Eugen Cicero
When it comes around to music criticism, not much bothers me. One cannot argue about taste and one should try to live with critical reviews when they’re bad, just off or just badly researched. There’ll always be that one review that gets things right, negating – perhaps – those that ...
Boltz LP Shelf Units
Usually I can’t even blink an eye before someone takes me to task for not including this or that in one of my posts and also this time, about two seconds after I put up a post about the nifty Boltz ...
Boltz CD Racks
One way of adding products to write about to my ever-growing list of items is to simply surf through the list of referrers (for those not in the know, those are the “footprints” on my site left by visitors and kept track of via a small excellent programme called “
Les Trésors du Jazz
Note: You can find some photos of these boxed sets (and others) in the “Le Chant du Monde” album of the livingwithmusic.com/gallery.
OK,OK, I’ll admit it. I just dislike compilations, usually. Yes, sometimes a single artist’s best-of compilation ...
Jan Johansson
Have you ever heard of “Jazz på Svenska”, “Jazz på Ryska, “Musik genom Fyra Sekler”, “Spelar Musik På Sitt Eget Vis”, or maybe “Den Korta Fristen”?
No? Well, join the club of several million other people who haven’t either.
Jan Johansson, that elusive musician from Sweden who recorded these and many other ...
The Demise of the Record Store
I’ve often said around these parts that collecting music also incorporates something of a haptic experience. Collectors that I know don’t only go for the music, although it is certainly the central aspect of their endeavors. Some collectors get off on special packaging and exclusive collectors boxes, others are wild ...
Organissimo
To be quite honest, I used to hate the organ. When I was a kid, we had this neighbour who liked to open up his windows in the summer and blast out this insanely irritating organ muzak for hours, scaring away just about any approaching summer breeze that had managed ...
Muzak …
It was Marc Laidlaw who in 1986 published a horror story entitled “Muzak for Torso Murders” in Dennis Etchison’s landmark anthology, “Cutting Edge”. That title stuck with me all throughout the years and it instantly resurfaces whenever I’m confronted with music that hurts my ears.
“Muzak”, as you all probably know, ...
German Shelf System ‘max’
Note: This site will go on holidays for 16 days to allow me to finish up some other projects. Programming will resume on August 22.
I’ve been all over the map when reviewing multimedia storage systems, but one of the best that I’ve seen at several friends’ houses is actually from ...
I Remember Ella
I fell in love with Ella Fitzgerald the first time I heard her sing. It’s as simple as that. I didn’t want to marry her or anything like that, and I was also far too young at the time to consider anything of the kind, but when I heard her ...
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