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On Mar 4, 9:59*am, bpnjensen wrote:
On Mar 3, 11:11*pm, wrote: On Mar 3, 11:34*pm, Steve wrote: On Mar 3, 11:19*pm, bpnjensen wrote: When I was a kid, the Eastern Bloc countries all had interval signals that, somehow, were as frightening as the spectres of the things that I imagined going on behind the Iron Curtain. *Radio Tirana in particular had a desperate sounding minor key IS that made me feel terribly sorry for the persecuted people in that horridly backward and iron-fisted nation. But there was one IS that really creeped me out on any given cold Massachusetts winter's night sometime in the 1970's. *I would sit in the dark all snug and warm in front of my Hammarlund HQ-100 or my Astronaut-8, the only light in the room emanating from the radio before me, and scanning around 31 meters this minor key theme would pop up 2 minutes before 10 PM... The station never IDed in English, so I never found out what it was (until today! :-D), but the Interval Signal and the language my naive ears heard made me imagine it was some Soviet satellite where people lived lives of utter despair and destitution under the cruel eyes of a secretive Stalinist government, always wondering whether they would see their loved ones again when they got home work in the dim, smoggy factory. *The terrors were almost unimaginable...it sent fear through my soul. Imagine my surprise when I found out what it really was today! http://www.asahi-net.or.jp/~RP4N-KWM...nd2/index.html OR: http://tinyurl.com/ycncdgg Once here, open up Israel - R. Israel - 1978 using Realplayer. *It still sends shivers down my spine. While you're at it, check R. Tirana 1974 too :-) Bruce I always thought Voice of Turkey's interval signal was a little creepy. Also beautiful though. Steve- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - * * * * *V.of Turkey must be THE KING of thriller interval signals. *I would say no eastern block country came even close to THAT piece of frightening composition! Turkey has retained some elements of music of the ancient peoples that inhabited Asia Minor since time immemorial... Albania too, though not so deeply moving.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Hmmm - to each his own I guess. *Turkey's IS, for me, is essential ancient Middle Eastern / Asia Minor - exotic, but not frightening.- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Almost all Turkish folk music is essentially very sad. Once I inquired a native from there and got a fairly honest responce: nearly all folk songs of Turkey is same as crying ! |
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