New Releases

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Art of Field Recording Volume I: 50 Years of Traditional American Music Documented by Art Rosenbaum

Four CDs featuring 110 Tracks
96 Page Book containing Essays, Annotations, and over 100 Illustrations

***** [5 stars out of 5] "This set unearths all manner of unknown Americana. Archivists Art and Margo Rosenbaum spent half a century recording obscure artists from the backwoods: parlour tunes, church hymns, slide blues, chain gang songs, Southern gospel and creepy country ballads. Complete with scholarly tome, the result is a riveting document of an all-but-vanished culture. An essential companion piece to Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music." — Rob Hughes, Uncut Magazine

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Melodii Tuvi: Throat Songs and Folk Tunes from Tuva

Single CD featuring recordings of Tuvan folk music and throat-singing from 1969 with liner notes by noted world music scholar Dr. Pekka Gronow of the University of Helsinki.

With the advent of the folk music revival in the 1960s, a new interest in Tuvan music swept through Asia and Eastern Europe. Capitalizing on this appeal, these 16 recordings were issued in 1969 in the Soviet Union. Dust-to-Digital is proud to reissue for the first time on compact disc these traditional performances including several khoomei songs plus one modern take on the classic Tuvan sound. In khoomei, the singer simultaneously produces two more distinct musical notes: a low, sustained bass note and a flute-like higher note. Tuvan sheep herders often practice khoomei in an effort to calm animals and appease spirits. The effect is hypnotic, eerie, and drone-like, unlike any sound you've ever heard come out of a cowboy.

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Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics

Single CD of recordings made between 1918-1955 assembled and annotated by Baltimore record shop owner Ian Nagoski.

This compilation contains 24 tracks from Bali, Burma, Cameroon, China, England, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Java, Laos, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Syria, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, Vietnam, and Yugoslavia all newly transferred and mastered from 78 rpm discs. At least 18 tracks appear on compact disc for the first time with all but one never having been previously reissued in the U.S.

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Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days

Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book of illustrations with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues and much, much more. Compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the Seattle band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera.

"...amazing, like a midway point between Yazoo's Secret Museum of Mankind and Sublime Frequencies..." — Brian Turner, WFMU