Music is…

 

… a 1947 Martin D-18!

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Amarcord

 

The Sun

 

The Sun by Eduard Munch - 1911.

(University of Oslo)

The Sun is the work you wouldn't expect from Munch, considering his famous "Scream" and the anguish that pervades many of his works. It's a hymn to life. This is a comprehensive work, of universal value. The appearance of the all-embracing sun is a reflection on life. This painting is light that annihilates the darkness that lurked in the painter's complex existential story. We are before a masterpiece, a painting of unprecedented power.

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Studer C37 💫

 

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Go, Rhino, go!

 

Ogun heroes 💫

 

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Well deserved, Mary Halvorson 🍀🥂💫🥂🍀

 

Bingo!

Congratulations, Mary!

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British Royalty 💫

 

Eberhard Weber - Colours/Silent Feet (ECM/WB 1978)

 

This is definitely an Eberhard Weber’s kind of afternoon!

His music is addictive and simply “right”… 

Charlie Mariano’s reeds (here heavenly playing like a much mellower and melodic, less raucous Jan Garbarek) and - even more - John Marshall’s drumming, are serving the composer’s wills in a majestic way.

P. S. - these Warner Bros.’  ECMs, reportedly remastered by Bernie Grundman 🥇, sound simply marvelous!

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Eberhard Weber - Yellow Fields (ECM 1976)

 

Another Eberhard Weber’s gem which I recently found at a flea-market in Austria… 

It’s in pristine condition and sounds amazing!

Also if I dearly love ECM, I will never get tired underlining that a 50 years old disc like this sounds MUCH,  M U C H  better (more dynamic, more silent) than any recent ECM’s vinyl-record… but also virtually ALL the currently pressed/issued discs by any label aren’t perfect, so… 

Better enjoying music.

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America 💫

 

… no, not the nightmarish, infested and presided over by warmongers actual one, but the great musical trio which was the soundtrack of my youth and whose first record still pleases my ears, 55 years after they published their “An horse with no name” seminal hit which I bought as a 7” 45 rpm single when a kid.

From Michael Fremer’s “The Tracking Angle” review:

“Their original song line up for the album was recorded at Trident Studios in London with famed engineer Ken Scott. Realizing they needed a hit, the band quickly recorded “A Horse with No Name” at nearby Morgan Studios and released it as a single a month before the album.”

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I’m right now listening to Chad Kassem’s 45 rpm double record-set and I’m in awe for the sonics of these discs: just amazing!

A “be here” of seldom-heard quality!

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Eberhard Weber - Orchestra (ECM 1988)

 

This amazing disc resonates in my head since I recently discovered it (my fault as it was published in 1988!).

I just got a mint copy of the vinyl-disc after enjoying it in its immaterial form, listening to it on headphones while walking in the mountains, alone, in the woods... a truly special company, indeed.

… and I confess the disc is truly a special one: the recording is spacious, dynamically exciting and music is - simply said - extremely beautiful.

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Happy birthday, Manfred Eicher 💫🥂🍀💫🥂

 

Manfred Eicher — born 9 July 1943.

He’s 83 today.

 © Bart Babinski

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Milan Knížák - Venice Biennale (1990)

 

Poor records, tortured in the name of “art”.

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SAUL STEINBERG @ THE NEW YORKER. 1948/05/29

 

Late for Early Music 💫

 

An Hare & David Sylvian 💫

 

The Editor with his traditional vest 😳

 

Notice the ReVox G36 in the background.

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Be a goat 💫

 

W111 or perfection 💫