A maestro of mould!

A typical Sunday morning chez Farrow: old media meets new media to then explore even older media.

This morning a review of To what strange place:The music of the Ottoman-American Diaspora 1916-1929 in the August edition of The Word. set me off on a quest on Google and Youtube to find out more.

First a long article from the Washington Post about the wonderful nutter behind the project, Ian Nagoski: "I like the smell of mold, because I associate it with the euphoria of discovery".


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/13/AR2010081305087.html?sid=ST2010082100046

A true king of the yard sales.

I then stumbled across this short film about him and the record:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmmN4mC2gfk&feature=share

A useful history lesson about the early days of the record industry.

And then, last but not leasr, Greek American songbird Marika Papagika:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ux_whsihlM0

And all this before breakfast!

Now I should go the whole hog: learn the bouzouki and form a Papagika tribute band!