This episode of The Blue Amberol Hour will instill in you a fear of God. 

The Blue Amberol Hour is a program dedicated to one of the earliest forms of recorded media - the wax cylinder. You will hear roughly two carefully curated hours of rare wax cylinder recordings from the late 1800s and beyond that center around a particular theme - a time period, country, specific instrument, and more.

Hali Palombo is a composer, visual artist, filmmaker, shortwave radio enthusiast, and amateur historian from the Midwestern United States. Born in Northfield, Minnesota, she has had a natural curiosity about radio and the Midwestern United States from a young age. Her work often weaves the absurdity and mundane beauty of Illinois into her records, short films, drawings, and paintings.