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ROBERT MILLIS 

Indian Talking Machine: 

78 RPM Record and Gramophone

 

Collecting on the Sub-Continent

SF 099CD 2CD/BOOK

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Robert Millis's Indian Talking Machine is a 244-page full-color hardcover book with two CDs containing 46 tracks from shellac discs spanning 1903 to 1949, which Millis collected in India and compiled for their first-ever CD release; the book contains over 300 photographs of 78rpm record collections, collectors, and ephemera, as well as detailed track notes and an essay. Limited-edition one-time pressing of 1000 copies. These photos are true "record porn" (that is, shellac 78rpm record porn) -- photographs of shelves groaning under the weight of unimaginable titles, beautiful label- and sleeve-designs from long-gone eras, wind-up talking machines, crammed antique shops, forgotten artists, and more, all of which somehow survived (often barely) India's archival obstacles -- dust, heat, floods, rebellion, partition, and war.Indian Talking Machine is the result of nearly a year in India photographing record collections, interviewing collectors, and visiting archives and record markets; a personal take on the vast worlds of Indian music and the intricacies of collecting sound. One of the earliest non-Western outposts of the "recording industry," India's first recordings were made in 1902. The country's music is as beautiful as it is complex, as subtle as it is profound, and as divine as it is simple; these recordings offer virtuoso instrumental performances, jaw-dropping vocal renditions, folk music, comedy recordings, and even animal impressions. The 78rpm records were transferred by Jonathan Ward (Excavated Shellac) and mastered by Grammy Award-winning engineer Michael Graves (Analog Africa, Dust-to-Digital, Hank Williams: The Garden Spot Programs, 1950 (2014), and more). Robert Millis is a founding member of Climax Golden Twins and AFCGT, a Fulbright Scholar, a solo artist, and a frequent contributor to the Sublime Frequencies label. He compiled and co-producedVictrola Favorites in 2007 (DTD 011CD), and created both the Burmese Crying Princess (2013) and Korean Scattered Melodies (2013) LPs for Sublime Frequencies, as well as the films This World Is Unreal Like a Snake in a Rope (SF 073DVD, 2012) and Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan (2006). In short, he knows what he is doing. You will not be disappointed. Includes performances by Professor Abdul Aziz Khan,Gauhar Jan, Mysore Chaudiah, Musiri Subramania Iyer,Bangalore Nagaratnam, the Vyas Brothers, Talim Hossein,Babu Aughor Nath Chuckerbutty, L.C. Bural, Veena Shanmuga Vadivoo, Professor Barkatullah Khan, and many more.

FORTHCOMING RELEASE: A Distant Invitation: Street & Ceremonial Recordings from Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand VA LP

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A Distant Invitation: Street & Ceremonial Recordings from Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand 
VA LP

RELEASE DATE 11/25/2014

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A hallucinogenic splatter-drift audio meltdown through the streets and back alleys of Southeast Asia recorded and assembled by Seattle-based multi-sword-wielding artist Jesse Paul Miller (Factums/Secret Records/Liver & Bacon/Big Tribal Balls). This limited edition LP includes street and folk music, situational ambience, radio excerpts, and psychedelic atmospheres from Burma, Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. "We heard them from a distance, bells in the back alleys of Surakarta ... Then, one day, two weeks later, we walked around a corner and there they were, a troupe of roving gamelan musicians and a monkey with a mask ... If one wanders the streets of Southeast Asia, they will undoubtedly hear a variety of fascinating sounds; those created by street musicians, sellers in markets, horns from temples and mosques, woven with insect songs, birds, dogs, motorcycles. Intended to engage and entertain a host of spirits and gods, festivals and processions are frequent in certain regions. They can be extremely vibrant and overwhelmingly powerful energy situations. In rituals, the use of random multiple layers or instrumental vibrations can be intended to confuse or scare off bad spirits, and this can be very disorienting for the living listener also. Street musicians combine older instruments with electrical delivery systems in the form of genius portable battery-operated-waist-pack mini-horns connected to keyboards, karaoke machines, and folk instruments -- sometimes with effects. These musicians sit roadside; in some places they hop on buses between stops. In markets and along roadsides, sellers manipulate their voices to advertise using delay effects. Food cart proprietors use an incredible array of sonic methods to attract customers. They tap on objects, use steam whistles; sing like birds, use bits of Western jingles (and much more). Buddhist, Hindu, and Muslim broadcasts can be heard blasting through loudspeakers. With the addition of amplification, there is usually some form of distortion inherent to the speaker systems, often magically enhancing the voices, mixing in with the urban or rural soundtrack. The sonic tapestry of any space can reveal poetic insights. There is the perspective that all audio events in an environment, regardless of their form, can be heard musically. The vitality and depth of human expression, whether awe-inspiring or minute in all of its multitudinous manifestations, is for now, intact in Southeast Asia, and very much alive." --Jesse Paul Miller; This limited edition LP comes in a full-color tip-on jacket with a two-sided insert including photos by Linda Peschong & detailed liner notes and personal impressions by sound artist & compiler Jesse Paul Miller.

ROBERT MILLIS EUROPEAN TOUR: MAY - JUNE 2014MAY

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Sublime Frequencies' European 
Film Screening Tour 

with Robert Millis presenting

THIS WORLD IS UNREAL

 LIKE A SNAKE 

IN A ROPE

Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India’s complex and mesmerizing sounds. 

MAY 14: BERLIN - N.K. Elsen Strasse, 52 12059 Berlin

http://www.nkprojekt.de/ May 16: BERLIN - (improv set w/ Ratbag and Gilles Aubry) Loophole, Boddinstrasse 60 12053 Berlin http://www.loophole-berlin.com/ May 18: BERLIN - Schwelle 7, Uferstraße 6, 13357 Berlin, Germany 

performance with Sublime Frequencies' contributor, Laurent Jeanneau, 

Using material gathered on various Sublime Frequencies expeditions. May 21: GENEVA - Cave 12, 4 Rue de la Prairie 9pm CHF10 www.cave12.org May 22: BRUSSELS (film screening) Crickxstraat 15, 1060 bruxelles 8.30PM €5 http://www.lesateliersclaus.com/ May 23: AALST - Houtkaai z/n, 9300 Aalst 8pm €13/10 with Dean Blunt http://www.netwerk-art.be/en/concerts/989/dean-blunt-rmillis May 24: AMSTERDAM - OCCII Amstelveenseweg 134, 1075XL Amsterdam 9pm €7 http://occii.org/ May 25: BRADFORD - Threadfest @ Fuse Art Space, 

5-7 Rawson Place BD1 3QQ 1pm Free entry. Also appearing: Philip Jeck + Basic House + Lee Patterson + Dean McPhee + Female Band https://www.facebook.com/events/488180197953434/ http://wearefuse.co/threadfest/ May 26: COVENTRY - The Coal Vaults, Coal Vaults CV1 4LY 

8pm £5/7 http://thetinmusicandarts.org.uk/events/robert-millis-presents-sublime-frequencies/ May 27: LONDON - Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin St, Dalston E8 3DL

* Also screening Robert Millis' film: Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan 8pm £7/8 http://cafeoto.co.uk/sublime-frequencies-robert-millis-the-world-is-unreal-like-a-snake-in-a-rope.shtm

May 28: HELSINKI - Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 a-b, 00250 Helsinki with Avarus

* Screening This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope 8pm €tba http://www.korjaamo.fi/ May 29: TAMPERE - Telakka, Tullikamarinaukio 3, 33100 Tampere

* Screening: Phi Ta Khon: Ghosts of Isan 8pm €tba http://www.telakka.eu/ May 30: BRIGHTON - The Cowley Club, 12 London Rd, BN1 4JA 

with F.Ampism + Dickinson/Murphy/Nyoukis 7.30pm £5 http://www.cowleyclub.org.uk/ May 31: GLASGOW - The Old Hairdressers, 20-28 Renfield Lane, G2 6PH

with Bridget Hayden www.stereocafebar.com June 1: BRISTOL - Cube Cinema, Dove Street South, BS2 8JD 8pm £6/8 http://www.cubecinema.com/programme/view/2014/3/28?daysahead=90#event_7324 June 3: Film screening, Athens TBA June 5: Performance Athens, TBA June 7: PARIS - Espace en Cours, 56, rue de la Réunion, 75020 Paris 

with Tara Jane O'Neil 7.30pm €7 http://alifibgigs.wordpress.com/

NEW RELEASES OUT NOW: This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope DVD and Eat the Dream: Gnawa Music from Essaouira LP

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This World Is Unreal Like A Snake In A Rope

 DVD SF073

A film by Robert Millis. Folk cinema from the eternal never-ending collage that is INDIA. A journey through the ancient Southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu featuring Hindu trance ceremonies, street music, festivals, nagaswaram improvisations, impossibly loud cities, ancient temples, processions, devotions, decay, fireworks, abstractions and more. India is impossible to know: it is impossibly old and impossibly new, impossibly rich and impossibly poor, quiet and chaotic. Offered here is one perspective, raw, captured live and in the moment, with an emphasis on India's complex and mesmerizing sounds. DVD features bonus photo gallery with over 100 images. 50 minutes/Color; digipack; all-region DVD; NTSC format. Limited one-time edition of 1000 copies.

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Eat the Dream: Gnawa Music from Essaouira 

LP SF071

Recorded and compiled by Tucker Martine in 1994, the bulk of this album features the magnificent results of a chance meeting between Martine and the late, great master of Gnawa music, Maâllem Boubker Ghania (1927–2000), who kindly offered to organize a several-day informal recording session in his home. Martine began rolling tape as musicians came and went throughout the sessions. These spectacular recordings from Essaouira Morocco are interwoven here with other encounters including a wedding procession in the streets of Marrakech, snake charmers of the Jemma El Fna with their rhaitas, calls to prayer with children playing while James Brown echoed off of the labyrinthian walls, Moroccan radio dial surfing and more.

The Gnawa are a mystical brotherhood whose ancestors migrated from West Africa to North Africa approximately 500 years ago. After integrating into the local Berber and Arabic societies, a unique cultural blend resulted which is reflected in their music. Their complex liturgy borrows both from the traditions of mystical Islam and African Shamanism. The Gnawa's trance-inducing music accompanies rituals such as the healing of psychic disorders and scorpion stings, Ramadan celebrations and animal sacrifice. Participants in these all night rituals are invited into an ecstatic state. The primary instruments of this tradition are the krakebs (a pair of metal clappers) and the guimbri (or sintir), a three stringed lute with a camel skin covering and a body carved from a log. The one short string and two long strings are made of goat gut.

Limited Edition LP housed in a heavy-duty tip-on jacket with insert containing additional photos of the musicians and Tucker Martine’s liner notes.

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SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is a collective of explorers dedicated to acquiring and exposing obscure sights and sounds from modern and traditional urban and rural frontiers via film and video, field recordings, radio and short wave transmissions, international folk and pop music, sound anomalies, and other forms of human and natural expression not documented sufficiently through all channels of academic research, the modern recording industry, media, or corporate foundations. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES is focused on an aesthetic of extra-geography and soulful experience inspired by music and culture, world travel, research, and the pioneering recording labels of the past including OCORA, SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS, ETHNIC FOLKWAYS, LYRICHORD, NONESUCH EXPLORER, MUSICAPHONE, BARONREITER, UNESCO, PLAYASOUND, MUSICAL ATLAS, CHANT DU MONDE, B.A.M., TANGENT, and TOPIC. SUBLIME FREQUENCIES PO BOX 17971 SEATTLE WA 98127 USA