Newsletter : December 2007

Happy Holidays
The entire Dust-to-Digital family would like to extend season's greetings to you and yours. As we enter into the final days of 2007, we hope your time off from work is well spent with the ones you care about.

Release Party Recap
Thank you to everyone who came out for the Art of Field Recording release party in Athens on November 24th. It was such a special night, and we intend on getting some video online early next year to share with everyone who could not be in attendance.

Getting Ready for Christmas Day
For those of you wondering about whether your package will be delivered in time for the holidays, we have been told by the United States Post Office that domestic shipments made by December 20th will arrive at their destination in time for Christmas. With that in mind, we will be shipping all orders that are received by midnight tonight on the 20th. Orders received after that time will be shipped when our mail-order operation resumes after the holidays.

Also, Art Rosenbaum will be at Decatur CD tomorrow at 6pm to perform several songs he learned from artists that he has recorded over the years. He will sign copies of Art of Field Recording Volume I for anyone who so desires. Even if you have already bought a copy of the set, feel free to bring it in.



New Release Now Available - In Stores on 1/22/08
Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days
The Victrola Favorites set is now available at the Dust-to-Digital online store. The deluxe 144-page clothbound, full-color book of illustrations measures 8.5 inches x 5.5 inches and includes two CDs featuring Burmese guitars, Chinese Opera, Persian folk songs, Fado, Hillbilly, Jazz, Blues and much, much more. The recordings, made between 1920s-50s, were compiled by Rob Millis and Jeffery Taylor of the band Climax Golden Twins. The book was laid out by Millis, Taylor, and John Hubbard.

Victrola Favorites: Artifacts from Bygone Days comes with either a red or white cover. If you have a strong preference for one color over the other, you can let us know in the "comments" section of the checkout page. As for the packaging, the CDs rest on hubs on the inside front and back covers. Printed on extremely fine, museum-quality paper, the book is meant as a visual manifestation of the sounds contained on the CDs with hundreds of images of record sleeves, photographs, record labels, needle tins and more. (Click here to read an article from the Seattle Metropolitan about this project.)


Updates to the Dust-to-Digital Online Store
Art of Field Recording T-Shirts
Available in your choice of white or gray, the cotton t-shirt displays a photograph of Art Rosenbaum sketching Maybel Cawthorn on the front and the Art of Field Recording Volume I box cover in color on the back.


Awake, My Soul - Deluxe Two DVD Special Edition
Matt and Erica Hinton have updated their documentary film Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp. The new version includes a second DVD with the original ten-minute short, audio commentary, additional interviews with Sacred Harp singers, as well as video footage of 62 songs performed live. If you are not sure if this is a film you would be interested in, check to see if your local PBS station is on the list below that will be airing Awake, My Soul in the coming weeks.

Purvis of Overtown - New Documentary DVD on Tinwood
Directed by Shaun Conrad and David Raccuglia with original music and score by Otis Taylor.
"After serving a prison sentence for breaking and entering, Purvis Young returned to Overtown, the Miami neighborhood of his youth. During his incarceration he had taught himself to paint, and in Overtown he began to chronicle almost obsessively its history and multicultural flavor, its streets and characters, its anecdotes of daily life, and its mythologies of survival. He soon transformed a rundown street, Goodbread Alley, into an outdoor museum filled with his paintings. In the ensuing four decades Purvis Young has become a nationally acclaimed artist whose impassioned style and keen eye are inseparable from his sense of place." Published by Tinwood Media.


Getting Ready for 2008
Forthcoming Releases
As of the time of this writing, the three projects that are all but slated in stone for release next year are John Fahey's Fonotone Years (Spring), Take Me to the Water (Summer), and Art of Field Recording Volume II (Fall). We will keep you posted on the release dates as they become available.