Monday, April 5, 2010

A peaceful battle: Starker vs. Bylsma vs. Fournier

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Yes, folks... Yo-Yo Ma is a fantastic musician and his Bach's Cello Suites, like Rostropowitsch's and Pablo Casals', ALL are sup...

A peaceful battle: Starker/Sebok vs. Rostropowitsch/Richter

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The Integral piano sonatas for cello and piano are among the very plinths in Western music, period. I humbly split my love, fondness and awe...
Sunday, April 4, 2010

Record of the Decade - Angel Song - Wheeler/Koonitz/Frisell/Holland on ECM

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... yes, of the decade...it's my strong opinion such a disk appears every ten years or so, indeed! Issued in 1997 on ECM, produced as al...

Easter and Variations on Easter

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Easter by Leo Kottke and Variations on Easter by Robbie Basho ;-)
Thursday, April 1, 2010

April's Fool

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"Scoop of the Day: William Shakespeare is French born..." (BBC's April's Fool 2010) ... my own - audio tinted/related - ...

Musique Concrete

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An highly blessed reissue program, as the original discs are fetching highest price-tags. Thanks to Ivan.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Muore Nicola Arigliano... non solo "Il signore del Digestivo Antonetto"!

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E' morto nella notte Nicola Arigliano. Il cantante, 86 anni, abitava da quattro anni a Calimera, in provincia di Lecce, nell'istitut...

WJAAS - Being a "Stereo Kichigai"

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"Sono audiophile wa kichigai da yo!" - (transl. - That audiophile is crazy!). Time of balance and meditation about the future, fol...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Audio: the Most Beautiful Hobby on Earth or a Black Hole?

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As you know, I'm a music lover and consequently an audio fond user and scholar since my teens... sometimes - like in these days - I do a...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Horns: an interesting, useful link from Germany

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Horns
Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Dr. Tomas Gallia, SONART and the art of itinerant recording

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"Dr. Tomas Gallia - (born in Budapest in 1921, died in Switzerland in 1997) Hungarian sound-engineer, born to a prominent musical famil...
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Monday, March 22, 2010

Quality from Austria - Elodis Subwoofers

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Impressive... a worthwhile reading... and maybe, the best way to use Panzerholz! Franz's 700 stainless-steel screws/440 kg (!!!) masterp...
Sunday, March 21, 2010

WJAAS (related) - Kengiro Azuma-san, 無 (Mu) and 物の哀れ (Mono no Aware)

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Kengiro Azuma-san was, when 19 years old, a kamikaze... few hours prior his first, and possibly, last (death) mission, Emperor Hirohito sign...
Friday, March 19, 2010

Record of the Week: Mark Charig's "Pipedream"

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Last evening I (re)opened a someway obscure and dusty section of my discotheque: the European avantgarde shelf... Incus, Ogun, FMP, Hans Rei...

Ivan's Choice - Serge Gainsbourg

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· Part poet, part provocateur, Serge Gainsbourg was known outside France primarily for the heavy-breathing masterpiece J'taime moi non p...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

Ravi Shankar/Andre Previn's Concert for Sitar & Orchestra - EMI vinyl vs. open-reel master-dub tape

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I love this very recording: it's, better it would have possibly be in lesser hands, a sort-of "pastiche", à la "East m...

WJAAS & Haru no Kaze, waiting for Hanami

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Spring wind or "Haru no kaze" is something which, hopefully, every year blows winter away, grass is green again and sakura blossom...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Vinyl to Digital - a possible, satisfying way to go?

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High Resolution vinyl to digital Something to be carefully investigated... Thanks to Roman and his Romy the Cat site for hinting the above....
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Friday, March 12, 2010

The quest for the perfect turntable/record clamp

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... I spent half of my audio-life hating them, and now I can't do without;-))) Built during last five months: Shindo-like solid bronze, ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

March's Snow - Zen field and parking-lot

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