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This mostly moody episode focuses on Blanck Mass score to the 2021 film Ted K, detailing the life of the feared Unabomber. We also pay tribute to Nik Turner of Hawkwind, queer country pioneer Patrick Haggerty, singer Gal Costa, rapper Takeoff from Migos and composer Norm Chambers. 1. Hawkwind: Master of the Universe (In Search of Space, 1971) United Artists/Liberty 2. Ian William Craig: Sentimental Drift (Music for Magnesium_173 OST, 2022) FatCat 3. Lavender Country: Sweet Shadow Man (Blackbe...

ISSUE DATE: April 19, 2021 UPDATED: April 10, 2021 00:31 IST This is a wonderful and generous collection of digitised tracks from all over the world, music recorded on 78rpm shellacs between the 1920s to the ’60s. Not the usual collectors’ fare of classical music maestros or jazz and blues numbers, Jonathan Ward’s Excavated Shellac is a mind-boggling array of local music traditions, vocalisms, instruments, ensembles, interludes and poetry which makes us think about sound, timbres, dissona...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Jonathan Ward on his new 100-track compilation of early recordings from around the world called Excavated Shellac: An Alternate History of the World's Music.

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Old classics revived with high-tech edge You dont need to dust off grandads 78rpm discs to enjoy stunning global recordings dating from early last century published : 2 Feb 2021 at 04:00 13 The Penguin Encyclopedia Of Popular Music released in 1991, edited by Donald Clarke, has more than 3,000 entries on rock, rocknroll, folk, soul, R&B, gospel, country and swing, and a whole host of lesser-known genres. Musicians, songwriters and producers are all in this tome. But what you wont find in such r...

Kyrgyzstan ballads, Okinawa folk, Ugandan hymns … the album rewriting global music history Garth Cartwright Imagine an anthology of 20th-century music making that purposely ignored pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and opera. Cue outrage, at least from English-speaking listeners. But away from the western canon that has come to dominate our conception of music-making, much of the world was busy creating swathes of very different, extremely beautiful music. These overl...

Last modified on Tue 26 Jan 2021 06.13 EST Imagine an anthology of 20th-century music making that purposely ignored pop, rock, jazz, blues, country, classical and opera. Cue outrage, at least from English-speaking listeners. But away from the western canon that has come to dominate our conception of music-making, much of the world was busy creating swathes of very different, extremely beautiful music. These overlooked styles are collated on a new 100-track compilation, An Alternate History of t...

How pop and jazz wrapped up the past in 16 boxed sets Cream, ‘Goodbye Tour Live 1968’ Polydor; four CDs, 66-page book, $69.98. by Jon Pareles, Jon Caramanica, Giovanni Russonello and Lindsay Zoladz NEW YORK (NYT NEWS SERVICE) .- Reissues and deluxe editions of albums by PJ Harvey, Lil Peep, Charles Mingus and others provide fresh looks at familiar works, and the creative processes that birthed them. Neneh Cherry, ‘Raw Like Sushi (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)’ Virgin/UMC; three CDs, $63....