Thomas Preece presents his blog project on Esperanto Music

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Thomas Preece presents his blog project on Esperanto Music

 

Esperanto Music History: (https://eomuziko.com) is my blog project all about Esperanto music.
 

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I started learning Esperanto in about 2005, and one of my earliest experiences with the language was the musical culture. At that time, my main way to access Esperanto music was the free songs from the now defunct website MusicExpress, but even with just those few songs I quickly became a fan. Over the years since I’ve become a collector of Esperanto records, tapes and CDs, but I’ve always wanted to know more about the artists and why they chose to make music in Esperanto.

 

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The original idea for my blog was to summarize what already existed in Esperanto about music from the last few decades and to present it to a non-Esperanto-speaking audience. As such, I originally started writing in English, as most of my sources were already in Esperanto and easily findable in Google, so rehashing that in Esperanto wouldn’t have added anything new. But over time I ended up doing much more in-depth research about older and less well-remembered music, and so recently I decided that it should really also be presented in Esperanto. In July 2025 I launched an updated version of the site with a complete Esperanto translation, and all new posts will be in both languages. 

 

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Alongside the blog I’ve also created the Esperanto Music Database (https://db.eomuziko.com), which aims to list every release of Esperanto music, together with its cover art and tracklisting. I put together the initial dataset by combining the lists from several previous attempts to list all Esperanto music, and so far there are 709 releases in the database. I’m sure that there are more that I don’t yet know about, so I hope to be able to add to that over time!

 

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Music has always been an important part of Esperanto culture, right from the very beginning, but older music, especially music that was only ever released on vinyl or cassette, runs the risk of being forgotten. Cassettes are particularly at risk, as they have an expected lifetime of only a few decades, and so I want to be able to listen to and write about as much old Esperanto music as I can, while it’s still playable!

 

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