Soviet Bootlegs Of Banned Records Printed On Discarded X-Ray Plates

[ska invita]

This Polish Jazz Vol X series is cracking
this from 1967
Andrzej Kurylewicz - I Won't Stay with You (Polish Jazz vol. 14)


lots of stuff getting reissued
http://www.discogs.com/label/445167-Polish-Jazz-Deluxe

 

[Ron Merlin]

I've got a load of 70's Russian jazz LPs in the loft I got from a car boot years ago. They all look a bit like these two so might be on Leo, but I think mine are Russian, not English in manufacture:

I'm sure I've got that. LIstened to it twice maximum. Very dense jazz! Not my cup of tea.

This, on the other hand, is sublime:


From English Russia

 

[Treacle Toes]

Can we thank Favelado again for this thread? THANK YOU

 

[Favelado]

I accept your gratitude.

 

[ska invita]

BUMP
They've published a book on this - just seen a copy and its a nice thing - includes interviews with the bootleggers
X-Ray Audio Book

book trailer

 

[sim667]

I got the book for Xmas.

I still want a record for my wall though

 

[editor]

BUMP
They've published a book on this - just seen a copy and its a nice thing - includes interviews with the bootleggers
X-Ray Audio Book

book trailer

And the book was designed brilliantly by a rather modest urbanite eme

Book design for X-ray Audio exhibition

 

[ska invita]

And the book was designed brilliantly by a rather modest urbanite eme

Book design for X-ray Audio exhibition

great job! its a beautiful book...

 

[eme]

Thank you It was an interesting project to work on

 

[laptop]

How did they make the pressings? Id like to give it a go as some kind of art project.

As I understand it, they built their own lathes. So every Röntgenizdat disc is a master

Soviet-era bootleg music recorded on discarded X-ray plates - let me know whether that's behond a paywall.

IIRC the BBC picked it up this week, too, but I can't find it ...after featuring it in 2010: The Wonderful Weightless World of the Flexidisc - BBC Radio 4 Extra

 

[not-bono-ever]

the song is tacked on after i think but it works

 

[elbows]

Someone at work tipped me off that searching for 'pyotr mamonov can opener' on twitter would yield fruit. A bit of following other youtube suggestions after watching that one, and doing a very small amount of research lead to the band name 'Zvuki Mu' and gems like these







Hard to tell if this stuff got a mention before because quite a lot of videos on this thread are no longer available

 

[not-bono-ever]

that last un is fucking brilliant, Well Eno

 

[elbows]

I get the impression they may have been better known in the west than most and Eno produced their first album or something.

Is that a young Alan Partridge on keyboard in the first two videos I posted?

 

[ska invita]

relates to the xray records - mentions them even

 

[petee]

the song is tacked on after i think but it works

wow, how did i forget about that

another from the same artiste

Kola Beldy - Wikipedia

en.m.wikipedia.org

'he "scored with some tundra-orientated megahits in the seventies" '