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Indian Talking Machine: 78 RPM Record & Gramophone

Label: Sublime Frequencies   99  Release Date: 12/11/2015  UPC:
9780996678506

 

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SALE that ends on Dec. 22, '15. No extensions allowed per label.

 

Robert Millis's Indian Talking Machine is a 244-page full-color hardcover
book with two CDs containing 46 tracks from shellac discs spanning 1903 to
1949, which Millis collected in India and compiled for their first-ever CD
release; the book contains over 300 photographs of 78rpm record collections,
collectors, and ephemera, as well as detailed track notes and an essay.
Limited-edition one-time pressing of 1000 copies. These photos are true
"record porn" (that is, shellac 78rpm record porn) -- photographs of shelves
groaning under the weight of unimaginable titles, beautiful label- and
sleeve-designs from long-gone eras, wind-up talking machines, crammed
antique shops, forgotten artists, and more, all of which somehow survived
(often barely) India's archival obstacles -- dust, heat, floods, rebellion,
partition, and war. Indian Talking Machine is the result of nearly a year in
India photographing record collections, interviewing collectors, and
visiting archives and record markets; a personal take on the vast worlds of
Indian music and the intricacies of collecting sound. One of the earliest
non-Western outposts of the "recording industry," India's first recordings
were made in 1902. The country's music is as beautiful as it is complex, as
subtle as it is profound, and as divine as it is simple; these recordings
offer virtuoso instrumental performances, jaw-dropping vocal renditions,
folk music, comedy recordings, and even animal impressions. The 78rpm
records were transferred by Jonathan Ward (Excavated Shellac) and mastered
by Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Graves (Analog Africa,
Dust-to-Digital, Hank Williams: The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 (2014), and
more). Robert Millis is a founding member of Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT,
a Fulbright Scholar, a solo artist, and a frequent contributor to the
Sublime Frequencies label. He compiled and co-produced Victrola Favorites in
2007 (DTD 011CD), and created both the Burmese Crying Princess (2013) and
Korean Scattered Melodies (2013) LPs for Sublime Frequencies, as well as the
films This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope (SF 073DVD, 2012) and Phi
Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan (2006). In short, he knows what he is doing. You
will not be disappointed. Includes performances by Professor Abdul Aziz
Khan, Gauhar Jan, Mysore Chaudiah, Musiri Subramania Iyer, Bangalore
Nagaratnam, the Vyas Brothers, Talim Hossein, Babu Aughor Nath Chuckerbutty,
L.C. Bural, Veena Shanmuga Vadivoo, Professor Barkatullah Khan, and many
more.

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