Product Description

Recordings made between the 1920s-'50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the Seattle-based experimental band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese opera, Persian folk songs, fado, hillbilly, jazz, blues and much, much more. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably the film Session Nine), worked on documentary films (Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts Of Isan released on Sublime Frequencies) and contributed soundscapes to NPR radio programs in addition to releasing numerous recordings on CD and LP, including a recent LP on the Sun City Girls' Abduction Records imprint entitled 5 Cents A Piece. Influenced by the Secret Museum of Mankind, Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthology Of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also inspired by art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe. Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. Hundreds of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more.

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Discs and Tracks

Disc 1
  1 - Bololo O Kolilo (Groupo de Totoko Francois)
  2 - The Crow Flies Back to the Forest (Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe)
  3 - Mes Tis Polis Ta Stena (Stella Haskil)
  4 - Balada Do Encantamento (Dr. Edmundo Bettencourt)
  5 - Shenai (Bismillah Khan and Party)
  6 - The Basement Blues (Noble Sissle and His Orchestra)
  7 - Step It Up and Go (Blind Boy Fuller)
  8 - Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Yukie Kubo)
  9 - O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother (Kelly Harrell)
  10 - Big Idiot Buys a Pig (He Zemin / Huang Peiying)
  11 - Laughing Rag (Roy Smeck)
  12 - Wipe Em Off (Seven Gallon Jug Band)
  13 - Raks Baladi Hag Ibrahim (Mozmar Caire Orchestra)
  14 - Tora To Vrady Vrady (Yiorgos Papasideris / Yiorgos Anestopoulos)
  15 - Fireworks Music (Zapotec-Teotitlan Indians)
  16 - The Cowboy's Dizzy Sweetheart (Goebel Reeves)
  17 - Watching the Knife and Fork Spoon (Don Redman and His Orchestra)
  18 - Courting the Woman From Chiang Mai (Sri Ma Keow / Chai Wat)
  19 - Badia's Dance (Badia Massabni and Her Orchestra)
  20 - The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible (The Tennessee Ramblers)
  21 - Karciar Taksim (Zeki Duygulu)
  22 - Daegeum Solo (Kim Seong-jin)

Disc 2
  1 - Impressions of London (Stanley Roper)
  2 - The Crucifixion of Christ (Jessie May Hill)
  3 - Torre de Belem (Carlos Ramos)
  4 - The Farmer's Dream (Frank Ferera)
  5 - Shiokumi Kasatsukashi (Kachikuri Mimasuya)
  6 - Mahawin Maita Zad (Po Sein / Maung Sein Maita)
  7 - Shan Village (St. Gun Khin May)
  8 - Mahour Gazel-Adjir idin beni (Haffouz Jachar Bey)
  9 - Little Mo-hee (The Hall Brothers)
  10 - Two Liquorice Drops in Jail (Cook and Flemming)
  11 - Cockeyed Jenny (Barton Brothers)
  12 - Darktown Court Room (Shelton Brooks and Co.)
  13 - Story of Tang On (Sa Ma Nang Noi / Ut Sa Win)
  14 - Memphis Kick Up (Slim Lamar's Orchestra)
  15 - My Wireless Set (John Henry and Blossom)
  16 - Yield Not to Temptation (Ernest Thompson)
  17 - Chanting the Ten Vows (Chinese Buddhist Nuns)
  18 - Mokihana (Kane's Hawaiians)
  19 - The Grass Widow (Maria Smyrnea)
  20 - Persian Popular Song (Unknown Artist)
  21 - Willie Willie Don't Go from Me (Harold Boyce and the Harlem Indians)
  22 - The Insect Powder Agent (Golden and Marlowe)
  23 - The Thingamajig (Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys)
  24 - Yasukibushi (Komachiyo Okada)
  25 - Hamba Na Lo Isoko La Yo ( Mameyigudi and His Dancers)
  26 - Tabla-Taranga (Vishnudass Shirali)

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