Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Warsaw Quartet - Latające Piosenki (Flying Songs By Warsaw Quartet) -1960's- (7 Inch EP, Pronit), Poland



This first post we start off with a pretty weird little record made for Polish Airlines by the Warsaw Quartet.
The four songs present all have a different theme according to the destination of that particular flight. Especially the one to Beirut is amazing when they pray to Allah in Polish while mixing the exotic melodies with donkey sounds. Let the voyage of this blog begin!

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Beginnings


This blog is dedicated to oddities and rarities I find through travelling always on the lookout for records of a special nature. I created this blog as a counterpart for my other blog Archaic Inventions. Everything that for some reason doesn’t fit in that blog will be presented here. Sometimes I will post very local stuff you can only appreciate if you understand that certain language, for instance a play. Nevertheless those records have great importance. Sometimes because of their high cultural value, sometimes deviancy or because of a what the fuck this cannot exist factor. Expect collage of releases ranging from Latin American music made in Eastern Europe, advertisements, Exotica, Jazz, Folk, Nueva Canción, wacked out easy listening, political oddities, animal sounds and my collection of medical records. Some things will be actually very good musically, other recordings will be utterly weird or cheesy. Some things can’t even be considered music. This blog is a combination between great music I need to rescue from the past not fitting in my other blog and a historical perspective on the vinyl as a medium for sound. 

Probably it will be hard to follow this blog because there will be absolutely no consistency of styles. However, that is exactly what I intend with this blog. Just see what comes next and hopefully it causes a smile relating to the greatness or idiocy we humans were able to create on this planet. Have fun on this transnational express through obscurities of the past!