FANTOME PHONOGRAPHIQUE                  ITALY/EU
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Distr.  : IT/EU
          NE - Shiny Beast/Sonic Rendezvous/
          UK - Piccadilly
Style   : world / ethnic / electronica /



OME     1001    MAYA DEREN : VOICES OF HAITI MAYA DEREN (1917-1961)     LP      02.2018
OME     1001    MAYA DEREN : VOICES OF HAITI MAYA DEREN (1917-1961)     LP      01.2020

        A1      Creole O Voudoun (Yanvalou)
        A2      Ayizan Marche (Zepaules)
        A3      Signaleagwe Orroyo (Yanvalou)
        A4      Zulie Banda (Banda)
        A5      Ibo Lele (Ibo)
        B1      Ghede Nimbo (Mahi)
        B2      Nogo Jaco Colocoto (Nago Crabino)
        B3      Miro Miba (Congo)	
        B4      Po' Drapeaux (Petro Mazonnei)

Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-American filmmaker and one of the most important
voices in avant-garde cinema of the mid-20th century. When she decided, between the
end of the 40s and the beginning of the 50s, to make an ethnographic film in Haiti,
she was criticized for abandoning the avant-garde film world where she had made her
place, but she was ready to expand to a new level as an artist. Deren not only filmed,
recorded and photographed many hours of voodoo ritual, but also participated in the
ceremonies. It was in working on this film that Deren recorded the Haitian musicians
found on these sides originally released in the very early days of Elektra records.
'Voices Of Haiti' (here repressed as a 12" with new mastering) -a beautiful artifact
of percussion and chant heavy ritual music- is one of the earliest and best Western
ethnographic documents of voodoo culture in Haiti. It is unmissable both for its
historical value and for the beauty and spiritual power of the music it contains.
Limited to 500 copies.

10"     Elektra             EKLP 5          1953        US
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OME     1002    USTAD ABDUL/WAHID KHAN : USTAD ABDUL/WAHID KHAN         LP      02.2018

        A1      Piya Nahi Aye : Khayal-Patdeep, Jhoomra
        A2      Jako Mana : Khayal-Multani, Jhoomra
        B1      Gumani Jaga : Khayal-Darbari Kanada, Jhoomra

Even though the original recordings are crackly and in low fidelity (but also deeply
charming) it seemed necessary to repress this record for its immense historiographic
value. Here these recordings are made available with new mastering, in as clear
fidelity as possible. Fans of Indian classical music will no doubt know the name
Ustad Abdul Wahid Khan. He founded the Kirana gharana musical family with his cousin
Abdul Karim Khan in late 19th century, which was one of the most prolific and revered
gharanas in Hindustani classical music. A celebrated singer and sarangi player, Khan
forbade recording of any of his performances to avoid imitation by other singers. Only
these 3 pieces survived, recorded in secret for a radio broadcast in 1947, just 2
years before the singer's death. A truly stunning document that is essential to
understanding the modern era of Hindustani classical music, whose influential reach
is immeasurable. Limited to 500 copies.
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OME     1003    JEAN-JACQUES PERREY     PRELUDE AU SOMMEIL              LP      02.2018

        A       Prelude Au Sommeil                              25:29
        B       Prelude Au Sommeil                              25:20

One of the pioneers of musique concrete and electronic tape manipulation, 'Prélude
Au Sommeil' is Perrey's debut recording but shows a composer already at maturity.
Originally released at the end of the fifties, as a private press under the fake
institutional name "Institut Dormiphone", it consisted of 2 side-long tracks played
on the Ondioline (a vacuum-tube based, spring-loaded electronic instrument). The music
contained in this mysterious vinyl is like something between dreamy church organ hymns
and the keyboard-based minimalism that Philip Glass and Terry Riley developed a decade
later. It was intended as sleep-inducing and tranquilizing for use in mental hospitals.
It is unclear if the copies pressed actually had been distributed to mental hospitals
or if the whole story was just a fantastical joke on the part of Mr. Perrey. Essential.
Limited to 500 copies.
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OME     1004    TOM DISSEVELT & KID BALTAN- AS 'THE ELECTROSONIK        LP      06.2018
                : ELECTRONIC MUSIC

        01.     SONG OF THE SECOND MOON
        02.     MOON MAID
        03.     THE RAY MAKERS
        04.     THE VISITOR FROM INNER SPACE
        05.     SONIK RE-ENTRY
        06.     ORBIT AURORA
        07.     TWILIGHT ORBIT
        08.     PIANOFORTE

Tom Dissevelt and Dick Raaymakers (aka Kid Baltan) were both Dutch composers and
electronic music pioneers.
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OME     1005    ROSCOE HOLCOMB/WADE WARD : THE MUSIC OF...              LP      08.2018

        A1      Roscoe Holcomb          Moonshiner
        A2      Roscoe Holcomb          Old Smokey
        A3      Roscoe Holcomb          Little Grey Mule
        A4      Roscoe Holcomb          Little Birdie
        A5      Roscoe Holcomb          Graveyard Blues
        A6      Roscoe Holcomb          Man Of Constant Sorrow
        A7      Roscoe Holcomb          The Rising Sun
        A8      Roscoe Holcomb          Trouble In Mind
        A9      Roscoe Holcomb          Hills Of Mexico
        A10     Roscoe Holcomb          True Love
        B1      Wade Ward               Peachbottom Creek
        B2      Wade Ward               Uncle Eef Got A Coon
        B3      Wade Ward               The Mississippi Sawyers
        B4      Wade Ward               Sourwood Mountain
        B5      Wade Ward               Cumberland Gap
        B6      Wade Ward               Old Jimmy Sutton
        B7      Wade Ward               New River Train
        B8      Wade Ward               Lone Prairie
        B9      Wade Ward               Little Sadie
        B10     Wade Ward               The Mississippi Sawyers
        B11     Wade Ward               Arkansas Traveller
        B12     Wade Ward               Half Shaved
        B14     Wade Ward               Sally Ann
        B15     Bogtrotters Band        Cluck Old Hen
        B16     Bogtrotters Band        Waterbound

A magical collection of Kentucky's own Roscoe Holcomb, one of the most legendary
figures of Appalachian music and a huge influence on the '60s folk scene, and Wade
Ward, a Virginia fiddle and clawhammer banjo player who's style has been often
imitated. Includes A3 poster insert with liner notes. Limited to 500 copies.
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OME     1006    ANTONIN ARTAUD : POUR EN FINIR AVEC LE JUGEMENT DE DIEU LP      06.2018

        01.     TEXTE D'OUVERTURE / CRIS ET BRUITS DE TAMBOURS
        02.     TUTUGURI, LE RITE DU SOLEIL NOIR / BRUITAGE XYLOPHONE
                VOICE MARIA CASARŠS LA
        03.     RECHERCHE DE LA FCALIT / CRIS + BRUITS VOICE ACTOR - ROGER BLIN
        04.     LA QUESTION SE POSE DE ... / CRIS + BRUITS VOICE ACTOR
                - PAULE THVENIN
        05.     CONCLUSION / CRIS ET PERCUSSIONS

Antonin Artaud was a French poet, dramatist, and director and one of the most important
figures in 20th century European theater, and especially the avant-garde. His piece
'Pour En Finir Avec Le Jugement De Dieu' was recorded in 1947 to be aired on French
radio. But the project was shelved not only for its scatological, anti-American,
anti-religious content, but also for its avant-garde sound, with screams, cries,
grunts, glossolalia, and general cacophony, all of which the radio thought would be
too shocking for the listeners of post-WWII France. Now regarded as one of his most
brilliant works, the piece is finally available again on vinyl courtesy of Fantôme
Phonographique.
http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/821upcsh.htm
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OME     1007    ALEISTER CROWLEY        ORIGINAL WAX RECORDINGS         LP      06.2018

        01.     INTRODUCTION
        02.     THE CALL OF THE FIRST AETHYR (ENOCHICIN)
        03.     THE CALL OF THE FIRST AETHYR (ENGLISH)
        04.     THE CALL OF THE SECOND AETHYR (ENOCHICIN)
        05.     THE CALL OF THE SECOND AETHYR (ENGLISH)
        06.     LA GITANO
        07.     THE PENTAGRAM
        08.     ONE SOVEREIGN FOR THE WOMAN
        09.     THE POET
        10.     AT SEA
        11.     THE FINGERNAILS
        12.     THE TITANIC
        13.     HYMN TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE
        14.     EXCERTS FROM THE GNOSTIC MOSS
        15.     VIVE LA FRENCH REPUBLIC

Reissue on LP some of the only known recordings from the infamous occultist, mystic,
magician, poet, novelist, sexual deviant, and all-around misfit, Aleister Crowley.
Recorded onto wax cylinder in the early 1910s, and later transferred to 78 RPM discs.
The tracks include Crowleys recitation of the first two Enochian Keys, original poetry,
incantations, and songs. An absolutely essential piece of occult history reissued
on LP.
http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/821upcsh.htm
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OME     1008    PIERRE HENRY            ORPHEE BALLET                   LP      08.2018

        A       Orphée
        B       Orphée
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OME     1009    G.I. GURDJIEFF          IMPROVISATIONS                  LP      08.2018

        A1      May 20, 1949
        A2      May 12, 1949
        A3      June 8, 1949
        A4      April 15, 1949
        A5      October 14, 1949
        B1      June 30, 1949
        B2      June 18, 1949
        B3      June 18, 1949
        B4      June 15, 1949

G.I. Gurdjieff was an Armenian and Greek philosopher, spiritual teacher, and musician,
whose teachings of The Fourth Way influenced thousands worldwide and created
communities that still exist to this day. His goal was to teach humans to reach a
higher consciousness out of the "waking sleep" he considered most to be living in.
Music was an important part of his teachings and these brilliant harmonium
improvisations were recorded in 1949 in Paris, just a short time before his death.
Droning and ethereal, these beautiful pieces mark a pinnacle in the work of a legend
of human spirituality.
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OME     1010    HERBERT EIMERT : EPITAPH FÜR AIKICHI KUBOYAMA/SECHS     LP      08.2018
                STUDIEN

        A       Epitaph Für Aikichi Kuboyama                    23:23
        B1      -
        B2      -
        B3      -
        B4      -
        B5      -
        B6      -

Herbert Eimert was a German music renaissance man, with his expertise ranging from
theory to composition, editing, radio production, and criticism.
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OME     1011    ANESTIS LOGOTHETIS : HOR!-SPIEL/NEKTOLOGLOG 1961/       LP      11.2018
8055515230147   FANTASMATA 1960

        1.      "Hör!-spiel"
        2.      Nekrologlog 1961
        3.      Fantasmata 1960
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OME     1012    HENRI POUSSEUR : EARLY EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONIC MUSIC    LP      11.2018
8055515230154   1954-1961

        A1      Seismogrammes I                                 3:06
        A2      Seismogrammes II                                3:26
        A3      Scambi                                          6:29
        A4      Rimes 1-2-3	13:42
        B1      Trois Visages De Liege - L'air Et L'eau         7:58
        B2      Trois Visages De Liege - Voix De La Ville       3:59
        B3      Trois Visages De Liege - Forges                 8:58
        B4      Elements De Trois Visages De Liege              3:19
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OME     1013    (UNKNOWN ARTIST)        MUSIC OF INDONESIA              LP      11.2018
8055515230161

Side A: A1      Ile-Ile
        A2      Tari Piring Sadang Lawas
        A3      Tumba Lela-Lelan
        A4      Bah Motoh
        A5      Udan Liris
        A6      Sorban Palid
Side B: B1      Lagu Babar Lajar
        B2      Lagu Srihardjono
        B3      Ganda Pura
        B4      Peperangan Sira Pandji
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OME     1014    DEBEN BHATTACHARYA : MUSIC ON THE DESERT ROAD           LP      02.2018

A1      Turkey: Automobile On Mountain Road—Central Anatolian Dance
A2      Turkey: Mevludin Nebevi (Religious Chant)
A3      Syria: Rasd (Dervish Song)
A4      Syria: Bedouin Song And Dance
A5      Jordan: Bedouin Coffee Grinding
A6      Iraq: Kesame-Meru (Kurdish Ballad)
A7      Iran: Baba Karam (Love Song)
B1      Iran: Rhythm Of A Train (Drums)
B2      Iran: Humayun (Traditional Melody)
B3      Afghanistan: Atan Dance Music
B4      Pakistan: Neemakai (Wedding Folk Song)
B5      India: Zila From Varanasi (Benares)
B6      India: Temple Bells And Drums Of A Bengall Kali Temple—Bhajan
        (Hindu Devotional Song, Sung In Hindi)
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OME     1015
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OME     1016    RUNE LINDBLAD : DEATH OF THE MOON & OTHER EARLZ WORKS   LP      11.2018
8055515230345

Side A: A1      Opus 2:Manens Död (Death Of The Moon) 1954- 1955
        A2      Opus 3: Fragment 0 (1955)
Side B: B1      Opus 4: Fragment 1 (1955)
        B2      Opus 5: Fragment 2 (1956)
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OME     1017    EDEN AHBEZ              NAURE BOY                       LP      11.2018
8055515230352

        1.      Eden's Island
        2.      The Wanderer
        3.      Myna Bird
        4.      Eden's Cove
        5.      Tradewind
        6.      Full Moon
        7.      Mongoose
        8.      Market Place
        9.      Banana Boy
        10.     The Old Boat
        11.     Island Girl
        12.     La Mar
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OME     1018    ALESSANDRO MORESCHI     THE LAST CASTRATO               LP      02.2019

        a1      Domine Salvum Fac Pontificem Nostrum Leonem
        a2      Et Incarnatus Est/ Crusifixus
        a3      Ideale
        a4      Ave Verum
        a5      Tui Sunt Coeli
        a6      Ave Verum
        a7      Crucifixus
        b1      Crucifixus
        b2      Pie Jesu
        b3      Hostias Et Preces
        b4      Preghiera
        b5      Ave Maria
        b6      Incipit Lamentatio
        b7      Laudamus Te
        b8      Improperia
        b9      La Cruda Mia Nemica
        b10     Oremus Pro Pontifice
        b11     The Voice Of Pope Leo XII
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OME     1019    JEAN RITCHIE : SINGING THE TRADITIONAL SONGS OF...      LP      02.2018

        A1      O Love Is Teasin'                               1:49
        A2      Jubilee                                         2:15
        A3      Black Is The Color                              2:17
        A4      A Short Life Of Trouble                         1:03
        A5      One Morning In May                              1:59
        A6      One Morning In May (Version 2)                  1:37
        A7      Old Virginny                                    2:49
        A8      Skin And Bones                                  1:27
        B1      The Little Devils                               2:00
        B2      My Boy Willie                                   1:28
        B3      Hush Little Baby                                1:02
        B4      Gypsum Davy                                     1:57
        B5      The Cuckoo                                      2:58
        B6      The Cuckoo (Version 2)                          1:52
        B7      Little Cory                                     1:39
        B8      Keep Your Garden Clean                          1:28
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OME     1020    LUC ESTANG & PIERRE HENRY : SAINT-EXUPERY               LP      06.2019

        01.     SAINT-EXUPERY
        02.     SAINT-EXUPERY

During his long and illustrious career the French composer and musique concrete
pioneer Pierre Henry created a lare amount of incidental music to accompany literary
texts, both on record and for the stage, from Jules Verne to Victor Hugo, from
Lautréamont to Antonin Artaud. This incredibly rare LP from 1959 is a radio play
about the life of French pilot and writer Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, based on the
1956 book by Luc Estang on the subject. The interpreters are a small theater troupe
including French actor Paul Meurisse (1912-1979), famous for popular films and as
a member of national theater company La Comédie Française. Underlying key scenes,
Pierre Henry's contribution to the play consists of electronic and musique concrete
sounds, adding a contemporary dimension to the text. A beautiful piece from one of
the mid-20th century's truly brilliant sonic explorers.
http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/921upcsh.htm
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OME     1021    UMM KULTHUM             THE TWINKLING STAR              LP      06.2019

        01.     YA BASHIR AL-UNS
        02.     IFRAH YA QALBI
        03.     YA BAHGIT AL-'ID
        04.     'ALA BALADI AL-MAHBUB
        05.     LAIH YA ZAMAN
        06.     YA TAIR
        07.     YAMA NADAIT

Umm Kulthum (or Oum Kalsoum) was a legendary Egyptian vocalist and one of the biggest
celebrities of the 20th century Arab world. She was dubbed "The voice of Egypt" and
"Egypt's fourth pyramid", and is considered a national treasure. This 1961 album,
originally released on Parlophone, is one of the finest examples of her vocal ability
and a beautiful example of mid 20th Century Egyptian popular music. Kulthum counts
among her legion of fans none other than Bob Dylan, Robert Plant, Bono, and Youssou
N'Dour, along with most of the Arab speaking world, and this LP is one of the finest
of her career. An absolute legend!
Limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies. Fully remastered.
http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/921upcsh.htm
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OME     1022    DELIA DERBYSHIRE        THE DREAMS                      LP      06.2019

        01.     RUNNING
        02.     LAND
        03.     FALLING
        04.     COLOUR
        05.     SEA

Delia Derbyshire is one of the most innovative electronic musicians of the 20th
Century. She is best known for her pioneering work for the BBC Radiophonic Workshop,
and for composing the classic theme song for the original Doctor Who, believed to be
the earliest "electronic" theme song in television history. A brilliant composer and
one of the few women operating in the early era of electronic music, In the early
'60s she collaborated with the British artist and playwright Barry Bermange for the
BBC's Third Programme to produce four Inventions for Radio, a collage of people
describing their dreams, set to a background of electronic sound. This is the first,
simply titled Dreams, an attempt to represent, in sound, the sensation of dreaming.
Derbyshire's electronic and musique concrete soundbed is the perfect underscore to
the narration, simultaneously jarring, dissonant, and terrifying. An amazing piece
of work from one of the legendary pioneers of electronic music.
http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/921upcsh.htm
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OME     1023    DAPHNE ORAM & VERA GRAY : LISTEN MOVE AND DANCE         LP      08.2019

        01.     PART 1
        02.     PART 2

The British composer, musician and audio engineer Daphne Oram was a pioneering figure
in the use of electronic music. Coming to prominence through her work with the BBC
Radiophonic Workshop, which she co-founded, Oram was one of the first British composers
to feature electronic instruments in her work and has been rightly hailed as helping
musique concrete to become accepted in Britain. Born in 1925.
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OME     1024    BERIO/BOULEZ/MESSIAEN/STOCKHAUSEN : SERENATA I/SONATINE LP      08.2019
                /CANTEYODJAYA/ZEITMASZE

        A1      Luciano Berio : Serenata I - Pour Flute Et Quatorze
                Instruments
        A2      Pierre Boulez : Sonatine Pour Flute Et Piano
        B1      Karlheinz Stockhausen : Zeitmasze
        B2      Olivier Messiaen : Cantéyodjayâ

The pieces collected on this album are all taken from performances staged for the 1957
'Le Domaine Musical' season, beginning with Luciano Berio's 'Serenata I,' conducted
by Pierre Boulez, which debuted in Paris in March of that year; arranged for flute
and fourteen instruments, Berio said that the idea behind the piece was for the solo
flute to be confronted by continuously interchanging elements, rather than mere
accompaniments or oppositions. Boulez's own 'Sonatine,' composed in 1946 for flute
and piano, is a 12-tone piece that evidences Olivier Messiaen's influence, with shades
of Asian classical music in places; then, Karlheinz Stockhausen's monumental
'Zeitmasze' or 'Time Measures,' a serial composition for five woodwinds, played in
different combinations of tempos and speed, was partly inspired by Webern's principles
of homogenous and harmonic textures. Finally, Olivier Messiaen's 1949 work
'Cantéyodjaya,' delivered by pianist Yvonne Loriod, takes it shape from the classical
Hindu rhythms of ancient India, as with much of the composer's oeuvre.

LP      Vega                C30A 139            1958        FR
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OME     1025    V / A : SPEECH AFTER THE REMOVAL OF THE LARYNX          LP      08.2019

        1       Coloratura Soprano Singer
        2       Man Wiithout Larynx
        3       Buccal Speech
        4       Parabuccal Speech
        5       Singing Voice
        6       Glossopharngeal Speech
        7       Frogsound
        8       Esophageal Voice
        9       Injection--Basic Sound Two Times
        10      Basic Sound Of The Esophageal Voice
        11      Basic Sound Of The Esophageal Voice, An Octave Lower
        12      Esophageal Voice By Telephone
        13      Singing Voice With Larynxphone
        14      Pipa Di Tichioni
        15      Western Electric
                (Note : LP/180 gram vinyl; incl. insert; 500 hand-numbered copies)
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OME     1026    ROZA ESKENAZI           REMBETISSA                      LP      03.2020

        01.     Rast Gazél
        02.     Ousak Maré
        03.     Mes' Tou Zambíkou Ton Teké
        04.     Férte Bírres
        05.     Araví Ousák Manés "Dérti Ke Póno Apóktisa"
        06.     Yiatí Foumáro Kokaíni
        07.     Stamboul Ousak Manéten-By - P. Toúnda
        08.     Harikláki
        09.     Yínome Andhras
        10.     Konialís 11 Dhódheka Chronón Korítsi
        12.     Barberáki 13. Yiannoúla
        14.     Me Zournádhes Ke Daoúlia
        15. Y   iannoúsena
        16.     "Ouzo, Hasís"

Roza Eskenazi was a giant of rembetika, the urban Greek music of Ottoman origin
associated with the poor underclass. Eskenazi's life was extraordinary: born Sarah
Spinazi to a poor Sephardic Jewish family in Constantinople, probably in the mid
1890s, after an itinerant childhood, she began dancing at the Grand Hotel Theatre
in Thessaloniki. She eloped with the wealthy Yiannis Zardinidis around 1913, with
whom she bore a son, but after his untimely death in 1917, she placed the son in
the care of an orphanage and moved to Athens, where she danced with Armenian cabaret
artists. Eventually, the composer Panagiotis Toundas discovered her singing and
arranged her first recordings for Columbia Records in 1929, which catapulted her
to fame. Cutting over 500 songs in the 1930s, she became the leading exponent of
the Smyrna school of rembetika. Running a nightclub in Athens during the German
occupation of World War II, she hid resistance fighters and British spies and helped
many Jewish families flee the country. She finally toured the USA in the 1950s, and
though her career subsequently waned, a 1970s revival led to further work. The
longevity of her output is such that her song 'Misirlu' was included on the soundtrack
of 'Pulp Fiction'; the 16 gems collected here were recorded between 1931 and 1947. 	
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OME     1027    CHAINO & HIS AFRICAN PERCUSSION SAFARI : JUNGLE ECHOES  LP      03.2020

        01.     THE JUNGLE CHASE                                2:55
        02.     TORTURE OF THE MAU MAU                          2:15
        03.     CO-GONA VOODOO                                  3:10
        04.     THE FEAST DANCE                                 2:43
        05.     THE LIMBO                                       3:21
        06.     JUNGLE DRUM VARIATIONS                          7:27
        07.     CUM-BA-SEE                                      2:24
        08.     THE SPEAR DANCE                                 2:42
        09.     SAFARI JUNGLE MAZE                              2:20

The African American bongo player known as Chaino released a series of sublime exotica
albums during the 1950s, based around themes of "savage Africa," supposed tribal mating
rituals, voodoo practices and other concepts of exotica excess. Born Leon Johnson in
Philadelphia in 1929, he was raised on the south side of Chicago and began making a
name for himself as a bongo player on the Chitlin Circuit of nightclubs catering to
a black clientele. In 1957, he was discovered by the nightclub singer and producer
Kirby Allan (AKA Sidney Allen Pitmann), who travelled extensively in African earlier
in the decade and who was seeking someone that could emulate the ceremonial rhythms
he encountered in Kenya and the Gold Coast. In a peculiar marketing strategy, Allan
recast Johnson as Chaino, "an orphan from a lost tribe in Africa who was taken in by
missionaries and brought to the US." Together they produced eight albums, typically
with Johnson playing every instrument himself, with added shouts, whelps and pseudo
African language. 'Jungle Echoes', first issued in 1959 on the Hollywood-based Omega
Disc, is a thoroughly mesmerising example of Chaino's over-the-top brilliance.
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OME     1028    UMM KULTHUM             LA YA HABIBI                    LP      03.2020

        01.     LA YA HABIBI
        02.     LA YA HABIBI (SUITE)
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OME     1029    HENK BADINGS/DICK RAAIJMAKERS : EVOLUTIONS, CONTRASTS   LP      03.2020
                & ELECTRONIC MUSIC

        01.     INTRODUZIONE
        02.     LENTO
        03.     ALLEGRO
        04.     OVERTURE
        05.     AIR
        06.     RAGTIME
        07.     INTERMEZZO
        08.     WALTZ
        09.     FINALE

One of the most prolific composers of contemporary music in The Netherlands, Henk
Badings was born in Indonesia in 1907, the son of an East Indies Company army officer,
and orphaned at an early age. Back in Holland, Badings worked as a mining engineer
and palaeontologist, but abandoned this career to devote his life to music, making
an impact in 1930 with the performance of his first cello concerto. The composer
of various symphonies that made use of unusual music scales and uncommon harmonic
structures, Badings began experimenting with electronic music in the 1950s,
composing the first side of the 'Electronic Music' LP in 1952 for a performance
at the Gravesano Music Festival, using 12 oscillators and a violin, the second side
in 1958 for a ballet performed by the Hannover Opera Ballet; recorded at Philips'
studio in Eindhoven, it utilizes various sound generators, the final track featuring
Dick Raaijmakers, a composer and electronic music specialist then employed by Philips
in the field of electro-acoustics.	EXPERIMENTAL/SOUND ART
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OME     1030    CLARA ROCKMORE              THEREMIN                    LP      12.2021
                (Note : LP , 500 numb. copies)
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