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RE/SEARCH: Incredibly Strange Music, Volume I & II is a collection of two compilation CD's focusing in odd records found at charity shops/thrift stores, garage sales and the like. It was created after the release of the book Incredibly Strange Music put together by RE/SEARCH magazine. It focuses on the oddities vinyl records can offer.

On the dark side of fame awaits the slide into obscurity. That’s certainly true for a number of operas that, while popular and highly lucrative during their composers‘ lifetime, soon followed their creators into the shadowy realm of oblivion. Operas, for example, that only ever get mentioned in connection with some much more famous sibling. Giuseppe Gazzaniga’s Don Giovanni – premiered half a year before Mozart’s masterpiece – is such an example, as is Ruggero Leoncavallo’s La Bohème and George Bizet’s Djamileh, widely considered the predecessor of Carmen.