I recently discovered this 10″ spoken word disc. It has a religious feeling to it but I think it may be Masonic related, any advice as to wtf is being talked about would be appreciated as I’m completely stumped. I did find out that the shop it was recorded at was owned by Sandy (Alexander) Muir who was once manager for The Skids and set up the No Bad Records label.
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Can’t help I’m afraid, I couldn’t really make it out, but if it was Masonic surely it would be “Voice of the Worshipful Master.” and not Chief.
Is it more of the same on the other side?
I’ve just added a dl of the second side to the youtube, but here it is
https://www.mediafire.com/file/0xjrms3f7q0mgvo/78_side_2.mp3/
I had to turn it off – far too spooky
could have been worse, like “Tátra, amistróbin, hazárta. Tantír, manov, mansízon hazánzobar. Sumunda ropsa, darhis haikur dunsderódza. Kanda, kanda, kanda.”
He said ‘Kanda’ three times! Run for the hills!!!
Not very helpful but it sounds as if was left behind by a murder victim in an Agatha Christie novel giving a clue to the killer. I hasten to add not from the words but as part of a Christie plot.
Not just Agatha Christie. It could be from the first chapter of a thriller by Ruth Rendell or.
a modern Noir novelist.
Fascinating and rather spooky.
Find of the Week, Gardner!
Isn’t this a Scottish Clan thing…? I couldn’t bear to listen in case it is otherwise some kind of curse.
You could try extracting the voice using lalalala.ai which I’ve used before to clean up 78s.
I am not sure about the clan thing, but it’s a good theory! I tried the lala thing but it then got to a point where they wanted money so I stopped it
Any chance this might have been a recording of Chief Walking Buffalo?
The nature-loving homily advice sounds like the right sort of thing.
https://whytemuseum.blogspot.com/2011/05/chief-walking-buffalo.html