Cat No:
HJRCD36
Release Date: 20 October 2008
Label: Honest Jon's Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4047179178020
Genres: World Music
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Description
Honest Jon's has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMI's Archive in Hayes, Middlesex.
Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jon's Hayes Archive series is an eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves: 30 tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Grainger's recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful Seigaiha, by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier).
Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; forties fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs.
There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, the Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Ruben Gonzales, singing lead vocals on Rumba Negra) and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Chari's rather unfunny Laughing and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of Gas All Clear). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving.
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Tracklisting
- 1. G.U. Hsu - The English Sound Table
- 2. Gamelan Gong - Lagu Kebiar
- 3. Rizeli Kemenceci Sadik - Macka Sarkisi Cenber
- 4. Ochieng Wa Odinga - Umbok
- 5. Sacasas - Rumba Negra
- 6. Jean Mpia - Tembele
- 7. Vengopal Chari - Laughing
- 8. Jonuzi Me Shoket - Vome Kaba
- 9. Fernando Vilches & Ramon Montoya - Flor De Petener
- 10. Fairuz - Ya Honaina
- 11. Cliff Edwards - I Ain't Got Nobody
- 12. Benodini Dassi - Khambaj
- 13. Joseph Taylor - Sprig O' Thyme
- 14. Imperial Palace Band - Seigaiha
- 15. Mr. Ero - My Darling Rose
- 16. Fatma Ben Meddah - Zeza Barkak Melbeka
- 17. Noubar Bey & Party - Fantaisie Maggiar
- 18. Vengopal Chari - Different Kind Of Motor Car Noises
- 19. Ben Simmons - Yankum Tom
- 20. Cantonese Opera - The MoonTwo Green Lotus In A Bitter Prison
- 21. Sam Mayo - Things Are Worse In Russia
- 22. Fernando Farinha - Descrenca
- 23. Gopal Chunder Singh Roy - Burdwan Dist. Beggar's Song
- 24. Fatma El Chameya Sudaneya - Gawadalla
- 25. Surat Band (Mr. Razak's) - Bag
- 26. Si Said Ben Ahmed - Yemma
- 27. Yemma
- 28. Malijo & Party - Muliranwawo
- 29. Sexteto Habanero - Romantica Mujer
- 30. Mighty Sparrow - The Queen's Canary . A.R.P - Gas All Clear
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