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Just realized that I have skipped over a few important things, and so, I would like to show you… A series of unissued discs from Rupayan Sansthan, The Rajasthan Institute of Folklore, Jodhpur. They were graciously donated to ARC by Mr. Kothari,… read more >>
The IASA Confab is winding down and one thing about the presenters of papers from small archives in India is – they all sing. So I’m asking that in the future, when an American presents at one of these shindigs, they MUST… read more >>
Los Tigres del Norte have been on our radar since 1990 when we got in the LP ‘Para Adoloridos’ (uh, ‘For Shaking You Up’?). These Californians are in the news this week as Juarez, the capital of Chihuahua State and a major… read more >>
It is a little known fact that the ancient Nabataeans were early adaptors of new sound recording technologies. They began with cylinder discs (called columns) but found them awkward. Later, around 70 BC, they sliced the cylinders into wafer thin segments, well… read more >>
I was cataloging some 60s folk recordings the other day and ran across something I had never seen before; spelling mistakes, or at least odd archaic forms in the titles of two LPs. Two, in one day. That there are mainstream products,… read more >>
A good friend of ARC, Dan Zanes, has done the impossible; donated ALL, not some, no ALL of his LPs to the library. Sure he threw in a nice pile of CDs (841), but ALL’s a lot, or at least 1,954 discs,… read more >>
Recently, at Jazz Standard, (one of the best rooms for jazz in New York) I heard the Eternal Tango Orchestra. A plus is that the music from the enthusiastically carnivorous nation of Argentina was performed under the rib-infested Blue Smoke, a pretty… read more >>