VINYL RETURNS. THE PROS AND CONS

last Rolling Stone Issue presented an article by David Browne titled Vinyl Returns in the age of MP3. The article listed the increase in vinyl production and sales by bands like Radiohead, Arcade Fire, Elvis Costello and Catpower, as well as the increase in turnetables' sales. But beyond what the article presents there are some questions that popped into my head.
First: Radiohead and their green tours main challenge as opposed to their production of vinyl records which compared to CDs and MP3 materials are less friendly with the enviroment. So in spanish you'd say: "lo que hacen con la mano lo borran con el codo" which in english would be something like: what you write with your hand you erase with yor elbow, or something like that. So, what's the point in all the effort they invest in the live tours earth fiendly venues and equipment if the real concept, which I undertand is to be friendly with the enviroment, is not taken beyond a tour?. Maybe it's hard to believe comming from a band I admire like Radiohead and specially Thom Yorke, but is it still all about the money?. Because as we all know, vinyl is selling.
Second:All the experts talk about the warm sound of vinyl, and I agree, but being realistic, what's the percentage of people that really care about the warm sound?, so as they well cite in the article, vinyl sales have a celing. And maybe it's just a trend that would only last for real music lovers (melomanos).
Third and most important of all to me, and something the article doesn't even mention. The vinyl trend is a great way to redescover old records that made history and that had concepts that mainstream music has forgotten. Let's say jazz recordings which in my experience, sound very different in digital format that in analog, or classic recordings that we all well know souch as Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Hendrix, Beatle's Saergent Pepper's lonely hearts club band,etc...which not only made history with the music concept and sound but with the art that came with music. So, will the vinyl return bring all the good music and the profound creative concept as well as the old fashioned sound back?
Hopefully it will, at least while the trend lasts.

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LSD IN ROCK N' ROLL

I've been reading a lot of interviews and books written by musicians that've made history in rock music. All of them describe their experience with drugs, specially LSD. It's just something undeniable that in a way, framed a period in history and because of that, framed musicians, and as a result, their music. If you're interested check out more youtube videos or some rolling Stone's (magazine) interviews.
Remember: LSD was legal

John Lennon's audio interview



Dr. Albert Hofmann. LSD "The Beyond within"

PLAYLIST

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Dick Oatts: A Living Legend

Last week I went to the CUNY (City College of New York) jazz festival and they had saxophonist Dick Oatts as special guest. This man is a living legend, check it out.

MOBY: best DJ set Apr.3/2008

This is one of Moby's best DJ sets I've ever seen. Hiro Ballroom, the best Degenerate pary I've been to. Loved Mehdi's set too.
Here it is...Moby...Enjoy!
Focus on the music (not the image)

LA MONARETA

Hace tiempo no escribía, lo siento. Lo peor es que tengo muchas cosas por decir pero bueno, esto es lo primero y es corto porque tengo tendinitis y no quiero escribir porque me duele. Un video de la Monareta que encontrè buscando el 205 Club de NYC.

Son colombianos y son muy buenos

Monareta @ 205 Bar NYC (Remezcla)

BASSOON IN JAZZ

JAZZ: TODAY

The jazz world has lost many of its great figures in the past year, not only musicians but also producers and high executives that believed in jazz. Although it's been a great loss for all of us (the jazz lovers), there's a new brood that's making and playing real jazz with all it's tradition but with all it's new sounds,and by this I mean the inclusion of lots and lots of experimentation. It's not easy to find this visionaries but they exist and I had the pleasure to hear them on Monday night at the Blue Note (New York). It really made me happy to see that this club is opening it`s doors to musicians that are experimenting with new sounds such as the Jason Lindner's band.
The concert was full of energy, as the usual concerts of Mr. Lindner are, but the most stunning thing to hear was the incorporation of new technologies into jazz music, as well as rediscovering a new repertoire that in a certain way, although I'm sure it's not a conscious thing that Mr. Lindner did, they're including movie songs into their performances souch as the Kill Bill song they played last night. And that's exactly what the traditional jazzmen did at their time with the "Standards".
The band that Mr. Lindner brought together was a perfect blending. Avishai Cohen playing trumpet with his 1.000 effects, Panaiotis Andreou playing bass and singing beautiful mediterranean and middle Eastern tunes, and off course, Jason Lindner on the piano, Nord Electro, Moog and synths.
It was a great experience to hear them play and a great relief to know this musicians will continue to develop a music that's been loosing it's icons because their time on this world came to an end.
No wonder why Chick Corea called Mr. Lindner a "musical universe"
Thanks for your music and your energy Jason!

NEW YORK HAS IT'S OWN SOUNDTRACK

Just listen to the milieu and its enviroment