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Seventy Five years ago, 28th of January 1932, the Dutch flexible advertisement record Wat Een Meisje Weten Moet ( What A Girl Should Know ) was recorded by Louis Davids (Rotterdam 19-12-1883 – Amsterdam 1-7-1939), a popular Dutch folk singer.


more about old Persil-commercials at this Keep Swinging entry

Keep Swinging (see also 78toeren.nl ->reclame)

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12. W.A. Group 4 - La Bamba

These pupils are 7-8 years old. They sung and played accompanying notes on glockenspiels. Rec. january 25, 2007 13:40

11. Geert Grote School, group 8 - Yellow Submarine

recorded today, Zwolle, january 23th 2007. All instruments (piano, two guitars, accordeon, 3 alto saxophones) played by the pupils themselves.

10. Splogmen - La Bamba (1)

I admit it could use some working on, but who cares...

Not everybody can be a genius, but that doesn't mean you can't have a good time :-)

Splogman - Dull of Entire

7. Brett Singer - Rent



8. Splogman - Yellow Submarine
(yeah already posted last year, I know)

These recordings of a Senegalese singer visiting The Netherlands where made during a live radio broadcast (except track 7 which was recorded afterwards at René Rikkers' house) with local musicans which had never played with one another, neither with Thierno Barry. There was a small hour to get to know each other and to agree on what songs to play. There were only a few common French words to communicate with, so we tried to communicate in a musical way, although in the small studio it was very difficult to hear each other's instrument while all were playing. Yet every participant felt that something very special was happening here.

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seperate songs:

1. Sant 10.5M
2. Improviation off broadcast 9.6M
3. The house of the rising sun 4.9M
4. Une petite improvisation 7.3M
5. Kairo 9.6M
6. Sama-way 12.2M
7. Sant (reprise) 11.9M

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Thierno Barry sings about life and is here accompanied by local musicians from Zwolle: Inge Pluijlaar (guitar and vocal on House of the rising sun and Percussion), René Rikkers (Djembé, Dum dum and percussion), Remco Takken (Guitar on House of the rising sun and bass guitar), Jan Turkenburg (flute, pan pipes and penny-whistle)

In "Sant" Thierno (solo) thanks all his friends that helped him in his life. The recording starts off in limited mono quality (recorded from transmission), for the seperate stereo-mic was switched on a little late.

Track two is an improvisation, that took place during another item in the show, i.o.w. this was not broadcasted.

"The house of the rising sun" also starts in mono and continues in stereo half-way.

"Kairo" means: peace! Thierno describes in this song all the countries of Africa that are at war one way or another, the attacks in Europe and the wars all over the world. He urges people to get real and return to civilization.

"Sama-way" is dedicated to some very special people he has met in The Netherlands.

"Sant-reprise" is recorded right after the show. René was so enthusiastic that he invited Thierno to do another recording at home as a demo to promote Thierno's music.

Allready at a very young age Thierno Barry played at cultural evenings and at the Alliance Franco/Senegal in Zichuinchor, Senegal. He wanted more, however, so he started an adventurous journey, alone with his guitar. He moved to Abéné, were one day he met René Nieuwenstein who arranged a release of his group Salam on the netlabel WM recordings and invited him to visit The Netherlands.

A nice cover, with our good old Belgian friend Toots:




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Pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant et saines in New York Invited by Gigantic Art Space and Free103point9 in New York I'll exhibit two birds from the Pour des dents d'un blanc éclatant et saines -installation. Also participating at this exhibition are: Matthew Burtner, Nicolas Collins & Sonic Arts Network, Michael Graeve & Christoph Dahlhausen, Pablo Helguera, Douglas Henderson, Pierre Huyghe, Tarikh Korula & Tianna Kennedy, David LaSpina, LoVid, Juan Matos Capote, Lee Ranaldo, Douglas Repetto, Michelle Rosenberg, Stephen Vitiello, and James Woodfill.

Opening is at wednesday 31th of january 2007, 6 till 9 PM at Gigantic Art Space. I'll be there, so if you're around come and visit this exhibition. The exhibition ends at march 31th.

Jeroen Diepenmaat

And for the invitation they picked a nice photo:

Marco dedicated these covers to the project, recorded in 1990 and 1991

5. Weirdomusic - White Rabbit
6. Weirdomusic - My guitar wants to kill yer mama

The Thierno Band - The House of the Rising Sun/ vocal improvisation

Recorded yesterday: a hesitating start of the broadcasted part of our jam-session. The first part is mono, recorded from the broadcasted signal. Halfway the mini-disc-recorder was switched on.
The line up on this song:

Thierno Barry: vocal
Inge Pruilaar: guitar and vocal
René Rikkers: percussion
Remco Takken: guitar
Jan Turkenburg: penny whistle

We had met each other for the first time less than two hours before broadcast.

The rest of the recordings appear online later.

"Vreemde Geluiden" (Strange sounds) contained a lot of live music because musicians from Zwolle (me being one of them) were jamming with Thierno Barry all the way from Senegal, visiting The Netherlands.

download first hour, second hour (second hour contains the jam-session)

The live music will be downloadable separately in better quality soon.

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Two covers recorded especially for this project.

2. Brett Singer - Maggie's farm

3. Brett Singer - Down by the river


Click here or see sidebar for the total project's progress.

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Yesterday's show consisted mostly of unusual covers (some of which from 365 days) by the following artists:

first hour download (be patient)
Spike Jones, Fudge (see below), Billy Longstreet, Sjef Diederen, The Harmonicats, The Gift, The Leland Stanford Junior University Marching Band, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, De Zonnepitten, The Electronic System, De Sirenes, Pupils Geert Grote School 2003


Second hour download
Klaus Lage, Klaus Wunderlich, The Exploited Marjol Flore, De Jonge Flierefluiters, Fudge, Jodel Jerry, Swingle II, Barbara Steisand and Liselore Gerritsen.

Fudge was the first to respond to our call for home-made coversongs.

Free downloads of Fudge's covers:

Have a brownie
Smell the fudge
Anista

Somebody doing a great home made ABBA-cover is Jennifer from Sweden:



If you liked this, listen and watch her sing to her own recording at Lucia day (december 13th)



via showcase (thanks Marco ;-)

50 ways to do a cover:
I hope it eventually will be more than 50, but let's start with this particular goal and who knows... Not only will I try to create and post at least one cover every week. I'm inviting all of you send in a cover of your own. Let's kick some ass!! Pick a wellknown song and give it your own personal touch. Only, please don't do a recent hitparade song. Preferably the song has to be written more than 10 years ago. Folksongs and traditionals are particulary welcome. Curious? Here's the kick off!

Splogman - 50 ways to do a cover (boxnet) ( file at yousendit ) (file at rapidshare)

Submissions can be send at splogman at gmail dot com I will post them at this website and play them in my radioshow! Switch on the mike, Spike!

update:
archived at http://www.splogman.com/splusp/50ways.html

update 2:
I've bent the rules of the game a bit: recordings of covers you've made in the past (on your own or in a band) can be submitted as well.

Labels: 50 ways-project, covers, nostalgia, splogman sings

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I regret to say that I can't play you something from this book ...

The 365 Days Project is back to share once more and the second time around it's happening right smack dab here every single day of 2007.

In 2003 I organized the first 365 Days with over 70 people sharing from their stash of aural treats. Same thing this year with new and old contributors. The only change in 2007 is that everyday can feature more then just one mp3 (as server space was tight four years ago). So look for single songs to full albums shared by a host of contributors. Sharing from their collections in January will be: The Bomarr Monk, Clayton Counts, Pea Hix, Oddio Katya, Michel LeGrisbi, Rocketboy, Strictly Kev, B.C. Sterrett, Mimi la Twisteuse and more.

To start off the year I'm going to backtrack (continue reading below the jump) to the first 365 Days and feature two full recordings instead of the excerpts provided in 2003. No need to write about the recordings as they speak for themselves. Shall we go?

Here we go!
Otis Fodder

http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/365_days_project/

In the coming days I will perform one of the songs within this book on this blog. Beware!

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