Dust To Digital

100 recordings on 4 CDs.

184-page hardcover book printed on artbook-quality paper ● Packaged in a deluxe gloss-laminated box.

It begins with a South African choir from 1930 and a song about police brutality; it ends in Cuba with dreamy innuendo.

This collection is about music that is often invisible in today’s world, the incredible world of global recordings that aren’t jazz, blues, country, rock ‘n roll, R&B, or “classical.”

This physical edition of the box set, eight years in the making, contains 100 tracks and 100 stories in an extensive, illustrated 184-page book with detailed, contextual mini-histories about both musical origins and the beginnings of the industry, touching on the complexities of colonialism, economic agendas, and cultural tourism.

With nearly all of the tracks never before reissued, this collection expands upon and acts as a companion to Jonathan Ward’s Excavated Shellac website, a unique repository of music, history, and data on 78 rpm recordings from around the world, rarely heard and seldom seen.

Part 1
1. Caluza's Double Quartet – Abaqafi (South Africa)
2. Los Chinacos – Zacamandú (Mexico)
3. Itokazu Kame – Hatoma-bushi (Okinawa, Japan)
4. Cheikh Saïd Relizani - Denhar Mabrouk, Pt. 1 (Algeria)
5. Enosse Kuhanya Muni – O Ta Nikona (Mozambique)
6. Bonfiglio de Oliveira - Lembrancas do Passado (Brazil)
7. Giovanni Vicari - Rose D'Italia (Italy)
8. K. S. Narayana Ayyengar - Mokshamu Galadha, Pt 1 (Saramathi) (India)
9. Hosseingholi Tatayy – Shur (Iran)
10. Ne'matjon Qulabdullaev - Bilmasang Bilgil (Uzbekistan)
11. Che Ta'seah - Lenggang Mak Inang (Malaysia)
12. Demka dhe Hajro e Shoket – Këngë e Mahmudisë (Albania)
13. Liam Walsh - Portlaw Reel (Ireland)
14. Šule Radosavljevič-Šapčanin – Jeleno, Momo Jeleno (Serbia)
15. Klaudiya Kotok and E.M. Shishova - Razvogor Dvuh Podrug (Russia)
16. Fr. Dukli Wiejska Banda – Na Wykretke (Poland)
17. Triki-Trixa de Zumarraga - Ez Dago Larrosarik (The Basque Country, Spain)
18. Margarida, Cantadeira de Paredes – Caninha Verde (Portugal)
19. Andrés Chazarreta y su Orquesta Tipica de Arte Nativo - La Doble (Argentina)
20. Cuadro Gitano La Coja, featuring Concha Maya - Fandangos del Albaicín (Andalusia, Spain)
21. Cuarteto Caraquita – Las Bellas Noches de Maiquetia (Venezuela)
22. Sein Bo Tint - Aung Pa Khei Ti Loun (Burma)
23. Park Booyong – Shin-Gosahn Taryong (Korea)
24. Ali Muhammadi – Vitha (Sudan)
25. Hanns in der Gand - Chant de Guerre Fribourgeois (Switzerland)

Part 2
1. Chimudon, Mashibato, and Togus Ziguradan - The Venerable Genghis Khan (Mongolia)
2. Muhammad Rashid al-Rifa’i - Ya Ghusain Alban, Pt 1 (Bahrain)
3. Negatoua - Ya Bati Zefen (Ethiopia)
4. Picoğlu Osman - Sıksara Horon Havası (Turkey)
5. Miyagi Michio, Yoshida Kyoko, Miyagi Kiyoko - Sakura Variations, Pt 2 (Japan)
6. Paulos Dikito - Hendeyi Kumunda (Zimbabwe)
7. Saez y Hermanos Ascuez – Pregonero (Peru)
8. Grupo Istmeño - Coge el Pandero Que Se Te Va (Panama)
9. Orchestre Franco-Creole – Prend Yo (Haiti)
10. Khaledi and Zahedi – Bayāt-e Tork, Pt. 2 (Iran)
11. Mita Stoyecheva - Da Znaya Mamo, Da Znaya (Bulgaria)
12. Myskal Omurkanova - Oilo Sen (Kyrgyzstan)
13. Miss Thông - Chinh Phụ Ngâm, Pt 1 (Vietnam)
14. Vassyl Yemetz - Z Ukrainskyce Stepiw (Ukraine)
15. Abaimbi be Kanisa Lutiko eye Namirembe - Oje Omwoyo Omutukuvu (Uganda)
16. Nicholas De Heer – Osibonibom (Ghana)
17. Tamarii-Tahiti - Haere Roa Roa (Tahiti)
18. Count Lasher – Perseverance (Jamaica)
19. Paykān - Khayāl Dilbar (Afghanistan)
20. Zohra El Fassia – Erraad, Pt 2 (Morocco)
21. Gavino de Lunas – Cantu Pastorale (Sardinia)
22. Coro de Ruada - Foliada de Orense (Galicia, Spain)
23. Crimean Tatar Orchestra – Taksim ve Peshraf (Crimea)
24. Júlio Silva - Fado Melancólico (Portugal)
25. Salim Abdullah – Kwaherini (Tanzania)

Part 3
1. Adja Mint Aali – El Khar (Mauritania)
2. Siddiq and Party – Sun Kay Gal Nawab Nai (Punjab)
3. Khan Shushinski – Qarabağ Şikəstəsi (Nagorno-Karabakh, Azerbaijan)
4. J. Joseph and Mary – Safarini (Kenya)
5. Ewert Åhs - Evertsbergs Gamla Brudmarsch (Sweden)
6. Orchestre Créole Delvi - Du Feu Prix en Tête Man Nordé (Martinique)
7. Trio Medellín – La Morena (Veracruz, Mexico)
8. Pasquale Taraffo – Sonatina in A Major (Italy)
9. Cayla and Demay – Lo Mourolliado (Auvergne, France)
10. Dachauer Bauernkapelle “Strassmaier” - Niederbayrischer Halbwalzer (Germany)
11. A. Megrelidze and the Georgian Radio Folk Song Ensemble - Rostom Chabuki (Georgia)
12. Tiwonoh and Sandikola - Tilondo le Phepo (Malawi)
13. Sears Orchestra – Bela Aurora (Azores, Portugal)
14. Pov Siv Nou and Pov Van Chorn– Sompong Klay (Cambodia)
15. Toba Batak ensemble – Riak-Riak (Sumatra, Indonesia)
16. Emmanuele Cilia - Iz-Zakkiek (Malta)
17. Mayfair Band – Gathering Peascods (England)
18. Wei Zhongyue - Shimian Maifu, Pt. 1 (China)
19. Subeit bin Ambar - Taksim Hijazi (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
20. Koni Coumaré – Dabatako (Mali)
21. Yusuf Taj – Yahya Al-Zaman Illi Jama’na (Lebanon)
22. Monks of the Maru Monastery at Lhasa - Tse-Chu Cho-Pa (The Offering on the Tenth) (Tibet, China)
23. Francis Salomon – Dans la Ville Mahebourg (Mauritius)
24. Philip Tanner – The Gower Reel (Wales, United Kingdom)
25. Hernández Brothers – Sérénade (Sing, Smile, Slumber) (Columbia)

Part 4
1. Sigbjørn B. Osa – Bjølleslåtten (Norway)
2. Durban Lions – Maheshe (South Africa)
3. Tunde King – Arthur Prest (Nigeria)
4. El Haja Rouïda - Mallaly, Pt 1 (Morocco)
5. Margareta Radulescu - Mamă! Tata Când Mai Vine (Romania)
6. Tom Clough – The Keel Row (Northumberland, United Kingdom)
7. Superba Molassana – A Partenza da Parigi (Genoa, Italy)
8. Valentin Eugenio – Piritipit (Philippines)
9. San Salvador – Narciso Ku Matadi (Congo)
10. Rakotondrasoa and Manjakaray - Rakoto O! (Madagascar)
11. Elenkrig’s Orchestra – Lebedeg (New York, United States)
12. Ahmet Hulûsi Bey – Hacı Yârim (Turkey)
13. Setrak Sourabian and George Shah-Baronian – Hay Aghchig (Armenia)
14. Miss Phuaphan and Miss Pleng with the Organ-Phinphat Ensemble of Bang Khun Phrom Palace - Lakhon Rong Rueang Phali Yat Lohit, Pt 12 (Thailand)
15. Angus Chisholm - Mr Murray; The £10 Fiddle; The Baker (Cape Breton, Canada)
16. Kolompár Peti Cigánybandája – Borozó Csárdás Egyveleg (Hungary)
17. Atan and Sak Ena – Dondang Sayang Singapora, Pt 4 (Singapore/Malaysia)
18. Al Hadj Taha Abu Mandour – Al Sama’i al-Thaqil (Egypt)
19. Gonxhe Manakovska – More Musa (North Macedonia)
20. Saramacca Band – Moengo Boto Blon (Suriname)
21. Kawîs Axa – Bîlmez, Pt. 1 (Iraq)
22. Garifulla Kurmangaliyev – Asylzhan (Kazakhstan)
23. Ishmulla Dilmukhametov – Hyr (Bashkortostan, Russia)
24. Abrew’s Portuguese Instrumental Trio – Valsa Continental (Cape Verde)
25. Sexteto Habanero – Son las dos…China (Cuba)

Joe Bonomo is an essayist and music writer. His books include Sweat: The Story of The Fleshtones, America's Garage Band, Jerry Lee Lewis: Lost and Found, This Must Be Where My Obsession With Infinity Began, and Conversations With Greil Marcus. More information at www.nosuchthingaswas.com

BOOK DESIGNER: Martin Venezky

Jim Linderman has arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit, if not the chronology of rock and roll. Poetically, the photos evoke without naming, and have little to do with conventional iconography of the birth of rock and roll. Instead they document, and celebrate, the pure but indefinable essence of rock. Wherever there is an urge to make acoustic or electric music''whether helping at a rent party, busking in front of a crowd, or testifying in the name of Jesus''there's an uncredited photographer there to snap an image. Thankfully Jim Linderman has shared these one-of-a-kind photos from his collection so we can explore one of the most transformative times for American music.

'Collector and Americana yay-sayer Jim Linderman is an archivist of the obscure. His collections tell vast stories in sotto voce, allowing curios and objects shadowed by mainstream culture and ideology to converse and be heard. What we hear is an enormous American sub-culture speaking in forbidden, marginalized languages: stuff discovered boxed in the attic out of embarrassment or zealotry, smutty ash trays crowing next to religious pamphlets, each claiming a part of the complex, sometimes contradictory, always conflicted American imagination, a chaos of memories that will one day vanish.

In The Birth of Rock and Roll, Linderman's arranged a storyboard of sorts that dramatizes the spirit, if not the chronology of rock and roll. Poetically, the photos evoke without naming, and have little to do with conventional iconography of the birth of rock and roll''i.e., young white men in Memphis, poodle skirts, Alan Freed, Bill Haley's Brylcream, etc. Instead they document, and celebrate, the pure but indefinable essence of rocking.

Ordinary, nameless men, women, and children, some white, some black, are holding guitars and strumming while looking relaxed or frantic, but nearly always blissful. Some of the action takes place in rural fields, some in dance halls, some at civic events, some in living rooms and basements. Wherever there is an urge to make acoustic or electric music''whether to help at a rent party, busk in front of a crowd, or testify in the name of Jesus''there's an uncredited photographer there to snap an image.' -- Joe Bonomo. When Jim Linderman assembled these photographs from his vast collection, he avoided selecting anyone we might recognize. 'I wanted them all to be anonymous, but several were identified, and the Carter Family was included because it is such a lovely snapshot [and it has never been published before now]. I like to think rock and roll emerged from a large collective of unknown folk down there'rather than from some stars up there.''

Format Details: 160 pages,12 inches x 9.75 inches, 134 images reproduced in full color

CONTRIBUTORS: Introduction by Jim Linderman An interview with Jim Linderman by Joe Bonomo

CONTRIBUTOR BIOS + AFFILIATIONS: Jim Linderman is a writer, art historian, collector and publisher. He maintains a network of websites on art, photography and culture. All share the common thread of authenticity.

More information at www.dulltooldimbulb.com