Musical Curiosities, Obscurities and other Unearthed Treasures

May 30, 2005 5:48 AM

Rummage Through The Crevices (Musical Curiosities, Obscurities and other Unearthed Treasures) is "a weekly community radio segment (Friday mornings, 2SER-FM, Sydney, Australia) devoted to offbeat and outsider music, less travelled paths of global pop, interesting re-issued treasures, music-sharing activists, notable and unusual online mp3 repositories, etc. This webloggy thing is its online companion."
posted by taz (5 comments total)

wow. the telegraph wire music is mindblowing. Thanks, Taz.
posted by dhruva at 6:30 AM on May 30, 2005

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"But the postings that Oddball Auditorium is most “famous” for are Coo Coo Bird and Hush Puppy Hush, two tracks of rambling backwoods vocals buried underneath a borderline-psychotic sound collage. The tracks are from a battered old 45 by Wee Willie Shantz, which site curator John Fitzpatrick has called “The World’s Strangest Record”… Here’s his description of it:

Can you imagine John Cage jamming with Negativland inside a moving boxcar full of victrolas... or perhaps an old backwoods codger, swigging mash whiskey from a facejar, has been working on these songs for 40 years and he finally got a chance to record them, but the only band he could find was a family of occultists who live at the junkyard. Anyway this record has it all -- prepared sound objects, recording manipulation, sing-speak vocal somewhere between nursery rhyme and shaman ritual, semi-aleatoric stringed instruments, and even a sublime saxophone solo.

I just downloaded these two tracks and sure enough, the description fits.
taz, you just made my day.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:53 AM on May 30, 2005

D'oh! I swear on a stack of Wee Willie Shatz 45s the above HTML worked on preview!

This is what I was trying to point to.
posted by Fuzzy Monster at 8:56 AM on May 30, 2005

[this is good] - thanks, taz - this is going in my bookmarks, love it!
posted by madamjujujive at 10:51 AM on May 30, 2005

Can't thank you enough for this. I'm new to MeFi-Land and a couple weeks ago my buddy'd sent me a link to the "She Be She Strike" entry and I couldn't for the life of me remember where I'd seen it. But, lo and behold, there it is. Hotdog.
posted by frances1972 at 7:51 PM on May 31, 2005