Flea-market nuggets

 

All titles I own since a long time… just cannot resist 😊😊😊

… not the best, my Nakamichi 600, but sure among the sexiest 🥇

… someone is arguing how do they sound? Simply marvelous… am enjoying Lou Reed’s Transformer right now on my humble Nakamichi 600 and it’s surprisingly good 🥇

Long live analog in all it’s declinations!

A (musical) Lighthouse 🥇

 

A way of life 🥇🎶🤟🥂🎶🥇

 

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… hide & seek music

 

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A sound-engineer nightmare 😱

 

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PoV on happiness

 

Yes, Points of View…

I apologize: I know I’m too often sharing in loop-mode, views of gears ⚙️ in this tiny world of beauty and uniqueness - AKA my Studietto - sumptuously inhabited by the most elusive of arts: music.

I spent endless hours in this few square meters space for the last twelve years, thinking, fiddling, lifting and moving around hundreds of kilos… adjusting and - most of all - enjoying, no, more: soaking in music, in such a deep, total way I never experienced anywhere else.

I was playing air guitars, singing along music played, having several intense eargasms… I found a weird form of happiness, so private and my very own.

Studietto has been my shelter and man-cave, definitely an ecstatic annex of my mind.

Pablo

 

Do you recognize this logo?

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Chapeau 🥇🎶🥇

 

This is a Mina’s record back cover technical liner notes… please notice the precise description of studio gears and the elegant, cool use of (our) beautiful Italian language instead of the ubiquitous English.

Noteworthy: the 4 tracks Telefunken M10 was used to record “with a stereophonic effect” (a spread-in-studio soundscape) and mastered to monophonic Telefunken M5.

Those were the days… 

No winners… objective vs. subjective

 

The Grim Reaper 🥳

No credits!

Infamous moments in jazz

 

A Benjamin Britten’s disc 2die4

 

A part of my Benjamin Britten’s collection…

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This Britten’s disc is a masterpiece, both musically and aurally 🥇🥇🥇 a super-disc, indeed! Dynamics are awesome, low-bass in spades! … and Peter Pears’ voice is so “here”… I own several Britten’s discs and many of them are absolute masterpieces - i.e. Death in Venice, War Requiem, Prince of the Pagodas, Noye’s Fludde… well: this disc is in same league with a plus of small (weird) ensemble: harp, large and small percussions, flute, trombone and voices.

A beauty for the ears 🎶🎶🎶

Decca SET356 wide-band prune label🥇🥇🥇

American Gothic or everyday life

 

A Miles Davis’ acetate

 

A Miles Davis-related gem: a few acetate test-pressings from his ‘61 Carnegie Hall show with Gil Evans.  Even has the liner notes written by Teo Macero 😱 !

A previously unpublished Robbie Basho picture

 

Flea-market nuggets

 

Always a good choice paying an early-bird visit to local flea-market… 

Love chasing for these gems.

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Box-set to die for - Tomas Gallia-engineered 5 discs box…

 

… masterfully recorded in old Italian churches.

Here are five historic organs in their dusty, beautiful homes, recorded by my personal hero and mentor, Tomas Gallia (of BASF/German Harmonia Mundi and Astree record labels fame).

You’ll appreciate an extraordinary piece of art: sublime music, playing, recording, booklet and packaging.

A must have: not an audiophile record, just among the best music money can buy.

Enjoy… some copies are currently available on eBay 🥂

Nirvana’s Nevermind, Blind Faith’s?

 

Who’s next?

Elden, who has “Nevermind” tattooed on his chest, also argues in the suit that the the band “reproduced child pornography depicting Spencer knowing and intending that it would be distributed internationally and that they would receive value from such widespread worldwide distribution.” Elden went on to argue that they “failed to take reasonable steps to protect Spencer and prevent his widespread sexual exploitation and image trafficking” and as a result he “has suffered and will continue to suffer lifelong damages.”

In addition to the $150,000, the suit requests that “attorney’s fees and other litigation costs reasonably incurred” also be covered.

“It’s fucked up,” Elden previously said in a 2016 interview with GQ Australia. “I’m pissed off about it, to be honest.” Elsewhere in the same interview Elden compared the experience of being featured on the album’s cover to “that dream where you go to school without your clothes on”.

… or not?

… and what about the cute teenager on Blind Faith’s disc cover?

Will her be the next suing Clapton & Winwood?

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