Just wanted to point out the sax solo on The Valentines’ 1956 “The Woo Woo Train.”
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I’ve added 8 sides to the collection of Mme. Coula’s early and significant recordings, making it now 20 songs. Several are remarkable including 2 in Turkish and a Sabah Manes accompanied only by harmonium. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/greek-...
Greek Folk Songs in New York City ca. 1917-25, by Mme. Koula Antonopoulo
20 track album
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NEW TWO-HOUR CANARY ALBUM Virtuoso clarinetist Costas Gadinis (b. 1890) was the most prolific Greek-American recoding musician of the 1930s-40s. The 41 tracks presented here represent about two-thirds of his output during his final six years on disc. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/we-see...
We Seek Freedom: Western Macedonian Greek Clarinetist in New York ca. 1942-48, by Costas Gadinis
41 track album
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RIP David Fair. What an inspiration. He and Jad pretty much invented DIY indie. youtu.be/kt1At1Fq8dE?...
David & Jad Fair from Half Japanese explain how to play guitar
YouTube video by Stormy Weathers
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ICE’s enforcement powers have also been boosted by a rapidly expanding program that deputizes local law enforcement agencies to carry out immigration enforcement – which can be difficult for passersby to discern whether a police officer is making a routine traffic stop or an immigration arrest.
ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term
Administration moved away from high-profile raids that defined immigration enforcement approach last year but still deported record number of people
theguardian.com
bandcamp Friday 10% off w/ code aug2026 6 Canary releases since the last bandcamp friday… canary-records.bandcamp.com
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early 20th century masterpieces (mostly) in languages other than English. An hour in clamor and a quarter in rheum.
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Absurd, dark, wistful and Fugs-y 2011 album by Baltimore’s Dan Conrad and Jorge Martins (recorded by Twig Harper). A jewel. yoinsh.bandcamp.com/album/yoinsh
YOINSH, by YOINSH
11 track album
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around 2010 I’d moved into the Appalachian mountains and was thinking of the Greek folk song Olympos ke Kisavos when I sent this to McSweeney’s who rejected it as “too slight.”
“Fiume o Morte!” (2025) is one of the year's most inventive documentaries. By letting a Croatian city reenact its own forgotten history, it becomes a funny, provocative look at fascism, memory & creativity. sarahgvincentviews.com/movies/fiume...
Fiume O Morte! Review - Sarah G. Vincent Views
Sarah G. Vincent Views' hot take on Fiume O Morte!
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I made a short (12-ish minute) low tech piece of music. First in a long, long time. I’m playing it at this show in Baltimore.
Following the exhibit I curated last year at the Jewish Museum of Maryland here in Baltimore, I gave an interview to the Jewish-Turkish site Avlaremoz on the subject of singer-oudist Louis Matalon. It has recently appeared here: www.avlaremoz.com/bir-sefaradi...
Bir Sefaradın New York'u: Louis Matalon ve Çokkültürlü Müzik Dünyası – Tuğba Yavuz
Şubat - Haziran 2025 arasında ABD’nin Maryland eyaletinin en büyük şehri olan Baltimore’da yer alan Maryland Yahudi Müzesi, “Burada Olduğumu Söylemek İçin: ABD’de Kaydedilen Arapça, Yunanca, Ladino ve...
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NEW CANARY ALBUM In the first half of the 20th century only 3 musicians in the U.S. appear to have recorded performances on the Persian instrument the tar. Here are two of them. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/tar-in...
Tar Instrumentals in Los Angeles & Detroit ca. 1942-51, by George Shah Baronian / Haig Ohanian
18 track album
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I just added 4 sides (17 minutes of music) from 1907 to the Canary album of the great Yusuf al Manyalawi canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/tarab-...
Tarab Vocal Art in Khedival Cairo, vol. 1, 1907-10, by Yusuf Al-Manyalawi
12 track album
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"....M. Gessen draws parallels between interpersonal violence and the way authoritarians coerce and control their subjects. The two discuss a question that domestic violence victims and those who live under authoritarianism often get: Why didn’t you just leave?"
What Autocrats Have in Common With Abusers | 'The Opinions' Podcast
YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts
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A nationwide increase in ICE arrests comes as a Houston man, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, was fatally shot by an ICE agent on Tuesday.
Fatal ICE shooting in Houston comes amid sharp surge in Trump’s deportation push
A resident of Houston’s predominantly Latino East End neighborhood, where Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was fatally shot, says ICE has increased its presence in recent weeks.
houstonpublicmedia.org
hats off to Baltimore’s Doris Elizabeth Cook (b. Sept. 14, 1924; d. Oct. 11, 2008) who wrote and published this poem as a postcard in May 1976 in response to the bicentennial hype and celebrations.
Having been asked to contribute "something" to a video program out in Seattle, I sent along this raw 6 1/2-minute reading of the "The Puffin Book," a little grotesquerie from Blaster Al Ackerman's book I Taught My Dog to Shoot a Gun (Popular Reality, 2000). youtu.be/kKI0qESn86U?...
The Puffin Book by Blaster Al Ackerman
YouTube video by naimkarakand
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amazing 2-minute reading of a poem comprised of five monosyllables. Jimmy Crouse has had works published by Argotist Online Poetry, Otoliths Gradient Press and a formed collaboration with Specific Recordings, Pittsburgh. www.unlikelystories.org/content/port...
Portrait of a Depiction
I is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is in I is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is in Of I of itIs of in itOf I of...
unlikelystories.org
From now until July 3 all digital releases (including the discography) are 50% off if you use the discount code: thedoctormustgetpaid canary-records.bandcamp.com
Canary Records
early 20th century masterpieces (mostly) in languages other than English. An hour in clamor and a quarter in rheum.
canary-records.bandcamp.com
NEW CANARY ALBUM Early recordings of art song of the Azeri minority of present-day Karabakh, then a mountainous Armenian-majority region of the Russian Empire. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/an-aze...
An Azeri Mugham Trio ca. 1912, by Keçaçioğlu Muhammad, Gurban Primov & Sasha Ohanezashvili
13 track album
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Painful news that Mikel Dimmick died suddenly. He was a beautiful guy with big ears. And much too young. His most recent album had just come out 2 weeks ago.
Mikel Dimmick@mikeldimmick.bsky.social · 3mo agoBeyond pleased to announce the new Spiral Joy Band release, Exile in the Black Plains, performed by the first cross-Atlantic Spiral Joy Band unit of William Graham Randles (of Seven Rivers of Fire) and Myself. Pure, total drone bliss. Listen here: spiraljoyband.bandcamp.com/album/exile-...
Words fail. This decision has left a pit in my stomach.
ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · 3mo agoThe Supreme Court's decision in the Temporary Protected Status case proves the Supreme Court *is* racist. They don't merely affirm Trump's racism, they endorse it. And while that's not "news" for anyone paying attention, it's still outrageous. My latest in @thenation.com
NEW CANARY ALBUM The vigorous and masterful swan song of two of the most popular and prolific performers in Arabic during the 1910s and ‘20s, recorded when they were well into their 60s. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/your-l...
Your Love Streaked My Hair: Two Lebanese Folk Maestros in Brooklyn ca. mid-1950s, by Nahem Simon & Toufic Moubaid
10 track album
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I, for one, had not previously encountered these, I assume, WWII era expressions of soft power. Uncle Sam saying “music for all our Arab friends!” is antithetical to the Musk Doctrine. Such waste! Ha!
I’ll be doing presentations on both Saturday and Sunday.
Canary Records@iannagoski.bsky.social · 4mo agoIn 2 weeks I’ll be making my only European appearance of the year at the Aman Aman Festival in Berlin. Sat June 13 I’m on a panel Sun June 14 I’ll give a 1 hour talk-and-listening session of “Ottoman-American” women from 78rpm discs ca 1917-47 sinematranstopia.com/en/program/f...
I just heard that we lost the great James Blood Ulmer. Fascinating, beautiful person. Dazzling, undersung discography. Have I played any song on repeat more than this one in the past decade? Unlikely.
Are You Glad To Be In America?
YouTube video by James Blood Ulmer - Topic
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Adieu Areski (1940-2026). Ici avec Brigitte Fontaine, ils interprètent "Les Vergers" en 1974.
In 2 weeks I’ll be making my only European appearance of the year at the Aman Aman Festival in Berlin. Sat June 13 I’m on a panel Sun June 14 I’ll give a 1 hour talk-and-listening session of “Ottoman-American” women from 78rpm discs ca 1917-47 sinematranstopia.com/en/program/f...
AMAN AMAN Berlin
A three day festival of open air screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures and culinary interventions AMAN AMAN!A distant cry of unfulfilled longing, a call of insurmountable passion, a styl...
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