Wax Cylinder by Carnoe's Mummingbirds

Embrace the tinny hiss, the pop and the crackle. Cock your ear to that phonograph horn – it’s time to bring the wax cylinder into the 21st Century!

By adding guitars, I’ve made music by sampling 100+ years old wax cylinder recordings including an opera singer, a great orator, a harpist, bell ringers, English language teaching, a yodeller, Tahitian singers, home recordings and more...

In composing additional music for these forgotten and neglected recordings, I hope to have breathed some life into them, and their artists, once again.

For further discussion and background on these recordings please visit https://mummingbirds.wordpress.com

Tracklist

1.	Wax Revolution 9 (No Madam, We Do Not)	3:43

2.	The Undoubted, Unimpeachable Mr Jocelyn	4:25

3.	Ingersoll at the Tomb of Napoleon	4:56

4.	Tahitian Field Recording	4:30

5.	Ay Mama!	3:38

6.	Alpine Specialty with Yodel (feat. Mr George C. Watson)	6:34

7.	Harp Bagatelle with Soprano	4:03

8.	I Let Us Down (French Homemade Black Wax Mix)	2:45

9.	Chiming Bells	3:46

10.	Dedication to Sarah Bernhardt	4:39

Credits

released June 20, 2024

All tracks written by Mark Garner.

Samples taken from 100+ years old wax cylinder recordings now in the public domain.

Guitars - Mark Garner.
Synthesiser on track 2 - CFO Garner
Drums - James Carmichael Dooley

Thanks to CFO Garner, Debbie, Carmen, Celia and Shula for their musical contributions. Thanks also to Chris, Jill, Eleanor, Stuart, Sarra and others for their kind encouragement.

A New Leaf Recording, 2024.

Released on New Leaf NLD22.

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