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Audio Empathy
Exactly eight days after Le Solstice arrival, today...Last Tuesday, after having a quiet, pleasant music evening with my pal Edo, when saying goodbye after a couple hours of music, played both on...
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Caramelling by Lindt
... aehm, candies-crossover making, these days...Thanking my pal Lo, the Master Patissier.
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BOBology Dept. - His Bobness in Avignon, France
I love this great site...Bob Dylan on the rooftop... it was some years ago: I always liked this pix.
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OMA Imperia 4 ways system
Nice effort from Jonathan Weiss'OMA.Using the mighty Cogent 1428 mid-low drivers.Cool!
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The Elusive Mellotron
So much joy it gave to Prog and our early musical 70s... Beatles, King Crismson, Moody Blues, Yes and many more... "You’ll learn quite a bit more about the “rash breaking out all over pop music” that...
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Alan Blumlein lives!
... yes, folks... the great, late Mr. Blumlein, who invented maybe the most striking miking pattern, ever, is here heard talking and walking to - sort of - test the imaging of the miking itself.Worth a...
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Happy 67th birthday to 7" vinyl disc
The first 45 rpm disc, Texarkana Baby by country-and-western singer Eddy Arnold, was issued by RCA in the US on 31 March 1949. It was made of green vinyl, as part of an early attempt to colour-code...
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The Hateful Eight and the 1870 Martin acoustic guitar
... a sad story: an unfortunate mishappen or... purest Tarantino's pulp?Amidst all the violence in Quentin Tarantino’s latest film “The Hateful Eight” is the scene in which John Ruth, played by Kurt...
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Brian Eno's Scape
The App of the Month, folks... downloaded it yesterday and I'm tripping into beautiful soundscapes (yes...)...Connected my iPad to AER Acousticube and began improvising and interacting with the music...
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AudioNirvana - Myles B. Astor's new Blog and Forum
"Every Blog and forum have a different energy, largely determined by the founder and early, prolific posters".I agree, so go, browse and enjoy, as I did...Best wishes to Myles'AudioNirvana Blog and...
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"Il n'y a pas de rose sans épines"
It was some months since my last live music exposure... last concert I attended was before Christmas, a Bach Cantatas concert in a church...Music is always in my life, yet... it's quite shocking...
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Computerwelt
70 years ago, six Philly (aka Philadelphia) women became the world's first digital computer programmers...Notice: the word "computer" is live and containing a link;-)... so lazy, today;-)))Thanking...
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It's International Radio Day!
What a filthier world would be without radio waves...It's Guglielmo Marconi's visionary dream of sharing, culture, music, live concerts and more...I guess my first sound I heard almost 60 years ago was...
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Flea-market guitar nuggets
Rainy day and only a fraction of the vinyl-discs merchants usually present at the local flea-market... but... BUT... Nigel was here... not bringing the Deccas' WB I used to buy from him, years ago, for...
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That's serious horn!
... not used for music reproduction, but... would it be good down to... 1 hz, maybe;-)?!?!Impressive, doesn't it?
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Robbie Basho - the book
Thanking Kyle Fosburgh who had to unfortunately give up to the physical book project due to copyright hassles...Here is the one and only hand-printed and hard-covered in canvas and silver silk-screened...
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An impressive guitar auction at Guernsey's, next Feb. 27th, 2016
WOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOWOW!WOW!
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Decca, EMI: friends or foes?
A giveaway for us all... secrets-secrets... everything in the name of music."There the story might have ended, had Mike not noticed an article in a magazine called The Absolute Sound. Mike’s attention...
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Soundscapes # 1, 2 & 3 on Soundcloud
Have a listen here, here and here... a bunch of low-fi extracts, iPhone home-recordings of a larger project called Loops in Faboola...Shameless!
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A D'Angelico Excel arch-top found in a Cadillac trunk...
You just never know what you’re going to find in the trunk of an old car. This gorgeous 1942 D’Angelico Excel arch top in the back of a 1963 Caddy! It is currently owned by Jerry Duncan of Guitars on...
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