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bandcamp shellachead releases about january 23 2023 danza sarda sardinian folk music from the 45rpm era sardinia is a majestic mountainous island the 2nd largest in the mediterranean that lies just south of the island of corsica and west of italy it has a long history of rulers including the phoenicians romans vandals byzantines spanish and finally italy historically it has been a pastoral culture farming and sheep herding dominate currently home to over 4 million sheep the music includes a few styles unique to the island the four part harmony singing known as cantu a tenòre is a fascinating style in which two of the voices contra and bass use an unusual larynx technique to produce a rough guttural timbre that imitates the sound of the sheep and cow respectively the 3rd voice mess oche imitates the wind while the lead voice oche sings the melody styles vary from village to village cantu a chiterra songs with guitar is another popular form that was first recorded in the early 1930s influenced by aragonese and spanish traditions cantu a chiterra are songs with powerful singing and playing often taking place in local competitions look for the excellent cd produced by legendary 78 researcher paul vernon titled in dialetto sardo unfortunately out of print this includes recordings of gavino de lunas one of the greatest performers of the cantu a chiterra style another unique music of sardinia is that of the launeddas launeddas is an instrument made of three pipes each with a single reed one pipe functions as a drone another plays the melody and the third pipe plays harmony the playing technique is focused on circular breathing allowing the hypnotic bagpipe like songs to stretch out for many minutes the incredible recordings of launeddas virtuoso effisio melis can be heard on in dialetto sardo the accordion has been popular on the island since the early 20th century used for dance music or to accompany songs often played in a virtuosic style that calls to mind the launeddas although the early 30s recordings represent the bulk of sardinian music on record during the 78 era melis did record one more session a few years later we are lucky that further folkloric recordings were made and released as 45 rpm 7 inch records in the late 50s through the 60s it is from this period that we have selected some fine examples of sardinian folk music leave a comment june 5 2020 taarab songs of the swahili coast 21 tracks from the 78 rpm era of this beautiful and hypnotic east african music the first in a new series of compilations of vintage music called shellachead archives poetry and languid charm is how legendary recording pioneer hugh tracey once described the city of mombasa and the phrase applies just as nicely to the music known as taarab taarab consists of sung poetry with arabic influenced melodies and a laid back groove that gives the music a pleasing hypnotic sound taarab was born in zanzibar in the 19th century and eventually spread throughout the swahili coast of east africa especially to cities such as mombasa and dar es salaam due in no small part to the popularity of phonograph records this compilation focuses on that early phonograph era the late 1920s to the 1950s the golden age of taarab leave a comment december 15 2016 shellachead annual 2016 hear your favourite artists 2016 is drawing to a conclusion which means it s time to reflect on all the sounds that have flooded our ears filtering the musically nutritious records like plankton through baleen as usual shellachead searches the nooks and crannies of the 78 rpm realm in search of those special moments of musical epiphany that exist outside the safe confines of popular mainstream pablum while it was a particularly depressing year watching humanity blindly rush hell bent toward self destruction i hope these recordings will provide some solace as reminders that music is perhaps the one true thing of beauty that we ve created during our time on this planet enjoy get it here leave a comment older follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 104 other subscribers twitter updates tweets by shellachead78s social view shellachead s profile on facebook view shellachead78s s profile on twitter blog at wordpress com subscribe subscribed shellachead com join 104 other subscribers sign me up already have a wordpress com account log in now privacy shellachead com subscribe subscribed sign up log in report this content view site in reader manage subscriptions collapse this bar loading comments write a comment email required name required website