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September 28, 2010

KHANA RUNG THAWI (คณะ รุ่งทวี) - แห่สดดนตรีพื้นบ้านหนองโก ชุดที่ 8 + 9 (hae sot dontri phuen ban nong ko, vols. 8 & 9) (20??)

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 Khana Rung Thawi's electric phin freakout was made available online for the first time just a few months back at the venerable  มนต์รั...
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September 14, 2010

So The Birds Will All Be Clean

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 "I don't want to achieve immortality through my music.  I want to achieve immortality by not dying." --Jack Blanchard ( Fac...
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September 5, 2010

ABY NGANA DIOP - Liital (1994)

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Aby Ngana Diop's truly awesome mbalax cassette has already been posted at Likembe and, more recently, Awesome Tapes from Africa , but...
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August 31, 2010

Kitty Cat Hand Clap

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August 27, 2010

HALLELUJAHS - 肉を喰らひて誓ひをたてよ (1986)

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"There’s something about this record that’s hard to get a grip on. It seems to float on layers of melody rather than rhythm, and in pl...
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August 16, 2010

Red, White, & Blue'd On

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Scatman Crothers in Coonskin  (1975) Ahm a Niggerman
August 12, 2010

LOVE LIFE - Discography (2000-2002)

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   (stolen with love from Jeff Winterberg 's Rat-a-Tat-Tat Birds ) Love Life formed their unholy alliance in 1999 when long-time lovers...
August 10, 2010

Anatomy of Anatomy: Minagaki Yasukazu's Kaibo Zonshinzu

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Interestingly, the Japanese began to adopt Western medical techniques at the same time they were closing the book on a rather disasterous c...
July 25, 2010

Life Behind the Sand Curtain

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الحياة وراء الستار رمل
July 22, 2010

VA - Chaabi Music From Al-Maghrib + Black Plastic Singing Flats (Mississippi Records Cassette Series)

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Chaabi Music From Al-Maghrib  is a collection of Moroccan music in the "proto-rai" vein of Sublime Frequencies' 1970s Algerian...
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July 21, 2010

黑暗休会: The Voice of Magic Saw

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Wang Jiahua performs 甜蜜蜜 (" Sweet Honey") + 瀟灑走一回 ("???") The "Magic Saw" technique involves amping a traditi...
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July 17, 2010

Jean-Claude Vannier est étonnant et passionnant!

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Jean-Claude Vannier arranged much of Gainsbourg's psychedelic sixties soundtracks as well as Histoire de Melody Nelson (1971).  He has...
June 29, 2010

SERGE GAINSBOURG - Gainsbourg Percussions (1964)

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Serge Gainsbourg created this, his first of many concept records, out of African and Carribean percussion rhythms.  Still relatively new t...
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June 5, 2010

Lemme Ride That Donkey Donkey

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June 3, 2010

ግልጽ ያልሆነ ጉድጓድ: Tlahoun Gèssèssè

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"Tlahoun Gèssèssè ( ጥላሁን ገሠሠ ), known across Ethiopia and Sudan as "The Voice," first came to stardom at age 18 when he join...
June 1, 2010

LA LUPE - La Era de la Lupe (1968) + Dos Lados De Lupe (1968) + Definitivamente La Yi-Yi-Yi (1969)

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"A sado-masochist with a sense of rhythm." – Guillermo Cabrera Infante La Lupe's act was an exorcism.  Her fans gave her the ...
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May 21, 2010

Centrifuge Scrubbin'

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Delhi, India

La République de Guinée - Sons Nouveax D'Une Nation Nouvelle (1962)

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This mysterious record from the Republic of Guinea in West Africa is a frenzied kora string jam session with light, varied percussion. Almos...
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May 11, 2010

Goodbye, Barry Hannah (A Belated Remembrance)

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Barry Hannah has been my favorite living author for much of my adult life.  On March 1st, to little fanfare, he became one of my many favo...
April 27, 2010

Parents Just Don't Understand

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