Gorgeous LP package of historical recordings via @boomkatonline--Finnish ghosts, pygmy hunting & more!
Amazing album of what are allegedly important 'lost' recordings spanning back a century...Together with attached essay and extensive sleevenotes, this is an often surreal portal into the "foreign country" of the past, preserving for posterity sounds which may otherwise be resigned to the scrap heap of history without the world recognising their idiosyncratic charms...The most divisive, and fantastical of these "recordings" is a 1min 10secs piece of "...atypical electrical activity on line" captured by a telephone engineer/voyeur at the residence of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius, apparently dated to the same time he held a séance attempting to contact deceased folk music specialist, Elias Lönnrot. It's either spine chilling or preposterous...
(from Boomkat.com)
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