Miles' Rubberband posthumous disc out on next Sept. 2019

A lost Miles Davis album named Rubberband is set to be released in September. The LP was recorded in 1985 in Los Angeles’ Ameraycan Studios and produced by Randy Hall and Zane Giles.

After 30 years, Rhino Records will be releasing the lost album Miles Davis album Rubberband to the public.

The album was put on hold when Davis went on to record Tutu. However, after 30 years Rhino Records will be releasing the lost album to the public for the very first time.

The LP has been completed by the original producers Hall and Giles along with Davis’ nephew, who played drums on the original recording sessions for the album. The work is set to be released September 6th – mark it in the calendars and check out the tracklist below.

It will be a 2-discs set.

The fire of 2008 - a disaster for music and movie industries!

It happened in 2008... a disaster for music and movie industries...

The archive in Building 6197 was UMG’s main West Coast storehouse of masters, the original recordings from which all subsequent copies are derived. A master is a one-of-a-kind artifact, the irreplaceable primary source of a piece of recorded music. According to UMG documents, the vault held analog tape masters dating back as far as the late 1940s, as well as digital masters of more recent vintage. It held multitrack recordings, the raw recorded materials — each part still isolated, the drums and keyboards and strings on separate but adjacent areas of tape — from which mixed or “flat” analog masters are usually assembled. And it held session masters, recordings that were never commercially released.

The full article by The New York times is

here

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Western Electric 2A turntable

A marvelous vintage turntable built decades ago in the USA... brought to its shiny beauty with passion and untiring care and attention to details...

Love the console...

What an inspiration for a new turntable...

Superb!

Beloved Leon Redbone passed away today!

I'm really, really sad... 

Mr. Leon Redbone, after health issues and retiring in 2015 from active music scene, passed away a few hours ago...

 

I'm sincerely condolencing to his family and friends... he gave to me - and many worldwide - pure joy... 

His class, panama hat and music were - ARE - absolutely timeless and never will be forgotten by yours truly.

R.I.P. dear Champagne Charlie... R.I.P. Leon Redbone... thanks, Mr. Dickran Gobalian.

Some 50 cents vinyl nuggets

Lovely vintage covers... and gorgeous sound from these flea-market finds.

Disc of the Month - Sounds Harpy - featuring the David Snell Quintet

Disc of the Month!

On DECCA, recorded in England in 1966...

Superb recording of great music... cool, seldom heard arrangements and musical blend.

Master quality!

BTW: better Harpy than... Horny;-)

Furry cello mute

Jim Jarmusch's Dead Man OST by Neil Young

Bought this double-disc this morning after reading a review on MOJO June issue... the reviewer was hinting to most experimental Neil's disc, ever... suggesting a comparison with Paris, Texas by Ry Cooder... mmmhhhh... always amazed by reviewers' opinions;-)

... an electric fuzz guitar lucubration with deeeeep bass and William Blake's poems read by movie prima donna - i.e. Johnny Depp.

Yes, I enjoyed this music quite a lot... despite the honest, small print on back cover corner, well... it's an amazingly nice recording, too...

Give it a spin, pals... but don't take any responsibility as you'll DO NOT listen to any Neil's voice or acoustic guitar... 

A footnote: the recording reminded to me more than a.m. Paris, Texas, Peter Fonda's The Hired Arm OST... an electric, fuzzed, one, of course.

Enjoy. 

J.J. Cale - Stay Around (2-discs set 2019)

Posthomous discs are such a trange breed, folks: they can be awesome - thinking to Tim Buckley's live at Royal Albert Hall in 1969... and it sounds weird as artist isn't anymore.

They sort-of make resurrecting your fave, late musician... as music never dies.

In J.J. (Cocaine) Cale's case, well... I've been a very, VERY fond of his music and bought everything he recorded... my most beloved, the Raccoon-cover 1st, Okie, Troubador, 5 (wow, love it!)... then the others: Grasshopper, etc.... down to JJ & Slowhand...

I felt quite out of time, late, if you get it... but the discs contain some little laid-back gems... the recording is nice but discontinuous as it was on the above mentioned JJ's nuggets, being recorded at several different locations and studios... we're far away from the '70s masterpiece quality, yet... I found the Christine Lakeland-Cale (JJ's widow and long-time music-partners) tracks cherry-picking and pleasant...

A must-have disc?

No, don't think so... BUT a pleasure to listen to, anyway, sort-of memory lane, good ol' Americana honestly played and crafted and a nice package to par: you may be able to change cover-window pixie while playing the attached CD;-)

BASF - Liszt or Twist?

Lovely '60s BASF ad...

iTape

Lol!

... at 15 i.p.s. it would give... 30 seconds recording?

;-)

Shinichi Tanaka-san at his place, Hino-shi, Tokyo (Japan 2017)

I found these (forgotten) pixies while emptying my old Sony camera memory-card... such a surprise.

Shinichi-san

The balsa-wood lilliputian-sized model of Tanaka-san's bass-horn.

My mentor and sensei-san Shinichi Tanaka-san at his place, May 2017...

Lovely man and lovely memories, despite so-so framing;-) on above pix, as taken by Shinichi's lovely wife.

The Mahavishnu Sounds

Talk about "elusive discs":

1972 Japanese-only promotional 7-track LP that was never commercially released, focusing on the band members' pre-Mahavishnu releases including John McLaughlin with Miles Davis & Solo plus Jerry Goodman with The Flock & Billy Cobham with Dreams. The textured sleeve is a unique design featuring incredible artwork by Taul Satoh with track/artist biography, selected album details on the back in Japanese & the tracklist in English.

Woodstock 50th Anniversary

The 50th anniversary of 1969’s Woodstock Festival is to be celebrated with the release of a mammoth 38 CD, 432 track box set, featuring 267 previously unreleased tracks. It’ll be released on August 2.

Woodstock 50: Back To The Garden also features a Blu-ray of the Director’s Cut of the Woodstock Film, the book Woodstock: 3 Days of Peace & Music by Michael Lang, a replica original programme, a festival diary, replica posters, photo prints and a guitar strap based on the one Jimi Hendrix used during his historic performance.

The set will come in as numbered, limited edition of 1969 copies and be housed in a screen-printed plywood box.

The collection is a near complete reconstruction of the Woodstock running order, clocking in at 36 hours and featuring every artist performance from the festival.

The complete list of artists featured, in chronological order, is Richie Havens, Sweetwater, Bert Sommer, Tim Hardin, Ravi Shankar, Melanie, Arlo Guthrie, Joan Baez, Quill, Country Joe McDonald, Santana, John B. Sebastian, The Keef Hartley Band, The Incredible String Band, Canned Heat, Mountain, Grateful Dead, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Janis Joplin, Sly & The Family Stone, The Who,Jefferson Airplane, Joe Cocker, Country Joe & The Fish, Ten Years After, The Band, Johnny Winter, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Crosby, Stills & Nash, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Butterfield Blues Band, Sha Na Na and Jimi Hendrix.

The set will also be available in three other versions: a 10 CD set, a 5 LP version, and a 3 CD collection. All are available to pre-order from Rhino.

Meanwhile, vinyl subscription service Vinyl Me, Please has announced a 10 LP set of the previously available compilations Woodstock Vols 1-4 on tie-die coloured vinyl. It’s expected to be available in late August.

Explore eil.com… the world’s best online store for rare, collectable and out of print Vinyl Records, CDs & Music memorabilia since 1987.

A bargain at € 714,99 for the mammoth-set.

;-)))

Tedeska Tondose from Berlin

Berlin is more and more the Silicon (Audio) Valley of Europe... from Neumann onward, many artisans began here their activities in audio industry.

Now, Tedeska, building hand made cartridges since 2015... these people love for music, luthiery and classic audio is well represented in their production: mono and stereo cartridges and a useful repair service for their own and vintage carts... 

To my eyes, their mono model pays kudos to old, beloved Ortofon's "leaf cantilever" design... someway reassuring.

from Tedeska's site:

"Especially for the "TEDESKA eye", a traditional lutherie technique is used which has been applied to the frog part of a violin bow. As a violinist who has to place his right thumb on the frog before he starts playing, so should everyone who holds a TEDESKA system in his hands, feel like an instrumentalist who is about to unveil his “wonder–full“ soundscapes."

Prices are - reportedly - in the pain-zone - i.e. more apt to Audi-owners target than Dacia-owners - in the € 3,000.00/4,500.00 range...

Building quality is, as appreciated from their site, high.

Much worth deepening and exploring this very brand.

Thanking my pal Leif for his truffle-nose on this.

Class in spades

... this very pix means a lot to me: it's "audio", "technology", "care for details" and a "long gone era"... class in spades at its best.

Studer C37, EMT 930, the model impeccable dressing... down to the Ferragamo's shoes... I almost smell her scent.

Give me more of this timeless beauty... I'm not after blinking pimp-like LEDs or the like... give me a well-built piece of gear to properly serve music.

Ha!

Serge Rogozyansky's Karmadon Bandage rim-idler wheel turntable

Folks: the following few pictures represent to me more, MUCH more than all the hyper-polished, hyper priced and hyper-hyped M.O.C. pictures hugely and heavily circulating these days everywhere on the WEB, period.

The above lapidary statement is my strong opinion, the very reason why I'm still so fond of audio... like my friend Sierra Aznar Victor - the former owner of this beauty - so nicely pointed it out, it's man-made gears for man...

A bespoke piece of gears, be them mechanical, electro-mechanical or electronic, simply owns a soul lacking to mass-made gears.

This elegant, yet no frills turntable reminds me a Commonwealth or Byer from Downunder or a Presto or a Rec-o-kut, from USA but Serge, the maker of my beloved Karmadon's Gray replica, is a man of taste and knowledge whose skill simply is at the service of music... he's not a copycat, he's a fine lathing artist and a creator of music machines.

His gears price-tags are always surprisingly honest, down-to-earth... how it should be to make our (audio) passion more palatable to a broader audience.

Not by chance, Serge is a close friend of my pal Misho Myronov of Audio Antiquary/WoodenAmp's fame... same approach, out of the choir, yet singing with purest of voices in a Flat Earth.

I wish to Serge all the success he deserves... looking forward in personally deepening my close encounter with this bespoke, seldom seen turntable.

Spasibo, Serge.