NEW CANARY ALBUM co-released w/ Specific Recordings of Pittsburgh Seeing Newark, Delaware’s Jimmy Crouse in the ‘90s was intense. A very shy, unaffected, and disquieted young man who played a meltingly slow, cyclical, reductionist Americana-plainchant with an overwhelming seriousness and unease.

NEW CANARY ALBUM These recordings are from the July 1-5, 1970 gathering of Native performers in the unique, closed, independent Red Lake Nation where none of the 1,260 square miles of land is owned by any individual of whom there are now over 5,500 residents.

The Baltimore Fox News affiliate reported ICE’s account that the man they shot yesterday had tried to run them over with his car. In fact, he was already in custody when they shot him.

…but they kept up the act for another 20 years. Their first LP of ersatz African drumming proceeded Olatunji’s Drums of Passion by a year and was a research-performance project that carried some of the same context and qualities of “out” jazz of the ‘60s.

NEW CANARY ALBUM Around 1949 the Fred Williams of East St Louis IL and Margaret Cabelle Williams of Los Angeles CA reinvented themselves as Prince Onago and Princess Muana of the Congo to get work as dancers. Immigration Services followed up on an inquiry, and they were outed in the press in 1954

Performed by Uraguyan singer Daniel Viglietti (b. 1939: 2017) on his 1973 LP Tropicos and composed by Cuban singer Pablo Milanés (b. 1943; d. Nov. 22, 2022)

The big takeaway of Prince, Dylan, Miles & Neil is that given unlimited financial resources, exceptional musical insight, and the fierce determination to do exactly what you want to do when you want to do it for 50 years, about 1/2 of your records are still gonna be not very good. So don’t worry.

hot take: Dave Chappelle = Frank Zappa Early stuff is about 40% amusing. 10-15 years in, down to about 20%. 20 and that’s for specialists only. Also: cigarettes become the brand.

NEW CANARY ALBUM An excellent singer and superstar of 20th century Egyptian cinema, Layla Murad (b. 1912; 1995)’s fame from the time she was a teenager through her middle age made every aspect of her life — her identity, her love life, her body, her faith — a subject of scrutiny for the press.

News came Christmas from the family of the great John Stanky Stankovic (b. Nanticoke, Pennsylvania May 4, 1936): “Every night Stanky ended the performance with the song ‘I don’t want to go home, I don’t want to go home’ but today Stanky was called safely home.”

'Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street, New York' Vivian Maier, 1956

NEW CANARY RELEASE unaccompanied Islamic vocal art, drawn from a pirated disc produced ca. 1950 in Brooklyn NYC for the Arabic-speakers of the U.S. One side is an anomalous recitation by the great Umm Kulthum taped from her final film, Fatma (1947). FREE canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/adhan-...

Thanks to music writer, documentarian, and WOMAD co-founder Mark Kidel for a Canary hat tip in his year-end. "Canary Records, the devoted and inspired project led by Ian Nagoski…You don’t have to buy the digital files, you can just listen online… great work…” theartsdesk.com/new-music/ma...

Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat Subscribe here to Canary Records Bandcamp: canary-records.bandcamp.com/subscribe

NEW CANARY ALBUM Recorded by beatnik media artist Henry Jacobs in the mid-1950s when Indian music was unknown in the U.S., astrophysicist Gaurang Yodh’s LPs were released between the first U.S. albums by Utd. Ali Albar Khan and Ptd. Ravi Shakar and were the first records by an immigrant from India.

Bay Area, Monday the 15th I’ll appear once again on KPOO’s @gramophoneybaloney.bsky.social show to present a half hour set of old Ukrainian records. spinitron.com/KPOO/show/95...

Just added another track to this recent album of 1928-55 central and southern Turkish folk music. It’s a nice one and it cleaned up nice… canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/da-ayr...

Allaoua Zerrouki “Ledzaier Tebna” Algerian (Kabyla) 1950s

NEW CANARY ALBUM Masterpieces of 1920s Austrian anxiety given their first US commercial recordings by friend and collaborator of the composers Rudolph Kolisch. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/alban-...

Bandcamp Friday starts soon discography of over 200 titles is on sale for $163 12 month subscription for new titles plus a huge raft of back catalog releases is $70 3 new albums coming in the next 10 days Thanks! canary-records.bandcamp.com

Goodbye Steve Cropper youtu.be/kBcMA8Dmx-I?...

TWO NEW CANARY RELEASES both of Egyptian performers on 78s, both less than 15 minutes, both of rarely recorded instruments Dr. Abdel Latif Gohar performed on the buzuq in the ‘50s. Technically wonderful and deeply heartfelt. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/egypti...

You may not remember this fantastic little album from 4 years ago of post-war California kef. Buy I just added 2 solo clarinet tracks by Mesrob Takakjian cause I wound up with a home recorded acetate he made on May 7, 1951. So check out the last 2 trax canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-un...

A recordings of the talk I just toured in Europe. I haven’t listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it. on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...

NEW CANARY RELEASE A century after the mass importation of a labor force from northeast India to the Dutch Caribbean colony Suriname, recordings of the emergent religious folk genre were produced in Suriname, Trinidad, and Holland. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baitha...

NEW CANARY RELEASE canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/1940s-...

NEW CANARY ALBUM Niece and primary disciple of Ustad Abdul Karim Khan, Roshan Ara Begum (b. 1910; d. 1982) first recorded at the age of 12. After relocating to Pakistan in 1946, she may have fallen into obscurity if not for 2 superb LPs made in 1961. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana...

my father had the best idea for a funeral that i think about now that dick cheney is dead; “stick a bone up my ass and let a dog drag me into the woods.” sometimes my dad is a classy guy

#ResistanceRoots Pauli Murray was born on this day in 1910 in Baltimore, Md. She was a pioneering legal scholar and activist who helped shape the intellectual foundations of the civil rights and women’s rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1

Bounding through the cold, wet, dark streets of Brussels I shouted “show me all your bagpipes!!” These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But they’re relatively photogenic considering the museum’s lighting.

Faces I’m taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam

Faces I’m taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest

now traveling in Europe

Headed your way Europe to hive some shows based on None of Us Know the Words Nov 15 – The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton) theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/ Nov 16 – OCCII, Amsterdam occii.org/events/forgo...

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week. theatticmag.com/features/248...

Bucharest next weekend at the Teatru Național (sala micǎ) Program: theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/

Nearly a decade ago I came across this yearbook from the still-extant Dzilth-Na-Dith-Hle Community school in Bloomfield, northern New Mexico. I just want to shout out whoever paid for the ad spot at the back just to say “Hey Man, Rock on.” I like you.

if ya read one damn critical essay this week, make it this one.

Good new book autonomedia.org/product/unre...

I am very grateful to The Attic for allowing me to get some things off my chest. If I never get to write my Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, this will hold the place for where it would have been. It's the basis for the shows I'll be doing in the EU starting next week. theatticmag.com/features/248...

If you’re going n DC and can make it, I highly recommend it.

really hoping for some better news to follow. Rat is absolutely one of the unsung heroes of the the american underground so start singing loud enough to wake him. (fuck) www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-...

In 1912, some workers in MA received a paycheck that was shorted by *2 hours* due to their boss's malicious compliance with a new state law. "Short pay! All out!" yelled a group as they forced all 15K workers out of the building, disabling machines behind them. This is how Bread and Roses began.

In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, I’d point you to this reference in John Tasker Howard’s 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupner’s performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapner’s 1795 visit to South Carolina

Now get Jeremy Allen White to play Richard Thompson 1980-83. Then Townes Van Zandt 1979-83. Then Waylon Jennings 1977-84. Then Dee Dee Ramone 1986-92. Let’s see what it’s all made of… c’mon. Don’t be boring. youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?...

Forgotten effort to use music against America’s worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (née Topping, b. 1866; d. 1954) published 3 volumes of non-English-language folk songs via the Womans Press of the YWCA, 1921-22 (reprinted by Schirmer 1933)

FREE zoom talk Tuesday 7PM EST www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...

Oswalt’s daughter is 5 years younger than mine. My daughter’s music was nearly identical as a teenager. (She’s still heavy into Fiona Apple I think.) I’m not gonna send her this photo cause who wants to think about being 16 when you’re 21? The similarities are amazing. The jumping off points.

some uileann pipes on a 1921 silvertone disc Medley of Irish Reels Tom Ferris www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_1...

Norway's Solvberget library had me as one of their Plateprat (Record Talk) interviewees this week. A zillion "what's your favorite..." kinds of questions answered by email during two fits of insomnia. Thanks to Olav for asking me. www.solvberget.no/anbefalinger...