(Welsh Song Collection)
I found a lot of old Welsh 7inch 45s in the Sense charity shop the other day, couldn’t resist for 50p each..more to come..
Geraint “Busker” Jones from Pentrecwrt – a regular on the streets of West Wales. As seen on TV!
I do like a record with a dog on the cover
https://thefoundofmusic.co.uk/2023/09/19/digital-analog-dogs/
Imagine getting this as a child, thinking you’d hear those classics as you know and love…
They’re not how I remember them!
A few records connected to the sign of Leo.
A stream of lucky sounds tomorrow from 11pm on https://awelshstream.co.uk/
Loops of 5 Judy Collins vinyl records.
Both Judy Collins and William Walker, the composer of the tune ‘New Britain’, have birthdays in Taurus.
I worked with Amazing Grace quite a bit some 20 years ago but was surprised I couldn’t find a recording using all my copies of the Judy Collins 7inch version.
Annoyingly the small phono mixer turned out to be a bit noisy, its kind of ok for a bit, but kind of not.
I think its the Sony turntable that was causing it, swapped that for a line level Numark and it seemed much better (no3).
After a while of vinyl only loops, No3 has the tune sequenced with synth sounds and effects too. The recognisable bits of the song mean it can’t be seen in Russia and Belarus.
Found a few more of these recently. I thought I’d try the Marx Toys battery powered record player I got a few years ago which I believed was broken, but it turns out I just hadn’t put the platter on correctly!
I made a video with my clockwork toy gramophone by Marx Toys some years ago (2008).
| I do everything Haiku from Bryan Adams (2002) | |
| Take the time, see all And when you find love, tell me tell me it’s true worth | What you do to me I can’t help it, I want more. You give Everything |
| Look into your soul, for Everything true. you will find your love | there’s nothin’ I do. Look, Don’t give me Everything unless you want me. |
| no more sacrifice- You can’t love me more I am mean – take life | There’s nowhere to hide Don’t you search my heart for it I search there for you |
| it’s worth tryin’ for you tell me it’s not dyin’ you’re worth all my heart | |
| Bryan’s Leftovers | |
| I can’t help it for it’s true it’s not there All Search nothin’ there as for you do I fight it’s like fightin’ will I do – I do it your eyes know I lie could you would you There’s – the other way you’ll – And – not I I do it -There’s – into my I would know you Don’t tell it’s not worth tryin’ for there’s nothin’ more Ya would Walk I’d die for Ya no no – I’d wire for – for – it for the Ya know | |
Dennis had 4 more albums apparently…presumably better than this..
Apologies for this…
Looking through some old files from years ago I found the DV recordings of journeys made for ‘Following Fingerprints’. The journeys are around the Teifi valley, between my home in Llechryd and chapels along the River. Read more about the original project here
Over the years my work has played with our propensity for nostalgia and the fetishisation of objects from the past. At the moment there is an unpleasant trend within social media to use this nostalgia as a coded call to right wing racist idiots. I listened to an interesting ‘Explaining History’ podcast episode about our love of nostalgia its origins and uses – Listen here
I also read the Grafton Tanner book Babbling Corpse: Vapourwave and the commodification of ghosts a damning look at the music industry and suggests it’s love of the retro and nostalgic is a symptom of our inability to understand the present state of modernity and contemporary capitalism. Really fascinating read available from Zero books.
If you’re not familiar with Vapourwave as a term or music genre check it out! My first and favourite encounter was with this classic by Macintosh plus
Babbling Corpse Synopsis from Zero Books
In the age of global capitalism, vaporwave celebrates and undermines the electronic ghosts haunting the nostalgia industry.
Ours is a time of ghosts in machines, killing meaning and exposing the gaps inherent in the electronic media that pervade our lives. Vaporwave is an infant musical micro-genre that foregrounds the horror of electronic media’s ability to appear – as media theorist Jeffrey Sconce terms it – “haunted.”
Experimental musicians such as INTERNET CLUB and MACINTOSH PLUS manipulate Muzak and commercial music to undermine the commodification of nostalgia in the age of global capitalism while accentuating the uncanny properties of electronic music production.
Babbling Corpse reveals vaporwave’s many intersections with politics, media theory, and our present fascination with uncanny, co(s)mic horror. The book is aimed at those interested in global capitalism’s effect on art, musical raids on mainstream “indie” and popular music, and anyone intrigued by the changing relationship between art and commerce.
A few nice old kids records I recently put on youtube, flickr or both.
The Bugs Bunny Little golden record and Beatle Beat Goldentone are both 78s and 6inch diameter which means the center labels are too small for most record players to play to the end as the auto stop/return mechanisms kick in at the end point of the more standard size 7 or 12inch labels. Fortunately the PT01 Portable Numark has a switch to turn off the auto stop and plays at 78rpm too!
Why this Pinky and Perky Have a Party video has been blocked by WMG in Japan for the Hokey Cokey track I dont know!
Theres another post with a bunch of other Gala Goldentone 78s here
The found of music 