🕵️old klezmers🎻There's some cool stuff in this new batch. Nothing klezmer, but a good amount of Greek/Turkish/Ottoman music mixed in with the thousands of American discs.
As someone interested in early recording industry history, I love this project. still holding out hope that they eventually release klezmer test pressings that no one has ever heard in 100 years
https://www.library.ucsb.edu/recordings-added-dahr-april-2-2026
for example these two tracks by unidentified Greek orchestras in Germany, recorded before WWI, not sure if they're both the same musicians or not. very prominent #accordion with a sound you'd never hear today
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000747381
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/2000747380
this one is beautiful too, if google is being accurate it's "The song of the crane" by Macedonian-born composer Dramalı Hasan Hasgüler, recorded in #Istanbul in 1931
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/200023374
just one Turkish track by Isaac ben Solomon Algazi (1882–1964), a Sephardic chazzan born in Izmir who later lived in France and Uruguay. recorded in Istanbul in 1909.
https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/matrix/detail/1000004356