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Tuesday, July 28, 2026

Azimuth 💫

This is a vintage CBS Technology Center Model 1690 Azimuth Meter.

This specialized analog test instrument was historically used by audio technicians and broadcast engineers to precisely align and adjust the azimuth angle of magnetic tape heads on high-end tape decks (such as reel-to-reel and top-tier cassette decks like the Nakamichi Dragon).

Key Functions & Details Azimuth Alignment: Ensures the playback/recording tape head is perfectly perpendicular to the direction of the tape travel. Misalignment results in severe loss of high-frequency response.

Scale Indicators:

The central needle measures deviation in minutes of an arc (left or right from zero).

The lower scales measure frequency loss (in kHz) caused by a 3 dB drop.

The lowest scale measure the attenuation at 10 kHz.

Controls: Features a Reset button, an Auto/Off/Manual toggle switch, and a fine-tuning knob on the lower right to calibrate the instrument.

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Miles’ hands 💫

“The Hands of Miles Davis,” photographed by Irving Penn in 1986 during the cover shoot for Tutu.

When Penn arrived for the session, Miles greeted him with characteristic skepticism.

“I bet you want me to take this shirt off,” Miles said.

“Yep,” Penn replied.

“I bet you want me to take all these gold chains off, too?”

“Yep.”

The two spent the next hour working together. As the shoot wrapped, Miles surprised Penn with a kiss on the mouth before leaving. Reflecting on the encounter years later, Penn said that once he came to know Miles’ music, it struck him as “visual art of a most profound kind.”

Among the photographs Penn created that day was a remarkable series focused solely on Miles’ left hand. Set against a plain background, the images capture his fingers in various positions, as if pressing the valves of an invisible trumpet. Simple yet powerful, the photographs distilled Miles’ artistry into the very instrument through which he changed music.

Photos by The Irving Penn Foundation

Tibor Varga on Triston masterdub 💫

Another Jürg Schopper’s gem.

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Eric Rohmer’s “Pauline à la plage” & Frank Zappa/Capt. Beefheart “Bongo Fury” 💫🤯💫

Some TV screen-shots of the movie… look what’s handling Pauline’s boyfriend…

Was it chance or a choice of the director?

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€ 5

Flea-market gems 💫

Mostly ECMs’ and an FMP-related solo guitar improvisation (recorded with Hans Reichel’s loaned recording gears!)

Saturday, July 25, 2026

Eberhard Weber’s Syndrome 💫

I cannot but think to a sort-of (positive) disease, an obsession about the music of Eberhard Weber, as I’m constantly listening to his music and compulsively buying (see some previous, recent posts) his amazing records from early ‘70s onward.

I knew him and his ECM vast production, but I only owned a bunch of his records.

It happened suddenly but inexplicably and inexorably after I bought one, then another and a third and then more and more discs at flea-markets and secondhand shops and - on a more systematic form - on Discogs, dealing with reputable sellers to complete what appeared like a complete EW’s collection.

I’m hooked and in blissfull awe at the impressive compositions body this German musician issued!

A genius.

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