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.

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"

The wikipedia page for G B’vino, head of Mpls ICE, says his great-grandparents came from Calabria, Italy and naturalized in 1927. Everyone knows we have 16 great-grandparents and the odds of them coking from the same place and naturalizing the same year are infinitesimal….

July 2019 Never Again Action in DC. I remember the ICE employees having lunch outside looking at us like we were idiots. What could we possibly be so upset about?

Goodbye to the great Uncle Floyd who enriched my childhood to no end with his ridiculous television show.

This is me in Denmark 2 months ago at the @endlessgratitude Festival. You can’t see it in the picture but I’m trying to explain why America is like it is, and if you squint hard you can maybe see me not being a total dick. Just doing my part.

NEW CANARY ALBUM (13th in 7 weeks) An hour-long snapshot of Lebanon in the 1950s. Westward-looking and cosmopolitan in the shadow of Egypt’s cultural hegemony, Lebanon produced wonderful voices, some celebrated, some neglected. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...

Cuts Exuma at his own game years before the fact. Which is not to say that Exuma doesn’t rule, but to say that these maniacs do too. Subscribing to Canary (@iannagoski.bsky.social) is yr best entertainment value. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/roots-...

“The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota [are] doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can.”

I noticed this photo by Steve Jackson Jr. ca. Oct. ‘50. John Handy, Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane (just turned 24 years old), and Frank Fischer at Jimbo’s Bop City in San Francisco on the Syncopated Times site. What jumped out at me was Harry Smith’s mural behind them. Smith moved to NYC in 1951.

NEW CANARY ALBUM The 1962 follow-up to Prince Onago & Princess Muana’s 1959 The Drums of Africa, this collaboration with a jazz unit is a bridge between “ethnographic forgery” and “spiritual” jazz as contemporary record collectors have lately termed non-Western influence on Black American music.

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.

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...