Bernd & Hilla Becher - the shape of things
Love this German couple pictures... their vision belongs to artistry and weirdness realm, the genius meaning finding the intrinsic poetry in ordinary buildings and their shapes... better: shape &...
View ArticleThe Dalai Lama is having the best time at Glastonbury festival.
His Holiness the Dalai Lama goes rock'n'roll...Forever young...
View ArticleParis>Istanbul>Shanghai>Texas - Joel Grare's Barock'n'Roll music
Enjoyed this disk greatly, this evening... Gotorama was truly giving its best... great music played on theorbo, double-bass, assorted percussions and bells, chinese erhu, cello...The recording is also...
View ArticleHot, hot, hot…
… yet in my studio, natural old building air conditioning is greatly mitigating the outside 35 degrees Celsius…Wishing to share a for free lesson I had only a couple days ago: my Gotorama uses 2 x...
View ArticleSelf-healing detoxing computer-less vacation
... well, almost computer-less... yet, soaking in sun and wind and sea... ... and enjoying real life, these days.
View ArticleWJAAS - An audio report from Japan by Nattwoot Aumkruer
A quick but juicy and well conceived and planned Japanese adventure for Nattawoot Aumkruer, a good fellow and FB pal from Bangkok, Thailand...Very, VERY nice pixies and thanks for paying kudos, mate.
View ArticleThe Ultimate Cassette
I already wrote about this one-of-a-kind Sony's premium quality cassette, but... cannot resist: it's such a sexy little thing that everyone owning a Nakamichi Dragon or 1000 or a Tandberg 3014 will...
View ArticleThe Golden Ear Award
© Thanking Petr Davydtchenko... the prize goes to Nattawoot Aumkruer.Love it!
View ArticleGiorgio Foschi and his reel-to-reel recorders Man's Cave
Yesterday evening I brought my Studer B62 - needing some attention - to Giorgio Foschi, the italian Gran Mogol and maven of everything open-reel tape recorder.I know Giorgio since a long time and...
View ArticleA new Robbie Basho recording re-appeared...
Thanking Kyle Fosburgh and Gass Tops recording..."Single from our compilation entitled 'Portrait Of Basho As A Young Dragoon', which documents some of Robbie's most exploratory early career live...
View ArticleRecords cleaning - that's the way!
The 8 Step Cleaning ProcessStep 1 - Use a precleaner to remove the largest particles and get the record base ready for a steam cleaning.Step 2 - Vacuum the record, both sides, using my Modified VPI...
View ArticleJeffrey Jackson's Wheel Fi
A new cat's in town... actually the cats are three, or six... Jeffrey, Robert and Christoph... plus Kurt, Waylon and Lisa and they're in the Catskills, NY.The location isn't by chance, for the above...
View ArticleTHE ultimate Neil Young's masterpiece - Harvest (Reprise MS 2032 - 1972)
... you know "... moooore baaaaarn!"Apparently, such a boring, decades old disc and topic... yet, I... dare, we never stop learning something new.I always felt Neil's disc is a masterpiece, both...
View ArticleVinyl & Ashes - the ultimate frontier for the die-hard record collector
... yes, for the die-hard record collector...Want to preserve yourself after death but can’t afford to be cryogenically frozen? How about getting your ashes pressed to a custom-made vinyl LP? That’s...
View ArticleGZ Media in Lodenice - Czech vinyl village
... an extract from New York Times..."But he was smart enough to keep a vinyl record factory here, a relic of the Communist era, through all those years when albums gave way to CDs and then to iTunes...
View ArticleThe Tape Project
Open-reel renaissance, don't you?After tons of shitty music recorded in superb sonics, on premium open-reel tape, here is "something"...Jerry Garcia and David Grisman, from original 30 IPS...
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