VICTROLA FAVORITES: ARTIFACTS BYGONE DAY - CD VICTROLA FAVORITES: ARTIFACTS BYGONE DAY

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"Artifacts From Bygone Days". Deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book of illustrations with two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues and much, much more. Recordings made between 1920s-50s compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffrey Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins from their collections of rare 78rpm records and design ephemera. "Climax Golden Twins genre bending prowess alone would earn Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor high regard in Seattle music circles. But Taylor also owns Wall of Sounds Records one of the first boutique record shops devoted primarily to independent and avant-garde music. 'all roads in the experimental community lead back to them,' says Eric Lanzillotta (of Anomalous Records and Ri Be Xibalba)..tireless curiosity has always driven the pair..."- Michaelangelo Matos, Seattle Metropolitan Magazine "A beautifully decorated book of original label art and advertisements...more suggestive than deive, the book is representative of Millis and Taylor's overall aesthetic. 'The (original Victrola Favorites) cassettes had Xeroxed covers--no information, a pure listening experience,' says Millis. This time, the package makes the whole difference, says Taylor: 'You're getting two CDs to listen to, but here's the art of the artifact.' The book is full of rich images: a photograph of a young boy sitting next to a Victrola horn three times his size; a voluptuously beautiful assemblage of colored tins containing record needles; a postcard with playable grooves..."