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I'm wondering if there are others out there who love "Goth Music", but have also developed a taste for the more obscure (and mainstream) music of the 1920's and 30's?  I would put Al Bowlly forward as an example of the more dreamy 20's type that I am thinking of.  I'm sure most of you who read this probably have heard him.  Al can be heard on the "Shinings" sound track, think Jack Nicholson (sp?) talking to the ghost bartender, the music in the back ground is Al. 

 

For lovers of 20's 30's music, I can make some strong reccomendations for finding CD recordings that are wonderfully remastered; recent advances in technology and software have been a boon to those of us who love early 20th C. jazz/popular music.

ANYTHING on the Jazz Oracle label out of Ontario.  Their releases aren't cheap, but the sound quality is excellent, much of it the work of legendary 78 rpm record remastering genius R.T. Davies.  Jeff Healey is a founding member of the label, and has been an avid collector of vintage jazz records from his early 'teens.

http://www.jazzoracle.com/

Timeless Records, from Holland  http://www.streamxs.com/

The Red Hot Jazz Archive: The DEFINITIVE info source on early jazz, and wonderful samples.

http://www.redhotjazz.com/

The Hot Jazz & Dance Pages: Glen Richards' site offers a wonderful photo archive, and a link to a tribute page to Thelma Terry, virtuoso jazz bassist.  FREE DOWNLOADS!!

http://www.2multiples.com/hotdance/

Radio Dismuke: my favorite 20s/30s internet radio program.  Superb.  http://www.dismuke.org/radio/

      I must say, I find this entire topic extremely interesting.  I actually had a similar discover by accident, on a piece I was doing for a film...where I combined early swing piano stylings with some traditionally Gothic Devices...and the effect was outstanding.  I would very much like to hear this Luminus when you decide to make it available, perhaps a side post so that we can keep watch for it?

Hello, all.  I think I have found some kindred spirits here!  I am thrilled!

I am something of a student of 20s-30s music; I have a radio show on CITR radio on Thursdays 10-noon.  It is podcast, so you can download archived shows at http://www.citr.ca/podcast.php

I play a lot of obscure 20s-30s stuff, 40s big band, bebop, popular, Hawaiian, Cuban & some Western Swing.  Check out the Lecouna Cuban Boys: the 30s Cuban stuff is very deep and varied as a genre.

>>Mr. Hollowhill: the song you are talking about (at the end of the Shining) is called "Midnight, And The Stars And You" with Ray Noble, and Al Bowlly.  I am also a huge Al Bowlly fan.

I have a smallish collection of 78s (about 200 or so), and I will be hosting little record parties in my 1920's apartment at some point, for any who may be interested, pm me.

hard to say. we'd gladly play in Vancouver, but first we have to finish recording the album by the end of september, after that we'll have to promote it in our jolly 'ol Europe. and, in a couple of years, probably, we'll land on other continets too. it is rather sad, i know.

i've been talking to these guys that are going to produce our album and we're not supposed to post our songs on forums or anywhere else on the internet.  but i might re-open the thread about avinmahr tomorrow.

Ya, I re-read your posts after I sent my last one and realized my confusion to late.  But, again where is Avinmahr based?  Any plans of playing Vancouver?  Any idea when your CD will be finished?

offtopic:

i think i just pressed the delete button for the avinmahr thread. there were no opinions written there so i found no reason to keep the thread.

well yes, i'm the lead singer and the one who makes the music and lyrics.

i'm really glad you like it.

of course it's my music! we don't do covers. most of the people said that the quality of the recording is poor. it is just the way we want it to be. it sounds more like the 20s.

you didn't find anything about us because we just started. 3 months ago. we found a record company. actually, the record company found us. but that's not important. the most important thing is that this music is beginning to be appreciated.

enough about avinmahr. sorry for the offtopic.

Wow, I agree Lumenis has a great feel of a 20's-30's Goth fusion thing going!  Thank you for posting it!  If you like that song you would love Al Bowlly's Midnight the Stars.

    I take it that you are not a member of Avinmahr, but make music yourself?  If so have you recoreded any of your 20's - 30's Goth fusion creations?

    Where would one go to find a full cd of Avinmahr?  I did a brief search on the web for them, but all the pages I found timed out, where are they from?

i am really obsessed with the early 20s music. as a child i had to study twisted jazz songs at the piano, and right now i am trying to mix the taste of past music with goth. i think i found the right combination in lumenis, a song of avinmahr. i'm really glad to see that some people are interested in this, and know what good music is about.

this music relates in my head with early motion films. if you know any.. 1890-1930, that entire period was amazing.

Yep, I quite agree that there is some fantastic stuff from the late 1800's on Edisons wax cylinders.  I found a site that allows free downloads at cylinders.library.ucsb.edu.  UCSB being University of California at Santa Barbara.  UCSB is doing a great job of digitizing and making these old recording available.  There was some great talent in the 1880's, Im very glad it was preserved. 

  Richard Tauber was one singer who was popular in the 1910's to 30's.  Some of Taubers songs are truly magnificent in their conveyance of pure sadness, sort of a timeless quality of loss.  The scratchyness of some of his recordings just add to the timeless quality.

It is relatively easy to find American recordings of music from the  20's 30's, but I find it is harder to locate European stuff from that period.  The American stuff is more jazzy (which I quite like), while the European stuff seems to be more dreamy and more tongue in cheek.  If I may, I find the American recordings more like what one may have heard at a Speak Easy, while the European stuff more like one might have heard in an Opium Den, especially some of Al Bowlly's stuff.  I would love to hear any suggestions on musicians of the period to look up!

Atratus and I are both big fans of 1920's & 30's jazz, but also of (and I'm dead serious) wax cylinder recordings from the late 1800's.  There is a fabulous wealth of talent from this era which most people have never even thought about.  Thank goodness for the enterprising folks who painstakingly made the most bizarre contraptions from which the audio was recorded and encoded as mp3's!

Atratus has a link to a couple of sites that have this music available for download - I'll let him post it.

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