Innocence and Despair: The Langley Schools Music Project
I was unaware of this wonderful record until Daishin got it for me a few weeks ago. Since then, it's become my favourite outsider music. Recorded in a Canadian school gymnasium in 1977, the performances — vocal and instrumental — are by children with no previous musical experience, taught by an inexperienced music teacher... and the result is sublime. The beautiful, broken singing on "Desperado" makes it the most powerful version of that song I've heard. My other favourites are "Sweet C...
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