🕵️old klezmers🎻it's been around for a while, but it came up in a group chat again today.. are people aware of this audio streaming site from the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine where you can listen to curated wax cylinders of Jewish music from An-sky, Kiselhof, Magid, Beregovsky etc. expeditions?😁
https://www.audio.ipri.kiev.ua/index.html
really these are tracks from CDs they sell of restored wax cylinder audio from their archives, but I think it can be hard to buy them outside Ukraine, although some people I know managed to. it's a lot of nigunim, Yiddish songs, and a few instrumental klezmer pieces.
a related thing I didn't know about till today is that Zisl Slepovitch (from Minsk, long resident in NYC) has 40 klezmer tracks from Sofia Magid's field recordings up on bandcamp.
https://zisl.bandcamp.com/album/magids-klezmer-book-vol-1-concert-key-and-bb-instruments
Magid's Klezmer Book, Vol. 1 (Concert Key and Bb Instruments), by Zisl Slepovitch
40 track album