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โGOOD ART HOWEVER โIMMORALโ IS WHOLLY A THING OF VIRTUE. GOOD ART CAN NOT BE IMMORAL.โ โ ezra pound (1885-1972)
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in 1977, a 17-year old japanese girl flew to london to see the sex pistols perform live in concert. inspired, she went back to osaka, japan and started an indie punk rock band, releasing a single album in 1979. this rare album was reissued in 2022 for the first time in decades.
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in 1969, a 17-year old girl from michigan recorded 2 dreamy folk songs with an acoustic guitar. it got air time on a local radio, but she moved to college & gave up on music, fading into obscurity. 50 years later, in 2018, her music was re-discovered in a dusty box of old tapes.
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โwhile the beatles were making girls swoon with their mop-top flips and youthful, cheeky grins, a different and profoundly darker performer was casting a spell on european audiences. the figure on stage wore conservative suits, howling like a turn-of-the-century delta bluesman.โ
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the burka band performing โblue burkaโ in 2003. founded in kabul, afghanistan, they were an anonymous all-female indie rock nโ roll group who performed in burkas to protest the taliban. itโs unclear where the group is now, as they havenโt been heard from in years.
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absolutely obsessed with soapkills (ุงูุตุงุจูู ููุชู), a lebanese indie band that emerged in postwar beirut. they combined western trip-hop and melancholic electronica with classical arab folk melodies, gaining a cult following in lebanonโs underground music scene.
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in 1978, a married couple in washington recorded a lo-fi folk lounge album in their living room together. they used instruments from a local junk shop. it was the only music they ever made, eventually divorcing and the album falling into obscurity for decades, forgotten.
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ukrainian girl i befriended at the bar a few years ago showed me this obscure folk jazz-rock band from the early 2010s and i am obsessed. they combine different music styles and instruments from other ethnic groups (hip hop, techno, etc.) with traditional music from ukraine
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discovered a rare and forgotten 1980s underground japanese futuristic synth jazz-rock electronic album. itโs sung half in japanese and half in armenian, combining middle eastern melodies with east asian sounds. itโs hypnotically beautiful.
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found an obscure soviet-era georgian folk singer and her voice is angelic, itโs absolutely ethereal. thereโs almost nothing written about her life in english. none of her music was released during her lifetime and she passed away in 1977. itโs truly a hidden gem.
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in 1968, a mysterious japanese man named harumi visited new york city and recorded a rare psychedelic folk-rock album. it was the only music he ever released and almost NOTHING is known about his real identity (other than his name), disappearing after making it. itโs a trip.
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in 1974, a japanese pharmacist in tokyo released a dreamlike psychedelic acid-folk album. it was the only record he ever released and it was lost for DECADES, until being rediscovered in 2024. he passed away in 2021, never living to see people listen to his music again.
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in 1968, a 15-year old in canada released a proto-shoegaze psychedelic acid folk song. itโs one of the earliest โdream popโ songs. the album was a commercial failure, falling into obscurity & lost for decades (still hardly known). it sounds like a radiohead song, but from the 60s
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archivists just discovered the first depiction of a robot in cinema. a 127-yr-old reel gathering dust in a random garage in grand rapids, michigan turned out to be a long-lost film by georges mรฉliรจs from 1897. this is the first time in over a century this footage is being shown.
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found a rare and obscure 1980s hungarian lo-fi experimental rock album, previously unreleased/lost. they were an underground cult band from the communist era in budapest and recorded secret cassettes in their bedroom. itโs beautifully dreamlike, similar to the velvet underground.
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currently obsessed with SAINKHO, an experimental avant-folk jazz tuvan throat singer born in soviet siberia. she has a 7-octave vocal range and combines ancient shamanic chants/tribal ceremonial screams with electronica. sheโs released over 60 albums since the 1980s.
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found a rare, obscure MONGOLIAN psychedelic jazz-rock funk album from the 1970s-80s communist era. after the collapse of the soviet union, the band members lost contact with each other and their music was almost lost. archivists had to track down the original recordings.
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this is the oldest known surviving cartoon and one of the worldโs first animations, made in 1892 by french inventor รฉmile reynaud. it consists of 500 individually painted images and was released 3 years before the invention of cinema. itโs a rom-com about a love triangle
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found a musician named craig smith who took psychedelics on the 1960s hippie trail, became schizophrenic, was put in an insane asylum in afghanistan, and believed he was the reincarnation of hitler, buddha, & jesus. he made this psychedelic-folk album in 1972 and died homeless
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in the 1970s, a nigerien-ghanaian musician recorded a dreamy futuristic synth-folk lofi album and pioneered west african electronic music. his work was obscure and almost lost until being rediscovered in a music archive at a museum in niger in 2013. itโs hauntingly beautiful.
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