[spectre] Liebig12 presents: Mon. Oct. 8th IAN NAGOSKI - TO WHAT STRANGE PLACE

[Manuela Benetton]

With Apologies for Cross-Posting

Liebig12 presents:

Mon. Oct. 8 at 7pm
at Liebig12, Liebigstr. 12 - Berlin

*IAN NAGOSKI: "TO WHAT A STRANGE PLACE"*

Ian Nagoski will present his work on early 20th century recordings, in
particular the project To What Strange Place: the Music of the
Ottoman-American Diaspora, 1916-30.
Before the Golden Age of Americana on Record, immigrants from the
dissolving Ottoman Empire were singing their joys and sorrows to disc in
New York City.
The virtuosic musicians from Anatolia, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the
Levant living in the U.S. who recorded between WWI and the Depression are
presented here.
The intermingled lives and musics of Christians, Jews, and Muslims
represent Middle Eastern culture as it existed within the U.S. a century
ago.
A fascinating, new view of American Folk Music.


Ian Nagoski is music researcher, musician, writer, and record producer. His
avocation is inspiring people who love music to love it more. In 2007 Ian
released Black Mirror, a collection of gripping music recorded between 1918
and 1954 on the Dust-to-Digital; taste-makers Pitchfork gave it an 8.6 and
Baltimore’s City Paper called it “enigmatic, transfixing, haunting, pretty,
and just plain odd,” and the Kronos Quartet (whose David Harrington called
it the Record of the Year in the UK paper the Independent) began performing
a piece from it. The academic journal Ethnomusicology lauded it as an
exceptional collection, despite having been made for the general public.

Nagoski followed Black Mirror with two more international collections A
String of Pearls, Brass Pins & Match Heads for his own Canary imprint
(manufactured and distributed by the Porland, OR label Mississippi Records
and now available digital through iTunes, Amazon, etc., along with the rest
of the Canary catalog via San Francisco's Tompkins Square Records) as well
as an LP of the under-recognized and brilliant 1920s Greek singer Marika
Papagika, which LA Times Music Editor Randall Roberts has called
"awe-inspiring." and an LP of the mid-30s recordings of the Indian
classical singer Abdul Karim Khan which Aquarius Records named the record
of the week in August, '11,saying it was "something else altogether [...],
haunting and mystical and completely gorgeous.[...], so powerful and so
passionate [...] you'll be whisked away, totally transported, as the sounds
surround you, and seep into your spirit and soul. The music here so utterly
transcendent, so lush, warm and welcoming, yet at the same time, so strange
and wondrous, Khan's voice sounding like its bathed in divine light.
Incredible."

In recent months, Canary Records has also release two LPs of Greek and
Middle Eastern music from the early and mid 20th century, Bed of Pain and
What Remains of Eden. Before year's end the label will see three more new
releases covering Eastern European immigrant's music, the great Hindustani
singer Smt. Kesarbai Kerkar, and a "global view" of the rise of rock n roll.

Nagoski is also a writer, who has contributed to dozens of magazines and
blogs, and has traveled widely as a teacher and lecturer, moving between
galleries, bars, universities, coffee houses, sound-art festivals, radio.
He is the recipient of a Kindle Foundation Muse Makers award.


watch: youtube.com/watch?v=jVezxmzZFws
reviews & sounds: thewire.co.uk/articles/7169
reviews & sounds: frieze.com/issue/article/music9



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Concert curated by Manuela Benetton. Presented in collaboration with PAN

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