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01. G.U. Hsu - The English Sound Table (Bali, 1928)
02. Gamelan Gong - Lagu Kebiar (Bali, 1928)
03. Rizeli Kemenceci Sadik - Macka Sarkisi Cenber (Constantinople, 1930)
04. Ochieng Wa Odinga - Umbok (Kenya, 1939)
05. Sacasas - Rumba Negra (The Cubans in New York w/Rubén González, 1946)
06. Jean Mpia - Tembele (Belgian Congo, 1954)
07. Vengopal Chari - Laughing (Madras, 1906)
08. Jonuzi Me Shoket - Vome Kaba (Tirana, 1930)
09. Fernando Vilches & Ramon Montoya - Flor De Petenera (Spain, 1933)
10. Fairuz - Ya Honaina (Beirut, 1956)
11. Cliff Edwards - I Ain't Got Nobody (New York, 1926)
12. Benodini Dassi - Khambaj (India, 1905)
13. Joseph Taylor - Sprig O' Thyme (the Lincolnshire singer in London, 1908)
14. Imperial Palace Band - Seigaiha (Tokyo, 1903)
15. Mr. Ero - My Darling Rose (Tiflis)
16. Fatma Ben Meddah - Zeza Barkak Melbeka (Morocco)
17. Noubar Bey & Party - Fantaisie Maggiar (Baghdad, 1929)
18. Vengopal Chari - Different Kind Of Motor Car Noises (Madras)
19. Ben Simmons - Yankum Tom (the Gold Coast singer in London, 1928)
20. Cantonese Opera - The Moon/Two Green Lotus In A Bitter Prison (probably Hong Kong, 1950s)
21. Sam Mayo - Things Are Worse In Russia (London, 1922)
22. Fernando Farinha - Descrenca (Lisbon, 1942)
23. Gopal Chunder Singh Roy - Burdwan Dist. Beggar's Song (India)
24. Fatma El Chameya Sudaneya - Gawadallah (the Sudanese singer in Cairo, 1931)
25. Surat Band (Mr. Razak's) - Bagesri (India, 1911)
26. Si Said Ben Ahmed - Yemma, Yemma (Algeria)
27. Malijo & Party - Muliranwawo (Uganda, 1954)
28. Sexteto Habanero - Romantica Mujer (the Cubans in New York, 1927)
29. Mighty Sparrow - The Queen's Canary (Trinidad, 1957)
30. A.R.P. - Gas All Clear (London, 1939)
ARTIST
TITLE
Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
HJR 036CD HJR 036CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/28/2008

This is the third in Honest Jon's series of albums exploring the earliest 78s held in the EMI Hayes Archive. Honest Jon's has spent the last two years delving through more than 150,000 78 records in the temperature-controlled steel vaults of EMI's Archive in Hayes, Middlesex. Following studious compilations of West African and Iraqi music of the 1920s, the latest release in the Honest Jon's Hayes Archive series is a sparkling late-summer lucky dip, Sprigs Of Time: 78s From The EMI Archive. An eccentric survey of the Hayes shelves, Sprigs Of Time is thirty tracks recorded between 1903 and 1957, everywhere from England (Percy Grainger's recording of the title song, sung by Joseph Taylor in 1908) to Japan (the bewilderingly beautiful "Seigaiha," by the Japanese Imperial Palace Band, five years earlier). Organ rolls from Georgia run alongside Tamils impersonating motorized transport, and rumba from Beirut; '40s fado sits next to the songs of Bengali beggars. As with the other Hayes releases, the tracks have been restored at Abbey Road and are beautifully presented, with extensive contemporary photographs included. There are recognizable names (Joseph Taylor, the incomparable Fairuz, Mighty Sparrow and an uncredited Rubén González, singing lead vocals on "Rumba Negra") and extraordinary oddities (Vengopal Chari's rather unfunny "Laughing" and the peculiarly affecting hand bells of "Gas All Clear"). Taken out of the library and put back on the turntable, every track here is remarkable; every one worth the saving.