I’m not a big fan of choral music, but I just discovered the Langley Schools Music Project and I’m really enjoying it. They were a 60-voice choir of rural school children from western Canada that performed pop hits in the mid-70s, and the passion of these young singers shines through the low-fidelity recordings (made in a school gymnasium and pressed onto two 12-inch LPs made for the students and their parents!). Their itinerant music teacher, Hans Fenger, was obviously inspired as he leads the kids through rousing versions of standards by the likes of the Beach Boys, the Beatles and David Bowie, all accented with gamelean chimes. You can buy a package that includes the reissued LPs called Innocence & Despair and a 16-page color booklet chronicling the development of the recordings.