Waves by Super Kidz

This mesmerizing 1973 vintage LP of Japanese Gagaku imperial court music born over 1000 years ago, featuring fascinating drones, clusters and eerie sonorities, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2023/11/japan-japon-gagaku-collection-2-music.html

Gagaku Collection 2 – Victor – SLJ-59

Gagaku music – Japan – Music Department of the Imperial Household Agency

a very slow but entertaining version of the Safety Dance.  

J DILLA - SAFETY DANCE

B2 - Shiel

HIROSHI FUJIWARA & SHINICHI OSAWA Feat.CRYSTAL KAY - LOST CHILD

Stones Throw & Leaving Records presents DUAL FORM | coming 1.22.2013
http://stonesthrow.com/leavingrecords

The Cyclist - Visions

"Che Guevara" - Mohamed Lamari (1969)

Cairo is not just a great city for finding Arabic records. Various communities left their fingerprints on the city, evident from its architecture and the things you find at fleamarkets and in antique shops. Here's a mix of the best Armenian 78rpm records I found. 

Armenian music where European, Turkish and Middle Eastern music seems to be melted into one. My guess is a couple of these are religious, with a cantor singing in a melancholic operatic way, others are for other social puroses than religion; dances or music salons. Even the more upbeat stuff has this incredible ghostly depth to it, to my ears, with acombinations of percussion, low keys on the piano or oud and ethereal voices. There's some wilder instrumental stuff as well and a nice early take on Misirlou.

I did my best to properly record them and clean them up digitally without loosing the ghostly, direct sound they possess. Rather a lot of work! This is a companion mix to the Greek one I've posted: https://soundcloud.com/milansound/greek-record-center

Artwork is lifted from the Austrian art nouveau designer, Julius Klinger.

Armenian Record Center

Urgent:

Sham Palace is pleased to announce that “I Remember Syria” – an album Mark Gergis put together for Sublime Frequencies in 2003/2004 – will be reissued on April 23rd, 2013 as a special Sublime Frequencies digital edition in conjunction with Forced Exposure – available through iTunes, and featuring an expanded downloadable booklet with photos and text.

The most important thing about this reissue is that all proceeds will be donated to a charity that assists Syrians in need. And they are in need. 

Syria doesn’t sound like it did on “I Remember Syria” anymore, and it doesn’t look like the photographs in the expanded booklet. As you may already know, Syria is suffering in the midst of unthinkable turmoil, attack and destruction. As a wide-scale humanitarian disaster continues to unfold, Syrians both within the country and in refugee camps beyond its borders are in need of immediate assistance.

So remember to purchase a digital copy on iTunes – available after April 23rd... and tell friends. 

“I Remember Syria” was assembled as an audio love letter to the country I grew to know as one of most civilized places on Earth. It contains recordings made and collected during my first travels to Syria between 1997 and 2000. Across the span of 14 years, I would travel there as frequently as possible. When initially released on Sublime Frequencies as a double-CD in 2004, the aim was to showcase and humanize a land and its people that had been politically and culturally exiled by the west for decades. Hopefully, these recordings can serve again as a testament to the beauty and unity of Syria, and the grace, hospitality and integrity of its people. 

– Mark Gergis – March, 2013

“I Remember Syria” (SF009DI)

Sublime Frequencies is proud to present this digital reissue of I Remember Syria: an assemblage of field recordings, interviews, radio broadcasts and music, from one of the least-known quarters of the Arab world. Before the west associated Syria with its current crisis, it had politically and culturally isolated the country for decades – leaving little known of its contemporary peoples, or its rich heritage of art, music and culture. 
Originally released as a 2-CD set in 2004, this one of a kind audio document was recorded and surgically assembled by Mark Gergis from recordings he made in Syria between 1997 and 2000. The results offer a multi-faceted glimpse into the country, as it was at the cusp of the 21st century. 

Disc one features sounds from the ancient capital city of Damascus – including vivid street soundscapes, interviews, spontaneous live music, sounds captured inside the world-renowned Ummayad Mosque, and fragments of radio and television broadcasts, as well as exploring the mystery of a legendary underground city called “Kazib”.
Disc two takes us out to “Greater Syria”, capturing live musicians, political opinions of the day, radio excerpts and sketches, songs from cassette releases found around the country, and other audio anomalies. The closing track showcases the haunting sounds of wood against wood produced by the Norias – the giant irrigation waterwheels that have churned in the Orontes River, in the city of Hama, for centuries. 

All proceeds from the sale of this release will be donated to the Syrian Arab Red Crescent (IFRC) to support urgent humanitarian aid work during the ongoing crisis in Syria.

http://www.ifrc.org/en/what-we-do/where-we-work/middle-east-and-north-africa/syrian-arab-red-crescent/

www.sublimefrequencies.com

Also available for purchase immediately - with proceeds being donated the the Syrian Arab Red Crescent –  is the "Dabke – Sounds of the Syrian Houran" CD on SHAM PALACE. Available through www.forcedexposure.com or at fine record shops.

"I Remember Syria" Special Digital Reissue 2013 (SF009DI) - Audio Samples

"Barbes Blues: Ce qu'ils n'ont pas pu nous prendre" une série podcast consacrée aux luttes politiques de l'immigration maghrébine dans les années 70. Le tout en musique.

Au commencement, il y a toujours Barbès , le premier quartier historique de l'immigration maghrébine et africaine à Paris. Le coeur battant. Mais il y avait aussi un jeune homme : Mokhtar. Nous l'avions quitté sur le point de partir pour la France. Le voici donc arrivé et déjà sur le chemin de l'usine. Cet épisode pose le premier décor français et les premiers pas dans l'immigration. On y retrouve la France toute fraichement soixante huitarde mais aussi les algériens, les usines Chausson, la chanteuse Noura, les premières désillusions, les premières colères et encore, et toujours, la politique et la lutte. Et surtout nous retrouvons la valise en cuir, pas encore usé, pour son premier voyage. 
C'est un évident hommage aux premiers pas, les plus difficiles sans doute dans la vie de ces hommes, et un clin d'oeil appuyé à "Mohamed prends ta valise" d'un certain Kateb Yacine autant qu'à la Rumeur, qui court et devance déjà tout.  

Playlists - archives sonores :

La Rumeur - Le Cuir usé d'une valise 
Cheikh Younsi - El Passeport
Slimane Azem - l'Algérie mon beau pays
Archive INA - Discours du général De Gaulle 
Archive de l'émission " Cinq colonnes à la une" 
Slimane Azem - Thamour azizene felli 
Tokiko Kato - Oh, le joli mois de Mai à Paris 
Jacques Dutronc- Paris s'éveille
Archive INA- Manifestations Mai 68 
Noura- Paris dans mon sac
Archive - Documentaire 50 ans des usines Chaussons 
Ali Aougoung - Allo l'agence
Carte de séjour - Habibi

BARBES BLUES | Mokhtar prends ta valise #2

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"I Remember Syria" Special Digital Reissue 2013 (SF009DI) - Audio Samples

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