Here's an album with Chinese classical music by composer Wong Yuet-Sang.....
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Friday, February 21, 2020
Thursday, February 20, 2020
NANO S., ATANG WARSITA & GANJAR AHDIAT - PANGANTEN
Fantastic cassette from Nano S, Atang Warsita and Ganjar Ahdiat with friends.....
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FREDDY TAMAELA - HARUSKAH AKU BERLARI
Here's a bit of Indonesian 80's pop, on the A side Freddy Tamaela with music by Ian Antono and on the B side Rietta Amellia....
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Wednesday, February 19, 2020
ITIH S., PEPEN EFFENDY & NIRMALA GROUP - KULA PASRAH
Excellent tarling teng dung cassette from Itih S., Pepen Effendy and the Nirmala Group....
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Tuesday, February 18, 2020
HINDUN KOMALASARI & LIGAR MANAH GROUP / ATIK SURYATI & RINEKA SWARA GROUP - DULANG TINANDE
Cool kliningan and ketuk tilu music from Hindun Komalasari with the Ligar Manah Group on the A side and some fantastic magical kliningan music from Atik Suryati with the Rineka Swara Group on the B side....
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WIWI YUNINGSIH & ORKES MELAYU BUNGA VIOLETA - SALOME
Here's a dangdut Sunda cassette from Wiwi Yuningsih with Orkes Melayu Bunga Violeta....
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Monday, February 17, 2020
AN EILEEN JOYCE PIANO RECITAL
Here are piano recitals from Tasmania born piano virtuoso Eileen Joyce.... Unfortunately the first song from the B side is missing because of damage.....
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GEORGES BIZET - CARMEN
Here's Carmen from Georges Bizet played by the Orchester der Stadtischen Oper from Berlin....
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Sunday, February 16, 2020
CHOW HSUAN - SONG OF THE FLOWERS
Here's an album from Chow Hsuan (which is the Romanized version of Zhou Xuan)....
Zhou Xuan (Chinese: 周璇; pinyin: Zhōu Xuán; born Su Pu simplified Chinese: 苏璞; traditional Chinese: 蘇璞; pinyin: Sū pú; August 1, 1920 – September 22, 1957), also romanized as Chow Hsuan, was an iconic Chinese singer and film actress. By the 1940s, she had become one of China's Seven Great Singing Stars. She was the best known of the seven, nicknamed the "Golden Voice", and had a concurrent movie career until 1954. She recorded more than 200 songs and appeared in over 40 films in her career....
Zhou was born Su Pu (蘇璞), but was separated from her natural parents at a young age and raised by adoptive parents. She spent her entire life searching for her biological parents but her parentage was never established until after her death.
According to later family research, a relative who was an opium addict took her at the age of 3 to another city and sold her to a family named Wang, who named her Wang Xiaohong. She was later adopted by a family named Zhou, changing her name to Zhou Xiaohong.
At the age of 13, she took Zhou Xuan as her stage name, 'Xuan' (璇) meaning beautiful jade in Chinese.
In 1932, Zhou began acting as a member of Li Jinhui's Bright Moon Song and Dance Troupe. When she was twelve, she won second prize in a singing contest in Shanghai and was given the nickname "Golden Voice" (金嗓子) for her effortless high-pitched melodies.
Zhou began her film career in 1935, and she achieved stardom in 1937 when director Yuan Muzhi cast her as one of the leads as a singing girl in Street Angel. Zhou rapidly became the most famous and marketable popular singer in the gramophone era up to her death, singing many famous tunes from her own movies.
Between 1946 and 1950, she often went to Hong Kong to make films such as "All-Consuming Love" (長相思), "Hua wai liu ying" (花外流鶯), Sorrows of the Forbidden City, and "Rainbow Song" (彩虹曲). After introducing "Shanghai Nights" (夜上海) in 1949, Zhou returned to Shanghai. She spent the next few years in and out of a mental institutions owing to frequent breakdowns. Through the years, Zhou led a complicated and unhappy life marked by her failed marriages, illegitimate children, and suicide attempts. Zhou's first husband was the composer Yan Hua (嚴華, 1912–1992), who wrote and sometimes also performed songs with her.
Having made a total of 43 movies, her favourite film was always Street Angel. This contained two theme songs: "Four Seasons Song" (四季歌) and "The Wandering Songstress", which enjoyed long-lasting popularity. Other well-known songs by Zhou Xuan include "When Will You Return?", "Shanghai Nights" (title song from the film of the same name), "Yellow Leaves Dancing in Autumn Wind" (黃葉舞秋風), "Forever Smile" (永遠的微笑), "Hundred Flower Song" (百花歌), "Advice" (叮嚀), "Where Can the Soul Mate be Found" (知音何處尋), and "Picking Betel Nuts" (採檳榔).
In 1957 she died in Shanghai in a mental asylum at the age of 37 during the Anti-Rightist Movement. A possible cause of death may be encephalitis following a nervous breakdown. Zhou's diary concluded that she suffered from cerebritis....
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ZHANG LAI LAI - TELL LAURA I LOVE HER
Here's an album from singer/actress Zhang Lai Lai, she was born in North China but made her career in Singapore and she also worked in Hong Kong.... With a cover from Ray Peterson's Tell Laura I Love Her (sung in Chinese)....
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Friday, February 14, 2020
THE STYLERS
Fantastic album from The Stylers, with Wong Ching Yian and Simon Junior, Qiu Yan and Liang Yi Ling....
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Thursday, February 13, 2020
DISKORINA NO. 28
Here's an issue from magazine Diskorina, Number 28, 1965, a magazine for teenagers mostly about pop music....
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Sunday, February 9, 2020
DISKORINA NO. 32
Here's an issue from magazine Diskorine, Number 32, 1965, a magazine for teenagers mostly about pop music....
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
9 SELEKSI KIDUNG KASOHOR
Here's a fantastic cassette with 9 versions of the kidung (ballad) song, jaipong, celempungan and tanjidor versions by Ijah Khadijah, E. Sukaesih, Cicih Rusminasih and Yayah Ratnasari....
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Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
HANNY H. R. & LAYUNG SARI GROUP - REUMIS BEUREUM
Beautiful kecapi cassette from Hanny H. R. and the Layung Sari Group, all songs and arrangements by Mang Koko....
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