Marcia sent me this photo of what appears to be my first public 78 talk putside of Baltimore.
‘03 at the Schoolhouse in Bushwick Brooklyn NY.
2nd photo Ben sent of almost everything I owned around the same time, the night we stayed up drinking and listening to records
Bandcamp Friday
$70 annual subscriptions currently include 140 back catalog titles which is absurd. (Sunday I’m gonna pull it back to just 100 for new subscribers.)
Big help would be to tell friends about stuff you like. Thanks!
canary-records.bandcamp.com
NEW CANARY ALBUM
"Don’t think I do my art seriously
The flute in my hand's a faucet gone dry.
The wine-slurping fools love the flute's sound
It's all whistling for drunk donkeys to me."
-- freely adapted from a quatrain reportedly written on a cigarette packet by Neyzen Tevfik
…chromatic Zheng + shō; slid er-hu, kubings,tingshas, cymbals, gongs, casio & gregorian chant: all pre-transformed instruments played by the composer.”
NEW CANARY ALBUM
“Two half hour concerti (violin + organ) of acoustic and glissando modulated by variable tape speed three times then layer mixed ethnic asian folk instruments: …
No musician ever mattered more to me than Eliane Radige.
She changed my life, changed me, affirmed deep intuitions about nature and how a human being ought to behave. I learned so much from her and from her music.
I am so grateful.
NEW CANARY ALBUM
One of two scarce privately pressed LPs ca. 1963 of a Romanian instrumental dance band with roots in the 1920s, co-led by long-standing performers in their 50s and 60s with four teenagers from their community of working-class immigrants.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/plays-...
RIP legendary salsa sax player, composer, musician Willie Colon at 75. Saw him @ the long gone Zanzibar on the Waterfront in DC. (I will just try to ignore his recent years MAGA tweets as he was once a Dem)
This is the excellent record to which Dr. Sawyer is referring
youtu.be/9sm8eTM7UVA?...
NEW CANARY EP
folk singer and activist Youssef Taj (b. 1895; d. 1975) has been one of the most compelling voices of the “Middle East” over the past century. This brief 6-side collection adds to his legacy thanks especially to the biographical research of Akram N. Al-Rayess
NEW CANARY RELEASE
A short LP of largely instrumental 1950s performances, issued (pirated) in the U.S. for the folk dancing community, including some stunning performances on the drâmba (jaw harp) and cimpoi (bagpipes), flutes (caval & ocarina), and string bands.
We could, of course, have had a direct democracy in which everyone could vote directly from their phone 20 years ago.
We could easily now get rid of both the idiotic electoral college and the Senate.
The design and implementation of a democracy would be a good use of silicon valley.
thanks to Ula Nowak for the mentions of two of the recent Canary releases along with mentions of Robert Millis's new Sublime Frequencies collection (which I look forward to hearing!) and a couple recent Death Is Not The End titles. All rowing in the same direction....
It’s bandcamp friday.
There’ve been 9 new Canary releases - 6 hrs of music - since the last bandcamp friday 2 months ago.
canary-records.bandcamp.com
I run a micro label of mostly mine and my friends' music. It's bandcamp Friday, so check it if you like: space psych or heavy improv played on guitars, snares, veena, cracked pedals, voice, bottles or comps of pre-war south Indian instrumental music from 78s.
branchdravidian.bandcamp.com/merch
NEW CANARY EP
20 minutes of music from a label run by a Romanian immigrant in n the 1940s, Josef Cristea (b. Transylvania 1904; d. Santa Monica 1973). 3 tracks by immigrants in NYC; 4 tracks pirated from great performers from Romania in the ‘30s.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dor-do...
Got fascinated by this disc a couple days ago. She was a Syrian Jew (probably around Aleppo) who moved to Egypt. Her known discography totals 11 or 12 songs. This song was recorded ca. 1927 not in Egypt. Maybe Beirut. Maybe even Aleppo?
Many thanks to Remek Mazur-Hanaj for telling the Prince Onago & Princess Muana story to Poland:
www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/1229...
I am unable to digest media referring to flagging presidential poll numbers. It’s been a decade. They’ve hardly varied more than 5 points +/- from 40%.
Or references to a term limit. Any reference to “three more years” and I unsubscribe. He’s obviously not leaving; pretending he is is unhelpful.
Thrilled as I know you must be (har har - no one, by which I mean less that 50 people on planet Earth, cares about old Arab-American records), the big news that “Dabke (Alamyan)” is the melody that Naim Karacand (b. Aleppo 1890; d. Brooklyn 1973) recorded as “Raks Araby." Woo hoo.
The album of the Lebanese-American violinist Sam Shaheen (b. 1918; d. 2009) of Utica, New York started as 8 tracks 3 years ago. It has expanded from 24 to 80 minutes, and with the addition of three more tracks, I believe it now represents his complete recorded works.
M. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
And 8 great grandparents, obviously
