Canary Records
Books / records. Research / muttering
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- It’s bandcamp friday. There’ve been 9 new Canary releases - 6 hrs of music - since the last bandcamp friday 2 months ago. canary-records.bandcamp.com
- Reposted by Canary RecordsI run a micro label of mostly mine and my friends' music. It's bandcamp Friday, so check it if you like: space psych or heavy improv played on guitars, snares, veena, cracked pedals, voice, bottles or comps of pre-war south Indian instrumental music from 78s. branchdravidian.bandcamp.com/merch
- NEW CANARY EP 20 minutes of music from a label run by a Romanian immigrant in n the 1940s, Josef Cristea (b. Transylvania 1904; d. Santa Monica 1973). 3 tracks by immigrants in NYC; 4 tracks pirated from great performers from Romania in the ‘30s. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dor-do...
- Got fascinated by this disc a couple days ago. She was a Syrian Jew (probably around Aleppo) who moved to Egypt. Her known discography totals 11 or 12 songs. This song was recorded ca. 1927 not in Egypt. Maybe Beirut. Maybe even Aleppo?
- Many thanks to Remek Mazur-Hanaj for telling the Prince Onago & Princess Muana story to Poland: www.dwutygodnik.com/artykul/1229...
- I am unable to digest media referring to flagging presidential poll numbers. It’s been a decade. They’ve hardly varied more than 5 points +/- from 40%. Or references to a term limit. Any reference to “three more years” and I unsubscribe. He’s obviously not leaving; pretending he is is unhelpful.
- The album of the Lebanese-American violinist Sam Shaheen (b. 1918; d. 2009) of Utica, New York started as 8 tracks 3 years ago. It has expanded from 24 to 80 minutes, and with the addition of three more tracks, I believe it now represents his complete recorded works.
- Reposted by Canary RecordsM. Gessen, gift link: The soviet secret police too "were ruled by quotas... Fundamentally, the terror was random. That is, in fact, how state terror works. The randomness is the difference between a regime based on terror and a regime that is plainly repressive"
- The wikipedia page for G B’vino, head of Mpls ICE, says his great-grandparents came from Calabria, Italy and naturalized in 1927. Everyone knows we have 16 great-grandparents and the odds of them coking from the same place and naturalizing the same year are infinitesimal….
- July 2019 Never Again Action in DC. I remember the ICE employees having lunch outside looking at us like we were idiots. What could we possibly be so upset about?
- Goodbye to the great Uncle Floyd who enriched my childhood to no end with his ridiculous television show.
- This is me in Denmark 2 months ago at the @endlessgratitude Festival. You can’t see it in the picture but I’m trying to explain why America is like it is, and if you squint hard you can maybe see me not being a total dick. Just doing my part.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM (13th in 7 weeks) An hour-long snapshot of Lebanon in the 1950s. Westward-looking and cosmopolitan in the shadow of Egypt’s cultural hegemony, Lebanon produced wonderful voices, some celebrated, some neglected. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/dreams...
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- “The only way to keep the space from imploding is to fill it, to prop up the walls: to claim all the room there still is for speaking, writing, publishing, protesting, voting. It’s what the people of Minnesota [are] doing, and it’s something each of us needs to do — right now, while we still can.”
- I noticed this photo by Steve Jackson Jr. ca. Oct. ‘50. John Handy, Pony Poindexter, John Coltrane (just turned 24 years old), and Frank Fischer at Jimbo’s Bop City in San Francisco on the Syncopated Times site. What jumped out at me was Harry Smith’s mural behind them. Smith moved to NYC in 1951.
- Smith moved to NYC in 1951 and may have been in the audience at this gig. Who the hell knows? This famous pic of Smith at Jimbo’s ca. 1950.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM The 1962 follow-up to Prince Onago & Princess Muana’s 1959 The Drums of Africa, this collaboration with a jazz unit is a bridge between “ethnographic forgery” and “spiritual” jazz as contemporary record collectors have lately termed non-Western influence on Black American music.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM co-released w/ Specific Recordings of Pittsburgh Seeing Newark, Delaware’s Jimmy Crouse in the ‘90s was intense. A very shy, unaffected, and disquieted young man who played a meltingly slow, cyclical, reductionist Americana-plainchant with an overwhelming seriousness and unease.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM These recordings are from the July 1-5, 1970 gathering of Native performers in the unique, closed, independent Red Lake Nation where none of the 1,260 square miles of land is owned by any individual of whom there are now over 5,500 residents.
- The album, made by and for the community, was pressed in Minneapolis and issued entirely without credits. All net proceeds from this album will be donated to the Red Lake Nation Tribal Collage. It would be best for you to donate directly here:
- The Baltimore Fox News affiliate reported ICE’s account that the man they shot yesterday had tried to run them over with his car. In fact, he was already in custody when they shot him.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM Around 1949 the Fred Williams of East St Louis IL and Margaret Cabelle Williams of Los Angeles CA reinvented themselves as Prince Onago and Princess Muana of the Congo to get work as dancers. Immigration Services followed up on an inquiry, and they were outed in the press in 1954
- Performed by Uraguyan singer Daniel Viglietti (b. 1939: 2017) on his 1973 LP Tropicos and composed by Cuban singer Pablo Milanés (b. 1943; d. Nov. 22, 2022)
- The big takeaway of Prince, Dylan, Miles & Neil is that given unlimited financial resources, exceptional musical insight, and the fierce determination to do exactly what you want to do when you want to do it for 50 years, about 1/2 of your records are still gonna be not very good. So don’t worry.
- NEW CANARY ALBUM An excellent singer and superstar of 20th century Egyptian cinema, Layla Murad (b. 1912; 1995)’s fame from the time she was a teenager through her middle age made every aspect of her life — her identity, her love life, her body, her faith — a subject of scrutiny for the press.
