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The other “Trout Mask Replica” 💫
This would/could have been Capt. Beefheart’s “Trout Mask Replica” cover…Artwork was rejected by Don Van Vliet, who choose the famous one…💫
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Kostas Metaxas - a good man and his amazing products 💫
One of the one of a kind show-up at Munich MOC 2024: Kostas’s open reels and amps and electrostatic loudspeakers!💫Look at these 🥇
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Munchen Hi-End 2024 - some rants, thoughts and mumbling
The last May, 9th or the first day at MOC 2024 was an octogenarian parade, Elysium-style - i.e. - average age of participants (press/visitors/whoever) was 70+ years old!Average listening bandwidth...
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The secrets of luthiery 💫
The examination by electron microscopy of X-ray diffraction, EDAX, in Cremonese old stringed instruments, which identified certain mineral substance known as “pozzolana”, probably collected in a...
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Amon Düül - Collapsing Singvögel Rückwärts & Co. 💫
Some friends asked if I bought some audiophile record at MOC 2024….The reply is: yes, only one and no, it’s not an audiophile record 😀😵💫😀I bought a Mint copy of the only Amon Düül’s record missing in...
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MINT magazine (in German, only)
Sometimes you strongly wish you studied German instead of French 😵💫😱😏😢😀Such an AMAZING magazine 💫🥇💫💎💫
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John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service 💫
I so much loved this artist and group in my youth, and still do…It’s first time I see JC’s stage/studio rig… amazing and complex, almost baroque 💫🥇💫He was an amazing guitarist, worth to be...
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J.S. Bach 💫
J. S. Bach's 1748–1749 autograph score of the "Et incarnatus est", 13th movement of his Mass in B minor.
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Consolidated Audio - Berlin 💫
I met Dipl. Ing. Michael Ulbrich several times since the (now) mythical Berlin Audio Tastings in 2005/2006: an extremely nice, soft-spoken gentleman very passionate of music and - most of all - of...
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Dhafer Youssef & Eivind Aarset in Vicenza 💫
Yesterday evening, at Vicenza’s Teatro Comunale, I attended to one of the very best concerts of my whole life.The duo created an alternate dimension of beauty where the audience was brought after a...
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Bill Frisell Trio in Vicenza
Yesterday evening: a stellar “Bill Frisell Trio” at Teatro Comunale in Vicenza: the last concert of 2024 Jazz Festival… a long suite of standards… with typical Frisell’s shyness on stage, harmonic...
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Capitol Records in LA 💫
The Secret of that Capitol Studios Sound.One of the Les Paul-designed echo chambers under the Capitol Records ...In 1955, Les Paul, one of America's foremost recording experts, was brought in to...
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Joni’s stolen guitar 😢
Joni Mitchell never really got over the loss of her “dear one,” a 1956 D-28 that had been gifted to her after surviving an explosion while it was on a tour of duty in Vietnam with a Marine Captain....
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The Studietto is over…
The 15 years long adventure, jokingly nicknamed “Studietto” is coming to its natural end: everything will be cleverly and safely put on temporary storage.This cute, cosy, over crowded place has been...
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