Folkways with Children

Rhythms of Childhood with Ella Jenkins, Folkways Records FC 7653, 1963 - cover design Ronald Clyne - here
Song and Play Time with Pete Seeger, Folkways Records FC 7526, 1956

talking book

'Scott, Foresman First Talking Storybook Box'---binding illustration detail from Over In The Meadow by John Langstaff, Harcourt, Brace/Scott, Foresman, 1957

Wuppertal, 1963

Nam June Paik and Wolf Vostell at Exposition of Music, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, 1963

This crumpled photocopy was pinned to my studio wall for years (the source book long forgotten). I dug it out tonight after seeing these amazing photos over at ROLU (thanks Matt!)

onion skins of tenderness

Alastair Galbraith Cluster 7inch (Stalemate, Raining here/Pip Proud, Water in my ears) Raffmond, Germany, 1994Water in my ears

There could be no better format for these 4 songs which, once the needle touches the record, end almost before you can step away from the turntable. Just crouch nearby and close your eyes. This record also introduced me to Pip Proud. Thank you and thank you, Mr. Galbraith. (If any of the involved parties would like for me to remove the audio, please let me know.)

New full length on Siltbreeze. featuring this song! Water in My Ears and Raining Here later appeared on the full length Talisman (now reissued)

As you wake up in the morning.

Rice Field Silently Riping in the Night by Reiko Kudo, Majikick/Periodic Document, Toyko/Minneapolis!(recorded and mixed at Shunju pottery workshop, Tobe, Ehime, Japan, 2000)


Mihoko

Son of Man

Of all the Maher Shalal Hash Baz related projects I've heard, this CD is still my favourite. Quiet, rickety, and beautiful. (If any of the involved parties would like me to remove the audio, please let me know.)

Error in performance dominates MSHB cassette,which is like our imperfect life. If perfect music is only heard through imperfection, at this state of things, MSHB, the king of error, could barely be heard. -Tori Kudo from the liner notes of From A Summer to Another Summer by Maher Shalal Hash Baz, Geographic, 2000

I'm looking for lasting relations with green-fly, spider, or maggot

Bill Fay. Beautiful. This!, this! and this! ...Everything.
I could never say enough about this man's music. Thank you, Mr. Fay.



Garden Song and Tiny from the compilation From The Bottom of an Old Grandfather Clock (a collection of outtakes and demos 1966-1970) (now, sadly, out of print), Wooden Hill, 2004. (If any of the invloved parties would like me to remove the audio, please let me know.)

GOTT IST DIE LIEBE

Marvelous Grace private press LP, Altona, Manitoba, no date (Kenneth Unger & Darlene Friesen, accompanied by their teacher Mrs. Dora Doell) (Thanks to M.Langlois so long ago.)

Winston Wuttunee

See The arrow by Winston Wuttunee, Sunshine Records, no date (mid to late 70's), recorded at Century 21 Studios in Winnipeg.
Winston Wuttunee was born in Saskatchewan and is still active today as a singer, lecturer, and comedian. This record is fairly diverse, with songs sung in English, French, and Cree.---It's this one song, Wunisca (meaning "wake-up" in Cree), that I keep coming back to:

It's Christmas Time/Happy New Year To You!

It's Christmas Time/Happy New Year to You! by The Qualities, Satur(n) Records, 1956(?)

This is a rare and messed up vocal/doo-wop record produced by Sun Ra and Alton Abraham. Sun Ra plays harmonium. Vocalists are unidentified.

I tried to transfer it, but my efforts failed. However, you can listen to the a-side here.

Happy Holidays to all. I'm going to try to take a break from posting until the new year.

truth forever bending/always hopeful never ending

Don't It Drag On by Chris Smither, Tomato Records, 1971 (art direction and design by Milton Glaser, photographs by Duane Michaels)
One song that I return to over and over again---I've Got Mine. Listen here. See also this cover by Kria Brekkan and Avey Tare. Troubles come by threes/doing what they wanna/instead of doing what they oughta/ I've got mine./Some are quickly passed/others seem to last/hold on.

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Second Hand Records by Suzie Smith, 2007

(silkscreen on found record jackets)
visit her here.

black orpheus

Orfeo Negro, OST 7" EP (Argentinean pressing) Phillips, no date

In Praise of Elwood Snock

Michael Hurley:

Armchair Boogie, Raccoon/Warner Brothers, 1971, (LP and homemade cassette) (Cassette lovingly dubbed by Mr. Hurley from a somewhat noisy vinyl copy) LP includes the comic Boone & Jocko in the Barren, Choking Land)

Hi Fi Snock Uptown, Raccoon/Warner Brothers, 1972 (LP and homemade cassette)

Parsnip Snips, Veracity (Germany), 1995, LP (unreleased home-recordings 1965-72)

snockonews

1/2 gentlemen / not beasts

Untitled book included with the 3LP box set 1/2 GENTLEMEN/NOT BEASTS by Half Japanese, Armageddon Records, 1980. (some copies came with a comic called Becky The Monkey)

Odetta

cover detail: My Eyes Have Seen by Odetta, Vanguard, 1959