His Master's Voice  – 7 EPE 1246

Bhimsen Joshi (great Hindustani vocalist) - rare 7-inch record from 1962

This rare 7-inch record of the distinguished Persian violinists Parviz Yahagi (1935-2007) and Ali Tajvidi (1919-2006), featuring their exquisite, totally brilliant lyrical and conceptual forms, is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/11/iran-four-strokes-parviz-yahagi-ali.html

Four Strokes – Parviz Yahagi & Ali Tajvidi – Royal RT 430 – RT 706

Iran Violin – Ali Tajvidi & Parviz Yahagi – Royal RT 430 – RT 706

This seminal LP featuring the majestic voice of the incomparable Agra Gharana singer Ustad Faiyaz Khan (1886-1950) is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/11/india-inde-ustad-faiyaz-khan-masters.html

His Master's Voice – EALP 1292

Ustad Faiyaz Khan - great Hindustani vocalist

This a tribute to the Armenian singer Zabelle Panosian. "Groung" is a touching lament of a crying bird who flew away from her burning land. 

Special thanks go to Ian Nagoski's work of uncovering her voice and her story for me and the world. 

https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/i-am-servant-of-your-voice-march-1917-june-1918

Zabelle Panosian - Groung (Lacrimal Pyramid Edit)

Life is Rough lathe by Twig Harper 4 of 6

Flirtin' With the Undertaker : True Vine, Baltimore, June 11 0006

THE ROOTS OF CONGO MUSIC
with special guest John Storm Roberts

Arsenio Rodríguez "Para bailar el montuno" Viva Arsenio

John Storm Roberts: AFRO-CUBAN COMES HOME: THE BIRTH & GROWTH OF CONGO MUSIC

Papa Wemba "Annah" Siku ya Mungu

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cover art: Tam Tam, Congo 1930, postcard from the collection of Alan Brain
courtesy Rumba Kings Archive



roots of congo music

This is a live recording of a talk-and-record-listening session with Ian Nagoski (Canary Records), hosted by Futura Resistenza, from Tuesday 18 November 2025 at L'Estaminet, 1030 Bruxelles.

𝗜𝗮𝗻 𝗡𝗮𝗴𝗼𝘀𝗸𝗶 is an independent music researcher and reissue producer from Baltimore, Maryland. For over 20 years, he has specialized in early 20th-century recordings made by immigrants to the U.S., especially musicians from the Ottoman Empire.

He has produced anthologies for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square (including To What Strange Place: The Music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora, 2011), the Database of Recorded American Music, Mississippi Records, and his own imprint, Canary Records, which has released over 195 digital albums to date.
Ian has toured widely as a speaker—from Thessaloniki to Fresno—including talks at the Library of Congress, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, UCLA, the University of Chicago, the Armenian Museum in Watertown (MA), and the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens. His installations have appeared at the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, the Wellcome Collection in London, and the Center for PostNatural History in Pittsburgh. A fragment of his work was included on the MoonArk, the first object permanently installed on the Moon (2020).

🔗 https://canary-records.bandcamp.com/

Ian Nagoski’s talk and record-listening session reveals a world-within-a-world of musical culture as it evolved over two generations—celebrating the overlooked masterpieces of immigrant artists and exploring the social realities of a “nation of immigrants,” its ambivalences, and its memories.

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tue 18 November 2025 | start: 19:30
location: L'Estaminet 1030, dans la cour de la Maison des Arts, Haachtsesteenweg 147, 1030 Bruxelles

Canary Records

Futura Resistenza - Ian Nagoski (Canary records) Tuesday 18 November 2025 - L'Estaminet 1030 Bruxelles

محمود افندي البولاقي
زنبلك الرقص
كازينو ألف ليلى-روض الفرج



Maḥmūd  al-Būlāqī - Zanbalik al-raqṣ (Gramophone 14 - 12340 41)

Mohamed ZainElDeen Columnia E3431 Bagdadi Tair An Nia Pt 1 2

This historic recording of the spellbinding and complex polyphonic vocal music of the Babinga Bangombe and Babenzélé Pygmy peoples in the Republic of the Congo is available for Flac and MP3 download on my blog:
https://music-republic-world-traditional.blogspot.com/2021/02/congo-brazzaville-musique-pygmee-de-la.html