As you all may have noticed since our latest post on January 2020, this website is not really operative. Don’t be desperate: I’m fine and I’ll maybe back one day in exploring other people’s houses conversating about records, books and life in general. But I’ve decided to use my time and energies for other activities,…
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Maurizio Pustianaz – “I like to be free to listen to the music whenever and where I want to, so I rip the records I’m purchasing, just like I was doing in the 80s, when I was taping them”
I see that you somehow wanted to show me those series of LPs. What do you think of the vinyl revenge/retromania that obsesses a lot of people? I mean, I love the ‘full size’ of LP covers, and the warm sound of vinyl, compared to the sharp one of CD… but for some reason I…
Emiliano Grigis – “Having less and less time I prefer to use my visual memory and a physical connection to music”
I notice on the down left corner “The Idiot” of Iggy Pop… I can’t avoid asking you: are you going to drink whiskey, watch “Stroszek”, listen to that album and hang yourself? Jokes apart, I see also one entrac’t CD with his awesome minimal packaging and the historical Verbatim box for CD-Rs. Are you still…
Stefano Isidoro Bianchi – “It’s rare, I must admit, that I play a record just to listen to it”
Hi Matteo. I’ll be happy to take some photos of my records for you, but now I have to send out the January issue of Blow Up magazine and the packages are actually covering me the view of the LPs… No problem, send that stuff anyway, it would be great to see the shelves before and…
Frans De Waard – “Many times I have been asked if I really had a big collection of records, following all these reviews I wrote. Well, no.”
[This post needs a short introduction – I’ve contacted Frans via Facebook on December 2018, with the following message, which actually is the usual one I send to those I invite to contribute to Concrete Shelves. What follows is (nearly) the uncut the conversation that we had.] Hi Frans! We’ve been in touch many times…
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