Stylophone Demonstration

"This demonstration record was given away ( they couldn't possibly sell it!) with the Stylophone and here Rolf Harris tells us how to play it and all the wonderful sounds it can produce ..."
Rolf Harris - Stylophone Demonstration at Boot Sale Sounds.

Learn more about the Stylophone here.
And here is a downloadable song (Particle Man (Stylophone)) in mp3 format by They Might Be Giants that features a Stylophone.

More Debonair

The Musical Touch of Leonard Nimoy

"In December of 1966, Dot record executives approached the producers of Star Trek with the idea of releasing a Star Trek themed album. There were already Star Trek toys, cereal prizes, model kits and every other kind of product that a kid would want, so why not a record? Desilu Studios exceutive, Herbert F. Solow, responded to the Dot proposal with the following memo:
"I think we should push any record company that wants to do an outer space or Vulcan or any other single record or album, be it straight dramatic music, weird music, Nichelle Nichols singing, Bill Shatner doing bird calls or even the sound of Gene Roddenberry polishing a semi-precious stone on his grinder."

For Nimoy this resulted in the release of five LPs on Dot Records, a subsidiary of Paramount Pictures, from 1967 to 1970. ..."

The Musical Touch of Leonard Nimoy is an awesome tribute site. (via Pastor McPurvis)

Download Another Percy Trout hour!

the Percy Trout hour

Super-Fizz Sugar-Pop
from all over the Globe!

Download another show from the Archives!
This one from February 16, 2004:
LINK!

Anna-Lisa is here.

"Anna-Lisa Ingemanson (1909 - 2003) was a pedicurer who loved music in general and singing in particular. Devoted as she was, she recorded a lot of music D.I.Y. style. With total lack of rhythmic sense - and singing voice - she fearlessly took on popular music gems and made them her own. The hired musicians politely asked not to be credited on the album sleeves. No wonder ...." (Quoted From the Anna-Lisa Ingemanson MySpace Page)

"Främmande länder" (Far Away Places), "Kalinka" and "Oh, En Sån Underbar Morgon" (Oh, What A Beautiful Morning), and "Fragrancia" can all be enjoyed by browsing this impressive entry over at WFMU's Beware Of The Blog.

Scroll down to March 20 #079 in Otis Fodder's 365 Days Project (well, nowadays hosted by the fabulous UbuWeb) for the exceptionally meaty Evert Taube cover "Oxdragarsång".

Anna-Lisa was also part (an important part!) of HTMPL Productions' 'Oddities' compilation shared here at PCL half a year ago (and still available - like all the rest). "Daiga-Daiga-Duu" she sang tenderly.

And, despite the fact she sadly passed away in 2003 she is continuing to generously spread her love and fondess for music in 2006 on MySpace where you can listen to 4 more classic Anna-Lisa songs.

More info on Anna-Lisa, if you are familiar with the Swedish language (and I don't think the sing-a-long skills you have just acquired while listening to Ann-Lisa is enough to be honest...), is to be find at Sunkit's page for Anna-Lisa.

Note: This was posted as tribute and inspiration for Madame Stegö Chilò whom just left the building.
Maybe singing could be a new career. You seem to have it in You. Out of tune from the inside and out.

Victor Brauner

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Victor Brauner (1903-1966) [Wikipedia entry] at Iluminatornia Gnosis. (via IWR)
Romanian painter very much involved in the dada movement.

Chop Suey Rock and other porky dishes.

Frolic Diner Vol 1 & Vol 2 available in the Twilightzone!

Killing in style

Sylvain L. story begins like a lot of us. He came to italian 60's & 70's italian genre movies thanks to their soundtracks, how can you resist to Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Piero Picioni, Piero Umiliani and so on.
The real difference between Sylvain and the rest of us, he works on the case, he is building a real understanding of this cinematic genre. His blog "Killing in style" is becoming the Giallo reference.

Have a go there to put pictures upon the music you love.
Well done Sylvain.

PCL Reader of the Day

Maria, just surfed in from England. She was probably googling for this. Maybe she needed something to do. Something creative. Have a good rest Maria, nice to have you here.

Finnish synthpop from 1981

Argon - Kone kertoo ("Machine tells") is available for download over at pHinnWeb.
Good bleep-blop stuff with an exotic touch.

Seetha's snake dance.

Debra Paget in Das Indische Grabmal [aka The Indian Tomb] (1959), one of the last cinematic projects to be worked on by legendary German film director Fritz Lang.

Added by Spaulding59
(via Otomano)

Note: No, she's not naked. The snake is. Ahem. Hello! You had a heart attack?...

I remember

"I remember" is the new aperitivo radio show, where we can play George Perec's famous game the 'I remember' indeed. You'll need memories, brain cells and notes of Eggstone, Suicide, Silver Apples, Lee Hazlewood, Armando trovajoli, Todd rundgren and some more to play the game.

Did you know that if unemployed memory cells do commit suicide.

The Avant Garde Project

"The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical-experimental-electroacoustic music digitized from LPs whose music has in most cases never been released on CD, and so is effectively inaccessible to the vast majority of music listeners today. ...
...
The AGP archive is a repository for earlier AGP installments. New installments are available only as bittorrents for the first several weeks.
The audio files in all AGP installments are FLAC files. FLAC is a lossless compression format that decompresses to produce CD-quality WAV files. For information on the use of FLAC files, see Technical Information. ..."

Including: The Instruments of Harry Partch, the Swedes Ragnar Grippe and Bo Anders Persson and Asian Percussion by Yasukazu Amemiya, Nguyen Thien Dao & Kil-sung Oak.

The Avant Garde Project.

the Green Hornet...

... and the Case of the Disappearing Doctor.

by Brandon Keith

a Whitman authorized TV Adventure, ©1966

By the poolside

Meeting down by the Pool yesterday, PCL Headquarters.
(Image found over at Vintage Photographs. Click it for better view at the source)

-So, little man, are You ready for some action?
-Hm. I'm terribly sorry M'lady, but Mr. Dante Fontana has placed one of those digital cams out here, and I don't want to make a mess publicly. My wife is reading that blog.
-My mistake Mister. You looked kind of Yummy so I presumed you were Mr. Fontana. I'm sorry. Got to get me another drink and find Him. Say hello to little Missy.

Douglas Walker

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Untitled #799

Douglas Walker, artist. (via Monster Brains)

Dirty Stinky Hippies

Great and Not So Great Main Title Sequences

'The Invisible Man' TV Intro (1975)

Main Title Heaven - A blog dedicated to "Great and Not So Great Main Title Sequences". (via Found on the Web)

Railroad Blotters

'Chesapeake and Ohio' Luxury Travel at Coach Fares!
Click for luxurious view at source.

"... Have you ever noticed when eating at a restaurant the various advertisements found on placemats at your table? This has been one creative way businesses can maximize their advertising dollars. In the 1920s and 1930s, a similar idea was used on something everyone had: ink blotters.
Here was fairly inexpensive way for the railroad to advertise to shippers, as well the general public. Typically about 4 by 8 inches in size, blotters were used to promote freight or passenger service and frequently provided information on specific trains or routes. ..."

Cyberspace World Railroad exhibits Railroad Blotters: Railroads A-F & Railroads G-Z. (The Daily Jive)

Woody Martens

"... The sound and playing on this album is definitely the most raw and ‘balls to the wall’. There is a really slick cover of ‘Green Onions’ done entirely in 5/4 time and some fun playing around with ‘April in Paris’. ..."
Pastor McPurvis and his Orphanage is back. Now in blog form and with another shared album by Woody Martens.
Woody Martens -The Wild & Woody.