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Musical Curiosities, Obscurities and other Unearthed Treasures

taz — Mon, 30 May 2005 05:48:00 -0800

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."

By: dhruva

dhruva — Mon, 30 May 2005 06:30:11 -0800

wow. the telegraph wire music is mindblowing. Thanks, Taz.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 30 May 2005 08:53:46 -0800

5{p://www.filmcement.org/rummage/archives/cat_outsider.html ">This Is Good! "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.

By: Fuzzy Monster

Fuzzy Monster — Mon, 30 May 2005 08:56:29 -0800

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.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Mon, 30 May 2005 10:51:51 -0800

[this is good] - thanks, taz - this is going in my bookmarks, love it!

By: frances1972

frances1972 — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:51:00 -0800

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.