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miscellaniac on 04/27/2012 at 04:00PM
Preservation Week 2012 Mix
Although Preservation Week 2012 is winding down, that's no reason to stop the celebration. Ease into the weekend with this mix which pays tribute to time, the past, and how some things are just too good to let lapse into oblivion.
FMA curator, Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project (CPDP) gives us a taste of vaudevillian debauchery with Sophie Tucker. Early 20th century Canadian folk fiddler, Isidore Soucy, is a highly jig-able offering from Excavated Shellac, also an FMA curator.
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Lock up your gun before you listen to western swing pioneer, Spade Cooley, from Bloodshot Records' Bloodshot Revival Series. Giraffe rocks out the fleeting nature of existence. Roger McGuinn updates a traditional folk song as part of his Folk Den Project. Vermillion Sands gives a "country-tinged fuzz pop" nod to the cold figure of history. Big Blood honors the weary archivist with dream-like precision. Experimental one-man band, Newage Hillbilly, says it plainly and psychedelically. R. Stevie Moore gives us the unbridled joy of "Records" (both vinyl and administrative). The Paperhead waxes nostalgic and Romanian synth and drum quartet, Karpov Not Kasparov, compose the sonic equivalent of an hourglass. Computer artist/programmer, Valentina Vuksic's finds new uses for old technology. Whether in reference to souls or back issues of Punk Planet, Boss Hog, declares that they have "Saved." CPDP generously shares with us an anonymous recording of farm animals from the early 1900s. |
Free-psych-noise-electro-unclassifiable Oakland-based Kreamy 'Lectric Santa ruminates on dystopia. Oneida's 2006 live performance still resonates powerfully, well into this milennium.
Self-taught lo-fi multi-instrumentalist hyphenator, Spencer Owen, pleads with the future. Long-running WFMU show, Antique Phonograph Music Program, shares some vintage avian ventriloquism courtesy of Edward Avis and Howard R. Garis.
And Wooden Shjips' "For So Long" is an epic, driving collision of mind-altering sparsity that travels the path of its own stylistic origins.
