![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | 'A Ricciulella - Francesco Daddi
The Cylinder Archive [www.cylinder.de] release for January 2008: This is one of the rarer Italian-Neapolitan series, recorded 99 years ago in January 1909 and first released on Amberol wax cylinder. This cylinder is a reissue from ca. 1912-1913 on Edison Blue Amberol cylinder, using the same master.
Keywords: cylinder record, edison, neapolitan, italian, tenore, blue amberol
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| 'A Vucchella - Caruso (Tosti) (lyr. D' Annunzio)
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| 03 Angel's Serenade - Don Reno
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| [alg-set002] - Liveset Fronte[i]ras07 - VV.AA
Fronte[i]ras07 Live set. 29-09-07. Auditorio Municipal de Barcelos. Portugal. Este evento formou parte da programación de Fronte[i]ras07 - I Encontro Internacional de Artes Transdisciplinares. Máis info: Fronteiras07 Maksims Shentelevs (Letonia) Arquitecto, fonografista e artista sonoro que define a paisaxe sonora como un campo de actividade denso e auto-referente, moldeado polo movemento sobreposto de obxectos no espazo...
Keywords: live; experimental; alg-a; fronteiras; fronte[i]ras; soundscapes; soundscape; audio; lloopp
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| [alg036] - Descripción de un combate - Miguel Prado - Miguel Prado
Descripción de un combate was created with a guitar and a radio, from july to october 2007. "Balck is the ausence of color and light. It is the anonymity, the antithesis of harmony and clarity. It is the NOTHING" "The fundamentals of combat, reality, cause and consecuence. The defect, the GLITCH" Miguel Prado Anti-Copyright release at netlabel alg-a webpage More information about Miguel Prado
Keywords: experimental; improvisation; alg-a; Miguel Prado; guitar; noise
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| [alg038] - Dsitante II - Coeval
Distante (Parte II de III, versión estéreo). Juan Carlos Blancas: grabaciones de campo, Ir's, filtros. Edición y mezcla: Realizado entre Mayo y Octubre del 2006. Portada: Antía Sánchez. Alg-a Relase at the netlabel alg-a webpage alg038 - Coeval - Distante II
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| [alg039] - Mequetrefe_EP_02 - Mequetrefe - Mequetrefe
Segundo Ep de Mequetrefe dende Santiago de Compostela. Psicodelia, dub e electrónica. Experimentación e melodias reverberadas.
Keywords: alg-a; dub; shoegaze; mequetrefe; psychedelic; galicia
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| [alg040] - La Comarca - Tzesne - Tzesne
Video does portraits of landfields, little villages, and also takes the cultural and landscapes beauty , but it is not good for imaging. Extracting the sounds, blows, and residual noises from tapes, taking care and rebuilding carefully can be useful for composing audio-fictions. Sound narrations that let people to imagine landscapes in wich nowadays still persist deep folkloric elements. I name this one "La Comarca"...
Keywords: soundscapes; noise; tzesne; pais vasco; alg-a
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| [alg043] - EXT [Procura interna] - _blank - _blank
Esta peza forma parte dunha serie de ’ready mades’. Con este término non pretendo facer ningún tipo de afirmación artística, simplemente é unha maneira de denotar que eu non tiven moito que ver na súa realización, xa que limiteime a rexistra-lo son emitido por unha máquina. Neste caso, a máquina en cuestión é un aparato de finais dos anos oitenta pensado para alterar as ondas cerebrais coa intención de relaxar, alivia-lo estrés, etc...
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| [alg044] - Kollaps - The Electronoise Group (ENG)
This album dedicated to Tom Recchion, and Steven Stapleton. And for my love and respect to Los Angeles Free Music Society and for Neo-Neo-Dadaists. Dada siegt!!! Tape Operation/Tape Collage, Field Recordings, Laptop by shotahirama Guitar, Laptop by Toshitaka Ikeda
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| [alg046] - Resonanzen - Daniel Lercher
4 sound impressions recorded during 2006 at soma-quarters. Nothing distinguished memories from other moments. it is only later that they are recognised, by their scars. [la jetee] http://lercher.klingt.org
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| [alg048] - Concierto Para Esculturas Sonoras - Espacio Permeable - Espacio Permeable
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| A 60th Birthday Tribute to James Broughton
Broughton’s unique cinematic and poetic observations of the cosmic/comic human situation are reflected in this 1973 interview conducted by Charles Amirkhanian on the occasion of Broughton’s 60th birthday (November 10, 1973). Born in Modesto California, Broughton was one of the San Francisco poetry renaissance writers, and the maker of the prize-winning film, “The Bed”, among others. Broughton’s works are imbued with a sense of joy, magic, and childlike playfulness...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Poetry; James Broughton
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| A Bird In a Gilded Cage - Harry Anthony
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| A Celebration of Non-Commercial Radio
This live broadcast from the very new KPFA building at 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Berkeley, California aired nationally on NPR. It features the world premiere of Lou Harrison’s “Homage to Pacifica” (commissioned by the Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation), a six movement, 45 minute composition for narrator, soloists, mixed chorus, and Javanese gamelan ensemble. An intermission feature presents a rare recording made in 1949, just after KPFA went on the air in which Henry Cowell per...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; New Music; 20th Century Classical
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| A Concert by the New Music Ensemble
A concert mixing classical piano works and new music for instrumental ensemble, sponsored by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble, and given on March 10, 1972 at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco. The concert features works by Robert Erickson, Richard Felciano, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Loren Rush, all performed by the Ensemble. Also included are piano works by Robert Schumann, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, Franz Liszt, and Frederic Chopin, performed by Robert Helps.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; Classical Music; Electro-Acoustic; Electronic; New Music Ensemble
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| A Concert by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and Chorus
A live recording of a concert given March 15, 1975 by the Oakland Symphony Youth Orchestra and the Oakland Symphony Chorus, conducted by Joseph Liebling. This concert was held at the Paramount Theater in Oakland California and included pieces by Strauss, Brahms, Berloiz and Milhaud.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music: Classical Music
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| A Concert by the Pacifica Chamber Players
From a public concert given on August 15, 1971 at the Berkeley Piano Club, the Pacifica Chamber Players perform works by Ingolf Dahl, Leon Kirchner, Igor Stravinsky, and Arthur Honnegger. For this concert the Pacific Chamber Players were, Tom Rose on clarinet, Ronald Erickson on violin, Michael Deatherage on cello, and Rick Nobis on piano.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Chamber Music; Pacifica Chamber Players
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| A Concert by the Wesleyan Gamelan Chamber Ensemble
The Wesleyan Gamelan Chamber Ensemble in its first new York performance. Recorded at the Asia House in New York City, January 17, 1971. The ensemble is composed of native Javanese teachers and their students at Wesleyan University. The instruments used include a gender, kendang, rebab, gambang, and slentem.
Keywords: Music; World Music; Gamelan; Wesleyan Gamelan Chamber Ensemble
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| A Concert in Honor of Gerhard Samuel
A concert given in honor of Gerhard Samuel, recorded February 1, 1971 at the Fireman's Fund Theatre, featuring music by Niccolò Castiglioni, Luis de Pablo, Charles Boone, Jean-Phillippe Rameau, and Gerhard Samuel.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; New Music; Gerhard Samuel
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| A Concert of Atonal Music by Josef Matthias Hauer
Joseph Kubera and Julie Steinberg perform pieces for piano, composed by Josef Matthias Hauer.
Keywords: Music; 20th Century Classical; Josef Matthias Hauer
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| A Concert of Music by Ernst Krenek: In honor of his 80th birthday
A concert given in celebration of Ernst Krenek’s 80th birthday, on April 18, 1980 at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and sponsored by the Goethe Institute. Charles Boone, who studied with Krenek, introduces the composer who then introduces the program of a number of his early compositions.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Music; 20th Century Classical; Art Songs; Ernst Krenek
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| A Coon Band Contest - Earl Fuller's Famous Jazz Band
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| A Coon Wedding in Southern Georga - Invincibel Quartet (Columbia Quartet)
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| A Dream - Caruso (Bartlett) (lyr. Cory)
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| A La Luz De La Luna - Caruso (Anton Y Michelena)
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| A Meeting of the Hen Roost Club (Minstrel Recording) - Standard Quartet (Columbia Quartet)
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| A New York Hippodrome Rehearsal - R.H. Burnside
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| A Possum Supper at the Darktown Church (Coon Song) - Cal Stewart, Arthur Collins, Byron G.Harlan and Company
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| A Preview of the 1974 Cabrillo Music Festival with Dennis Russell Davies
Charles Amirkhanian interviews composer, conductor, pianist, and festival director, Dennis Russell Davies about the 1974 Cabrillo Music Festival, which was scheduled to start a few days after this August 8th interview was recorded. Under Davies’ direction the 1974 Festival promised to be more than just a series of concerts of classical music standards. Not only was the Festival to expand its footprint by performing concerts in a number of different locations, including the Mission District of ...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; 20th Century Classical; Classical music
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| A Program on Fylkingen, art center in Sweden, from KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series, 1971 - Charles Amirkhanian
FYLKINGEN: Revolutionary music and technological art center near Stockholm, Sweden. This program deals with the revolutionary music and technological art center near Stockholm, Sweden, called Fylkingen. Included in this program are examples of linguistically-oriented experimental music, called by the Swedes "text-sound compositions." Note: Language Warning Charles Amirkhanian explores the "text-sound" compositions of the forward thinking FYLKINGEN art center...
Keywords: Sound Poetry; Documentary; Text-Sound Composition
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| A Review of a Concert of Experimental Music from England
Charles Amirkhanian reviews a concert by the San Francisco Conservatory New Music Ensemble of avant-garde or experimental music, by mostly young English composers, which was held on March 21, 1974 and was to be repeated the next day. Works heard include an arrangement of an early 20th century waltz, a song based on a Chinese melody by Cornelius Cardew, and a rondo by Christopher Hobbs. Also heard are two pieces by Gavin Bryars, one inspired by the story of the Titanic, and another by a film of a...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview and Music; Avant-Garde; 20th Century Classical
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| A Review of Robert Ashley’s “That Morning Thing”
This review deals with a performance on Dec. 8, 1969, at Mills College, of Robert Ashley’s opera “That Morning Thing”. Charles Shere speaks out against the mainstream media’s reception of the opera as well as the rude reaction of some of the audience.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Interview; Opera; Robert Ashley
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| A Segment on John Cage from KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series - John Cage
A segment from an interview with John Cage and Charles Amirkhanian at an Exploratorium Speaking of Music event. Cage discusses his Europeras in a hilarious segment that has the audience in stitches.
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| A Sense of Place: The Life and Work of Conlon Nancarrow - Helen Borten
The life and work of Conlon Nancarrow, a composer who turned an anachronistic gadget, the player piano, into a vehicle for greatness. This half-hour portrait includes interviews with family, friends, and other composers, interweaving the man and his music in ways that illuminate both. Interviewees in Order: Ardis Wodehouse Julio Estrada Mako Nancarrow Julio Estrada Letter of Ed Lending read by Forrest Miller Conlon Nancarrow Kyle Gann Yoko Seguira Nancarrow Kyle Gann Yoko Conlon Yoko Eva Soltes ...
Keywords: Documentary; 20th Century Classical; Interview; New Music
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| A Stereophonic Journey Through India
Jean-Louis Derche traveled to India in the summer of 1971 and faithfully recorded temple music in several out-of-the-way locations. Even more remarkable are his unusual recordings made in the streets of Benares, Chidambaran, Madurai, Tanjour, and Trivandrum. Listen to the sounds of rickshas, a walk down a narrow street, craftsmen hammering metal, and the timeless flow of the Ganges River. His companion, photographer Monique Sidi, provided illustrations of the journey, for use in the September 19...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Other Finds; Soundscapes; World Music; Jean-Louis Derche
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| A Tribute to Leo Ornstein
Charles Amirkhanian narrates this tribute to the amazing but neglected Leo Ornstein, who was perhaps America's most radical composer and pianist of the 1910s and 1920s. Ornstein never recorded any of his own works, but continued working in obscurity on his own compositions after his retirement from the concert stage in 1928. The program includes premier performances of Ornstein works by pianist Michael Sellers.
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Documentary; New Music; 20th Century Classical; Leo Ornstein
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| A Trip to the Circus - Len Spencer & Gilbert Girard
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| A Visit With John Zorn
John Zorn and Larry Ochs join Charles Amirkhanian to discuss and play a selection of Zorn’s compositions. Among the pieces heard is an excerpt from “Spillane” in which Zorn tries to capture some of the film noir sensibility that imbues the Mickey Spillane novels and the gritty New York City in which they are based, and which Zorn calls home. This is followed by a couple of excerpts from Zorn’s collaborative improvisational work “Cobra” for which he created a number of general rules w...
Keywords: KPFA-FM; Morning Concert series; Interview and Music; Jazz; Avant-Garde; John Zorn; Larry Ochs
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| A Visit With Maro Ajemian from KPFA's Ode To Gravity Series, 1970 - Maro Ajemian, Charles Amirkhanian, Richard Friedman
Ode To Gravity with Charles Amirkhanian, A Visit With Maro Ajemian (August 26, 1970). Internationally renowned pianist Maro Ajemian, her husband Lionel Galstaun, and KPFA's Richard Friedman and Charles Amirkhanian discuss the music of Komitas (1869-1935), an Armenian composer, performer, and musicologist, whose compositions are based on folk tunes of Armenia and set in the modes, rhythms, and harmonies of Eastern rather than Western (e.g...
Keywords: Folk; 20th Century Classical; Radio Shows
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| A Womans Smile - Craig Campbell
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| A World To Enjoy EP - Full-Source
This release is a remix ep of 'A World To Enjoy' by Full-Source. It originally came out in 2003 as a free mp3 release. It contains the original mix, 3 variations, and 4 remixes by other artists. An alternate mix is featured as a bonus track on the 2004 Full-Source album, 'The Nothing'.
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| Accordionist Stefan Hussong performs at Other Minds 10, 2004 - Stefan Hussong, John Cage, Keiko Harada, Adriana Hölszky
Accordionist Stefan Hussong performs at Other Minds 10 at San Francisco's Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2004. Pieces include: Traditional Gagaku (Japan, 10th Century), Banshiki no Choshi John Cage, Dream (1948) Keiko Harada (1999), Bone+ (US Premiere) John Cage, In a landscape (1948) Adriana Höelszky, High Way for One for Accordion Solo (2000) (US Premiere) Stefan Hussong, accordion Polka and Conjunto step asidethis is accordion like youve never heard before...
Keywords: 20th Century Classical; Avantgarde
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| Ach, mein Otto hat 'ne Floete - Margarete Wiedeke
A very naughty song by Margarete Wiedeke (often abbreviated as Grete Wiedeke). Although not the most charming voice of that era, Wiedeke recorded a huge variety of songs on cylinders and discs and was one of the popular recording artists in Germany. This one comes from an Edison Wax Amberol cylinder #4M-15008, recorded in May of 1909 (Berlin, Germany).
Keywords: cylinder record; german; grete wiedeke
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| acid rain - Blagg
acid rain is a basic song about rain that damages earth and water supplies due to pollution
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| Ack Vaermeland, du skoena, du haerliga land! - Unknown
Here we have a brown wax cylinder, issued by Dansk Fonograf Magasin Kjøbenhavn under catalogue no. #929 Unfortunately the performer is not mentioned nor announced. If anyone knows, please post it! The title itself is a well-known traditional. As far as it was audible for me, the language is Swedish. Due to its playback speed of 160rpm this cylinder dates likely from 1902-1906. Lyrics: Ack Värmeland, du sköna, du härliga land, du kronabland svearikes länder...
Keywords: cylinder record; swedish; traditional; värmeland
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| Across the Alley from the Alamo - The Mills Brothers
The Mills Brothers ("Four Boys and a Guitar") singing "Across the Alley from the Alamo" from the B-side of an original Brunswick 78rpm disc. Cleaned up with Mono-a-Mono, "The Wonder Audio-Scrubber", version 2.10. (http://mono-a-mono.netfirms.com/)
Keywords: The Mills Brothers; Across the Alley from the Alamo; Brunswick; 78; 78rpm; Mono-a-Mono
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| adamned.age - nicht-ort - ep (ca172) - adamned.age
The EP "NICHT-ORT" takes a detailed look at so called non-places. Those places are not just the "empty rooms" but more the places without an identity, without history. It is about static places and dynamic rooms. adamned.age (Hanne Adam), born and grown up in Hamburg in 1977, now living and working in Berlin. She already began very early practising music on piano, guitar and drums. She mainly played drums and guitar in punk- and crossover-bands and started her first solo-recordings on an 8-track...
Keywords: experimental; ambient; electronic
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| Addio [Good-bye] - Caruso (Tosti) (lyr. Rizzelli)
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| address to American Indians - Woodrow Wilson
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