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Shirley and Spinoza Internet RadioROGC: Under a Dim Crescent Moon (vol.1) (January 15, 2006)

*NOTE - this volume 1 of 2 - the other is located at:
HERE

For most of 2003, I lived in the northwestern-most province of China - officially known as Xinjiang : Uyghur Automomous Region....sometimes referred to by some as China's other, lesser known "Tibet" for situational parallels.
I'd recieved a generous grant to document the folk music (as opposed to the classical muqam music) of the Turkic muslim cultures traditionally native to the region - focusing mainly on the largest population: The Uyghurs, but also including the Kazakhs and Kyrgyz.

For this show, I was live-mixing right to your ears many of these field recordings, which while mostly consist of music, also include ambiences, regional pop & traditional sounds on cassettes & cd's I picked up - plus recordings of shortwave radio.

The field recorded music you hear was, with only a few exceptions, performed by common folk (farmers, carpenters, (incl. mystics and beggars)) demonstrating something that's very much a cultural part of everyday life. With east China's ever accellerating blitzkrieg development of it's claimed west though, these beautiful cultural traditions are going up in smoke fast.

The recordings were done with head-worn binaural microphones - in yurts, homes, under grape trellises, in mud brick courtyards, orchards and in the streets of oasis towns & villages in areas surrounding the expansive Taklamakan desert.
Several of these recordings - in purer yet more carefully curated form - will be released later this year on the fantastic Sublime Frequencies label. (!!!)

-Fausto (s of s&S)


This audio is part of the collection: Open Source Audio

Artist/Composer: Shirley and Spinoza Internet Radio
Date: 2006-01-15
Keywords: Uyghur, Xinjiang, Kazakh, China, Central Asia, field recording, radio, collage, webcast, shirley, spinoza

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

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info & playlist at:

http://compound-eye.org/radio/playlists/ss2006-01-15.html

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Reviewer: dedebaykus - - January 7, 2007
Subject: vbr files are corrupt
Bluewig, thank you for reply

It was firefox download manager causing this issue!m I am so sory for confusion. This is such a great recording, thank you so much. Fantastic. Are you the one who is recording all these?

Reviewer: bluewig - - January 7, 2007
Subject: the files work just fine!
Dedebaykus, there is nothing wrong with the files. the problem must be on your end. I'm in Xinjiang now, and have just tried the files from here and they are playing just fine. No problem.

try using the following link as well. they are still the archive.org files but linked to from the actual radio show page (includes playlist info!). perhaps you'll have better luck. I've just tried those too and they work fine. you can play in self contained flash players OR download.
http://compound-eye.org/archive/?cat=23

Reviewer: MOG* - - December 13, 2006
Subject: Totally absorbed
What a fantastic collection of sounds
I am totally absorbed in this.

Reviewer: OddioOverplay - - January 17, 2006
Subject: Remarkable Field Recordings
Remarkable Field Recordings