This mix from Warren Defever / His Name Is Alive is wonderful - I was googling tracks from the first second (19th century spirituals recorded in 1895? I reckon so)
A mixtape of ancient gospel, blues, jazz, gamelan, and other ecstatic and incantatory selections by Warren Defever (His Name Is Alive).
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Standard Quartette – Every Day’ll Be Sunday (1895)
Contemporary Jazz Quintet – Tao (1973)
Marion Brown/Awofofora – Vista 76 (1976)
Myanmar Buddhist Ceremony – Laphet Ku (1998)
Harold Genzmer – Konzert for Trautonium und Orchrestrer (1950)
Philip Cohran and the Artisic Heritage Ensemble – Minstrel (1967)
Don Cherry – Mammoth Cave, Kentucky (1978)
Alemu Aga – Abatatchen Hoy (1994)
Khan Phil Cohran – Blue Nile (1993)
TCL Section Crew – Track Linin’ (1927)
Anton Weber – Berg: Lyric Suite for string quartet (1936)
Clara Rockmore and Nadia Reisenberg – Pastorale (1975)
Laotian Buddhist Temple -Phithi Takbat Naybunpha Thatluang (2003)
Unknown – Lord I’m Running Trying To Make A Hundred
Balinese Gamelan – Gamelan Semar Pegulingen (1941)
Bertha Houston – We Are Americans (1943)
Nathan Frazier – Old Cow Died (1942)
Hirut Bequele – Yeqondjowotch Mender (1975)
Julliard String Quartet – Webern: String Quartet Op.5 (1959)
Skip Spence – All Come To Meet Her (1969)
Julius Hemphill – The Hard Blues (1972)
Haruomi Hosono – Hum Ghar Sajan (1978)
William Bennett – Railroad Bill Oughta Be Killed (1929)
Sippie Wallace – Mama’s Gone, Goodbye (1924)
Duke Ellington – Lion of Judah (1940)
John Coltrane – Evolution (1965)