A veritable rainstorm of temporal noise pours down between sounds of early 20th century Japan and the audience on Sublime Frequencies' Sound Storing Machine.
My only contacts with Dr. W. Royal Stokes, who passed away last month at the age of 90, were an occasional exchange of emails, but I had long felt a kinship with the eminent jazz writer-historian. We both acquired a love of jazz at an early age, and neither of us had any formal music training...
Once you’ve collected all the LPs and 7-inch singles worth having, it’s time to dispense with the ordinary and get really, really weird.
Expand your listening with digitised 78rpm recordings from the first half of the 20th-century. The collection stands at 286,954 and counting.
