Years

Radio Podcast #6 — 1896 to 1897

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 29 (1921)

Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 7th November 2020Place: Cambridge 105 Radio Audio curator James Errington is joined from New York by Michael Daddino to explore original recordings from 1921, including more classical female blues, novelty piano, melancholy Klezmer, the organised chaos of Dixieland jazz, and the most unintentionally sinister recording of the decade. You can listen …

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Radio Podcast #5 — 1894 to 1895

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean continue their voyage into the distant history of sound recording. This time we cover the years 1894 and 1895, a time of popular unrest, great literature, and a burgeoning wax cylinder market, with at least two songs bound …

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The Late 1920s – The Symphony

Another exclusive orchestral mix, available as a podcast for patreon backers. This one has classical / orchestral music recorded between 1927 and 1929, and features a section in stereo! 0:00:00 Dajos Béla and His Dance Orchestra – Jalousie (1927)0:02:44 Hotel Commodore Ensemble, directed by Bernhard Levitow – Clair de lune- suite Bergamasque (1927)0:06:49 Philadelphia Orchestra …

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The Twenties

1920 – “a genuine watershed moment, and a genuinely brilliant record” 1921 – “the margins are expanding, cracks are forming, soon this wonderful infection is going to be irresistible in its spread.” 1922 – “a massive expansion of classical female blues, with a knock-on explosion of resurgent jazz” 1923 – “The people running those “race …

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