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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The man knows what he’s doing and loves music and has made an amazing contribution. Thoroughly entertaining. youtu.be/iLDnIKENXAU?...

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EMIL BEAULIEAU: 20th Retirement Anniversary - Ron Lessard of RRRecords | WCN Podcast Full Episode

YouTube video by White Centipede Noise

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 17/09/2026

After a closer look at the IG report, here are the clues I found indicating an "Alligator Alcatraz" cover-up. FWIW, I don't think the DHS OIG was in the conspiracy, I think they were in way over their heads. prospect.org/2026/09/17/a...

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Alligator Alcatraz’s Tiny Cages Were Likely Even Tinier - The American Prospect

Appalling as photos showing phone booth–sized cages at the Florida camp are, the truth is likely much worse.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Just wanted to point out the sax solo on The Valentines’ 1956 “The Woo Woo Train.”

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I’ve added 8 sides to the collection of Mme. Coula’s early and significant recordings, making it now 20 songs. Several are remarkable including 2 in Turkish and a Sabah Manes accompanied only by harmonium. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/greek-...

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Greek Folk Songs in New York City ca. 1917-25, by Mme. Koula Antonopoulo

20 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

NEW TWO-HOUR CANARY ALBUM Virtuoso clarinetist Costas Gadinis (b. 1890) was the most prolific Greek-American recoding musician of the 1930s-40s. The 41 tracks presented here represent about two-thirds of his output during his final six years on disc. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/we-see...

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We Seek Freedom: Western Macedonian Greek Clarinetist in New York ca. 1942-48, by Costas Gadinis

41 track album

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Marc Masters 🌵 @marcissist.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

RIP David Fair. What an inspiration. He and Jad pretty much invented DIY indie. youtu.be/kt1At1Fq8dE?...

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David & Jad Fair from Half Japanese explain how to play guitar

YouTube video by Stormy Weathers

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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 26/08/2026

ICE’s enforcement powers have also been boosted by a rapidly expanding program that deputizes local law enforcement agencies to carry out immigration enforcement – which can be difficult for passersby to discern whether a police officer is making a routine traffic stop or an immigration arrest.

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ICE arrested 50,000 people in July – quietly the biggest month in Trump’s second term

Administration moved away from high-profile raids that defined immigration enforcement approach last year but still deported record number of people

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Absurd, dark, wistful and Fugs-y 2011 album by Baltimore’s Dan Conrad and Jorge Martins (recorded by Twig Harper). A jewel. yoinsh.bandcamp.com/album/yoinsh

Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

around 2010 I’d moved into the Appalachian mountains and was thinking of the Greek folk song Olympos ke Kisavos when I sent this to McSweeney’s who rejected it as “too slight.”

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Sarah G. Vincent @sarahgvincentviews.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

“Fiume o Morte!” (2025) is one of the year's most inventive documentaries. By letting a Croatian city reenact its own forgotten history, it becomes a funny, provocative look at fascism, memory & creativity. sarahgvincentviews.com/movies/fiume...

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Fiume O Morte! Review - Sarah G. Vincent Views

Sarah G. Vincent Views' hot take on Fiume O Morte!

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

I made a short (12-ish minute) low tech piece of music. First in a long, long time. I’m playing it at this show in Baltimore.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Following the exhibit I curated last year at the Jewish Museum of Maryland here in Baltimore, I gave an interview to the Jewish-Turkish site Avlaremoz on the subject of singer-oudist Louis Matalon. It has recently appeared here: www.avlaremoz.com/bir-sefaradi...

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Bir Sefaradın New York'u: Louis Matalon ve Çokkültürlü Müzik Dünyası – Tuğba Yavuz

Şubat - Haziran 2025 arasında ABD’nin Maryland eyaletinin en büyük şehri olan Baltimore’da yer alan Maryland Yahudi Müzesi, “Burada Olduğumu Söylemek İçin: ABD’de Kaydedilen Arapça, Yunanca, Ladino ve...

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

NEW CANARY ALBUM In the first half of the 20th century only 3 musicians in the U.S. appear to have recorded performances on the Persian instrument the tar. Here are two of them. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/tar-in...

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Tar Instrumentals in Los Angeles & Detroit ca. 1942-51, by George Shah Baronian / Haig Ohanian

18 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

I just added 4 sides (17 minutes of music) from 1907 to the Canary album of the great Yusuf al Manyalawi canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/tarab-...

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Tarab Vocal Art in Khedival Cairo, vol. 1, 1907-10, by Yusuf Al-Manyalawi

12 track album

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hopebuilding @hopebuilding.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

"....M. Gessen draws parallels between interpersonal violence and the way authoritarians coerce and control their subjects. The two discuss a question that domestic violence victims and those who live under authoritarianism often get: Why didn’t you just leave?"

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What Autocrats Have in Common With Abusers | 'The Opinions' Podcast

YouTube video by New York Times Podcasts

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

hats off to Baltimore’s Doris Elizabeth Cook (b. Sept. 14, 1924; d. Oct. 11, 2008) who wrote and published this poem as a postcard in May 1976 in response to the bicentennial hype and celebrations.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Having been asked to contribute "something" to a video program out in Seattle, I sent along this raw 6 1/2-minute reading of the "The Puffin Book," a little grotesquerie from Blaster Al Ackerman's book I Taught My Dog to Shoot a Gun (Popular Reality, 2000). youtu.be/kKI0qESn86U?...

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The Puffin Book by Blaster Al Ackerman

YouTube video by naimkarakand

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

amazing 2-minute reading of a poem comprised of five monosyllables. Jimmy Crouse has had works published by Argotist Online Poetry, Otoliths Gradient Press and a formed collaboration with Specific Recordings, Pittsburgh. www.unlikelystories.org/content/port...

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Portrait of a Depiction

I is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is in I is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is inI is as ofIs as is in Of I of itIs of in itOf I of...

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

From now until July 3 all digital releases (including the discography) are 50% off if you use the discount code: thedoctormustgetpaid canary-records.bandcamp.com

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early 20th century masterpieces (mostly) in languages other than English. An hour in clamor and a quarter in rheum.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

NEW CANARY ALBUM Early recordings of art song of the Azeri minority of present-day Karabakh, then a mountainous Armenian-majority region of the Russian Empire. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/an-aze...

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An Azeri Mugham Trio ca. 1912, by Keçaçioğlu Muhammad, Gurban Primov & Sasha Ohanezashvili

13 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Painful news that Mikel Dimmick died suddenly. He was a beautiful guy with big ears. And much too young. His most recent album had just come out 2 weeks ago.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Words fail. This decision has left a pit in my stomach.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

NEW CANARY ALBUM The vigorous and masterful swan song of two of the most popular and prolific performers in Arabic during the 1910s and ‘20s, recorded when they were well into their 60s. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/your-l...

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Your Love Streaked My Hair: Two Lebanese Folk Maestros in Brooklyn ca. mid-1950s, by Nahem Simon & Toufic Moubaid

10 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

I, for one, had not previously encountered these, I assume, WWII era expressions of soft power. Uncle Sam saying “music for all our Arab friends!” is antithetical to the Musk Doctrine. Such waste! Ha!

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I’ll be doing presentations on both Saturday and Sunday.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I just heard that we lost the great James Blood Ulmer. Fascinating, beautiful person. Dazzling, undersung discography. Have I played any song on repeat more than this one in the past decade? Unlikely.

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Are You Glad To Be In America?

YouTube video by James Blood Ulmer - Topic

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alisteroff.bsky.social @alisteroff.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Adieu Areski (1940-2026). Ici avec Brigitte Fontaine, ils interprètent "Les Vergers" en 1974.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

In 2 weeks I’ll be making my only European appearance of the year at the Aman Aman Festival in Berlin. Sat June 13 I’m on a panel Sun June 14 I’ll give a 1 hour talk-and-listening session of “Ottoman-American” women from 78rpm discs ca 1917-47 sinematranstopia.com/en/program/f...

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AMAN AMAN Berlin

A three day festival of open air screenings, listening sessions, concerts, lectures and culinary interventions AMAN AMAN!A distant cry of unfulfilled longing, a call of insurmountable passion, a styl...

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

intv: When you’re feeling psychically & spiritually depleted, how do you restore yourself Cpt. Beefheart: A Mrs Grace Chocolate Fudge Cake. I feel like saying ‘take me to your leader’ when I see one of those things.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

NEW CANARY ALBUM Over 2 hours recorded by the great Deben Bhattacharya (b. 1921; d. 2001) of performances in Arabic, Hebrew, Spanish, Judeo-Malayalam, Bulharian, and Uzbek. Plus 2500 words of notes. Photo by Bhattacharya of two young Yemeni performers. The girl on the right is playing a gas can.

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Made New: June-July 1957 Field Recordings of Maghrebi, Yemeni, and Asian Jewish Musicians in Israel, by Deben Bhattacharya, recordist

36 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Hats off to the museum wizard who put the moose and the flying squirrel across from each other at the Walters.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

A few early 20th century postcards I hadn’t seen before: Egypt, Turkey, Syria

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

untraced Syrian musician ca. 1940s?

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

early 20th century funerary photo found in Aleppo before the war

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

produced by the Derounian Brothers photo studio in Aleppo Syria and hand-dated in pencil about the time it was founded, 1918. They seem to me (some speculation here) to be artistic self-portraits by Vartan Derounian (b. Arabkir 1888; d. Beirut 1954) age 30.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Two photos ca. 1920s of an untraced Egyptian dancer. Found in Syria by a friend about 25 years ago.

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Noticing that I had a clean copy (a 1950s immigrant pirate) of one of the discs of this south Lebanese master singer and activist, I added better masters of two of the tracks on this 30-minute release

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Jeff Sunbury @jsunbury.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

What Heaven Has Against Me: Central & Southern Turkish Folk Music, ca. 1928 - 55 canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/what-h...

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What Heaven Has Against Me: Central & Southern Turkish Folk Music, ca. 1928 - 55, by Canary Records

16 track album

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Jim Hawkins @jimallthetime.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Sound up, everyone! Vitamin Polka by Ed Swierad & his Aristocrats canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/vitami...

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Vitamin Polka, by Ed Swierad & his Aristocrats

1 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

Carnival Sideshow, etching by Reginald Marsh from New Theatre Nov. 1934

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

NEW CANARY ALBUM Mohammed El-Akkad was from a lineage of Egyptian master musicians and, like a leaf blown in the wind of history, wound up in the U.S. He was about 60 in the the early ‘70s when he self-released this exceptional LP. canary-records.bandcamp.com/album/el-sal...

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El Salaam: an Egyptian Master Qanunist in the U.S. ca. early 1970s, by Mohammed El Akkad

12 track album

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Canary Records @iannagoski.bsky.social · 21/04/2026

Organizing and resleeving the keepers. So, like here’s a box of specific Slavic & Balkan immigrant collections. And also the 1st of 2 boxes of the 1912-25 Turkish, Arabic, Armenian & Greek stuff. Got your early 20s indie labels then the Victors then the Columbia E series…

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