Hidden Treasures Dept. - Peter Blegvad with John Greaves and Chris Cutler - Just Woke up (ReR 1996)

I've been a Peter Blegvad's fan for decades: Slapp Happy and Henry Cow, Andy Partridge and everything in between...

Found today an humble disk at flea-market for a coffee and... WOW!

A superb disk I've listened to in loop mode since I brought it home... what an author, what an arranger, what a recording... what a record!

Songs are almost easy listening but, hey!, who cares... it's a nice, NICE record and I fell in love for songs like "That'll be him Now", almost the perfect song everyone would like to write and play, one day... or "Hell's Despite" or "Incinerator" with that 12 strings guitar... or "Meet the Rain" or "Waste of Time" or "Something Else",  almost Dylanesque... but all the disk is a joy to listen to.

It's both American and deeply English sounding... sad and psych, folky and dissonant, always intriguing and surprising... only do not look for his hey days sounds with Slapp Happy & Henry Cow... better thinking to the playfulness and ingenuity of early Slapp Happy, alone, on their first disk, someway reminding Kevin Ayers' songwriting (on Joy of a Toy or Whatevershebringwesing).

It's summertime sung by a vacationing Englishman... he already knows it will over, soon, and rain and fog and cold will come... 'til the next year... it's sadness and hope and happiness.

Give Peter and this disk a try... you won't regret.

Musings - What the heck...

It's Pete Townshed's guitar manual?|?

Thanking Cartertoons.

Concert Vault

Try it!

Much worth browsing and joining in the 3 days trial or go straight to the USD 39,99 yearly membership.

The performers list is AWESOME!

Esperanto

Adriano Celentano's hit from 1972 is a personal (and million others) fave!

Using a no-language which also is a Universal language... a genius.

... when we were younger and foolish.

The Peak

Pop-art or analog-art?

Lovely, LOVELY sounding arm, indeed.

... so beefy and life-like... the soul of analog.

... so simply looking,  yet such a technically challenging building.

Zen.

Fabio Concato's "Se non fosse per la musica"

I love this song... Stefano Bollani's piano and Fabio's voice... and the lyrics...

Thanking my pal Lo for re-re-introducing me to this fine music.

Fuckushima!!!

BREAKING… Fukushima Disaster Leaves Hundreds of Whales Radiated to Death!

I'm BOTH sooooo sorry and worried for the mighty, innocent whales and for the several Japanese friends, so often unaware of this crappy mess!


Read more: http://www.cosmostv.org/2013/09/breaking-fukushima-disaster-leaves.html#ixzz2jnW6nGmM

Raymond Loewy - The Industry Poet

Indeed.

He designed virtually everything, from Coke bottle to Exxon logo and cars, and this...

Fritz Lang loved him!

Lou Reed - R.I.P. and deepest condolences to Laurie Anderson

Beautiful words everyone would like to hear from a woman:


“To our neighbors:
What a beautiful fall! Everything shimmering and golden and all that incredible soft light. Water surrounding us.
Lou and I have spent a lot of time here in the past few years, and even though we’re city people this is our spiritual home.
Last week I promised Lou to get him out of the hospital and come home to Springs. And we made it!
Lou was a tai chi master and spent his last days here being happy and dazzled by the beauty and power and softness of nature. He died on Sunday morning looking at the trees and doing the famous 21 form of tai chi with just his musician hands moving through the air.
Lou was a prince and a fighter and I know his songs of the pain and beauty in the world will fill many people with the incredible joy he felt for life. Long live the beauty that comes down and through and onto all of us.
— Laurie Anderson
his loving wife and eternal friend”

R.I.P. and condolences to Laurie.

Neumann DST with adapter

Musings - Peter Pan

A genius...

... also nicknamed: Fried Eggs:-)))

Light Harmonic's Geek Out - poor boy Bakoon/Satri?

3 watts or better yet... 3.000 Class A (mighty) milliwatts good enough for our >110db sensitivity drivers? A compact, cheap choice for multiamping, don't you?

Intriguing... a Bakoon/Satri clone for peanuts?

Sacramento, California October 29, 2013- Light Harmonic, maker of state-of-the-art digital audio products, is proud to introduce “Geek Pulse” through a campaign on crowdfunding site Indiegogo.com . “Geek Pulse” is a desktop DAC and amplifier that connects to a computer, music server or other digital device to form the basis of a high-quality compact music system. 



Light Harmonic recently confounded expectations of the audiophile world by utilizing technology developed for their $31,000 DaVinci Dual DAC in the ‘Geek Out’ portable DAC/ headphone amp launched on Kickstarter.com. The campaign set records by reaching its $28,000 funding goal in 10 1/2 hours, with a final tally of $303,000 from 2,146 backers. ‘Geek Out’ will sell through mainstream retail outlets for an MSRP of $299, starting in January, 2014; the strong response to “Geek Out” prompted Light Harmonic to establish a division devoted solely to mass-market products: LH Labs. “The ‘Geek Out’ campaign proved the demand for no-frills, no-jargon high-performance digital audio products that regular people can use and enjoy”, said Gavin Fish, Light Harmonic’s VP of Sales. “ ‘Geek Out’ showed that the general public understands the benefits of clearer sound, and a lot of our backers asked us for a desktop device with more power, more inputs, and more outputs. So---here it is!” 

“Geek Pulse” provides superb sound quality from a wide range of high-resolution formats, in an easy-to-use plug-and-play device. “Pulse‘s DAC natively decodes PCM files up to 32-bit/384kHz, as well as native decoding of DSD64 and DSD128 files, and features the Patent-Pending 3L buffer introduced by Light Harmonic in Da Vinci DAC. 

The amplifier is pure Class-A, utilizing a super-quiet DC power supply to produce 3,000 milliwatts of clean power, enough to drive even the most insane headphones, as well as quality desktop speakers. 


Connectivity is class-leading: inputs include 1-USB 2.0, 1-Toslink, and 2-S/PDIF RCAs; outputs are a 1/4’ headphone jack on the front, and a pair of gold-plated RCA line-out jacks on the back. 

“We were so happy that people liked ‘Geek Out’,” said Larry Ho, CEO of Light Harmonic. “Our backers said they wanted a desktop unit, and so we are happy to give it to them with ‘Pulse’. We will have even bigger surprises in this next year.” 

“We expect our backers will help us to make ‘Pulse’ even better than it already is,” said Fish. “And it’s already as good as anything being made today.” The Indiegogo campaign for “Geek Pulse” went live at 12:00 AM, PST on Tuesday, October 29th and runs through December 20th, 2013. 

Since its inception in 2008, Indiegogo has raised millions of dollars for thousands of projects. Initially geared to the independent film industry, the site expanded in 2009 to include all industries and types of fundraising projects. 

“Our last campaign showed us that as smart as we think we are, our backers are smarter,” said Fish. “We can’t wait to see what they teach us during the launch of ‘Geek Pulse’.” 

Suggested Retail Price, “Geek Pulse”: $499.00 

Availability: April, 2014

Decca FFSS Mk 2 stereo and FFSS Green mono and SME adapter

A TRULY superb find... in N.O.S. glorious beauty.

Ready to go Paratracer?!?!



Here below, also a gorgeous FFSS "Green" mono cartridge.

Adam Falckenhagen's genius

I love this music... I got aware of this seldom heard and read composer (1697-1754) thanking my beloved copy of Anthony Bailes' EMI Reflexe's discs.

In my strong opinion, his melodies and singing quality of his music are second to none, maybe more haunting than Bach himself, in the very same S.L. Weiss' vein and greatness.

This lute music is so joyful and complex, yet so straight to the heart and soul...

I recently got a disk by Alberto Crugnola playing a Martin Hopfman's (from Leipzig - 1690) 13-strings copy, made by Giuseppe Tumiati in Milan, back in 1997.

Recorded in a lively, beautiful sounding church, S. Giorgio's, in Pisa, Italy, on July 2003.

Alberto's playing is very, very nice and the great merit of this CD is that the whole Lautensonaten Opus # 1 - made of  six sonatas - is here presented.

I strongly suggest everyone in love with lute music and its timeless sound to search for and find this elusive disk... you won't regret.

Klangfilm Bionor

While making some order in the thousands pixes mess in my Mac, I found these cool pixies I found years ago and stored in my hard-disk:  a superb Klangfilm Bionor baffle pair for cinema, using top KL driver and the mythical 405 40 cm speaker.

What a beauty... maybe industrial beauty, bur still it!