Streaming, too 🦠

 

… I find it’s quite weird it’s legal, despite being so disrespectful for musicians!

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Cheers 🥂

 

Fluksus - Brion system at Padua “Gran Galà dell’Alta Fedeltà 2025”

 

Antonio Caregnato presents his Fluksus Brion and 8 ways multi-amped system… little in size but not in imposing quality sound.

The highly modified Technics’ “disco” disk player 😎

Antonio Caregnato posing with his creations.

 

A lot of interest going on with the dozens of curious audiophiles continuously crowding the tiny room.

A completely new concept in audio, at last.

I wish Antonio the best with his new adventure in audio.

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The oldest record store in the world

 

Spillers Records in Cardiff, Wales, UK. Founded in 1894 as a supplier of gramophones and wax cylinders, Spillers has been selling music for nearly 120 years. 

It is the oldest record store in the world, a feat of longevity listed in the Guinness Book of Records and celebrated by the no small number of devoted customers who have come to browse the shelves here.

Lieder mit Gisela May 💫

 

An extremely difficult record to properly be (correctly) reproduced. The dry voice is very rich in nuances but could sound a bit glass-like if the cartridge fail to precisely track without audible micro-distortion or you simply was wrong in VTA setting. Sound must be precise, edgy but still airy and smooth. 

A very pleasant and audio system-revealing disc.

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My next horn-system 😏

 

Two Kevin Gray/Joe Harley’s Capitol and Blue Note “Tone Poets” 💎

 

Two gems mastered from original master-tapes…

Real ears-pleasers, so smooth and honey-like!

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P.S. - the Frank Sinatra’s is such a winner 🥇

I love you, Jeff, but…

 

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Fined!

 

“Metronome marking is 126, and you raced at 145!”

A little present from Berlin 💫

 

Thanks to the Discogs’ seller 💫🤗💫

Robert Crumb by Robert Crumb 💫

 

Mr. Crumb, an avid and world-class 78 rpm discs collector, is the living proof a music lover can spend most of his life with his carefully chosen audio system.

The audiophiles - myself included - are sick, indeed.

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Vinyl spic’n’span 💫

 

John & Yoko ❤️

 

21 November, 1980

Yoko Ono and John Lennon at the Dakota Apartments in New York City by Allan Tannenbaum, just a few weeks before the English singer-songwriter's untimely death.

Aldous Huxley, beyond The Doors of Perception 💫

 

On this date in 1963, Aldous Huxley—author of Brave New World and The Doors of Perception—made an extraordinary final request. As he lay dying from cancer, he asked his wife to administer LSD so he could meet death with clarity and intention. She gave him two 100-microgram doses and guided him through a peaceful transition.

Decades before psychedelic end-of-life therapy became a research field, Huxley was already exploring the frontier.

“Let me go deeper.” —Aldous Huxley

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John Coltrane’s genius 💫

 

John Coltrane conceived a harmonic progression that established tonal centers at a distance of third major, dividing the eighth into three equal parts. In 1959, he recorded the album "Giant Steps".

Even in melodic tensions there's a certain symmetry.

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Ma 

WAMM

 

80th anniversary of “Centro d’Arte” of Padua University 💫💎💫

 

Edgard Varèse – Jazz Workshop graphic chart (1957)

Saturday, November 29, 2025, 3:30 PM

University of Padua, Palazzo Bo, Aula Nievo

THE ART OF THE ART CENTER

A panel discussion with

Massimo De Carlo, Ugo Fadini, Luciano Linzi,

Stefano Merighi, Nicola Negri, Veniero Rizzardi, Monica Salvadori

On the occasion of its 80th anniversary, the Art Center of the University of Padua brings together the main artistic leaders who have succeeded one another over the past decades, almost always collaborating with each other and passing the baton at the helm of the Association.

The meeting aims to be an opportunity for a collective historical narrative addressed to today's audience, to speak of a project that has had and continues to have a profound impact on the cultural life of Padua, albeit without ever having truly articulated its principles, its directions, its thinking, which nevertheless appear clear and coherent from a historical perspective.

The Art Center was born as a student association and, in effect, a true external research center of the University of Padua. As such, it demonstrated a marked exploratory attitude from the very beginning in the programming of its musical seasons. But it was precisely in the late 1970s that it began to present itself, with its reviews and festivals, primarily as a forum for the development of contemporary musical culture, promoting the circulation of international experiences ahead of its time. At the time, there was no place or curatorial style that brought together new composition, improvisation, transmedia performance, and electroacoustic research: different languages, practices, and cultures that were beginning to dialogue with each other, yet which institutions and concert organizations kept separate.

Time has proven the Art Center right; today, this pluralistic musical culture is a reality. The decisive and ongoing support of the University, which had promoted its founding in 1945, has guaranteed the Association freedom of research and initiative; The originality and even radicality of the programming has opened up new avenues and conquered niche markets. This is also confirmed by the audience's success, which is constantly growing and now consolidated; a largely young and student audience, but also encompassing different generations of listeners who have grown fond of the program over time.

The event is also an opportunity to explore a gallery of images and sounds drawn from the Art Center's extensive archive, with mostly previously unreleased material.

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Steve Tibbetts’ “Close” on ECM (2025) 💫

It’s available 💎💫💎

Guitarist Steve Tibbetts is slightly younger than his fellow ECM guitar wizards Terje Rypdal or Ralph Towner; his label debut, Northern Song, didn’t arrive until 1981. A native Midwesterner, Tibbetts differs in other ways from his cosmopolitan six-(or 12-) string cohort as well, releasing albums slowly, rarely touring and mainly working with a small number of local musicians. But his enigmatic, genre-porous music, filled with electronic samples, esoteric percussion, and South Asian textures has carved out a distinct space in both ECM-land and the wider world of experimental jazz.

“Close”, his latest album, might be his most rewardingly mysterious yet. In conversation, Tibbetts balances consideration with openness, talking about his Buddhist practice, having lunch with Joe Boyd and Leo Kottke, working as a nurse and a record store clerk, the Grateful Dead, the wonders of fellow ECM artists and much more.

Once upon a time… Studer C37 💫

 

… was hand-built slowly, with Swiss superb workmanship and maximum quality as a goal.

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A Garrard “Arena” reel-to-reel 😳