Bone music, Soviet outlaws and X-ray rock ‘n’ roll ft. Stephen Coates
A record etched onto an x-ray of a (probably, now) dead Soviet citizen’s head. That is the uniquely cursed object Stephen Coates came across in a Russian flea market in 2014.
Weird, eerie, and almost polyphonic in quality, these DIY records captivated him and sparked a mission to find the bootleggers who had risked up to *five years* in a gulag for their love of music. How did they turn x-rays into subversive ‘rib music’? And what can a flimsy bit of plastic show us about subcultural life in the USSR?
Stephen Coates hosts the fantastic Bureau of Lost Culture podcast and his band, The Real…
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