Sunday, November 28, 2021

Saturday, November 27, 2021

Nick Drake

 


In fond memory of Nick Drake (19 June 1948 - 25 November 1974)


He was such a genius 🥇



Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Sunday, November 21, 2021

Poltronissima

 



My loyal, cocooning music-chair… my apologies to Charles Eames for fur-skins, wintertime style 😏



Thursday, November 18, 2021

When I’m 64 😱

 


📊📈📉📊📈📉 An extensive study in the U.S.A found that the most productive age in human life is between 60-70 years of age.


 The 2nd.  most productive stage of the human being is from 70 to 80 years of age.

 The 3rd.  most productive stage is from 50 to 60 years of age.

 The average age of NOBEL PRIZE winners is 62 years old.

 The average age of the presidents of prominent companies in the world is 63 years.

 The average age of the pastors of the 100 largest churches in the U.S.A. is 71.

 The average age of the Popes is 76 years.

 This tells us in a way that it has been determined, that the best years of your life are between 60 and 80 years.

 A study published in NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE found that at age 60, you reach the TOP of your potential and this continues into your 80s.

 Therefore, if you are between 60 -70 or 70-80 you are in the BEST and 2nd.  level of your life.



 SOURCE: N.Engl.J .Med.  70,389 (2018) ..


 😉I send you this information so that you can re-think when you say that you are old 😊

 ..... friends, this walk called life is just beginning 🥳


… or so 😏



Luciano Berio conducts Luciano Berio

 


Love this Charles Gerhardt-produced avant-garde disc 💎



The recording is of stellar quality and serves music well 🥇🎶🥇



The spirit of Giovanni Bottesini

 





The composer who transformed the ugly double bass into a poetic instrument 🎶🎶🎶



Sunday, November 14, 2021

J. F. Pontefract 🥇

 


This man is THE GENIUS behind some of the best sounding


 



Harmonia Mundi (France) recordings… among the very best!


🙏🙏🙏

K. H. Stockhausen’s and other gems

 


I had to browse some hundreds discs to find them, but I found some… 




I remember I bought my mint copy of “Hymnen” in Argentina and the seller shipped the disc in a padded envelope with 20+ colored stamps 🙏🥇🙏








Have many more KHS’ discs but spread on shelves… am trying to stock them all together…

Still searching…



B & O BM5 stereo ribbon mike

 


Bought this microphone from a gentleman in Australia for cheap last year and had it restored in a few weeks by a UK-based ribbon microphones specialist, XAudia, who changed the poor-quality, low gain inner transformer with an higher gain (+6db) bespoke miniature transformer.





The result is no less than awesome: superb clarity, silky, extended highs and natural dynamics.

A true wolf in sheep skin.

🥇🎶🥇