Wednesday, April 29, 2009

WJAAS' related: traditional Ryokan hosting in Japan - i.e. tasting real Japan

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Japanese Ryokan hosting/1 Japanese Ryokan hosting/2 Something to try, also if, sometimes, complimentary kimonos are a little bit downsized f...
Tuesday, April 28, 2009

A trip to Athens' (2/2) or the Endless Quest for Musical Enjoyment

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On my way from Athen's brand new international airport, my friend Georges brought me to visit Dimitris Rapakosius' luthiery workshop...

When did you last heard a nose breathing...

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... in a disk through your music system? It's not - maybe - music, BUT sure it improves trueness and sense of "being there", a...

A trip to Athens' (1/2) or the Endless Quest for Musical Enjoyment

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Athens, Greece...land and cocoon of philosophers and free thinkers, the bridge, the bearing - I'd dare - between Middle East and Europe,...
Sunday, April 19, 2009

WJAAS - Tanizaki-san lesson - "In Praise of Shadows" or use your ears like your eyes...

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Junichiro Tanizaki (1886-1965) - written also: Jun'ichiro Japanese novelist who dealt with the influence of the West on the old cultura...
Friday, April 17, 2009

Record Store Day 2009 - it's tomorrow, April 18th 2009

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Third edition of "Record Store Day"... ... yes, again and again, it's necessary, like book shops, records stores will continue...
Thursday, April 16, 2009

WJAAS - Miyajima-san's ETR-800 MC-transformer: the glory of Permalloy.

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Today received the superb Miyajima Labs./Otono Edison ETR-800 MC transformer ... both Robin Wyatt and Noryuki Miyajima told me: "To pro...
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David Munrow lives!

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... yes, I know... the risk is being quite annoying - i.e. I have my myths and I cheerish and love talking about them... but please don'...
Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Eastern Music? Yes, please...

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It's someway hard to look at Middle East and Arabic culture and people without a minimum of... well... you know. But, as an oud player a...

Fooling the listener: reproduced vs. live sounds

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The above has been done several times in the past... Acoustat demonstrated it back in the mid '70s... B & W with 801's did it ag...
Monday, April 13, 2009

Ellen Fullman - Longitudinal vibration, an endless glissando

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... imagine: a woman with rosin on fingertips who walks along 20 meters long strings, touching them with the flesh-rosin bows, obtaining sel...

Musings - Pomegranate: only a mobile-phone?

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The future of the Mobile Phone ... pls, do not get fooled by the topic... just browse, looking at the options... Thanks to Lorenzo Stella fo...
Sunday, April 12, 2009

The Most Perfect Song Ever - A definition attempt

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... it's not a chart, no winner here, BUT sure a topic worth some words... Merriam-Webster's says: " SONG: Pronunciation: \...
Saturday, April 11, 2009

Ian Carr passed away on Feb. 25th 2009

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Ian Carr has been an hero of mine for long years... as a great musician, founder of the jazz-rock group Nucleus at end of Sixties (have a li...

WJAAS - The Headshells Survey - Part 1: B/A - Bosouem Acoustics' "Big Nose" universal headshell

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Despite, or maybe thanks to, being a quite crowdy and overbusy country, Japan is nonetheless the homeland of free-thinkers, out-of-the-choir...
Friday, April 10, 2009

WJAAS - The Cartridges Survey - Part 5 - Mr. K.S. Park's masterpiece (revised): the ALLNIC Verito Z

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When you guess you understood ALL, the surprise is behind the door... I already had the Verito, Mr. Kang Su Park's creature, and enjoyed...
Thursday, April 9, 2009

Penguing Cafe Orchestra & Grateful Dead: an impossible parallel and common ground or a group as a body?

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There is something which I find as mysterious as rare in music scene... not at every point in time, there is a group or a soloist who shakes...
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A book is a book... but books, as music, can change a life.

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A musical reading you can't miss, pals... "The Mysticism of Sound" by Hazrat Inayat Khan... written in 1923, it...

Horns and horns

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Today my friend Ivan "The (Disc) Pusher" delivered to me an Hugh Masekela's disc " Hope", in the sought-after Analog...