TRACK 6: farewell_my_own.mp3

Since 2002 I have been administrating a website (www.kittyspit.net/ mp3) that compiles links to sites hosting mp3s I have enjoyed. This requires a biannual chore of checking and repairing links, which must number in the hundreds by now. As I remove dead links, there comes the occasional deletion that really pains me, like scooping out a particularly beautiful fish taken to floating sideways in the aquarium. I created this compilation of some music that I have missed since its host sites either removed the files, or vanished.

Any and all of these tracks may be floating around P2P systems, but this disc may be more convenient for folks on modem speed.

EC Brown, Summer 2005

Baratillo Sound System:
1. Muy Fumao #2
The Force Inc. electronic music label used to host a rotating mp3 magazine on its site, and this track was my favorite download. I kept an eye out for the BSS, but I haven't been able to locate it/them on the Web.

Victor Jara:
2. Che Guevara
3. Cancion del Minero
4. El Aparecido
5. Siete Estados Intro
The NuevaCancion site showcased Chilean revolutionary folksinger Victor Jara, who was assassinated during the military coup in 1973. The site featured some rare recordings and television pieces.

The Coughlan Sisters:
6. Farewell My Own Heart
An MP3.com page presented a few home recordings of three sisters singing Medieval-style rounds. The story was that the recordings were found in an attic and left behind by the prior owners: a family that died in a car crash (in 50's, I think). The neighbors that identified the recordings apparently had no idea that the sisters had studied singing.

The Turkish Ministry of Culture site once hosted one of the most amazing mp3 resources, featuring tons of old Turk/Anatolian music, and sadly wiped it clean.
7. Agir Zeybek
8. Ela Gozunu Sevdigim
9. Tulumite Destami
These were the mp3 filenames, I don't know the names of artists or if these are the true titles.

The website for the Alive/Total Energy/Disaster label cluster used to host a great wealth of punk, rock and blues mp3s. Here are two of my favorite catches:
10. MC5 - I Just Don't Know (from '66)
11. Richmond Sluts - City Girls

Tienerkoor "Jacob Harmel":
12. La la la
A Dutch children's choir from the Herman Broekhuizen radio school, occasionally convering pop hits from the 60's and 70's. The music used to be archived on Splogman's World.

Pontian Society of Chicago Xeniteas:
13. Ashn Togian Erconme
14. Kotsiari
15. O Gerors
16. Paharomanas
These tracks appeared on the Pontian organization's site, but I don't know if it was their own music/dance group, or simply samples of music from elsewhere. But the tracks do occasionally feature a children's choir. Pontians, btw, are the ethnic Greeks of Turkey.

Timothy Renner, musician and founder of the Hand/Eye and Dark Holler labels, has been at the helm of the latest strains of wyrdfolk and neo-appalachian. His site rescinded its downloads a couple of years back.
17. Stone Breath - Through the Trees
18. Spectral Light and Moonshine Firefly Snakeoil Jamboree - A Conversation with Death

A website showcasing Circassian culture (from the region between the Black and Caspian seas) compiled music from numerous sources.Kafkas muzikleri: Tracks 19-21

Haqqani Sufi Order:
22. Mystical Chanting of Chechnya (Chechnyan war chant)
An MP3.com page for the Haqqani Sufi Order included this 16 minute chant among its many sermons. The in-the-red production and echo-reverb really transform it into something bombastic.