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Books / records. Research / muttering
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com
NEW CANARY ALBUM co-released w/ Specific Recordings of Pittsburgh Seeing Newark, Delawareâs Jimmy Crouse in the â90s 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.
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Fore Fool! (Dec. 2002), by Jimmy Crouse
16 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/fore-fool-dec-2002
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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.
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Indian '70: Recorded Live at the Red Lake, Minnesota Reservation 100th Annual 4th of July Celebration, 1970, by Canary Records
8 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/indian-70-recorded-live-at-the-red-lake-minnesota-reservation-100th-annual-4th-of-july-celebration-1970
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The Baltimore Fox News affiliate reported ICEâs 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.
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âŠbut they kept up the act for another 20 years. Their first LP of ersatz African drumming proceeded Olatunjiâs Drums of Passion by a year and was a research-performance project that carried some of the same context and qualities of âoutâ jazz of the â60s.
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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
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Inventing "The Drums of Africa" ca. June 1959, by Prince Onago & Princess Muana [Fred Williams & Margaret Cabelle Williams]
12 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/inventing-the-drums-of-africa-ca-june-1959
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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)
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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 donât worry.
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hot take: Dave Chappelle = Frank Zappa Early stuff is about 40% amusing. 10-15 years in, down to about 20%. 20 and thatâs for specialists only. Also: cigarettes become the brand.
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NEW CANARY ALBUM An excellent singer and superstar of 20th century Egyptian cinema, Layla Murad (b. 1912; 1995)âs fame from the time she was a teenager through her middle age made every aspect of her life â her identity, her love life, her body, her faith â a subject of scrutiny for the press.
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If My Heart Has Known Humiliation: Cairo Baidaphon Recordings ca. 1936-49, by Layla Murad ÙÙÙÙ Ù Ű±Ű§ŰŻ
8 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/if-my-heart-has-known-humiliation-cairo-baidaphon-recordings-ca-1936-49
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News came Christmas from the family of the great John Stanky Stankovic (b. Nanticoke, Pennsylvania May 4, 1936): âEvery night Stanky ended the performance with the song âI donât want to go home, I donât want to go homeâ but today Stanky was called safely home.â
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'Armenian woman fighting on East 86th Street, New York' Vivian Maier, 1956
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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
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Adhan & Qu'ranic Recitation from a Disc Pirated in Brooklyn NY ca. 1950, by Canary Records
2 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/adhan-quranic-recitation-from-a-disc-pirated-in-brooklyn-ny-ca-1950
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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 NagoskiâŠYou donât have to buy the digital files, you can just listen online⊠great workâŠâ
theartsdesk.com/new-music/ma...
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Mark Kidel's Album of the Year: Bon Iver SABLE fABLE
My musical year isnât primarily made up of albums â there are so many other ways of enjoying âNew Musicâ â not to mention the classical which I follow too. Bon Iverâs SABLE fABLE, offered delightful a...
http://theartsdesk.com/new-music/mark-kidels-album-year-bon-iver-sable-fable
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Gramophoney Baloney on KPOO
about 1 month ago
Christmas is coming and the goose is getting fat Subscribe here to Canary Records Bandcamp:
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Subscribe to Canary Records
Instantly get everything Canary Records makes, and then some. Get all the new music I release, plus 130 items from my back-catalog, subscriber-only specials, and exclusive access to my fan community.
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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 Yodhâs 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.
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First Recordings of Immigrants from India in the U.S., ca. 1956, by Dr. Gaurang Yodh & Dinesh Patel
5 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/first-recordings-of-immigrants-from-india-in-the-u-s-ca-1956
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Bay Area, Monday the 15th Iâll appear once again on KPOOâs
@gramophoneybaloney.bsky.social
show to present a half hour set of old Ukrainian records.
spinitron.com/KPOO/show/95...
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Gramophoney Baloney with McSchmormac on KPOO San Francisco
Sound reproductions from 1950 and/or earlier
https://spinitron.com/KPOO/show/95594/Gramophoney-Baloney
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Just added another track to this recent album of 1928-55 central and southern Turkish folk music. Itâs a nice one and it cleaned up niceâŠ
canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/da-ayr...
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DaÄ Ayri Duman Ayri, by Diyarbekarli Celal GĂŒzelses
from the album What Heaven Has Against Me: Central & Southern Turkish Folk Music, ca. 1928 - 55
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/track/da-ayri-duman-ayri
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Allaoua Zerrouki âLedzaier Tebnaâ Algerian (Kabyla) 1950s
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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-...
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Alban Berg - Lyric Suite (1925-6); Arnold Schoenberg - 3rd Quartet (1927): Jan.-Feb. 1950, by Pro Arte Quartet directed by Rudolph Kolisch
10 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/alban-berg-lyric-suite-1925-6-arnold-schoenberg-3rd-quartet-1927-jan-feb-1950
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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!
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early 20th century masterpieces (mostly) in languages other than English. An hour in clamor and a quarter in rheum.
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com
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Goodbye Steve Cropper
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Otis Redding-Nobody's fault but mine
YouTube video by GiorgioMod64
https://youtu.be/kBcMA8Dmx-I?si=bAK1J5gvP18HqRiC
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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 â50s. Technically wonderful and deeply heartfelt.
canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/egypti...
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Egyptian Buzuq Solos ca. 1950s, by Dr. Abdel Latif Gohar
4 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/egyptian-buzuq-solos-ca-1950s
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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...
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The Undertaker's Picnic: Armenian Kef Music in Fresno, ca. 1940s-50s, by Oscar Kevorkian & Mesrob Takakjian
21 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/the-undertakers-picnic-armenian-kef-music-in-fresno-ca-1940s-50s
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A recordings of the talk I just toured in Europe. I havenât listened to it yet, because in my memory, on iteration from Brussels, I nailed it.
on.soundcloud.com/7lfg9ZglMEH9...
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Futura Resistenza - Ian Nagoski (Canary records) Tuesday 18 November 2025 - L'Estaminet 1030 Bruxelles
This is a live recording of a talk-and-record-listening session with Ian Nagoski (Canary Records), hosted by Futura Resistenza, from Tuesday 18 November 2025 at L'Estaminet, 1030 Bruxelles. đđźđ» đĄ
https://soundcloud.com/futuraresistenza/futura-resistenza-ian-nagoski
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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.
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Baithak Gana: An Indo-Surinamese Mixtape, ca. 1968-80, by Canary Records
11 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/baithak-gana-an-indo-surinamese-mixtape-ca-1968-80
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1940s Arabic & Kurdish Recordings from Baghdad, by Canary Records
5 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/1940s-arabic-kurdish-recordings-from-baghdad
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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.
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Kirana gharana vocal art, 1961, by Roshan Ara Begum
4 track album
https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/kirana-gharana-vocal-art-1961
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Jackie Kashian
about 2 months ago
my father had the best idea for a funeral that i think about now that dick cheney is dead; âstick a bone up my ass and let a dog drag me into the woods.â sometimes my dad is a classy guy
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Shooti
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#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 womenâs rights movements and became the first African American woman ordained as an Episcopal priest. /1
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Bounding through the cold, wet, dark streets of Brussels I shouted âshow me all your bagpipes!!â These in the Musical Instrument Museum are not all of them. But theyâre relatively photogenic considering the museumâs lighting.
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Faces Iâm taking home with me from tour pt 2: Amsterdam
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Faces Iâm taking home with me from tour, pt 1: Bucharest
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now traveling in Europe
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Headed your way Europe to hive some shows based on None of Us Know the Words Nov 15 â The Sonic Turn conference, Bucharest (20 min talk on Laura Boulton)
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
Nov 16 â OCCII, Amsterdam
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The Sonic Turn - The Attic
The Sonic Turn - A festival exploring sound, music and culture.
https://theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
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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...
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None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
https://theatticmag.com/features/2488/none-of-us-know-the-words%3A-lessons-from-the-mid_20th-century-monocultural-americana.html
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Bucharest next weekend at the Teatru NaÈional (sala micÇ) Program:
theatticmag.com/thesonicturn/
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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 âHey Man, Rock on.â I like you.
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st ajora says trans rights
2 months ago
if ya read one damn critical essay this week, make it this one.
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Good new book
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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...
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None of Us Know the Words: Lessons from the Mid-20th Century Monocultural Americana
Contesting the vitality of a multicultural, multi-ethnic America, this article offers a glimpse into the Mid-Twentieth Century American music.
https://theatticmag.com/features/2488/none-of-us-know-the-words%3A-lessons-from-the-mid_20th-century-monocultural-americana.html
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If youâre going n DC and can make it, I highly recommend it.
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Gerard Cosloy
2 months ago
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-...
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Miami Music Legend Rat Bastard Hospitalized After Car Crash
The incident happened at 1.30 a.m. on the Florida Turnpike while the musician was moving Miami Music Archive equipment.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/miami-music-legend-rat-bastard-hospitalized-after-car-crash-40499855/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR7p2LtIIhSfD5YQmykiiN0Qav56npiV2ZxrhDjYmUHoMt7l1QV-RkvtG-joIQ_aem_sB2o3hQ9VS4qSTMkX5xLog#mhjneu5pb3n525rc2t7
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Stacy Fahrenthold
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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.
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In case you thought blackface minstrelsy was a mid-19th century phenomenon, Iâd point you to this reference in John Tasker Howardâs 1931 book Our American Music in which he describes Johann Christain Gottlieb Graupnerâs performances in Boston in 1799 following Grapnerâs 1795 visit to South Carolina
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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. Letâs see what itâs all made of⊠câmon. Donât be boring.
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Richard Thompson: Alone, with His Guitar at Gerties Folk City, New York (1982)
YouTube video by David Reaboi
https://youtu.be/Iv4OPp6EH0c?si=9-evnX_WDO5Ja2Mo
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Forgotten effort to use music against Americaâs worst (til now) wave of anti-immigrant sentiment. Composer Florence Hudson Botsford (nĂ©e 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)
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FREE zoom talk Tuesday 7PM EST
www.culturalequity.org/tradition-ta...
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Ian Nagoski: Expanding the Americana Canon | Association for Cultural Equity
Music researcher and Canary Records' founder Ian Nagoski explores the forgotten history of early 20th century musical masterpieces recorded by immigrants and natives in this lecture/listening party.
https://www.culturalequity.org/tradition-talks/ian-nagoski
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Oswaltâs daughter is 5 years younger than mine. My daughterâs music was nearly identical as a teenager. (Sheâs still heavy into Fiona Apple I think.) Iâm not gonna send her this photo cause who wants to think about being 16 when youâre 21? The similarities are amazing. The jumping off points.
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Gramophoney Baloney on KPOO
3 months ago
some uileann pipes on a 1921 silvertone disc Medley of Irish Reels Tom Ferris
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_1...
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Tom Ferris "Medley of Irish Reels: Eileen Curran / Five Mile Chase" 1921 Uilleann Pipes 78 RPM
YouTube video by Brian Hendricks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ_1GPXkrHE
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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...
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Plateprat med Ian Nagoski
Musikkbibliotekar Olav Nilsen slÄr av en prat med Ian Nagoski .
https://www.solvberget.no/anbefalinger/plateprat-med-ian-nagoski
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