So gentlemen: Q1: What are the speakers in the bottom right of this image? Q2: Who is the man in front of them? Q3: What UK audio company did he create and … Q4: Is he still alive?
Month: May 2022
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In honour of groundbreaking American composer Terry Riley’s 80th birthday, Nonesuch Records releases “One Earth, One People, One Love: Kronos Plays Terry Riley” – a five-disc box set of four albums of his work composed for, and performed by, his longtime friends and champions Kronos Quartet. Riley and Kronos met more than 35 years ago, […]
Joni Mitchell, Love Has Many Faces: A Quartet, A Ballet, Waiting to Be Danced I suppose that, being adept in so many other fields – poetry, painting, songwriting, jazz – it’s understandable that Joni Mitchell might want to explore ballet, too; although this themed 4CD collection poses more questions than it answers. Rather than the […]
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/glenn-gould-an-introduction-to-the-life-and-best-recordings-of-a-piano-icon
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I remember my first trip to Hong Kong back in the 1990s. Breakfast that morning was to be fruit, Miso soup, rice, and salted plum. When the server brought my plate out I was pleasantly surprised to see my fruit, a lovely orange/yellow mango, opened for the eating like the top half of a ball […]
Out of my thousands of vinyl pressings the thought struck me that it might be interest, for me and perhaps for some of you to try and list my favourite 100. A big task, but not an unpleasant one. But for sanity’s sake I have to set a few limits. First, an era restriction. So, […]
I remember the first time I heard the improvements brought by an upgraded fuse. It was a few years ago and our German distributor, Jurgen, was visiting. We were in the middle of a listening session and he asked if I might be up for an experiment. Of course! He pulled the top off the […]
From our archives I received this today from Mr. Thomas Lerche. Am I envious? Damn right I am. Anyway, this is part 1 of a 2-part story. Dear Howard: You are the first I want to tell, that I finally got a hold on a pair of the Stax DMA-X2. I have been looking for […]
Out of my thousands of vinyl pressings the thought struck me that it might be interest, for me and perhaps for some of you to try and list my favourite 100. A big task, but not an unpleasant one. But for sanity’s sake I have to set a few limits. First, an era restriction. So, […]
It is as if The Funk Firm Houdini helps your cartridge escape the intrusion of the tonearm, then. Granted, some might have selected their current arm/cartridge combination precisely because of how they sound together. Yet for those considering upgrading either or both items, I suggest you try the Houdini first because it will improve the sound of […]
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/features/article/gramophone-editor-s-choice-june-2022-the-best-new-classical-recordings
John Fordham writes: Sicilian Defense is a chess strategy, and this music certainly has a rigorous logic. But trumpeter Jonathan Finlayson, who lent his classically schooled skills to the bands of saxists Steve Coleman and Steve Lehman and postponed leading his own until now, straddles the mathematical and the colloquial so well on this […]
We are told: “I always find it odd that people call us post-punk. I know that punk and New Wave started at the same time because I was there.” (Ganesh Seshadri aka Bid, singer, guitarist and main songwriter)Emerging at the end of punk era, The Monochrome Set’s estrangement from society came from a more arty […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT1F0AN9-PE 214,814 views so far “1000% more soul here – guitar playing very simple but impossible to emulate – so much emotion without trickery. Awesome Free were around in the seventies and were a fantastic blues/rock band with great vocals and guitar solos. Andy Fraser’s bass guitar playing on this track sounds like another lead […]