Listening to an MP3 of an ancient gramophone recording feels like an oxymoron. To get the authentic experience, you'd need to buy a Delorean, a magical hot tub or take a trip to Frank Fairfield's apartment to listen to the ultra-rare and long-forgotten shellacs on his record player.

Of course, the baby-faced banjo and fiddle phenom is unlikely to invite you over for afternoon tea. But if he did, you'd be treated to one of the most remarkable collections of old-time music this side of Steve Buscemi's record room in "Ghost World." Thankfully, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter has opted to share his collection with the world, starting his own Pawn Records imprint, a subsidiary of New York's Tompkins Square.

Slated for release on June 29, "Unheard Ofs & Forgotten Abouts: Rare and Unheralded Gramophone Recordings From Around the World (1916-1964)" collects rare 78s from Atlanta to Hawaii to Kisumu, Kenya. Fairfield's crates display an incredible breadth and depth -- listening to the compilation, one is instantly transported through a kaleidoscopic whirl of different eras and experiences, a cracked window opened into worlds full of dust and din. Googling will yield little on these artists. It's a welcome antidote to the overdose of information inculcated by the Internet age.

Impeccably transferred by vaunted record collector and producer Michael Kieffer, Fairfield and Tompkins Square have offered up an MP3 of Tuatu Archer's "Ama Ama." Spittoon and straw hat not included.

Click through to read Fairfield's liner notes about the track. 

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MP3: Tautu Archer -- "Ama Ama"