some concrete poetry

From a book on concrete poetry for teachers: konkrete dichtung. texte und theorien. Bayerischer Schulbuch Verlag München 1972

Pohádky na deskách Supraphon

Two tiny bits of wonderful music found on the brims of "Fairy tales on Supraphon records",  Czechoslovakia 1973. It's the season for eastern european fairy-tale & Orff instruments & children's choir bliss, isn't it?

Pohadky by dispokino

Sounds of the space age

The last part (so far) of our little flexi fever series takes us to outer space. Visually much more interesting than aurally. Zoom in, it's beautiful.

The updated realistic rock drum method (on flexi-disc!)

Even more flexi-fever: The updated realistic rock drum method. Has a weird format between 7" and 10" and features a not-so-tight drummer. Anway, here's exercise 1 from page 34, in case you want to update your realistic rock drum method a little:

Drum Method by dispokino

There will be one more post in my little flexi-fever-series (and then it's christmas).

Musik für eine Cigarettenlänge (on flexi-disc)

More flexi-fever: This flexible wonderful promotional gift record for the long gone cigarette brand Priméros contains "music for the duration of a cigarette". The hissing, crackling, popping, the missing frequencies and the distortion add so much to this already highly evocatice story, don't you think?

Primeros - el grito del halcon by dispokino

flexi-discs from the eastern block in primary colors

I found these years ago, possibly in Berlin. All three are labeled with the Melodiya logo. The blue one is easy listening instrumentals, label in cyrillic. The yellow and and the red one are from the GDR youth magazine "Frösi". The yellow one contains songs from the FDJ (the official GDR youth organisation), among them the infamous (yet catchy) who-is-not-with-us-is-against-us hymn "Sag mir wo du stehst" ("tell me where you stand"). The red one is a feature about the conquest of the Kosmos.

All run on 33 1/3 and are double-sided.

Camille Sauvage - 7 Drums Concerto

Camille Sauvage (aka Eric Framond) is one of my favorites in the world of library music. For 7 Drums Concerto, he formed a dream team with Nino Nardini (aka Georges Teperino), who is credited for engineering, electronics and special fx. This is mainly audible on side B. "Knockin' Bells" is the killer track here, definitely one of my favorite library tracks ever with its loud, fx-loaden percussion, heavy synth bass, random bubbling, in-your-face-bells (inspired by Henry/Colombier?) and general exaggeration. And don't miss the Voodoo ballet ("ballet vaudou") with its odd 17/4 meter, filter-beat, howling clarinets (a Sauvage speciality) and intruding cut-up-bongodelica.

Furthermore, I have the impression that Sauvage and Nardini shared a deep passion for the lovely percussion instrument called Guiro (also very prominent in many other productions of both).

I'm not planning to frequently provide full rips here, but I made this one to fill a request of zero_ii, who posted so much quality stuff on his blog that I wanted to give something back. Check his current series of library music rips - amazing stuff, among them another one of Camille Sauvage's best records, Fantasmagories.