Various Artists
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days

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Deluxe 144 page clothbound, full-color book with two (2) CDs Recordings made between 1920s-50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. "Climax Golden Twins genre bending prowess alone would earn Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor high regard in Seattle music circles. But Taylor also owns Wall of Sounds Records one of the first boutique record shops devoted primarily to independent and avant-garde music. 'all roads in the experimental community lead back to them,' says Eric Lanzillotta (of Anomalous Records and Ri Be Xibalba)..tireless curiosity has always driven the pair..."— Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine "A beautifully decorated book of original label art and advertisements...more suggestive than descriptive, the book is representative of Millis and Taylor's overall aesthetic. 'The (original Victrola Favorites) cassettes had Xeroxed covers--no information, a pure listening experience,' says Millis. This time, the package makes the whole difference, says Taylor: 'You're getting two CDs to listen to, but here's the art of the artifact.' The book is full of rich images: a photograph of a young boy sitting next to a Victrola horn three times his size; a voluptuously beautiful assemblage of colored tins containing record needles; a postcard with playable grooves..." — Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine "...few old timey collections range half as wide as Victrola Favorites, which veers from Cantonese Opera to traditional Turkish songs, dirty blues to Indian raga, recordings of London traffic to Chinese Buddhist nun chants, comedy routines to country hoedowns...a peek through history's corridors..." — Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine Influenced by Secret Museum of Mankind Yazoo releases, Harry Smith's Anthologly of American Folk Music, as well as record labels like Sublime Frequencies, Ethnic Folkways and Ocora. Also art and design books such as those published by Chronicle. Sounds like vintage music from around the globe.Looks like a clothbound book printed on extremely fine museum quality wood-free paper and is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs. 100s of beautiful images of sleeves, photos, labels, needle tins and more.

• 1-1 - Bololo O Kolilo
• 1-2 - The Crow Flies Back To The Forest
• 1-3 - Mes Tis Polis Ta Stena (Alleyways Of Istanbul)
• 1-4 - Balada Do Encantamento (Ballad Of Enchantment)
• 1-5 - Shenai Instrumental
• 1-6 - The Basement Blues
• 1-7 - Step It Up And Go
• 1-8 - Shin Shin Tankoubushi (Coalminer's Tale)
• 1-9 - O! Molly Dear Go Ask Your Mother
• 1-10 - Big Idiot Buys A Pig
• 1-11 - Laughing Rag
• 1-12 - Wipe Em Off
• 1-13 - Raks Baladi Hag Ibrahim (Country Dance)
• 1-14 - Tora To Vrady Vrady (Now That Evening Has Come)
• 1-15 - Fireworks Music
• 1-16 - The Cowboy's Dizzy Sweetheart
• 1-17 - Watching The Knife And Fork Spoon
• 1-18 - Courting The Woman From Chiang Mai
• 1-19 - Badia's Dance
• 1-20 - The Preacher Got Drunk And Laid Down His Bible
• 1-21 - Karciar Taksim
• 1-22 - Daegeum Solo (Peaceful Times)
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• 2-1 - Impressions Of London (Excerpt)
• 2-2 - The Crucifixion Of Christ
• 2-3 - Torre De Belem (The Tower Of Belem)
• 2-4 - The Farmer's Dream
• 2-5 - Shiokumi Kasatsukashi (Collecting Water)
• 2-6 - Mahawin Maita Zad (Royal Love)
• 2-7 - Shan Village (Part One)
• 2-8 - Mahour Gazel-Adjir Idin Beni (Ghazel In Mahour Dastag)
• 2-9 - Little Mo-Hee
• 2-10 - Two Liquorice Drops In Jail (Excerpt)
• 2-11 - Cockeyed Jenny
• 2-12 - Darktown Court Room (Excerpt)
• 2-13 - Story Of Tang On (Part Two)
• 2-14 - Memphis Kick Up
• 2-15 - My Wireless Set (Excerpt)
• 2-16 - Yield Not To Temptation
• 2-17 - Chanting The Ten Vows
• 2-18 - Mokihana
• 2-19 - The Grass Widow
• 2-20 - Persian Popular Song
• 2-21 - Willie Willie Don't Go From Me
• 2-22 - The Insect Powder Agent (Excerpt)
• 2-23 - The Thingamajig
• 2-24 - Yasukibushi (Tale Of Yasuki)
• 2-25 - Hamba Na Lo Isoko La Yo
• 2-26 - Tabla-Taranga (Raga Adana)

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