Attic Beats

Attic Beats 003 - Recorded August 9, 2005

This week’s show is a short one, but was a surprisingly tricky one to produce. After all, how do you segue from French funk to a marching band? What theme would pull together those two disparate musical selections, you ask? “Stuff I Bought At the Library Book Sale,” of course.

I love library book sales. They’ve been a source of not only out-of-print religious texts and Choose Your Own Adventures, but a source of excellent records. Now, you’re not going to find rare hip-hop 12″s that you can sell to DJ Ivory, but you will often come across jazz gems and long-forgotten international folk records. This week’s show features some of the finds I stumbled on this year, paying only 8 cents for each.

(To the right is the artwork for an album that I picked up solely for the cover itself. As you’ll hear, the music contained therein is just as outstanding.)

Click through for the playlist.

• (ab) Falling In Love With Love/The Man I Love… Stanley Black and His Orchestra
• Il Pergatorio… Riz Ortolani and Nino Oliviero
  (Only available on CD as an import, but eBay’s got a bunch on vinyl.)
• Somebody’s Knocking At Yo’ Do’… De Mastreechter Staar
• Si Tu M’Aimes Encore… Nino Ferrer
• Fanfare… Archer-Epler Senior Drum and Bugle Corps of Upper Darby, Pennsylvania
• The Krushchev Landing Rehearsal/Oru mashup… Bob Newhart/The Balalaika of Kasinetovitch