Danny who?
He is Danny Godber, a close friend of Peter Sinfield at the time of the early King Crimson and a computer programmer with a hobby of painting and graphics. He is the author of the double cover of the...
View ArticleNoye’s Fludde, again 😉
Ararat's mount is a stratovolcano, formed by lava flows and pyroclastic eject, with no volcanic crater. Above the height of 4200 meters, the mountain consists mainly of igneous rocks covered by an ice...
View ArticleHeaven or hell?
"If you offered me a paradise without sex, I would say no, thank you; women are such a sweet hell."—Ovid (Sulmona, 43 BC - Tomis, 17 AD) Roman poet, orator and writer."Equilibrio" (2010)Carrara...
View ArticleThe making of a masterpiece: Jimmy Giuffre 3 on ECM
I already talked about this very double disc in 2009, originally issued as two separate discs on Verve label in 1961, which was the trigger element for a young Manfred Eicher to found his very own ECM...
View ArticleThe Golden Ratio 💫
The Golden ratio in audioMathematicians have studied the golden ratio's properties since antiquity. It is the ratio of a regular pentagon's diagonal to its side and thus appears in the construction of...
View ArticleBert Jansch - Birthday Blues 💫
A signed copy of this masterpiece…… and the master-tape 💫🥇💫💎💫
View ArticleTools of the trade - Gretsch White Falcon & Neil Young & Steve Stills
Everybody - myself included - was drooling at these sought after guitars blinking from records covers and music magazines 💫💎💫From “Gainesville Rock History: The 60’s and 70’s”During the years that I...
View ArticleDavid Gilmour’s hand 💫
A picture taken in Rome during recent concerts at Circo Massimo.Thanks to my pal Giovani, who attended several of these events and shot the amazing picture💫
View ArticleDisk of the Day - J.S. Bach - Partitas & Sonatas BWV 1001-1006 - Sigiswald...
An amazing… AMAZING Tomas Gallia’s analog recording from 1981 and an awesome, I mean AWESOME performance by Sigiswald Kuijken, masterfully played on a Giovanni Grancino violin made ~1700 in Milan.💫💫💫
View ArticleItalo Calvino 💫💎💫
October 15, 1923, Italo Calvino is born."I love Stendhal above all because only in him are individual moral tension, historical tension, the impetus of life one and the same, linear novelistic...
View ArticleThe Verein zur Tonbandjagd Schweiz (Swiss Tape Hunting Association) 🇨🇭
The Verein zur Tonbandjagd Schweiz (Swiss Tape Hunting Association) takes care of the archiving of exciting stocks of original studio tapes. Under the label Plasma Records & Tapes, analog direct...
View ArticleTone Poems I-III 💎
These disks and the amazingly accurate included booklets are a treasure, musically and historically…
View ArticleChris Herring 💫
Chris Herring and his trusty ‘70s Fylde Falstaff: his YouTube channel is an endless source of enjoyment and inspiration 💫💫💫 - his MP3 (see the virtual covers) are an homage to Bert Jansch and John...
View ArticleLet’s get out of comfort-zone 💫
“If a musician makes a mistake because he risks everything to get the most beautiful thing, and he fails, then I am grateful for this failure because only with this risk can you get beauty, true...
View ArticleDisk of the day - Laura Nyro - Smile 💫
I owned this disc for decades and, also if somebody thinks it’s not among her best, it nonetheless has a special meaning to me.I didn’t played in years, so I’m now enjoying a cool Japanese disk.
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