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Feet in felt...
Feet warm in felt home-shoes and the Tandberg 9200 XD singing for hours through the smaller system... a good book, good music.What else for first Autumn days?
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The secret history of messages etched into records runout groove
Practically since day one, the inside track or runout groove of a vinyl record or 78rpm disc has been the domain of the matrix number, an alphanumerical code either stamped or handwritten into the wax...
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The Swan
She's about 55 years old and 100% N.O.S.... I got her a few years ago and only listened sparingly, almost fearful about her weight and vertical tracking force.She didn't played a groove in years 'til...
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Wine
If I wish peace of mind for my discs, I listen to my Puritas in Archè headshell, if I want to go for smoothness, use my Decca SC4E in Bosoeoum headshell or my Signet MM; for everyday listening my...
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Sunday's Disc - Rod Stewart - Every pictures tell a story (Mercury 1971)
I love finding and sharing superior quality - both musical and sonically - discs...Brand-new or decades old, I don't care, as best music is timeless as it can be...Today I gave a spin to a disc I...
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Tandberg 10 XD reel-to-reel
Three motors, three speeds, four tracks, four heads, including Crossfield-technology head, sort of pre-magnetising record-tape-head.This enhancing quality method only works on transparent Mylar tape...
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M15 is back home...
... after a minor surgery at GF's workshop... a silly single transistor failure only about one year after the full re-capping...Shit happens...... but, WOW... the pleasure of playing some nice...
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Harmony Sovereign H-1260 - Das Volksgitarren
My '69 Harmony Sovereign H-1260 ladder-braced isn't my most expensive or sought-after guitar, yet it represents something for yours truly: not only a guitar, but something which in pre-WEB era, I fell...
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Одна из многих записей, найденных вчера на рынке: шедевр!
YES!Yesterday I visited my trusty vinyl-disc pusher... he cherry-picked among his thousands discs some unseen nuggets which I greatly appreciated: a lot of Japanese pressings (more to come), Telefunken...
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Italian Prog '70s - Battiato at his best!
Franco Battiato, 1971-73There is no figure in Italian music, nor within the country’s shimmering, expansive avant-garde, who demands the respect and awe offered to Franco Battiato. He is the beginning...
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Piero Umiliani's Italian "poliziotteschi" movies and OSTs
Piero UmilianiStudio Umiliani: Rare and Unreleased Tracks From Sound Work Shop Archives '67-'832×LP + Bonus CD 1. Avventura2. Missione Speciale3. Petra – Tema Jazz4. Petra – Sottofondo Generico In Re...
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FZ's Legacy
This is just an amazing and useful tool to (better) understand Frank Zappa's musical heirloom.... for posterity.
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Zippers and Rolling Stones!
Thanking YKK...or...... call me crazy;-), but... Andy Wharol or not... my choice goes to the color one;-)))
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Penguin disaster as only two chicks survive from colony of 40,000!
Something wrong going on? Deadly wrong, indeed! Please read The Guardian's article... and let's think about it.
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John Carpenter's Anthology
John Carpenter is a legend. As the director and music composer behind dozens of classic movies, Carpenter has established a reputation as one of the greatest filmmakers in the history of modern cinema,...
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Otto, the G-Wagen
A lifetime-long adventure... or adventure as life-style... anyway, such a worth-life for Christine and Gunther... "In 1988, before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Gunther Holtorf and his wife Christine...
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Harry Partch's Petaluma Tapes
Harry PartchOn The Seventh Day Petals Fell In Petaluma(LP)*Limited Edition LP release (180g vinyl) with previously unpublished bonus tracks + free download card*stock is due soon, will begin shipping...
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