Nadia - Nadia - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

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Limited gold vinyl LP pressing. InchIn 2008 I came across a box of 7Inch tapes at an estate sale in Altadena. The woman there said that they had belonged to her father and were Inchfield recordingsInch of a turn-of-the century orchestra. It took me maybe another year to actually load them up and transfer them to the computer. When I did, what I found was an incredible documentation of indigenous folkloric music that was meticulously recorded and then later transferred to 2-track tape sometime in the 1960's. The tapes were labeled InchContact Field OrchestraInch- a collection of field recordings that seem to date from sometime around the turn of the 20th century (possibly a little earlier). The sound this orchestra created is like something out of a Jim Jarmusch film, and reminds me of an old Library of Congress or Folkways recording. The music itself is full of opposites - hypnotizing and odd; meditative and jarring. It's strangely familiar, but also distantly unrecognizable. Some songs are more minimalist in their approach, building up a rhythm with mbiras and percussion, while others seem to have much more harmony and tonal structure and almost Blues/Country feel. Either way, they had me hooked from the first bar, and I find myself returning to it again and again, irregardless of my heavy-handed noodling... I'm really happy to have discovered this, and I hope you are too. All the best,Inch Damon Aaron

2020 from the New Zealand-based singer/songwriter. The first on Spacebomb Records from Nadia. Produced and recorded with Matthew E White Trey Pollard and the Spacebomb House Band.