Siegfried Wendel - oldtime music - Vintage mechanical instrument devices lp (SMM03)

I bought this album the other week from a charity shop for 49p purely because i found the cover interesting lol, it looked weird and strange and the black and white sleeve reminded me of a family album i have.
Musically its very strange its old music from the 1700s / 1800s etc played on automatic instruments such as music boxes and flutes etc, the missus and kids didnt like it :P
the only online presence i found really was an oxfam page where it had been sold for £8.99, not one download site came up...so "enjoy"

heres the tracklisting

"Oldtime Music Aus Siegfrieds Mechanischem Musikkabinett -Rudesheim" LP by Siegfried Wendel
Siegfrieds Mechanischem Musikkabinett SMM 03


side1
1 Flute Table c.1790 -Ferdinando Paer
2 Serinette (Bird Organ) c.1790 -"We Bind For Thee Thy Bridal Wreath"
3 Black Forest Flute Clock c.1830 -2 Dance Airs
4 Vosges Mountains Barrel Organ c.1840 -2 Dances
5 Nicol Freres Pianoforte Musical Box c.1850
6 Flute Musical Box c.1860 -2 Pieces
7 Frati & Co Orchestrion c.1880 -"Thats The Berlin Air"
8 Symphonium With Bell Chime c.1900 -The Loreley ("I Know Not For What I Am Yearning")
9 Polyphone Musical Box c.1890 -"Vienna Blood"
10 Colchi Bacigalupo Grafigna Barrel Organ c.1890 -"Old Comrades"
11 Loesche Orchestrion c.1905 -Popular Song Medley

side2
1 Bacigalupo Barrel Organ -"Roses from The South"
2 Philipps Violin Orchestrion With Accordion 1923 -Faust "Intermezzo Foxtrot" & Luchesis Love Waltz
3 Hupfeld Symphony Jazz Orchestra c.1926 -"Sag Du Zu Mir"
4 Philipps-Paganini Orchestrion c.1921 -Schuberts "Ave Maria"
5 Bechstein-Welte Reproduction Grand Piano 1930 -Chopins Ballade In A Flat Major, Op.47, played by Paderewski


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In Embrace - Passion fruit Pastels (1982)

Heres a weird one, to me it sounds like indie, post punk with a hint of jazz and folk in there, theres even what sounds like monk chanting style influences.


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Elliott Sharp - NOTS

from wiki
"Elliott Sharp (b. Cleveland, Ohio, March 1, 1951) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and performer.

A key figure in the avant-garde and experimental music scene in New York City for over thirty years, Sharp has released over sixty-five recordings ranging from blues, jazz, and orchestral music to noise, no wave rock, and techno music. He pioneered ways of applying fractal geometry, chaos theory, and genetic metaphors to musical composition and interaction, as well as the use of computers in live improvisation with his Virtual Stance project of the 1980s. He is an inveterate performer, playing mainly guitar, saxophone and bass clarinet. Sharp has led many ensembles over the years, including the blues-oriented Terraplane and Orchestra Carbon."

NOTS is from 1982 and is on noted indie label Glass records (Spacemen 3, Pulp) and is quite strange, a mix of "indie" and improvised style jazz i suppose. I did think it was strange till i heard a couple of his other albums actually, and found its actually one of the more saner accessible albums of his.
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Hermann Szobel - Szobel (1976)

Tracklisting
Side 1
Mr Softee (6.45)
The Szuite (12.30)
Side 2
Between 7 & 11 (5.08)
Trancendental Floss (6.08)
New York City 6AM (6.45)
(1976 Arist Records (AL 4058) made in USA)

info from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Szobel
Hermann Szobel is/was a pianist and composer. He produced and recorded one album, titled "Szobel," at the age of 18, demonstrating, in the words of a "Down Beat" reviewer (9 September 1976), "a conception and technique far in advance of most musicians twice his age." According to the artist biography included with promotional copies of the album, Szobel was born in Vienna in 1958 and was "a child prodigy who began his classical training at the age of six" who "spent the majority of his practicing hours on pieces by Chopin." The bio states that pianists Martial Solal and Keith Jarrett were two major influences on his work. Szobel is a nephew of the late rock-concert promoter Bill Graham. "Szobel" features extremely complicated compositions comparable to those of Frank Zappa. The music is jazz-based but contains elements of rock and Western classical music. Szobel's impressive piano virtuosity is noticeable throughout the album. The other musicians on "Szobel" are Michael Visceglia on bass, Bob Goldman on drums, Dave Samuels on percussion including marimba and vibraphone, and Vadim Vyadro on tenor sax, clarinet, and flute. Obscure even when it was released (on Arista Records) in 1976, "Szobel" does not exist on CD. Hermann Szobel disappeared from the music world after this album and has never been heard from again.

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