Friday, June 18, 2010

Music and its tools - Joan Baez and her '27 Martin 0-45

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20th Century Guitar Rara Avis -- 1927 Martin O-45 May 2000 by Bianca Soros In the Roaring Twenties an energetic postwar mentality emerged ...

The Absolute Sound - Gary Viskupic's posters

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Beautiful, beautiful artworks as used in The Absolute Sound covers... memories from a better world... but it was decades ago.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010

TNT: Cuaba Divinos and Tortoise

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C4?!?! TNT?!? ... much better, folks! Puffed the last of twentyfive lovingly smoked Habanos, a torpedo-shaped Cuaba's cigar with the mo...

WJAAS - Have you JPY 2.100.000 handy?

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A minty, sought-after EMT R80 (a very early 927st)... incl. Ortofon arm and custom-made seismic base. Anyone interested? It's "some...
Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Feeling at home

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A studio, a music room, a space where to cultivate emotions, wellness, beauty in arts and music sure deserves to be called "home"....
Monday, June 14, 2010

... it happened...

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As I had already saw in a previous life, it happened... few evenings ago, I arrived at 9,30 at my new music room, opened the huge wooden doo...
Sunday, June 13, 2010

Bo Hansson and Bo Hansson

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... yes, pals... two Bo Hanssons... one Bo Hansson, the Swedish Prog musician who wrote and played and recorded on Charisma "Mad Hatter...
Friday, June 11, 2010

David Crosby's P.E.R.R.O. Sessions.... WOW!!!

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P.E.R.R.O. - aka Planet Earth Rock'n'Roll Orchestra... what a stoned name;-)! This seldom read acronym defines The Holy Grail and th...
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Thursday, June 10, 2010

Horn Porn in Sauerkraut sauce

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... with some American spices... I really do not blame too much on the RCA MI-9485 mids, nor on the vomited-like, Crocodile Dundee-hinted x...

Herb Ellis passed away or sixty years of jazz-guitar

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The former guitarist of Oscar Peterson Trio, after superseding to another great, Barney Kessel, in 1953, born in Texas in 1921 and an hillbi...

Garrad 301 with new flywheel, belt-driven!!!

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Here is something cool, folks... a French artisan gave to the mighty Garrad 301 (but also to the 401) a new soul, as it can be ran via a lar...
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A quick note on Bert Jansch's first disc on Transatlantic

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Do you know how did it cost to produce a record which is still - for yours truly and many, many, many others around the world - among the fi...

A Playlist Player Vinyl Emulator (sic...)

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A novel concept and beautiful exterior make this Playlist Player vinyl emulation system a certified object of desire . The device — which p...

His Bobness and The Drawn Blank Series or... how to buy/own a Bob Dylan's autograph for cheap

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... yes, folks... Bob Dylan's autograph are auctioned at Sotheby's for high-fetching sums, BUT... imagine: purchasing for an amount ...
Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Radiowaves and whales

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Radio, as I use to do, from time to time, listened in the dark of the evening, lazily in bed, is a (little) well-kept secret of mine, indeed...
Monday, June 7, 2010

Meredith Monk - a couple of "Book of Days" extracts on YouTube

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Book of Days' extract and Meredith as the Mad Woman

Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Albums of All Times

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Since its publishing, I always appreciated this very book: an honest book where an extremely various panel composed of musicians, famous and...
Saturday, June 5, 2010

Meredith Monk - human voice or a love for life

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I guess, almost sure, the first sound when a baby was my mom or grandma singin'... Old songs hummed as lullabies during my first life mo...