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RE/Search #14-#15 Incredibly Strange Music Vol. I and II Each volume is 8 1/2 x 11", 224 pp, with over 200 photos and illustrations Vol. 1 $20, Vol. 2 $25.00 Wholesale N/A Vol.2
Incredibly Strange Music surveys the territory of neglected "garage sale" records (mostly from the '50s-'70s), spotlighting genres, artists and one-of-a-kind gems that will delight and surprise. Genres examined include: "easy listening," "exotica," and "celebrity" (massive categories in themselves) as well as more recordings by (singing) cops and (polka playing) priests, undertakers, religious ventriloquists, astronauts, opera-singing parrots, beatnik and hippie records, and gospel by blind teenage girls with bouffant hairdos. Virtually every musical/lyrical boundary in the history of recorded sound has been breached; every sacred cow upturned.
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Excerpts from Volume I: Interviews with: The Cramps Gil Ray Mike Wilkins Norton Records Eartha Kitt Gershon Kingsley Mickey McGowan Lynn Peril Martin Denny Lypsinka Amok Books Table of Contents
Excerpts from Volume II: Interviews with: Ken Nordine Robert Moog Esquivel Table of Contents
Reviews: "Fans of ambient music, acid jazz, ethno-techno, even industrial rock, will find the leap back to these genres and easy one to make" Rolling Stone "This book will change your life." Mirabella "Alfred Hitchcock's 'Music to Be Murdered By' is just the tip of the iceberg . . . a catalog of the wackiest discs ever made, goes where few audiophiles have ever gone." Entertainment Weekly "A must read for those interested in freeing themselves from contemporary artistic self-consciousness." High Performance