Re: [Swprograms] Fwd: [Swlfest] Recordings of Radio Moscow

[Mike Barraclough <softbulletin1@xxxxxxxxx>]

David Goren's original post mentioned radio recordings
of Radio Moscow
put out by Cook Records.

I have found an interesting review of them:

"...from the early '50s through 1991, even the most
upstanding American citizen was unknowingly bathed in
subversive socialist propaganda. Radio Moscow, the
official international broadcasting station of the
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), beamed in
anti-capitalist rhetoric and Soviet-centric critiques
of US foreign policy 24 hours a day, with a
pleasant-sounding voice interminably blasting the
hypocrisy of the imperialist blood-sucking banker
class
in the "home of the free." The station enjoyed the
most powerful and far-reaching transmission network on
the planet, with shortwave stations based in Siberia
sending messages coated in icicles of loathing and
smug certainty of inevitable victory! Talk to
old-timers
who were alive in those times and they'll recount how
they would sometimes feel a mysterious chill up their
spine."

Full article, Considering Radio Moscow by Ian
Svenonius is at:
http://www.emusic.com/features/spotlight/289_200612.html

Click on the link by the album cover and all the
material is available on paid download though you can
listen to sound samples of each track free.

The CD is available at:
http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/containerdetail.aspx?itemid=2208
where you can enlarge the cover and at
http://www.folkways.si.edu/search/AlbumDetails.aspx?ID=2208

Two other online recordings which may be of interest:

Radio Bucharest Romania

A historic broadcast of Radio Bucharest after the fall
of communism in the country. The triumphant announcer
must be listened to, and although a large file, is
well worth downloading. Date on this one, Saturday
23rd December 1989, around 1400UTC, 11940kHz. The clip
of the multi lingual loop tape lasts about 4 minutes,
although the length of time each language was played
was more like 10m. This was recorded in Scotland, and
in fact played on air on Weekend Music Radio Christmas
transmissions. Response to just that tape was quite
amazing.
Webpage( also 1972 WNYW here):
http://193.63.162.100/other.htm

Voice of Korea
Complete broadcast 26th June 2006 recorded on 9335:
http://www.archive.org/details/Voice_Of_Korea_6_26_06

Mike



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