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Turns out that bandleader Julian Koster used a ’30s wire recorder to capture this ghostly, funny, melodic-yetatonal pop opera.Ħ Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for Player Piano (Other Minds) Nancarrow (1927– 1997) created these compositionsnewly available in a remastered four-CD setby hand-punching the paper rolls for player pianos. Lately they’ve been on an ’80s cassette kick I’ve enjoyed the titles and artwork for recordings like Deus Ex Machina’s SAD and Magic’s Marionette Karma so much that I dare not listen, for fear of ruining the dream of how they might sound.ĥ The Music Tapes, Music Tapes for Clouds and Tornadoes (Merge Records) Billed as the Music Tapes’ first release since 1999’s 1st Imaginary Symphony for Nomad, this album sounds more like it was recorded fifty years ago. As the introductory notes explain, “By the time the Jews left en masse in the early 1950s, there was a gap in Baghdad for instrumentalists who could play Iraqi music.” That music turns out to have been part Jewish, part Egyptian, part Indian, part Turkishand all melancholy.Ĥ Mutant Sounds ( ) If music blogs are the new radio, Mutant Sounds is a pirate station that broadcasts noise obscurities by and for freaks. Still” tell you everything you need to know.ģ Give Me Love: Songs of the Broken-hearted≻aghdad, 1925–1929 (Honest Jon’s) An elegy for a cosmopolitan culture lost to generations of ethnic conflict. The lyrics aren’t translated, but titles such as “He, Who Doesn’t Own a Car” and “I’m Still Getting Drunk. Instead of checking messages, you can draw one of its “worthwhile dilemmas” to direct your next move, such as: “Fill every beat with something.”Ģ 1970’s Algerian Proto-Rai Underground (Sublime Frequencies) In the pre-synthesizer days of rai music explored by this album, every beat was filled with driving hand percussion, passionate call-and-response vocals, and (surprisingly) trumpets. 1 Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt, Oblique Strategies Eno and Schmidt’s set of instructional cards for solving creative problemsoriginally printed in 1975is now available as an iPhone application.