The thread for discussing the amazing Life Is A Problem comp on MISSISSIPPI records

also really like the Mata La Pena comp of course.
And excited for the forthcoming Hurley "Parsnip Snips" reish.

All I can listen to lately are my Hurley records and I NEED MORE!!!
Will keep my eyes peeled for this reissue you are speaking of.

trip maker did you get the last one? "Ancestral Swamp"? It's really great.

We have it at the community radio station, I believe. I think. I hope? Well, shouldn't be hard to get if not. I'm a total believer in Hurley now.

the one w/ ida isn't so great, i think. i also think the down in dublin album is sort of dull. but otherwise you can't go wrong w/ hurley.

what's up next for mississip' anyway?

i think the new one with Ida is great!

I think the next project from MS is a double LP box set of rebetikos.

there's a new shelley stone lp just out ... more hurley i thought?, maybe. mata la pena is rad (sisters yodelling especially) so more trad stuff would be nice.

doesn't really belong here but in the cluster of mississippi related/distro'd labels, etc: whatever the name of the new release on domino is, mainly instrumental organ drum and vocal chanting tracks - is giving me a lot of pleasure

I missed out on Mata La Pena

really loving the Dog Faced Hermans LPs these days.

haven't heard the Snock Con Ida but I think it is on hold at the record store for me.

hurley/ida isn't mississippi, no?

yeah, it's not. it's on gnomonsong.

ah yeah i looked it up, excited to hear hog of the forsaken again. the rebetika box is up on forced exposure just so yalls know. & the shelley stone record came out real nice. mata la pena still spinning favourably in my house

illustrated & annotated discography

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/sounds/miss_records/

anybody seen a copy of that Madagascar box? I sure haven't. I did buy (another) copy of Hi Fi Snock Uptown though. Would love to have The Ex/Tom Cora on vinyl but I already have the CD...

The Madagascar box is not actually a box, it's three LPs in a heavy-plastic jacket... it's a long listen but there are some great moments. if i had a camera i'd take a picture for you.

Some scans (+ download) here: http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=3163

those mississippi soul and rocksteady mixtapes are manna if you need to fix up your house or paint walls or put up drywall or something like that.

i'm really curious to see a tracklisting of the kinks ones.

fihavanaha thing was super rare, no? think it got some discussion in the rolling vinyl thread. i don't think i'll ever see one. i managed to wean myself offa buying these thinking that overstreet and clara weren't essential, and then i heard them and realised that yeah i'm going to have to buy them. the tapes just KEEP ON GIVING, too.

the Clara Rockmore is so outside of the usual Mississippi world, but it's SO BEAUTIFUL.

i hate to harp on this but while these guys have superb taste and i don't begrudge anyone for liking these LPs or buying them, almost all this stuff is otherwise easily available in more legit fashion.

maybe not the fihavanaha. i should have picked that up, but honestly i don't expect that i'd be listening to it much. the greek 2 lp thing is great though the graphic design of the box is horrid (looks like they used chicago font on a dot matrix printer or something, ugh).

i enjoy downloading their cassette mixes, some of them (like the "classical music for normal people" or whatever it is) are just astonishingly good.

to some degree I agree with you, but their reissues of Dog Faced Hermans and The Ex and The Rats and such (which probably aren't really your thing) are fully band-sanctioned, remastered, and not available anywhere else. Same with all the Michael Hurley records. So ymmv I guess.

also that rocksteady tape is solid gold

i think we all agreed to raise the legitimacy issue every six months and then beat each other into the ground with details of arcane licensing agreements and scholarly fall out from the orchestra regional de keyes lp, no?

the samba tape's my favourite; volume forty looks promising too. and they put out something with this poster recently: what's not to like. this stuff still makes up like 25% of what i listen to, and informs belated digressions into dead moon and other stuff afterwards.

the Clara Rockmore is so outside of the usual Mississippi world, but it's SO BEAUTIFUL.

yeah. i actually downloaded and let it play through once, having just heard kind of 'incidental theremin score music' whenever it had been on in the background; it sounds lovely. fortunately the single artist lps seem to last a little longer now, so i'll pick them up.

how do i shot the rocksteady tape?

http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/?p=1483

almost all this stuff is otherwise easily available in more legit fashion.

But yer not a format fetishist like a lot of the MS records devotees I assume. An original of that Fred McDowell record is expensive! And that Joseph Spence too! etc.

This might be as good as music gets.

hey ppl - what are yr fav missippi records tapes? i love the fuck out of these btw

Beautiful Dynamite
Samba Triste
Time Is Longer Than Rope
Everything Crash
In A Crowded Station

favorite:
http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/mrc_12_cover.jpg

runners up:

http://www.rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mrc-003_cover.jpg
http://rootstrata.com/rootblog/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/mrc_vol5_cover_art1.jpg

Samba Triste

^^^^^
the more recent samba one also, but not so much

also
too much needs doing here
classical music for and by the people
who has seen the wind

i hear there's a jim dickinson one, that i can't find online anywhere, that i'd love to hear

http://s.dsimg.com/image/R-2259278-1272865900.jpeg
hmmm yeah, i'd love to hear this one too!

someone told me it was his music?, though it seems like it consisting of his productions would be more likely

http://www.discogs.com/Jim-Dickinson-The-Early-Years-63-84/release/2259278
looks like it's both

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=2532723, huh

meant to add this to the list of must-have tapes, also

vol. 56, holy christ.

for me it was one of those where i feel like i have not previously had access to this kind of music

holy shit @ that Hurley 8-track... really hope that gets a proper LP reissue

Limited to 50 copies :(

Not sure if I answered the person about "web presence" -- mine is very 1998 but here you go -- 6 releases out just now -- first 4 from the record club plus a budget white gospel rarities comp + a licensed june brides best-of:

http://socialmusicrecords.com

you can still sign up for the sub series and get the holidays 7" before the holidays are over.

Nice!

jazzed about this comin up:
http://ghostcapital.blogspot.com/2010/12/va-ishlihan-n-tenere-mississippi.html

^^^ does not disappoint

Yeah, I really like it as well. And the Marisa Anderson LP is really nice too.

oh really? i thought i might try to listen through before picking it up; the tjo on mississippi is one of my faves, but shelley short i can pretty much live without. will keep a lookout. is instrumental iirc?

Instrumental and electric!

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Does that Sahelsounds release explain where the songs are from--are they taken from existing cassette releases, or are they previously unreleased stuff?

these guys are apparently putting out a pretty excellent new album by marisa anderson: http://marisaanderson.bandcamp.com/
electrified, raw bluesy instrumentals.

it's out and i really enjoy it. (the Marisa Anderson that is.)

curmudgeon, i believe the sahel sounds recordings are previously unreleased recordings by some fellow whose name i can't remember because i don't have the booklet in front of me. good notes on each song giving context, nice photos etc.

I'm listening to the Irma Thomas comp and fuck me this is just great songs all the way through. This is just on mp3 sorry guys but I will buy this if I see it.

Kleenex/Liliput box set!!!

I already have the 2CD so no way am I buying this, but still very cool.