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.💫
Whaaaaat?
A 6 strings bass-guitar solo disk?!?
Booooring!
Nothing more wrong, folks! This record is truly unbelievably good, various, intriguing and suggestive.
The recording is so beautifully serving the music and low end makes this disk a winner and a sonic blaster for any audio system.
Played on my Quad ESL it is simply majestic.
Buy it and enjoy 💫
Ewybody should own one… no more hurrying up at arm-lift 🙏💫🙏
The Little Fwend is an accessory that can be easily mounted on almost any turntable and allows the activation of a lifting mechanism for the tonearm and stylus at the end of record playback.
Completely mechanical, it does not alter the audio signal in any way, ensuring an intact listening experience until the very last fragment of music.
The system lifts the tonearm extremely slowly and gently, contacting it only in the final millimeters near the center of the record, so the last seconds of each track are never interrupted.
Crafted with artisanal care and high-quality materials, including selected steels, the Little Fwend combines durability and precision in a design built to last.
High Model Specifications:
This superb disc taught to me (as a musician and a guitar player) more than a Conservatory of Music year-long class.
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That’s a picture showing when beauty meets intelligence, integrity and honesty.
These lovely wrinkles are… Life.
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This amazing disc, flawlessly pressed on Periwinkle-colored vinyl, is the limited-edition Dead Can Dance’s “Dionysus”.
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A Desert Island disc, indeed… I’ve been playing this marvelous disc for 50+ years and vinyl/pressing quality always amaze me as it’s still far more silent and noiseless than any brand-new, expensive boutique Luminessence Series reissues.
I really miss quality of everything made before 1980!
It’s not nostalgic memory-lane but about knowledge and self-consciousness.
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I wanted a golden pussy of pleasure
purer than heroin
to honor you inside
A spacious heart to take away
shoes and stretching
The anatomy of love
Oh, if I were
the purest golden pussy of pleasure
that heroin or heaven
to honor you inside
A double bed shaped like a heart
like a meadow in Yosemite
So that you can rest in it
Imagination as clear and active as
sunny tide pools
To serve you good dinner conversation
A soul like your face before
being born
To glorify you inside
breasts, hair, fingers
the whole city of my body
In your arms all night
Elise Cowen
60 years ago today, on February 3, 1966, Wayne Shorter recorded "Adam’s Apple".
Wayne had already set a high bar with his first several Blue Note albums, but "Adam’s Apple" immediately joined the ranks of the saxophonist’s greatest recordings from the grooving title track to his enduring composition “Footprints.”
Incredibly, as it happens to me quite often, I just listened to my Japanese copy!
Serendipity a go-go, as the CD found me, not vice-versa!
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Excited to announce the next Frank Sinatra reissue in the Tone Poet Vinyl Series... "Songs For Swingin’ Lovers!" (out 3/27) https://store.bluenote.com/products/frank-sinatra-songs-for-swingin-lovers-lp-tone-poet-vinyl-series
For the follow-up to his melancholy masterpiece "In The Wee Small Hours," Sinatra brightened the mood with this swinging album of Nelson Riddle arrangements released in 1956 which marks its 70th anniversary this year!
The new AAA 180g Tone Poet Vinyl Edition was once again cut directly from the pristine original phono reels by Kevin Gray & produced for release by Joe Harley.
They landed, at last!
… and now, the new adventure begins 💫
Jacintha’s voice is sooooo smooooth and her musical production such a well kept secret 💫
I already wrote about it in a recent past, as I much love this music and these awesome musicians… owned and cherished for half a century the original Folkways’ and the elusive Transatlantic UK pressing, mostly bought for the weird cover…
but this Japanese CD I’m right now playing is a joy to listen to 🤟💫🤟
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There were great Rooms across the decades. In many cases, the aesthetics of the visual, overshadowed the beauty of the sounds.
This was studio B at A&M records, Los Angeles where countless wonderful recordings were created! Sorry about the clutter, but at the time it was taken for the picture, and didn’t feature the room as well as it should have!
A Discogs’ seller took a moment to attach this post-it to a SACD I recently bought…
Thanks, much appreciated!
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[On the evening of January 24, 1975, something extraordinary happened at the Cologne Opera House.]
"...You don't really think I'm going to perform with this shit. I haven't slept for nights, I have excruciating back pain. As if that weren't enough, I traveled five hours from Zurich to get here to Germany. And I find a rookie piano, out of tune and with broken resonance pedals. Who do you think you're kidding?"
That evening, Jarrett was extremely nervous, pumped full of painkillers, wearing a back brace. It wasn't the right night to play. His fury struck Vera Brandes, not even twenty years old. Too young to organize a concert at the Cologne Opera. Too inexperienced to deal with someone like Keith Jarrett. Jarrett had asked for a Steinway to be brought on stage, his favorite piano, the one on which he had cultivated the art of improvisation for years.
Something had gone wrong, and the Steinway never arrived. Although many in the organization were beginning to tremble (Jarrett has also become infamous for his prima donna outbursts and his paranoia of perfectionism), the pianist had decided to bring one of the two Bösendorfers backstage as a replacement, after having tested it. But that evening was supposed to be special, and, in a stroke of bad luck, due to a mix-up, the other Bösendorfer was brought on stage instead, the one with the broken pedal and not even in tune. The one that absolutely shouldn't have been there. Everyone was on the verge of throwing in the towel; except Jarrett, who saw in that adversity an extra incentive to create something exceptional. And he did it, becoming a legend. If you listen to the first track on this album, you hear Jarrett starting off quietly, as if he were studying his "lifelong friend"—the piano—which, like him, wasn't at its best that evening and needed its interpreter to bring out something he'd never done before, not even with a perfectly functioning piano. The broken pedal of the piano, the shattered back of the performer, similar in their imperfection, drew from it a musical emotion never experienced before.
Because, like Yves Bonnefoy, we can truly say: Imperfection is the pinnacle.
There isn’t a better way to enjoy this amazing music than the above Japanese SACD!
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Old school digital galore 😎
Digital stuffs all play the same? Naaaah!
Studer A-730 was my first disk-player… amazingly, still working after 30 years 💫
If you’re an eagle-eye, you’ll notice a Meridian DAC and no transport: it’s at my trusty workshop for a check-up..
The recently arrived Parasound Halo D-3 sounds amazing and pretty right to my ears.
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