Here's an album from Band Mustikarama, with Rachmat Kartolo and Pepen....
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Friday, August 30, 2019
TOPPENK GROUP
Here's an album from the Toppenk Group who were known as Orkes Melodi Ria before they became the Toppenk Group, Rachmat Kartolo was one of the members....
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RACHMAT KARTOLO, RITA ZAHARA & NAGA SAKTI GROUP - DJATO TJINTE
Here's a gambang kromong album from Rachmat Kartolo and Rita Zaharah with the Naga Sakti Group....
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RACHMAT KARTOLO - PATAH HATI
Here's an album from Rachmat Kartolo with music by Hengky Firmansyah.... Missing the last song because of damage.... On the JK Record label, they put out loads of albums in the 80's, mostly ghastly pop music by quickly forgotten female singers, I've got loads of those albums from when I bought up some 1200 records from a defunkt radio station in the small town of Kadipaten in Majalengka some 10 years ago, haven't posted much from this label as I honestly can't stand most of it and, I'm sorry to say, this album is very much in the vein of those albums....
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RACHMAT KARTOLO & ORKES KRONTJONG IRAMA ABADI - KUNANTI JAWABMU
Here's a krontjong album from Rachmat Kartolo with Orkes Krontjong Irama Abadi....
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Thursday, August 29, 2019
EARLY MUSIC QUARTET - CARMINA BURANA - AUS DER ORIGINAL HANDSCHRIFT UM 1300
Here's music made from the Codex Latinus Monacensis 4660, known better as the Carmina Burana, not to be confused with the beautiful Carmina Burana by Carl Orff that used the same source material, composed in 1935 and 1936....
The accompanyments reveal the extensive influence exerted on medieval European musical performance by Arab culture, instruments like the long-necked flute (balowa) and the hour-glass drum (darabukka) were used, so, I guess that makes this a very, very early example of exotica music :)
Bit of a confusing task to record this record, the A side is pretty straight forward but the B side.... It lists 13 songs on the cover, 12 songs on the label of the record but there's only 9 separate songs on the record it self, so I lumped a few titles together in the 16th song, probably made some mistakes there, but hey, you've got the whole record.....
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Wednesday, August 28, 2019
CLAUDE DENJEAN - OPEN CIRCUIT
Here's Claude Denjean's freaky synth album Open Circuit and this one came out in 1973....
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PETE SEEGER - WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE?
Here's an album from the great American folk singer and social activist Pete Seeger....
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H. ABDUL ADJIB, UUN KURNIASIH & TARLING PUTRA SANGKALA - KEMAT KEBO BUPAK
Here's a tarling cassette from H. Abdul Adjib with Uun Kurniasih and friends with the Tarling Putra Sangkala Group. Making music, laughing, joking, singing. They seem to love this stuff in Cirebon, I still have stacks and stacks of un-posted stuff like this, often they tell long stories, and often these cassettes come in series of 3, 4 cassettes devoted to one story....
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Tuesday, August 27, 2019
ENDANG SASMITO & ORKES KRONTJONG BINTANG NUSANTARA - MENTUL PUCUK
Lovely langgam cassette from Endang Sasmito with Orkes Krontjong Bintang Nusantara....
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Monday, August 26, 2019
FONG TSIN YING, YEH MING, YANG KWANG, YU FEI & CHANG YE WEN - LATEST POPULAR HITS AND FILM SONGS
Here's an album with songs by Fong Tsin Ying, Yeh Ming, Yang Kwang, Yu Fei and Chang Ye Wen....
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SONGS FROM GREEK PARTISANS 1941 - 1945
Here's a cassette with songs from the Greek partisans fighting the Nazi occupation from 1941 till 1945.... Bought this cassette some 30 years ago when I was staying in Athens for a month, wanted to go there after reading, among other books (Xenophon, Herodotus etc.) the Illiad and the Odyssey by Homerus, a fantastic holiday, visiting the ruins of the old palace where Atreus and his son (or grandson) Agamemnon were living, in Mycenae, the theatre at Epidaurus, the Parthanon and much more, my only regret is that I didn't visit Delphi and that I didn't buy any of the big bags full of war time original photographs taken by soldiers from the occupying force....
You can read more about the Greek resistance here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Resistance
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SUPER COMBO CORNELIA - ROCK SALSA
Here's a salsa record from the Super Combo Cornelia, a band from Curacao in the Dutch Antilles based in the Netherlands and this album came out in 1976...
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OSCAR HARRIS & THE TWINKLE STARS
Here's an album from Suriname born, Netherlands based singer Oscar Harris, this came out in 1973 and has the funk-banger Relax (Before Doin' Sex) on it. He was always very popular here in Indonesia, even recording songs in Bahasa Indonesia and was performing in Maluku a few months back....
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PAMELA BRODY - ENGLISH MUFFINS & IRISH STEW
Here's an album from the "vivacious" Irish piano-bar singer Pamela Brody, also known as the hat-lady. She was playing in the Rose and Crown pub at Disney's Epcot in Orlando, Florida for more than 20 years, played in the Castle Harbour Hotel in their Isle O' Devils Pub in Bermuda where this album was recorded, on cruise-ships, in all kind of bars back home in Ireland and the States and ended up in the Grand Palm Hotel in Orlando where, as far as I know, she still resides and plays from time to time at 91 years of age....
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FOLK SONG GOLDEN PRIZE
Here's a folk album with songs from Joan Baez, Ian & Sylvia, The Weavers, Odetta, Jack Elliot, Cisco Houston and Hedy West, a Japanese pressing....
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