About six months ago I penned my first review of a tape from Toronto-based UltraAnalogue Recordings, Shostakovich Cello Sonata & Elgar’s Salut d’Amour. To say that I enjoyed myself would be an understatement (have I mentioned how much I love my job?) and so it was only a matter of time before I went back … More Review: a classical musical masterclass from UltraAnalogue Recordings
In a recent review of Lyn Stanley’s Moonlight Sessions, I mentioned (and was seriously impressed by) the fact that the albums were recorded and mixed by the legendary engineer and producer Al Schmitt. And then, the other day, I recalled that Analogy Records’ owner Roberto Vigo trained under the very same Al Schmitt. In fact … More Al Schmitt interview podcast on AudioStream
Intrepid R2R junkie Ken Kessler didn’t always have a bountiful stock of tapes. Everybody has to start somewhere, after all. Here, Ken casts his mind back to the early days of his open-reel tape habit and recounts how he got started building up a collection of pre-recorded reel-to-reels. When Tim de Paravicini demo’d a mint … More Kicking off the Kessler collection: in which tape junkie Ken Kessler recounts his early forays into the world of pre-recorded reel-to-reels
Dave Denyer: The Reel-to-Reel Rambler 