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Sounds of ‘joujou’… Whatever That Is
Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010
Like many other globally mobile, digitally acquisitive hungry ghosts, I gather up a lot of crap, video, audio and text. It’s never enough because hard drives keep getting bigger and there just might be a diamond somewhere in that vast slushpile of mp3s. And who knows, maybe some day you’ll find exactly the right situation in which to play that En Vogue album.
One of those diamonds came back around on the ol’ iTunes shuffle and much to my chagrin, I can’t seem to remember the origin of it. Internet, help a brother out?
The only info on these tracks is the alleged band name: joujou. What it sounds like is… well, at first some sort of ethnographic field recordings. A few tracks later, things segue into droning sitar and psychedelic guitar. Any ideas? Listen and download below:
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Tags: digital wreckage, found sound, joujou, mp3, Music
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Boris Rose, King of the Bootleggers
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Sucker for buried treasure that I am, the story of Boris Rose, jazz bootlegger supreme caught my attention as I perused Syncopated: An Anthology of Nonfiction Picto-Essays [preview]
Around 1940, Boris began dubbing 78RPM records to 10-inch red vinyl disks with hand-written white labels. He would sell these dubs of Jelly Roll Morton, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, and other great early jazz musicians to anyone interested in buying them….
Over the years Boris captured thousands of hours of recordings that likely did not exist anywhere else — his was easily the largest private collection of its kind anywhere in the world. Eventually Boris began recording every sort of broadcast imaginable — he even recorded the soundtracks of entire movies as they were broadcast over television.
What Rose became known for is the bootleg LPs of these recordings from old 78s and live jazz radio broadcasts. He sold these records commercially, complete with liner notes and illustrated covers, under the names of invented “foreign” record labels like Alto and Radiex. Despite being fairly prolific for a unauthorized distributor, the vast majority of his recordings have never been released.
Boris Rose died on the last day of the 20th century, leaving his collection to his daughter Elaine. The recordings remain in storage, largely unheard by anyone other than Rose himself an presently unavailable anywhere else. That’s thousands of hours of unheard sounds sitting in a storage shed in the Bronx, an archive that’s hard to fathom.
r a n d o m g o o g l i n g p r o d u c e d l i t t l e m o r e i n f o on Mr. Rose.
illustration by Brendan Burford
Tags: bootleg, boris rose, Bronx, fake foreign, history, jazz, LPs, Music, piracy, radio, red vinyl
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[Walking/Writing]
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010
Songs for productivity or observing, in winter.
Tags: instumental, Music, productivity, walking, winter
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[Noise Interlude]
Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
I spent the weekend trying to catch up on what’s new but really, it all kind of sounds like there’s nothing coming out that’s not on a continuum marked “Surf-Fuzz” on one end and “Neo-Harry Chapin” on the other. Putting canned orchestration behind one or the other doesn’t count. I guess it’s just back to thrash metal for me…
Tags: Bear in Heaven, Boards of Canada, British Sea Power, Bukowski, Califone, Clem Snide, Joy Division, Music, Of Montreal, Peter Bjorn and John, Scotty, streaming, The Robot Ate Me
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Free Band Names
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
Teenagers Are Idiots
The Sex
Nipples On Your Shirt
Exercise Science
Progesterone Frontiers
Bowling League
A Tradition of Cirrhosis
Legacy of Estrogen
HMS Ladyfriend
Church of Jesus Christ, Detective
Assumed Celibate
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YOU’RE WELCOME
Tags: band names, Mulch, Music
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10 Tracks – Alpha
Monday, June 8th, 2009
Skipping the commentary on this one… Stars, Wrens, Refused, Youth, Scottish accents, etc.
Tags: 10 tracks, Music
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