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I recently won 28 tape reels for my reel to reel deck on ebay. As soon as I opened the box, I was hit with the smell of dust and a faint whiff of mothballs. All the boxes for the reels were intact, but yellowed and faded with age. I opened the first reel container, and a yellowed piece of paper fell out. To my suprise (and delight) it was a tracklist written in Russian! I started opening all of the other boxes, and sure enough, all of the other slips were written in combination russian/english. All of the reels were recorded in the 1960's, and as far as I can tell, contain combinations of music from russia, the middle east, and greece, but they all have that 60's studio flavor of smooth mantovani or 101 strings.
It's kind of like opening a time capsule. I doubt that they've been touched for decades, and handling these things makes me feel like I'm somehow connected to whoever recorded them in the first place.
Now I have to decide whether I actually want to record over some of them, or if I should try to find another lot of reels that hopefully doesn't include music that's so durn interesting. | |
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07/03/07
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Artsigreg
very cool man!
07/03/07
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lunatinker
this sounds like a silent film trrack.
please do not toss them.
emmail or post when they're ready.
if they are not copyrighten in some way, perhaps you can copy and sell them as $5 cds on cdbaby to us 'friends'?????
i really would pay for them, alternatively, have reel-to-reel and could help with transfer to DVD/CD
07/03/07
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deltasleep
PLEASE post your creepy and eugenic reels. they are historical documents. talk to the smithsonian about them- sometimes they snatch up stuff like that!
07/04/07
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theflame
I wanna hear the reel to reel death threats!
07/04/07
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adcBicycle
Wow... amazing stuff! Sounds almost like it could be a single microphone, doesn't it?
A tip for all you canadians who may have friends that work for NFB... they have tons of tape (new and used) lying around that they never need anymore... goldmine.
07/04/07
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hardvoltnine
cool thanks for posting the song man, that is a" reelly" cool find!
07/05/07
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deltasleep
On second listen, this stuff sounds really really central asian. Like Kazakh or Uzbek or something. If thats the case, you have something really really rare. Most of the "stans" that went Soviet had the bulk of their music completely destroyed during soviet occupation, so primary source historical documents are difficult to come by.
07/05/07
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mlbot
@HV9: d'oh!!!!!
07/05/07
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astroid
i dunno kinda sounds like roma music to me
07/05/07
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Lara
lucky treats!!
07/06/07
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Tripnik
The more stuff I go through, the more I'm pretty sure it's primarily greek, actually. I think even most of the writing is greek. I kind of jumped the gun on proclaiming it was russian. I'm not sure, though.
02/05/08
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delete
DUDE! that's greek folk music! this is the guy who wrote that song: link
if you haven't done so already PLEASE DO NOT RECORD OVER THOSE REELS!!!!!!! those recording might even be of historical value or collector's items!
the song is titled "on that little high balkony" (transliteration: sto psilo to balkonaki) and it's a man calling a woman to come out on the balkony for him to see her.
i love random pic!!
04/10/08
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license
so what happened with these??
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