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East Africa: Focus on 1930

https://excavatedshellac.com/2025/05/06/east-africa-focus-on-1930/

Published: May 6, 2025 15:38

The year 1930 was an extremely active one for multinational record companies. The situation in East Africa was no exception. Paul Vernon in his terrific Feast of East article has written about this scramble, but we can also now improve on some of the…

Turkish Classical Soloists of 1927

https://excavatedshellac.com/2022/10/10/turkish-classical-soloists-of-1927/

Published: October 10, 2022 15:58

Sometimes one piece isn’t quite enough; it’s fun to compare, especially within a given time frame. I arbitrarily chose the year 1927 to focus on five particularly graceful taksims and instrumental improvisations within the modal framework of Turkish…

Curaçao and its Neighbors at 78 rpm

https://excavatedshellac.com/2022/05/05/curacao-and-its-neighbors-at-78-rpm/

Published: May 5, 2022 14:30

Entire histories have been written about early recordings from certain regions of the Caribbean. A wealth of truly excellent (and a few mediocre) restorations and reissues have been produced, especially when it comes to the 78 recordings from Cuba, Puerto…

Sudan at 78 rpm

https://excavatedshellac.com/2021/11/08/sudan-at-78-rpm/

Published: November 8, 2021 15:36

In July of 2020, I attempted a simplistic recording history of Somali music on 78; a history still clouded in a lot of mystery, with most known recordings not fully documented. Perhaps even more esoteric a topic is the recorded music of Sudan on 78. ……

Orchestra lui Harţegan şi Zmed – Învârtita din Detroit

https://excavatedshellac.com/2021/06/16/orchestra-lui-hartegan-si-zmed-invartita-din-detroit/

Published: June 16, 2021 17:44

This is the first Romanian track I’ve featured on the site. There were a considerable number of Romanian-Americans that recorded vernacular music for numerous U.S.-based labels during the 78 era. Of course, many exceptional Romanian-American musicians…

Quintin Duarte and Salvador Rodriguez – La Resbalosa

https://excavatedshellac.com/2021/02/06/quintin-duarte-and-salvador-rodriguez-la-resbalosa/

Published: February 6, 2021 17:36

Joropo is the music, but in Venezuela it is more than that – it’s also the name of the couples dance, as well as, at least for a time, the event itself where the music is played. First and foremost it is now an expression … Continue reading Quintin Duarte…

Qurban Ali – Raag Asavari

https://excavatedshellac.com/2021/01/10/qurban-ali-raag-asavari/

Published: January 10, 2021 16:41

In the spring of 1925, engineer Douglas “Duggie” Larter began a lengthy recording expedition in Asia for the Gramophone Company. He started recording in June of that year in Lahore, in what is now Pakistan, and over the next two years would record all…

Nikolay Dontzoff – Kozlik

https://excavatedshellac.com/2020/12/27/nikolay-dontzoff-kozlik/

Published: December 27, 2020 17:25

Comic songs were the bread-and-butter repertoire for so many early entertainers, whether they were well-known popular American songsters like Billy Murray, or obscure, often forgotten immigrant performers in the United States. Thousands were recorded,…

Danilo Katalanić with Jove Jareta – Poskočica

https://excavatedshellac.com/2020/09/29/danilo-katalanic-with-jove-jareta-poskocica/

Published: September 29, 2020 16:24

In the earliest days of the gramophone industry, the small handful of major players producing and distributing records were greatly concerned with maintaining their market share, keeping their technical practices secret, and expanding their recordable…