Advice

"Vinyl album sales outstrip digital downloads for the first time ever" (for a week, that was). Time for some advice.

Sensibilisierung

A practical guide to music and physical education for kindergarten and elementary school teachers, published in Bavaria in 1980.

To Outer Space, to Cyberspace. The online life of obsolete media.

"To Outer Space, to Cyberspace. The online life of obsolete media." I had the pleasure to curate a small online exhibition with a big title for the Museum of Post Digital Cultures. Featuring among many other things  two very different golden records, the photo archive from one of the earliest computer animation labs (previously featured here), the NASA etc., and the whole is sort of dedicated to Laurie Spiegel and Lillian Schwartz. I might add one or two things, and there will be a stream performance on March 4th featuring Synkie, the open source reinvention of an analog modular video synthesizer. 
Click here: http://www.postdigitalcultures.ch/current

Festive mix: Zpívánky - Czech folk song TV show for kids

It'll be a good conversation starter at any christmas party to say that you're currently listening to a mix/edit of songs from a Czech folk song/folk dance/fairy tale TV show for children.

Download this mix here.

I stumbled upon this show on YouTube while looking for TV idents. Here's my YouTube playlist (the mix/edit is based on sound snippets from these videos).

If this puts you in a festive mood, you might also like this Eastern European fairy tale soundscape I made some time ago.

Last minute xmas gift tips

Typical 1970s hobby books, seen at thrift store.

Cross-Stitch; Printing on Fabric;

Handicraft Woods, a creative leisure amusement; New Straw Stars.

Stay tuned for my xmas gift to you, dear readers. Will be up just in time.

Round and Round

This might be the most Ghost Box-esque library music track in my collection.

Fiske 71

and other books I saw in the cabin on the Swedish countryside last week.

The Simenon cover was designed by Herbert Lindgren (the others uncredited).

Images of vintage Naef toys from auctions I didn't win

Previous post on Naef toys: click here

Hassan Abou Seoud

From "This is Orient" by Hassan Abou Seoud (حسن أبو السعود) from Egypt, playing accordeon, organ and synth (my guess: a Roland SH-2000), recorded in Beirut in 1974.

Sylvia Moore and Bernard Broere

The unlikely encounter of a Northumberland folk song and an African thumb piano.

"Musical expressions of body, soul; earth, spirit world; love, death."

Image and recording from the 1978 re-issue (as "Windows of the World") of the 1970 album Jungle Magic by the musician/music ethnologist couple.