Glenn Jones & Matthew Azevedo's Waterworks on limited-edition vinyl
On new live album Waterworks, digital and acoustic experimentation bring sparkling new depths to Glenn Jones’ emotive guitar virtuoso. Waterworks was recorded binaurally at the Waterworks Museum in...
View ArticleTandberg of Norway
Mysterious stuffs, folks...I owned Tandberg's gears for most of my life: TL 5020, Studio Monitor, 118 speakers... and TD20A, 3500 and 9200 XD reel to reels.I recently bought for cheap a pair of Hi-Fi...
View ArticleMr. Sennheiser goes partying!
... women are truly a one-of-a-kind-breed;-)My wife, after seeing the unattended vintage Neumann mike-boom and Sennheiser Dummy head at home, shortly after I finished recording, put on the blue head a...
View ArticleFlea-market gems... from Hungary with love.
The King is naked!Gyorgy Ranki?Yes!His composing character reminds me some movies soundtrack with a tad of Respighi and Bernard Hermann... let's not forget the like of Miklos Rosza who wrote for...
View ArticleDisc of the Day - Heinz Holliger - Siebengesang - Der Agische Tänzer
A Japanese pressing masterpiece...Thundering!WoW!
View ArticleI love double-bass!
Bottesini rules, folks!Listening to a 140 years old double-bass played by a true master, maestro Gergely Járdányi - who studied with great, late Ludwig Streicher - is such a blissful joy!... and...
View ArticleElbow cassette player
A cool project, maybe slightly nostalgic, but the idea behind this gizmo is worth following its future incarnation.I like it.
View ArticleThe springtime blogger's attitude
Friends, loyal and occasional readers of my humble, little Blog asked to me about my recent silence...... writing, suggesting, sharing is a quite natural activity for yours truly: I write when I've...
View ArticleFoundation Designer premium speaker-stand and Tandberg System 11
Same old story: I wasn't prepared!My recent exposure to the Tandberg System 11 mini-monitors made me a believer... I'm so in love for these unassuming seldom heard speakers I felt comfortable investing...
View ArticleDisc of the Month - Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky on Columbia Masterworks
Has been a long day, folks... too tired to try a witty, humble review of such a monster, superb disc!I'll limit my efforts sincerely thanking my pal Enrico for suggesting this gem!... and the Discogs'...
View ArticlePink Floyd - The Missing Piano
A cool interesting short film about a piano hidden in the mix of Pink Floyd's "Wish you were here" classic album...Nice shots of classic studio gears and Floyds' during the mix...
View ArticleRalph Towner's most sought after disk? Mazzacurati's "Un'Altra Vita" OST (CAM...
Again about Ralph?Yes... forever!This very disk, the soundtrack for "Un'altra Vita", a Carlo Mazzacurati's movie starring Silvio Orlando on CAM Records, masterfully engineered by Andrea Ridolfi and...
View ArticleShinrin-yoku
Low-battery, folks?Just reach nearest wood or forest, leave the car and walk: breathe, touch, even hug trees, look at the details around: leaves, flowers, listen to the natural sounds, reaching your...
View ArticleThe Ugly Duckling - a new Class A integrated amp
For my home audio system... it will be ready, soon... A Class A 20W Hiraga-clone integrated amp... or better: an hand-made power-amp with the add of an Alps RK-40 pot, actually.Aesthetics will be...
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