TRIORGANICO – CONVIVENCIA – J.T.’S ALBUM OF THE YEAR!
Once In A Very Rare While An Album Comes Along That I Feel Extremely Lucky To Have Been Turned On To. "Convivencia" Is One Such Gem. Coming Across A Review Of Triorganico's Debut In Waxpoetics #36 (Brazil Issue) Last Year I Couldn't Wait To Get My Hands On The Album And It Did Not Disappoint. The Three Guys, All From Different Regions And Musical Backgrounds, Met Just A Few Years Back. Pablo Calogero, On Woodwinds Is A Former Member Of The Basie Band And Has Played With The Likes Of Paul Simon And David Bowie; The Young, Gifted Guitarist, Fabio Nascimento Is A Native Of Rio De Janiero And Tiki Pasillas Is The Percussive Backbone Of The Group. To Quote David Ma: "Convivencia Is Something You'd Expect To Hear Floating From A Smoky Bossa Nova Club In The 1950's, Not Dowtown L.A. (Where The Group Are Based).... All Their Recordings Are Live Sessions Where Slow Grooves Allow For Improvisation, Where One-Take Recordings Celebrate The Quirks Of Live Musicianship. The Minimalist Tracks Feature Woodwinds, Drums And Seven String Guitar. Music Is Like Strong Medicine For Us. For Convivencia, We Recorded With Whatever Instruments We Could Simply Carry In Our Hands And On Our Backs. Nothing More." I Recently Took The CD Of This Album Over To Deetes Sound Room Here In Sactown And Around About The Third Cut Deetes Came In From The Front Counter And Simply Gave It A One Word Description: "Awesome!" J.T.'s Album Of The Year For 2009.
Yet Another Holiday Or Two
Well we leapt right over Christmas without a blog entry and now we’re bumping up on New Years. My New Year’s resolution (or at least one of them) is to blog more often and to beat Kevin around the head until he blogs more often also! Thanks to all our customers and friends for helping make this year of 2009 such a successful one. We are going to be closed Thursday December 31st through January 3rd (so I can finish off Stephen King’s latest: Under The Dome that Santa brought me). Cheers, and have a great New Year! John T.
Holiday Weekend
Howdy…Just a quick note to let everyone know that we’ll be giving thanks for the next four days. Well, most of us are – John is leaving on a week-long buying trip Saturday morning. The rest of us will be back on Monday. So…if you’re sitting around wondering why we haven’t been more responsive, it’s because we’re home. Or our and about. But not in the office. We hope everyone in the states has a superb Thanksgiving and everyone else in the rest of the world simply has a great Thursday. Cheers, kevin
A Good Haul Of Sealed LPs, Promos And More From Tennessee
Well, I’ve been back a while from Tennessee, more than a month in fact and all we have been doing is adding titles to the site every day and avoiding the blog. Back in the summer, I got a call from Jay Nations at Raven Global in Maryville, Tennessee who had located a huge collection belonging to a deceased New York photographer who must had some great industry connections as he had salted away piles of sealed and promo records. So off I went to Maryville, to visit Jay and his haul. Several days later I had around 2500 sealed or promo LPs waiting to be boxed and shipped back to Orangevale. The picture here is the first batch wiating for shipment, with Jay’s pup-Ziggy Stadog(!)-kicking back on the pallet of boxed wax. For variety during the weekend of my visit, we hit two record swaps – one in Chattanooga held in the workout room of a local hotel and another in Knoxville. Both were very well attended and I managed to add some real gems to the already sizeable shipment. We are currently about two thirds of the way through adding these titles to the site, but also have a backlog of over 7,000 LPs that need processing from other collections I purchased during the summer. We currently have the biggest and best selection of LPs we’ve ever had on the site, so with the Thanksgiving weekend closing in, now is the time to sit back and browse the site. Our office will be closed for Thanksgiving from Thursday 26th through Sunday 29th November, although the shopping cart works well 24/7.
Yet Another Advantage For The LP Over The CD-Or Snake Removal Made Easy!
Besides the other previously recognized advantages of the long player, I discovered yet another the other night close to midnight when I jumped up off the couch in the ‘man-cave’ (aka the home theatre) after watching Isabelle Huppert in the Piano Teacher. There in front of me was a little garden snake squiggling its way under the furniture. Having seen Marianne wizz by me in a blur, screaming like a banshee up the stairs (was that the 9:15 to Paddington?), I quickly went to the record collection and pulled out the first LP that came to hand and deftly scooped it under the snake and dropped it off in the garden (just the snake). Try that with a CD case!
Roy Head “Same People” worth $25 – free copy!
I forgot to mention in my most recent post that we found a big stash of the cult 1970 R&B classic “Same People” by blue-eyed soul singer Roy Head on the Dunhill label. Anyone placing an order of $100 or more by the end of the weekend of October 4th gets a free copy of this underrated LP (while supplies last of course).
Our latest haul of gems
I’ve just returned from a Los Angeles buying trip with heaps of sealed or mint LPs in most genres and we have already managed to upload several hundred to the site with much more to come over the next couple of weeks. Some highlights are a complete, unplayed set of the Beatles Japanese red wax mono LPs including the highly desirable White Album, some original sealed Stones pressings, a bunch of sealed MoFi’s, and more than a few sealed Nautilus half-speed masters including some of the most “in-demand” titles such as Eric Clapton’s “Just One Night,” Joni Mitchell’s “Court And Spark.” We have a very juicy copy of the Smashing Pumpkins “Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness” triple album. Since Michael Jackson’s passing, the sealed Thriller has disappeared off the map, but we managed to locate a very nice sealed copy with the custom hype sticker intact. More sealed LP from the likes of Beck (Midnight Vultures), Jimmy Webb, U2, Jefferson Airplane, The Ramones, Cannoball Adderley (The Rare Black Messiah Double Album), George Harrison, The Animals, Cowboy Junkies (Trinity Sessions), The Deadly Rare Natalie Cole “Unforgettable” Double LP from 1991, Donald Fagen’s “Nightfly” (Sealed Japanese pressing), Sade, Fever Tree, Tori Amos and way more than we have room to mention here.
Music Matters’ latest two Blue Note titles have just arrived: John Jenkins’ self-titled debut featuring Kenny Burrell and the brilliant Wayne Shorter’s “Ju-Ju.”
Just as I returned exhausted from the L.A. trip, the phone rang with another lead, this time to a dusty, old storage facility near the rail yards in Sacramento. A pallet full of jazz was on the menu and although many will end up in land-fill, there were plenty of juicy, rare titles had never seen a turntable, that we will be uploading around two to three weeks from now.
Mid-October sees me flying to Tennessee to check out thousands of either sealed or white label promo LPs that were part of a 20,000 LP New York music reviewers personal stash. Stay Tuned……..
John’s Musical Enjoyment Gear
Several of our customers have asked what I use for my listening pleasure at home, so I thought it was about time a few pics of said gear hoisted onto the blog would be in order. The turntable is a Basis Gold Debut with Cardas Heart, Quicksilver amps, a BAT preamp and the fabuolous ProAc D100 speakers. And yes, I do listen to CDs because there are some superb albums that will alomost certainly never make it to the LP format – myCD player of choice is the tubed Pathos Digit.
Immedia Revolution Turntable
Howdy…thought we’d pass along these photos of this hyper-limited and super sweet turntable designed by Alan Perkins of Immedia. There are no more than a dozen of these in the world, and sports an Immedia arm and Clearaudio Concerto cartridge. And hey, you’re in luck as this specific one is for sale. It’s going to set you back around, oh, $7500. Let us know if you have any interest and we can put you in touch with the seller.
In Celebration Of Independence
In lieu of July 4th falling on a Saturday this year, we have decided to take Friday off and leave all this killer stuff up on the site for you to ruminate over during the long weekend, or better still place in your shopping carts for us to pull on Monday morning. It’s certainly the best selection we have ever offered, so dig in! But, hey! don’t forget to take some time out to let off those fireworks, chug a few brews and squeeze in some vinyl listening time. Cheers, John
