Bar Laika presents Playback 006 with Canary Records

For its sixth edition at Bar Laika on Sunday, December 10 from 6pm, Playback welcomes Canary Records, a label specializing in early twentieth-century folk masterpieces (mostly) in languages other than English. Founder Ian Nagoski is a music researcher and reissue record producer in Baltimore, Maryland who specializes in early twentieth-century recordings with a focus on the musics of immigrants. Over the past fifteen years, he has produced albums for Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square, Mississippi, Important, the Database of Recorded American Music, and his own Canary Records label among others. He travels and lectures across the US and Europe. In 2022, he co-authored and published the book and CD Zabelle Panosian: I am Servant of Your Voice.

Playback is a series of listening events curated by Kamran Sadeghi where record labels, musicians, composers, and producers feature recordings from their catalog, and premiere album pre-releases, archives, and other rarities.

For more information, contact laika@e-flux.com.