The new (mild) bass horn is under construction!

 

… and here’s unveiled - at last - the sQUAD who’s after the task!

… and they’re working day & night!

It’s not the workmen are minute, it’s the horn which is HUGE. 😉

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Pultec EQP-IA 💫

 

One of most sought-after studio pieces of gear!

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A sought-after Nick Drake’s disc 💫

 

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Silent Friend (2026)

 

I truly, heartfeltly loved this little movie!

Here below a cold, concisely written synopsis… but there is MUCH more in the slow, s l o w poetic movie to guess, interpretatively think about and loose our mind.

Set in the botanical garden of a medieval town in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden. An encounter.

Also acting is beloved Lea Seidoux 🌸

A closing note about the music, very appropriately chosen throughout… BUT the closing song masterfully sang by Blixa Bargeld on a Goethe poem is worth the movie.

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A Norman Blake’s pre-owned ol’ 000-18 Martin…

 

… is for sale.

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New from David Sylvian 💫

 

The freshly minted label Nanoq release a new album by David Sylvian titled “The Distance Between The Killer and the Killing”. 

It’s the first album Sylvian has released in 15 years, composed of sessions recorded between 2012 - 2025, the album is based on recomposed improvisational sessions with a variety of artists ranging from Otomo Yoshihide, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Bilianna Voutchkova and Miako Klein, to Jamie Drouin, Lance Austin Olson and more.

The 46 min instrumental is unlike anything tackled by Sylvian before and is seen by Sylvian himself as the official follow up to his 2009 album Manafon. In Pauline Nadrigny’s essay on the album, she describes something of the listening experience. ‘… voices surge that belong to no one in particular. 

One that hoots and hums across a violin, worked until it loses its voice, becomes mere matter among other matter. A voice inside the breath of a clarinet or a recorder. Grunts, gurgles, distant cries, somewhere between man and bird, woman and nuthatch. Fragments of choirs, far off, snatches of a song long since lost. Too far to be recovered.’

‘What a remarkable piece of work. At times it feels like listening to a symphony; at others, as though (Sylvian’s) voice is speaking through the music. At first, I was trying to find my own sound, but somewhere along the way I completely forgot about that and became utterly absorbed in the music. Hearing Ryuichi’s presence emerge here and there throughout the piece also brings a very special feeling for me. Thank you for creating something so extraordinary.’

Available on January 2027 💫

John Renbourn’s Electric guitar 💫

 

Description 

• 3CD collection featuring legendary Pentangle guitarist John Renbourn.

• Following chronologically from the 6CD Cherry Tree box 'Unpentangled - The Sixties Albums', featuring a more selective and themed approach to the 1970–1979 period.

• Compiled by Pentangle expert Colin Harper, it focuses on Renbourn’s lead guitar playing (as opposed to pure fingerstyle) and also leans heavily towards original material.

The Pentangle instrumental 'Jack Orion' that begins this set establishes the thrilling uniqueness of John’s electric lead guitar style and is probably his best recording with the group in this area. A rare fuzz guitar alternate take of his self-written ‘John’s Song’ from 1971 and a previously unreleased live version of Charles Mingus' 'The Shoes Of The Fisherman's Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers' from 1972 are the only other Pentangle tracks.

The Renbourn solo albums 'Faro Annie' (1972) and 'Just Like Me' aka 'Lost Sessions' (recorded 1972) continue this electric adventure, after which the electric guitar became a more occasional aspect of Renbourn’s recordings, generally absent from his work after the 1970s. This set also includes the rare and beautiful KPM Music Library instrumental album 'The Guitar Of John Renbourn' (1977), three tracks from the John James album 'Head In The Clouds' (1975) that feature Renbourn and another 18 previously unreleased live tracks.

Highlights of these include six tracks with Pentangle vocalist Jacqui McShee live at Stalybridge in 1975, and another four recorded live in France with McShee and American fiddler Sue Draheim that year. The instrumental 'The Pelican', from Renbourn's 1979 album 'The Black Balloon', is included as a showcase for the way Renbourn blends masterful acoustic technique with subtle electric guitar overdubs. The set ends with seven tracks from a fantastic concert by Renbourn at The Cellar Door in Washington, DC in 1979.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

Pentangle (from The Time Has Come, Castle 2007; recorded 1970)

1.  Jack Orion (instrumental edit)

John Renbourn – Faro Annie (Transatlantic, 1972)

2.  White House Blues

3.  Buffalo Skinners

4.  Kokomo Blues

5.  Little Sadie

6.  Shake Shake Mamma

7.  Willy O’Winsbury

8.  The Cuckoo

9.  Come On In My Kitchen

10.  Country Blues

11.  Faro Annie

12.  Back On The Road Again

John Renbourn & Jacqui McShee, live at Stalybridge 1975

13.  Wedding Dress Song*

14. A Maid That’s Deep In Love*

15.  Kokomo Blues*

16.  Black Waterside*

17.  Sweet Potato*

18.  My Johnny Was A Shoemaker*

Wizz Jones & John Renbourn, live at Guildford 11/72

19.  Bells of Rhymney*

Pentangle (from Pentangle: The Albums (2017) – Reflection (1971) alternate take)

20.  John’s Song (Take 5, fuzz guitar)

 

DISC TWO

John Renbourn – Just Like Me (aka Lost Sessions, recorded 1972)

1.  Just Like Me

2.  Sleepy John

3.  Riverboat Song

4.  Green Willow

5.  Seven Sleepers

6.  To Glastonbury

7.  Floating Stone

8.  O Death

9.  The Young Man’s Song

John Renbourn – The Guitar of John Renbourn (KPM, 1977)

10.  Swallow Flight

11.  Light Traveller

12.  Reflections (1)

13.  Reflections (2)

14.  Freedom Road

15.  Introspection

16.  Passing Time

17.  Portrait Of A Village

18.  Summer Song

19.  Glastonbury

20.  Little Hands

21.  Deserted Streets

 

DISC THREE

Pentangle – live at St Albans 17/10/72

1.  The Shoes of the Fisherman’s Wife Are Some Jive Ass Slippers*

John James (with John Renbourn) – from Head in the Clouds (Transatlantic, 1975)

2.  Georgemas Junction

3.  Wormwood Tangle

4.  Stranger in the World

John Renbourn, Jacqui McShee & Sue Draheim – live in France 1975

5.  Reynardine*

6.  A Maid in Bedlam*

7.  A Maid That’s Deep in Love*

8.  Rain and Snow*

John Renbourn – from The Black Balloon (Transatlantic, 1979)

9.  The Pelican

John Renbourn – live at the Cellar Door, Washington DC, 1979

10.  White House Blues*

11.  Blues Run the Game*

12.  The English Dance*

13.  So Early in the Spring*

14.  Lord Franklin*

15.  Mist Covered Mountains/ The Orphan*

16.  Spirit Levels [with Stefan Grossman]*

* previously unissued 

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Cartoonia or real-life?

 

💫 Garrardzilla 💫

Supersense Mastercuts from Vienna 😳

 

The recording of Bach's Violin Concertos in A minor (BWV 1041) and E major (BWV 1042) with David Oistrakh is regarded by critics as a benchmark among classic interpretations of these works.

Characteristic are Oistrakh's full, sonorous tone and his noble legato phrasing.

The A minor Concerto surges with drive and drama, its central Andante shaped into a deeply expressive song without words.

In the radiant E major Concerto, Oistrakh balances dazzling virtuosity with lyrical tenderness, revealing Bach's perfect union of clarity and soul.

A landmark recording that speaks to both seasoned connoisseurs and explorers of the timeless beauty of Bach.

Original Title:

Bach: Violinkonzerte Nr. 1 A-moll und Nr. 2 E-dur

SIDE A

Violin Concerto No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042

First Movement: Allegro

Second Movement: Adagio

Third Movement: Allegro Assai

SIDE B

Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, BWV 1041

First Movement: without tempo indication

Second Movement: Andante

Third Movement: Allegro Assai

MUSICIANS

David Oistrakh, Georg Fischer, Wiener Symphoniker

RECORDED TO TAPE

June 2, 3 and 4, 1962

Mozartsaal, Konzerthaus, Vienna

Tape Number:

Side A: 18820 A2/B1

Side B: 18820 A1

Recording Engineer: Günter Hermans

BOOKLET CONTENT

Containing our traditional collection of all analog print treasures and memorabilia.

*The total circulation of this Mastercut release is strictly limited to a maximum total of 999 records.

As of today, the following different productions have been released:

Premier Cut: 01-99

Pink Floyd’s Relics 💫

 

Same disc, several covers…

One of my most beloved PF’s records, ever.

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Sakamoto

 

Woman with a double-bass

 

Suzanne Valadon 1865-1938 France

“Woman with a double bass” 1908

Gotorama 3.0 💫

 

It’s a rendering (notice the missing mid-horn and tweeter between the mid-low and low horns…) but you get an idea of how it will be in a few weeks!

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Robbie Basho 💫

 

I always loved this picture from the “Basho Sings!” rear-cover.

The one and only…

… and his colorized, modern, yet aged avatar, like he would have deserved!

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King Crimson’s 40th Anniversary Boxes💫

 

Missing “In the wake of Poseidon”, somewhere hidden in a wrong shelf…

(Found it 😉)

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… more AI ☺️

 

… with some Sistina Chappel, Versailles-esque, Frank Lloyd Wright and Tadao Ando’s flavor… with some Rothko, too.

Then finishing with some NYC, Bali, Gstaad, a Japanese ryokan, a Brutalist loft and a Tibetan temple!

 

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