http://sounds.bl.uk/
They include a bunch of people singing It's a Long Way to Tipperary in the Boldon Lad pub in Newcastle in 1979, and Aboriginals singing in the Torres Strait islands off Australia in 1898, recorded on wax cylinders by anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon.
Also,
Someone ... has recorded an Assamese woodworm as it chews away at a window frame at 4am with crickets chirruping away in the background.
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 September 2009 09:21 (sixteen years ago)
i fully expect new genres of music to emerge from this
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 4 September 2009 09:46 (sixteen years ago)
am going through all the 918 decca west africa tracks one at a time. it might take a while... early favourite: James Maddy and his trumpet.
― koogs, Monday, 7 September 2009 21:13 (sixteen years ago)
If you are in a licensed UK higher or further education institution you can
* Search all recordings on the site * Listen to the recordings and download them
but
Everyone can
* Search all recordings on the site * Listen to recordings where copyright permits - currently over 23,700 items
that's a bit shit. Hardly archive.org or ubuweb openness.
― MC Hamer Hall (S-), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 05:44 (sixteen years ago)
can you blame them?
― amateurist, Tuesday, 8 September 2009 06:34 (sixteen years ago)
am going through all the 918 decca west africa tracks one at a time.
oh god don't tempt me. whoops, too late.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 06:45 (sixteen years ago)
two songs in and it's clear: this is MAJOR.
― if I don't see more dissent, I'm going to have to check myself in (Matos W.K.), Tuesday, 8 September 2009 06:48 (sixteen years ago)