Ian's profile
Ian Nagoski is a music researcher and record producer in Baltimore, Maryland. For over a decade, he has produced scores of reissues of early 20th century recordings in languages other than English for labels including Dust-to-Digital, Tompkins Square, his own Canary Records, and others. His enthusiastic talks have been hosted at the Library of Congress in Washington D.C., the Onassis Cultural Center in Athens Greece, the University of Chicago, the University of Pennsylvania, and New York University, and he has presented his work in installation at the Museum fur Naturkunde in Berlin, Germany; the Wellcome Center in London, England; the Peale Center in Baltimore, Maryland; the Center for Post-Natural History in Pittsburgh, and elsewhere.
"His work is so rare and important that it should almost be treated as a ritual object, a pathway to the past and a voice for ghosts of a forgotten part of American musical history." - Nate Wooley, Sound American
"Nagoski is a Walter Benjamin visionary, using his collection of 78s to hallucinate a history that actually happened but which remains hidden beneath official dogma and nationalisms.” - Marcus Boon, the Wire
"...as essential to an understanding of American music as anything else." - Amanda Petrusich, Pitchfork
”I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. ” - Henry Rollins, KCRW
“work of great beauty.” - Jace Clayton / DJ/rupture, WFMU
"It's almost in a mystical way. He's not just talking about: 'Here's this item I own.' When he talks about or writes about these items, they're discs that can really transport you." - Ben Chasney, Six Organs of Admittance in the Washington Post
"Record of the year." - David Harrington, Kronos Quartet on Nagoski's Black Mirror
"His work is so rare and important that it should almost be treated as a ritual object, a pathway to the past and a voice for ghosts of a forgotten part of American musical history." - Nate Wooley, Sound American
"Nagoski is a Walter Benjamin visionary, using his collection of 78s to hallucinate a history that actually happened but which remains hidden beneath official dogma and nationalisms.” - Marcus Boon, the Wire
"...as essential to an understanding of American music as anything else." - Amanda Petrusich, Pitchfork
”I was entranced; I was FASCINATED. ” - Henry Rollins, KCRW
“work of great beauty.” - Jace Clayton / DJ/rupture, WFMU
"It's almost in a mystical way. He's not just talking about: 'Here's this item I own.' When he talks about or writes about these items, they're discs that can really transport you." - Ben Chasney, Six Organs of Admittance in the Washington Post
"Record of the year." - David Harrington, Kronos Quartet on Nagoski's Black Mirror
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