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Funded! This project successfully raised its funding goal on April 20, 2012.

Thank you! Headed toward the goal for the Middle East trip.

Update #6 · Apr 15, 2012 · 1 comment

Holy moly! Things are going better than I ever could have hoped. The Project of the Day bump brought a lot of backers to the project. I'm so grateful.

I've said already that if we hit $10,000, I'll begin booking a resarch/lecture tour of Greece, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel & Egypt. Now that it appears to be a real possibility, I'll add to that that if we reach $11,000, I'll buy a video camera, and I'll commit  to starting posting videos regularly on my YouTube channel. (Did you know I have a YouTube channel where you can listen to songs from various recent projects? It's here.) So, there'll be videos from my travels over the next year - NYC, Boston, Dearborn, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, LA, and the Middle East, including excerpts from my lectures, interviews with experts, academics, record collectors, and whatever other fascinating stuff I get to experience, all thanks to YOU, the contributors to this amazing journey. Making widely available the nearly-raw documentation of some of the incredible people who feed the project and places that it takes me is perhaps the best thing I could offer. Thank you all so much for your gracious support. I'm humbled.

As always, spreading the word is a great help. 5 days left to go!

I'll be out of town till Weds. 2 more tracks  - an improvisation by the great Armenian-American kanunist Garbis and a fierce dance piece by Bulgarian-American Nick Doneff - will be posted then!

Ian

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      Creator Larry Vickers on April 15, 2012

      GO Ian! And so, where ya going for the next three days, eh? Asheville awaits!

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    all backers get weekly updates including two gift mp3s of previously unreissued songs from my 78rpm collection related to the project. 6 tracks have been posted for backers to date (April 9), two more will be posted before the project ends, and another two will come the week after - 10 tracks in all - my gift to you for your support.

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    UNCOLLECTED RECORDS - a digital download album of 20 joyous tracks culled from my 78 rpm record collection from all over the world: Scotland, India, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Armenia, China, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Hawaii, Lebanon, Finland, Quebec, etc. (.wav files or high quality mp3s - your choice.)

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    USTAD ABDUL KARIM KHAN & UNCOLLECTD RECORDS- my recent CD release on Important Records with 10 brilliant recordings by the Hindustani master vocalist and some thousands of words of notes telling his story PLUS A CDR album of 20 joyous tracks culled from my 78 rpm record collection from all over the world: Scotland, India, Uzbekistan, Colombia, Armenia, China, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, Hawaii, Lebanon, Finland, Quebec, etc. (.wav files or high quality mp3s - your choice.)

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    WHAT REMAINS OF EDEN: MUSIC FROM ANATOLIA & THE LEVANT, 1928-55 - a signed copy of my new LP on Canary/Mississippi records PLUS a copy of a limited CDR of 23 tracks left off of the CD release of To What Strange Place.

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    WESTERN TOUR STOP - NEW, LOWER DONATION LEVEL! Do you live anywhere between San Diego and Vancouver? Do you live in Arizona, New Mexico or Nevada? I'll arrange for an evening in your town and give a private 2-hour talk/record-listening-session for you and your friends within the next 10 months. PLUS a signed copy of the 3CD set and a copy of a limited CDR of 23 tracks left off of TWSP delivered to you in person.

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