An unusual update today. Not a band or an artist as such - except for his creative mastery and careful selection of sounds - but a musical curator. A narrator, rather than a director, but just as valuable and just as accomplished.
Currently visiting the UK (from Baltimore) on a listening/lecture tour, ethnomusicologist and serial uncoverist Ian Nagoski is commonly regarded as the foremost authority on Eastern Mediterranean musical exports to the USA over the beginning of the 20th Century, not to mention being highly noted for his work recovering other forgotten 78’s of various origin, genre and rarity.
His newest collection To What Strange Place (Tompkins Square) was released as a multi-disc set last June; a compilation of Ottoman recordings, reset in a newly-populated America, dating from 1916 and the completion of a journey that started with the chance (re-)discovery of a forgotten collection of Greek 78’s marked “trash”.
In lieu of easily-accessible streaming music, check out a video trailer for Nagoski’s collection below, and find a selection of cuts from the set here
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i love this album. love love love it.
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