By the bureau of lost culture.
Soviet x ray vinyl.
Russian x ray records bone music x ray bootlegs soviet forbidden music roentgenizdat jazz on bones music on ribs.
The weird secret history of soviet x ray music in cold war russia getting your hands on an american rock record was close to impossible.
The x ray vinyl was pressed by small run in melbourne who were fantastic in ensuring it was the real deal.
There was the x ray phase then the much much bigger magnitizdat phase the bootlegging and sharing of music via reel to reel tapes and then came cassette culture.
Ryobra also known as music on ribs музыка на рёбрах jazz on bones джаз на костях bones or bone music roentgenizdat are improvised gramophone recordings made from x ray films mostly made through the 1950s and 1960s ribs were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing music by foreign and emigre musicians that was.
The strange story of soviet music on the bone tells the secret history of these ghostly records and of the people who made bought and sold them.
Lavishly illustrated with images of discs collected in russia it is a unique story of forbidden culture bootleg technology and human endeavour.
The soviet bootleg records pressed on x rays in 50s soviet union western records such as rock around the clock and boogie woogie bugle boy were banned.
In the ussr during the cold war era the music people could listen to was ruthlessly controlled by the state.
In terms of soviet bootleg culture generally there were three phases.
But a secret underground subculture of music lovers and.
In a culture where the recording industry was ruthlessly controlled by the state music lovers discovered an extraordinary alternative means of reproduction.
Raising funds for tony hawk s charity the skateppark project the 7 vinyl featuring an injury sustained by.
The curious story of soviet music on the bone.
The avalanches have teamed up with tony hawk to release a rare x ray vinyl.
The x ray bit was quite small compared with what came later.
Australian hip hop group the avalanches who released a collaboration with the international space orchestra last month have come together with american pro skateboarder tony hawk for another special release.
