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Thread #159898 Message #4237007
Posted By: GerryM
17-Mar-26 - 09:15 PM
Thread Name: Singer Sewing EP by Win Stracke
Subject: RE: Singer Sewing EP by Win Stracke
I know of a couple of artists who have incorporated the sounds of a sewing machine into their music.
One is Steve Poltz. I saw him at the Blue Mountains Music Festival in Katoomba, New South Wales, last weekend. For one of his songs he had a recording, on his phone, of a sewing machine, as his accompaniment. I don't know whether this song with that accompaniment is available on CD.
My daughter and her husband, Sarah Myerson and Ilya Shneyveys, have recently released a CD, Electric Rose: The Rose Cohen Experience. Track 2 is Bay Mashin (Yiddish for "At the Machine"). It's about a woman working at a sewing machine in a sweatshop. Sarah operates a sewing machine during the song. When she and Ilya tour the album, she brings along a small sewing machine, and works at it while singing the song.
I don't know whether the machines used in these songs are from the Singer company.