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v/a - sprigs of time: 78s from the emi archive - honest jons records - cd

Genre: Funk / Soul

1. GU Hsu - The English Sound Table
2. Gamelan Gong - Lagu Kebiar
3. Rizeli Kemenceci Sadik - Macka Sarkisi
4. Ochieng Wa Odiaga - Umbok
5. Sacasas - Rumba Negra
6. Jean Mpia - Tembele
7. Vengopal Chari - Laughing
8. Jonuzi Me Shoket - Vome Kaba
9. Fernando Vilches and Ramon Montoya - Flor De Petenera
10. Fairuz - Ya Honaina
11. Cliff Edwards - I Aint Got Nobody
12. Benodini Dassi - Khambaj
13. Joseph Taylor - Sprig O Thyme
14. Imperial Palace Band - Seigaiha
15. Mr Ero - My Darling Rose
16. Fatma Ben Meddah - Zeza Barkak Melbeka
17. Noubar Bey and Party - Fantaisie Maggiar
18. Vengopal Chari - Different Kinds Of Motor Car Noises
19. Ben Simmons - Yankum Ton
20. Cantonese Opera - The Moon/Two Green Lotus Bitterly Imprisoned
21. Sam Mayo - Things Are Worse In Russia
22. Fernando Farinha - Descrenca
23. Gopal Chunder Singh Roy - Burdwan Dist Beggars Song
24. Fatma El Chameya Sudaneya - Gawadallah
25. Surat Band (Mr Razaks) - Bagesri
26. Si Said Ben Ahmed - Yemma, Yemma
27. Malijo and Party - Muliranwawo
28. Sexteto Habanero - Romantica Mujer
29. Mighty Sparrow - The Queens Canary
30. ARP - Gas All Clear

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.

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.