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Tuesday, June 21, 2022

John Martyn’s master-tapes

 


From the vaults, with all the mojo of dust, stains and hand-written notes 🥇








One of my most-beloved musicians, ever ❤️

P.S. - yes! The yellow stickers says what you read… tapes are fragile and these gems must be preserved, don’t you!?!



Disk of the day - Mask of Confidence (Ritmo&Blu 2022)

 


A one of a kind record, folks!

If you love some Prog/Psych/fuzzy flavors this music will bring you in the past and immediately - at light-speed - in the future.

Jeff Collier, an American living in Berlin, a gifted, chameleon voice whose texture is as broad as it can be, reminding to me David Sylvian, Brian Ferry and Peter Blegvad, yet remaining brand-new and unique.

The instrumental palette is extremely various and sound is first-class, engineered at Ritmo&Blu premium studio by Stefano Castagna, who beside the hard work engineering, also actively contributed to final result both composing, arranging and playing several instruments.



A great disk of great music, sounding to my ears like a fresh rain in these extremely hot days.



Do you a favor, pals: grab a copy of this disk (look at attached pixies for details) and you won’t regret.

The cover artwork is by Lorenzo Castagna: kudos to him 👍



🥇🥇🥇🎶🎶🎶🥇🥇🥇

P.S. - yes, dear die-hard King Crimson’s scholars: Pat Mastelotto is part of the daredevils on the disk, but - hey! - this music doesn’t need “a star” to shine!

The whole is more than the sum of the parts, indeed.



Saturday, June 18, 2022

Alvin Curran

 


I remember him with Musica Elettronica Viva in concert in early ‘70s: I was in my teens and - thanks to his works with Memè Perlini and Ciao 2001 magazine - I knew him before Terry Riley and LaMonte Young and Tony Conrad… 

The memory of this concert is so well carved in my memory…

This sought-after disc gave to me same


shivers and goosebumps!




Collecting frenzy as per Robert Crumb

 


… but so true for myself, as well… 



😉



Friday, June 17, 2022

Analogtechnik DST15D SSV cartridge

 

Aka “La Scala”, the top of the line by Analogtechnik’s… soon to be tested and tasted by yours truly, thanking Maestro Daniel Kim 🥇







DST15D La Scala (VVS) is meteorit polepieces and vintage German-Made copper coils, made with a several days-long work to obtain the desired magnetic flux and weight. 







A truly unique handmade jewel 🥇



Let’s hear if this beauty will be able to undermine my beloved DMT25 # 001 🎶🎶🎶



Sunday, June 12, 2022

Telefunken

 


Seldom seen classic ad




Ikea goes vinyl

 


Swedish House Mafia aka Ikea will soon introduce a turntable with Bluetooth and USB… sure its name will contain a lot of k å and ø, enough to be unpronounceable 😏

Yet, here is the interesting looking turntable:



🎶🎶🎶





The Pinocchio Empire

 



Where lies thrive…



Saturday, June 4, 2022

Analogtechnik DST15D Platinum La Scala

 


Another masterpiece from Daniel Kim’s one-man-company, soon to be tasted by yours truly.






🥇



Dave Smith passed away 😢

 


RIP for engineer, musician and synth legend Dave Smith - founder of Sequential Circuits, the man behind the Prophet 5 synthesizer and "Father Of MIDI".




He changed (in better) music we love.

Condolences to his family.

❤️



Wednesday, June 1, 2022

The making of Bright Phoebus

 


Also known as English folk music Sergeant Pepper…








Here are the Bill Leader’s master-tapes 🥇 with studio hand-written notes and old dusty and battered boxes… seldom seen stuffs.

I invite people not knowing this masterpiece to give it a listen (on YouTube, at least 😏)