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Amazing musical curios

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:59 / 30.11.06

Grant had some good things to say about Yat-Kha here. In a similarly odd (though, oddly, dissimilar) vein I have just discovered the wonder that is Margot Leverett and the Klezmer Mountain Boys.

Like throatsingers doing Joy Division, bluegrass klezmer is one of those things you can kind of tell what it's going to sound like, but can't really apreciate until you hear it.

They're really quite ace.

Anyone got any other curios to share, or just want to tell me how ace the Klezmer Mountain Boys are?

lord nuneaton savage

18:13 / 30.11.06

The big one (and oh, what a big one it be) for me at the mo' is Devo and Neil Young (yes, Devo AND Neil Young) doing 'Hey hey, my my'.

It's Devo doing 'Hey hey, my my' with a !FUCK OFF NEBULA! guitar solo on it. Stratospheric!

It's on bootlegs.

rizla mission

19:26 / 30.11.06

The current most-played song on my iTunes is a recording of the Norwegian outsider folk singer Keijo playing "Which Side Are You On".

I can't really describe why it's so great, but it's certainly a bit odd and, I dunno, he just completely kicks it... I guess it sounds kind of like if a reclusive viking hermit suddenly discovered that he really dug Pete Seeger and took his love to town..

I guess maybe the singer's obvious temporal/geographical/stylistic distance from the political context in which the song was written serves to give it a more archetypal, cosmic sort of feel... or maybe not, I dunno... it sounds really free-spirited and kinda ramshackle ala Skip Spence..

grant

19:46 / 30.11.06

Here:
Ubuweb's 365 Days Project.
For every day of 2003, these outsider music curators put up one mp3.

I haven't heard half of them, but at least half of what I've heard is pure genius. Look up the Assagai cover of "Hey Jude." But (just to keep this from sliding into an all-cover thread), there are plenty of original things of beauty as well. Pastor John Rydgren's on there, as is Ken Nordine.

And Louis Farrakhan singing a calypso song about a transsexual. I'm not making that up.

I've put the Barbie & Ken song on quite a few mix CDs. It's amazingly good for something that came packaged with a little kid's doll.

Anyway, the only problem with this collection is that it's too huge. Go to town!

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And I want Yousendits of that Devo thing and the Norwegian dude.

WANT. I.

lord nuneaton savage

19:53 / 30.11.06

I love Ubuweb, with the passion of a man trapped in a post-apocalyptic wasteland with only tapes of BBC world service for company. I will check it out.

Gypsy Lantern

08:37 / 01.12.06

Devo AND Neil Young?!?

lord nuneaton savage

10:26 / 01.12.06

Yep, Devo AND Neil Young...

rizla mission

10:45 / 01.12.06

Correction to my earlier post in this thread - Keijo is actually Finnish, not Norwegian. Ho hum.

grant

13:04 / 01.12.06

MP3s! NOW!

Gypsy Lantern

13:36 / 01.12.06

That's like Nina Simone and Neu, or something. Bizarre. I must hear it.

RichT's boring old name

13:31 / 17.01.07

Shared a bill with Frank Bangay last year, truly a Jewel in the Poundshop

Chiropteran

18:11 / 17.01.07

Grant (and everybody), you should know that there is a new 365 Days Project this year, hosted by WFMU. Only 17 days in and we've had Rappin' With Gas, the Armed Forces Workout, and Play It Safe! Vol. 4, a full-length record consisting of a rambling conversation between a married couple, to play on repeat while you're out of the house so burglars will think there's someone home:

-Look, I'm gonna get some coffee; do you want some?
-Yeah, I'll have some. Black.
-Black?
-Right.
[pause]
-You want it black?
-Yep.
-Want anything to eat?
-Naw. . . . Put a little sugar in it, will ya? . . . I think I'll have some cream, too.

Watch out, First Alert!

GogMickGog

16:22 / 23.01.07

Have any of you cottoned to Klezmer ska yet?

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