depression (new digital debris)

[fingertrouble]

I go back to 1929 via 78. 2(00)9 recurring, as we crash, crash, crash. Crunch.

OK a lot of you may not even have heard of Radio Clash's shy sibling, the arts/experimental podcast digital debris.

Well finally got to the 3rd proper episode 'depression'.

Loads of classic Great Depression-themed 78rpm records (quite a few that everyone will have heard at some point, maybe not in the original versions here), readings from novels of the time, and maybe an inkling, crackly messages from '29, of ways of coping during the 2009 recession? Interspersed with bits from the 1935 novel by Horace McCoy and 1969 film, They Shoot Horses Don't They? to even up the happy happy sunshine score.

I can't say in words how much I love 1920s and 1930s music, a lot seems as current today as then, and I set up digital debris in part to play out of copyright 78's - so here is a show dedicated to them, at a time when economic uncertainty in the songs echoes through the years and resonates today. Or is that just the knitting needle stylus buzzing? I don't know...

Comments

[zbear20.livejournal.com]

I've just downloaded the podcast and will start to listen to it now, but both links when I clicked on them got McAffee popping up saying it repaired a trojan in the file.

[holy13nation.livejournal.com]

Glad I came on this at this stage. Will be downloading later on. Excited about the music too. I need liberating from beats and barre chords.
Incidentally Tim...one alternative to sitting on benches. Once I leave this place (less than three weeks) and am footloose and fancy free during the day if you fancy hitting any galleries and the like as an alternative to a night out at a bar...I also have just rejoined the Tate and made sure I got the membership deal that gets two in for free...

[why-a-duck.livejournal.com]

For those of us who have subscribed to DD since show zero, it's coming in fine. ;-)

Thank you Tim.

[shaggycub.livejournal.com]

I enjoy music of that period too. I have a stack of 78's that I haven't listened to since my 4 speed turntable died. I really liked "They Shoot Horses" and I have seen (and read) "Locust". It was years ago, but I recall the film stacking up fairly well to the book-Donald Sutherland and Karen Black were very effective. The film that stuns me and is still amazingly relevant is "Golddiggers of 1933"-especially that finale "Remember My Forgotten Man."