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- Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days
- Format: CD Boxed Set
- Catalogue Number: DTDâ€Â11
- Number of Discs: 2
- Label: Dust to Digital
- Release Date: 28 January 2008
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PRICE: £40.99 £37.99
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days
Recordings made between 1920s-50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the 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.
Influenced by Secret Museum of Mankind Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthologly of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also 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. 100s of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more.
Compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins. Climax Golden Twins have designed gallery and museum installations, composed soundtracks (most notably USA Film's 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.
"...amazing, like a midway point between Yazoo's Secret Museum of Mankind and Sublime Frequencies..." Brian Turner, WFMU
"Climax Golden Twins genre bending prowess alone would earn Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor high regard in Seattle music circles. But Taylor also owns Wall of Sounds Records one of the first boutique record shops devoted primarily to independent and avant-garde music. 'all roads in the experimental community lead back to them,' says Eric Lanzillotta (of Anomalous Records and Ri Be Xibalba)..tireless curiosity has always driven the pair..." Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
"A beautifully decorated book of original label art and advertisements...more suggestive than descriptive, the book is representative of Millis and Taylor's overall aesthetic. 'The (original Victrola Favorites) cassettes had Xeroxed covers, no information, a pure listening experience,' says Millis. This time, the package makes the whole difference, says Taylor: 'You're getting two CDs to listen to, but here's the art of the artifact.' The book is full of rich images: a photograph of a young boy sitting next to a Victrola horn three times his size; a voluptuously beautiful assemblage of colored tins containing record needles; a postcard with playable grooves..." Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
"...few old timey collections range half as wide as Victrola Favorites, which veers from Cantonese Opera to traditional Turkish songs, dirty blues to Indian raga, recordings of London traffic to Chinese Buddhist nun chants, comedy routines to country hoedowns...a peek through history's corridors..." Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine
Track Listing
Disc One
01. Groupo de Totoko Francois "Bololo O Kolilo" (Republic of Congo)
02. Guangzhou Cantonese Opera Troupe "The Crow Flies Back to the Forest" (China)
03. Stella Haskil "Mes Tis Polis Ta Stena (Alleyways of Istanbul)" (Greece)
04. Dr. Edmundo Bettencourt "Balada Do Encantamento (Ballad of Enchantment)" (Portugal)
05. Bismillah Khan and Party "Shenai" (India)
06. Noble Sissle and His Orchestra "The Basement Blues" (USA)
07. Blind Boy Fuller "Step It Up and Go" (USA)
08. Yukie Kubo "Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Coalminer's Tale)" (Japan)
09. Kelly Harrell "O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother" (USA)
10. He Zemin / Huang Peiying "Big Idiot Buys a Pig" (Hong Kong)
11. Roy Smeck "Laughing Rag" (USA)
12. Seven Gallon Jug Band "Wipe Em Off" (USA)
13. Mozmar Caire Orchestra "Raks Baladi Hag Ibrahim" (Egypt)
14. Yiorgos Papasideris / Yiorgos Anestopoulos "Tora To Vrady Vrady (Now That Evening Has
Come)" (Greece)
15. Zapotec-Teotitlan Indians "Fireworks Music" (Mexico)
16. Goebel Reeves "The Cowboy's Dizzy Sweetheart" (USA)
17. Don Redman and His Orchestra "Watching the Knife and Fork Spoon" (USA)
18. Sri Ma Keow / Chai Wat "Courting the Woman From Chiang Mai" (Thailand)
19. Badia Massabni and Her Orchestra "Badia's Dance" (Egypt)
20. The Tennessee Ramblers "The Preacher Got Drunk and Laid Down His Bible" (USA)
21. Zeki Duygulu "Karciar Taksim" (Turkey)
22. Kim Seong-jin "Daegeum Solo (Peaceful Times)" (Korea)
Disc Two
01. Stanley Roper "Impressions of London" (England)
02. Jessie May Hill "The Crucifixion of Christ" (USA)
03. Carlos Ramos "Torre de Belem (The Tower of Belem)" (Portugal)
04. Frank Ferera "The Farmer's Dream" (USA)
05. Kachikuri Mimasuya "Shiokumi Kasatsukashi (Collecting Water)" (Japan)
06. Po Sein / Maung Sein Maita "Mahawin Maita Zad (Royal Love)" (Burma)
07. St. Gun Khin May "Shan Village (part one)" (Burma)
08. Haffouz Jachar Bey "Mahour Gazel-Adjir idin beni (Ghazel in Mahour Dastag)" (Persia)
09. The Hall Brothers "Little Mo-hee" (USA)
10. Cook and Flemming "Two Liquorice Drops in Jail" (USA)
11. Barton Brothers "Cockeyed Jenny" (USA)
12. Shelton Brooks and Co. "Darktown Court Room" (USA)
13. Sa Ma Nang Noi / Ut Sa Win "Story of Tang On (part two)" (Thailand)
14. Slim Lamar's Orchestra "Memphis Kick Up" (USA)
15. John Henry and Blossom "My Wireless Set" (England)
16. Jed Tompkins (Ernest Thompson) "Yield Not to Temptation" (USA)
17. Chinese Buddhist Nuns "Chanting the Ten Vows" (Hong Kong)
18. Kane's Hawaiians "Mokihana" (USA)
19. Maria Smyrnea "The Grass Widow" (Greece)
20. Unknown Artist "Persian Popular Song" (Germany)
21. Harold Boyce and the Harlem Indians "Willie Willie Don't Go from Me" (USA)
22. Golden and Marlowe "The Insect Powder Agent" (USA)
23. Johnnie Lee Wills and his Boys "The Thingamajig" (USA)
24. Komachiyo Okada "Yasukibushi (Tale of Yasuki)" (Japan)
25. Mameyigudi and His Dancers "Hamba Na Lo Isoko La Yo" (Zulu)
26. Vishnudass Shirali "Tabla-Taranga (Raga Adana)" (India)
