Thursday, November 26, 2009

Paul Geremia or living of music

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Paul Geremia By Rick Massimo (Journal Pop Music Writer) "Paul Geremia (at left, with sun-glasses, circa 1970), played with Pink Anderso...

Glenn Jones' third recorded effort

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I just purchased - as I did with the two previous disks - Glenn's third recording: "Barbeque Bob in Fishtown". Glenn has a spe...
Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Tord Gustavsen Trio's Changing Places on ECM (2003)

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While thanking my brother... aehm... friend, Giorgio for hinting this shining gem... here is a review I found on the matter: "TORD GUST...

Blues and beyond... an ever changing 12-bars affaire...

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Blues is an ever changing beast... a snake in always new skin... I'm always surprised when, after loving listenings to Son House, Robert...

Todd Cambio's "Fraulini Guitars"... a well kept secret in acoustic guitars making

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Todd Cambio, a great luthier and a true gentleman (of Italian heritage), is the maker of these beauties... his Leadbelly's Stella 12 str...
Tuesday, November 24, 2009

'64 Guild F-212 twelve strings acoustic guitar restoration: Maestro Roberto Lanaro almost completed the job...

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Maestro Roberto Lanaro - a friend and my trusty luthier for ALL my instruments since early '80s - received few months ago a restoration ...
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Monday, November 23, 2009

The Ear - Music as an Heartbeat

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Music is, in my humble opinion, among the very few "natural facts" - i.e. the purest of pure aspects of creation - like tides, a s...
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Ear - Illusory continuity of Tones

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia An ascending tone is interrupted by a noise burst, but is perceptually continuous. The illusory contin...

The Ear - Aural illusions: Shepard's Tone

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Shepard tone From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A Shepard tone, named after Roger Shepard, is a sound consisting of a superposition of si...
Friday, November 20, 2009

One of most beautiful speakers I ever saw: Alexander Kniysev's masterpiece

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This beauty, built by Alexander Kniysev from Moscow (Russia), deeply moved me and my aesthetic sense: visually a mix between a baffle, a gra...

Anagrams and resolution, transparency, definition, clarity...

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... about the Real Thing: I found the Wikipedia suggestion about "resolution", music-wise to be quite inspiring - i.e. - Musical...
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Gamelan

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It happens I'm a fond Gamelan music scholar (trying to play it on properly tuned acoustic guitar and Echoplex - i.e. my "Loops in F...

Florian Fricke and Popol Vuh

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An interview to Florian Fricke. As the year 2001 came to a close Florian Fricke passed away. Thanks to Gerhard Augustin in Germany, Florian...
Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Barre Philips or an American in France...

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A Barre Phillips' Exhibition in Nice, France The Life and Work of Barre Phillips is the subject of an exhibition at Nice’s Bibliothèque ...

... more silence...

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Few days ago, again listening to the recently improved music system, at home... Guilty of some thinking was an old disc on Ocora by David Hy...

... again about the silence...

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Quiet, Please by Daniel Delgado The lute is not an instrument meant to be played in major concert halls: unwrapping a cough drop while a lut...

The Sound of Silence

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"Hello darkness my old friend..." Thanking Simon and Garfunkel's masterpiece, that's it, folks... it's all in these wo...