Pig's Big 78s released

[Herra Gee]

So this should interest some of you.. From wonderful German label 
Trikont's website:

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The Pig's Big 78s
Sheila and John Peel's vintage favourites

The phone call came out of the blue: �Would you be interested in 
releasing a CD of my favourite 78 records?� said a familar voice. 
�You're the only label I can think of who can do this!�. John Peel was 
proposing a collaboration. He'd been a fan of Trikont for some time and 
we were long standing fans of his.

In his unforgettable late night radio show, beside Drum & Bass, The 
Fall, Grunge, Punk, The Delgados, Indie-Pop and Captain Beefheart, he 
played a lot of Trikont�s new releases: American Polka, Hillbilly Music 
and over a three month period, all the tracks from the four La Paloma 
CDs. He even played the crazy DeZurik Sisters track from American 
Yodeling to P.J. Harvey when she was in the studio, saying: �Polly, ever 
considered yodeling?� And every night he would play one 78-rpm record, 
which he selected with his wife Sheila (aka The Pig) who introduced the 
slot: �The Pig's Big 78�

He had sent us a CD with all the music: 24 weird and wonderful tracks, 
and the project was gaining momentum (only the booklet notes he had 
promised to do were still missing), when John died of a heart attack in 
October 2004 while on holiday in Peru.

Nine months later, Sheila agreed to complete the project with us. She 
told us why she and John had chosen these particular tracks: her 
surprising stories and anecdotes reveal unknown aspects of their life 
and put the music into context. These explanations shed light on this 
diverse and idiosyncratic selection of tracks, which range from brass 
bands and yodeling to traditional music from China and Africa, from 
comic football scetches to bizarre noise imitations.

The Pig's Big 78s will be released in the spring of 2006.
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... and will find its place among many other Trikont releases on my 
shelf, all there because of John.

Goofy