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Bizarre collection of world music

A bizarre collection of archive material charting over a hundred years of world music history is to be released. The old 78 records from the EMI collection include some of the very earliest recorded music, including the mystical sounds of the Imperial Palace Band of Japan. Correspondent Nicola Stanbridge met the archivists.

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