𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ
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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.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ517,249 views • 20 days ago
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.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ358,269 views • 26 days ago
“while 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.”
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ572,120 views • 2 months ago
the burka band performing “blue burka” in 2003. founded in kabul, afghanistan, they were an anonymous all-female indie rock n’ roll group who performed in burkas to protest the taliban. it’s unclear where the group is now, as they haven’t been heard from in years.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ1,269,926 views • 6 months ago
absolutely obsessed with soapkills (الصابون يقتل), 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 lebanon’s underground music scene.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ179,337 views • 1 month ago
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.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ309,166 views • 1 month ago
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
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ154,860 views • 1 month ago
found an obscure soviet-era georgian folk singer and her voice is angelic, it’s absolutely ethereal. there’s almost nothing written about her life in english. none of her music was released during her lifetime and she passed away in 1977. it’s truly a hidden gem.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ377,484 views • 3 months ago
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. it’s a trip.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ316,996 views • 3 months ago
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.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ331,748 views • 3 months ago
in 1968, a 15-year old in canada released a proto-shoegaze psychedelic acid folk song. it’s one of the earliest “dream pop” 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
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ322,428 views • 4 months ago
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 méliès from 1897. this is the first time in over a century this footage is being shown.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ347,500 views • 5 months ago
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. it’s beautifully dreamlike, similar to the velvet underground.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ201,282 views • 3 months ago
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. she’s released over 60 albums since the 1980s.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ147,379 views • 2 months ago
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.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ219,255 views • 3 months ago
this is the oldest known surviving cartoon and one of the world’s first animations, made in 1892 by french inventor émile reynaud. it consists of 500 individually painted images and was released 3 years before the invention of cinema. it’s a rom-com about a love triangle
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ625,176 views • 1 year ago
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
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ147,305 views • 2 months ago
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. it’s hauntingly beautiful.
𝒮𝒪𝒩𝒩𝒴 𝒮𝐸𝐻𝑅𝒜 ੴ163,429 views • 3 months ago