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A String of Pearls: Ian Nagoski releases Canary Records #01!
Friday Jun 26, 8PM @ 2640 (2640 St. Paul St.)
Two hours of music from around the world and back in time. Ian Nagoski (compiler of the Black Mirror: Reflections in Global Musics 1918-1954) celebrates the release of his new collection of music from the first half of the 20th century, A String of Pearls on his own new Canary label (mfd & dist by Mississippi Records) with a presentation of 78 rpm records and historical/ musicological reflections on the music. Including music from Constantinople, Milano, Bucharest, Uttar Pradesh, Armenia, Sunda, Thrace, Jamaica, Serbia, Cairo, Huilotita, Seville, Hue, Aleppo, Rajastan, the Carpathians, a Zuni reservation and much more. www.myspace.com/theblackmirror.
"such an idiosyncratic dose of the weird and the beautiful that it’s hard to imagine any music fan not being intrigued by the mysteries it contains." - Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper, review of The Black Mirror
$5 donation requested, hope to see you there!
Reviews and more info:
"such an idiosyncratic dose of the weird and the beautiful that it’s
hard to imagine any music fan not being intrigued by the mysteries it
contains." - Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper
"so many musical revelations brought to focus on this single disc that
it can be used as a valid primer of non-American ethnomusicology. That
Nagoski had the wherewithal to curate such a heft of magic with such
limited resources should be a call of arms to all of us that mine the
crates." - Steve Lowenthall, Fader
"love-at-first-note stuff that flows across continents, decades, and
traditions with skewed but unassailable logic." - Bill Myer, Dusted
"We need to take seriously this collection of recordings, not only
because it beautiful and rarely heard performances from diverse
musical traditions, but because of what it can tell us about
exoticism, collecting, and the sonic artifact in the period of
emergence and initial expansion of the record industry." - Jeremy
Wallach, Ethnomusicology
"luxuriates in the specific, but its tracks flow like water across
national and genre boundaries." - Rod Smith, Time Out New York
http://dust-digital.com/black-mirror.htm
http://dust-digital.com/news/?p=87
http://www.myspace.com/theblackmirror
http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=17820
http://www.arthurmag.com/2008/12/20/ian-nagoski-on-american-labels-and-blogs-who-are-finding-and-sharing-good-music-from-all-over-the-world-from-arthur-no-32/
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