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It contains a book of photographs of musicians - mostly unknown - and others related to the hearing of music. The label's latest chapter, however familiar its sonic contents may be, is one of its most mysterious, mercurial offerings yet.I Listen to the Wind That Obliterates My Traces: Music in Vernacular Photographs 1880-1955 is compiled from the personal collection of interdisciplinary sound and visual artist Steve Roden. Devotees of both the music and its fetishistic packaging have grown exponentially. Hardcore fans of 20th century music, be it gospel, blues, old-timey, sermons, folk, country, African, Asian, etc., have always been drawn to the Dust-to-Digital imprint since the label's first box set, Goodbye, Babylon, issued in 2004 it consists of five CDs containing 135 religious songs recorded between 1902-1960, and another disc of 25 sermons cut between 1926-1940, all packaged in a wooden coffin-like box containing a 200-page book and cotton bolls for packing.
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