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Percy Grainger

Some music from this Aussie -

Percy Grainger - Hill Song No.2

Percy Grainger - Jutish Medley

Percy Grainger - Brigg Fair

Percy Grainger's arrangement of the traditional song "Brigg Fair". It is sung here by James Gilchrist and the Halle Choir. The choral director is James Burton.

It was on the fifth of August-er' the weather fine and fair,
Unto Brigg Fair I did repair, for love I was inclined.
I rose up with the lark in the morning, with my heart so full of glee,
Of thinking there to meet my dear, long time I'd wished to see.
I took hold of her lily-white hand, O and merrily was her heart:
"And now we're met together, I hope we ne'er shall part".
For it's meeting is a pleasure, and parting is a grief,
But an unconstant lover is worse than any thief.
The green leaves they shall wither and the branches they shall die
If ever I prove false to her, to the girl that loves me.


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Brigg Fair

A few versions of this folk tune. You have heard the Percy Grainger version so here are some more.

Martin Carthy - Brigg Fair

Frederick Delius - Brigg Fair, An English Rhapsody

Frederick Delius was introduced to the folk song "Brigg Fair" by his friend and fellow composer, Percy Grainger, an enthusiastic collector of traditional songs. Delius was so taken with the melody, and with Grainger's setting of it for solo voice and chorus, that he decided to write an extended orchestral rhapsody based on the song. The piece was first performed in 1907.

The pictures which accompany the music are all by British landscape painters working in the19th and early 20th centuries: Henry Parker (1858-1930), Myles Birket Foster (1825-1899), George Vicat Cole (1833-1893), Benjamin Williams Leader (1831-1923), Edward Wilkins Waite (1854-1924), Louise Rayner (1832-1924) and Albert Goodwin (1835-1932)

Jackie Oates - Brigg Fair

Shirley Collins - Brigg Fair

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Drone / Minimal Sunday

Some more non commercial drones -

David Behrman - Runthrough

Steve Reich - Come Out

Eliane Radigue - Onward 19

Christopher Hobbs/Gavin Bryars - Aran

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Wire 100 Most Important Recordings Difficult Finds #1

When i did the 20 posts on the top hundred recordings of the 20th century from the June 1992 issue of Wire there were some I could not find  via YouTube videos. One such LP is this first one in the hundred.



To get a flavour of some of Billy Williams recordings which are avaialble on YouTube here is one -

Billy Williams - Let's Have A Song On The Pathephone (1911)

The Dinwiddie Colored Quartet - Down on the Old Camp Ground

This is part one of a threee part post.

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Wire 100 Most Important Recordings Difficult Finds #2

Continuing from the previous post on the more harder to reach vids.




Tommy Johnson - Maggie Campbell Blues

Dziga Vertov: Enthusiasm - Symphony of the Donbass (1930)

The film's score is considered experimental and avant-garde because of its incorporation of factory, industrial, and other machine sounds. Human speech plays only a small role in the film's sounds. Vertov himself described Enthusiasm as "the lead icebreaker in the column of sound newsreels." As further discussed in the Production section below, Vertov considered the film's "complex interaction of sound with image" to be the work's most significant achievement. The director viewed the film as an extended experiment in which the juxtaposition and misalignment of sound were completely intentional.

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Wire 100 Most Important Recordings Difficult Finds #3

Final section -




Songs Of The Humpback Whale - by Dr. Roger Payne

Syberberg - Hitler: A Film from Germany Part 1 (1977)

Christian Marclay - Record Without A Cover

( More on this artefact )

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Beatles Jazzed Up

Time for some jazzed up stuff -

Ramsey Lewis - Day Tripper

Count Basie - A Hard Day's Night

Bud Shank with Chet Baker - Hello Goodbye

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