This is Stefano Bertoncello's Blog (ステファノ・ベルトンチェッロ - トゥーグッドイアーズ − ブロガー、オーディオ＆ミュージック・コンサルタント) devoted to pacific topics like Music - live and reproduced - i.e. discs, audio, guitars and whatever musical: concerts, workshops, exhibitions, etc. Furthermore: travelling - as a mind-game and real globetrotting - and books, movies, photography... sharing all the above and everything which makes Life better and Earth a better place to stay, enjoying Life, in Peace. Proudly ads-free since 2007! Enjoy.💫
This is definitely an Eberhard Weber’s kind of afternoon!
This 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.
Another Eberhard Weber’s gem which I recently found at a flea-market in Austria…
It’s in pristine condition and sounds amazing!
I’ll never miss 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!
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… no, not the nightmarish warmongers 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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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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Manfred Eicher — born 9 July 1943.
He’s 83 today.
© Bart Babinski
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Poor records, tortured in the name of “art”.
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Notice the ReVox G36 in the background.
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A Baroque guitar, an harpsichord and a viola da gamba, dated 1940… too cute to don’t buy it.
Sure the artist knew how these instruments were made, considering the load of details.
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… not only self-tortured and -tormented artist, lost in alcohol and thoughts of self-destruction…
"The artist must undertake an inner work that precedes the creative gesture: distinguishing what is individual from what can become a vehicle for a more universal truth.
In this sense, discipline does not limit creative freedom, but rather makes it possible."
M.I.A.V. Raggi, author of "The Sacred Circle"
Seriously: I strongly emphasize with these daredevils ❤️
… and - most of all - with their message.
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Your images are often in motion. Did you look to cinema to write the novel?
"From Darren Aronofsky's films, I borrowed the process of recurring flashback. It's about distorting temporality by reproducing the same scene to create an effect of insistence and repetition, almost like overpressure. The same thing happens in Christopher Nolan's work: we see the same scene again, but with different elements.
It's a technique I used in the novel, just as I borrowed some things from poetry: free verse, line breaks... I'm a Latinist, and punctuation is a modern invention, from the 16th century: before that, there wasn't real punctuation, there were segments and breathing units.
When I write, I really think in terms of breathing units: I interrupt the sentence when I feel I can't carry it forward anymore, when the words no longer hold together. Line breaks aren't casual; they're more melodic." I have a melodic relationship with the phrase. I'm very interested in the sound, as well as the meaning."
Yessss!
Such a treasure.
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Sharing some seldom seen pictures of the iconic musician.
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