KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ World Ear Project: Recorder and Birdsongs

Analog Audio

Event Type

Other Finds

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

WEP.XXXX.XX.XX.03.c1

Program Series

World Ear Project

Program Length

30 mins

Dates

| broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

This appears to be a case where either one program was recorded over another or on a different side or track of the same tape. The first half of the program is taken from a KPFA Open Hour broadcast of on March 17, 1970 and feature selections from a 1965 LP entitled “Chicago Blues: The Early 1950's.”The second half features another example of ambient field recordings presented on KPFA’s groundbreaking program series “The World Ear Project,” in which listeners around the globe were encouraged to send interesting recordings to the station, made in a variety of unique and unusual environments. In this undated recording we hear an unidentified person playing the recorder as birds sing in the background. This program was apparently recorded somewhere in suburban San Jose California probably in the early 1970s.

Genres

Popular music
Field recordings

Musical Selections

Muskadine Blues [excerpt] (1:00) / Little -- Dim Lights (2:40) / J. B. Hutto -- Things Are So Slow (3:02) / J. B. Hutto -- Five Long Years (2:37) / Eddie Boyd -- Rollin & Tumblin Pt. II [excerpt] (2:20) / Baby Face Leroy -- [recorder music and birdsongs, San Jose CA] (14:00)

Subjects

Popular music
Blues (Music)
Ambient recordings
Field recordings
Birdsongs
Recorder music

Related places

Berkeley (Calif.) (was recorded at)
San Jose (Calif.) (was recorded at)

Related Entities

Little Walter, 1930-1968
Hutto, J. B.
Boyd, Eddie, 1914-1994
Foster, Leroy, 1923-1958