delia Derbyshire And Elsa Stansfield – Circle Of Light (Original Electronic Soundtrack) [Trunk Records. 2016]
Subtle electronic sounds and environmental recordings. It's a lovely listening experience.
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01.12.2025 02:50 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
...set in a world where plague doctors, covens, rabies, and baby prevention efforts, as well as eldritch practices, coexist under the ever-watchful gaze of the authorities.
27.11.2025 20:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Scarfolk can be thought of as a blending of George Orwell's 1984, The Stone Tape, Margaret Murray's The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, and All Creatures Great and Small.
The book features many of Littler's public information posters, news clippings, book covers, and advertisements, ...
Richard Littler. Discovering Scarfolk: For Tourists & Other Trespassers. Penguin. 2014
An epistolary novel about Daniel Bush & his search for his missing sons, Joe and Oliver. They vanished in Scarfolk, a town that may or may not exist in our reality where the 1970s perpetually loop.
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Dummy Run – Ice Cream Headache [Hot Air. 1997]
Rapid fire cut-ups and drum'n'bass rhythms.
Dummy Run is/was Andrew Sharpley and Nic Birmingham, and Matt Wand produced the album.
A Stock, Hausen and Walkman-related project.
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Raymond Pettibon
17.11.2025 19:39 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
...two members of the Viennese Actionists.
This set is my favourite from this group. Fans of early Nurse With Wound would certainly enjoy it.
There's a surprising amount of laughter from the audience. What hijinks and shenanigans were they getting up to on stage?
Selten Gehörte Musik – Münchner Konzert Mai 1974 [Edition Hansjörg Mayer. 3xLP. 1975]
Free improvisation from artists/writers/musicians/etc., Dieter Roth, Gerhard Rühm, Günter Brus, Hermann Nitsch, and Oswald Wiener. Those sharp-eyed among you will spot ...
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No more rock and roll!
17.11.2025 02:29 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 077 copies pressed, I have #15. There are l-o-n-g pauses between tracks.
17.11.2025 02:28 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Curver – Sjö [Ullabjakk. 1997]
Splendid noisy guitar post-punk, which may appeal to fans of Atomizer-era Big Black and Loop.
"Birgir Örn Thoroddsen. Icelandic musician, producer, engineer, visual artist, and one-half of experimental electric band Ghostigital."
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I have made it awkward...
17.11.2025 02:27 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Limited edition of 250 copies.
Compact Disc in 8 page A5 art fold-out ‘playbook/storyboard’ package." - Discogs.
I bought the disc used through Discogs, so no link to watch the movie for me. It's not on YouTube. One day perhaps.
Matt Wand – Hands Of Hair [Hot Air. 2020]
The latest addition to my Stock, Hausen, and Walkman library.
Samples drawn from old-timey music, surface noise, whirrs, clicks, and other unidentified sounds make for an unusual listening experience.
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