Goodbye Afterword. I do not want to belong to a community where shilling for climate damaging AI goes without a challenge. I will therefore never visit this site again.

I did a Google search on some of the song’s lyrics, and came up with a link to that album, but not the song. The song itself seems to have appeared on some cassette releases of the album. Flexidiscs were […]

It’s on Discogs – unfortunately the uploader knows nothing about it either!

That’ll be SFI 437, which indicates it was pressed by Sounds For Industry, another company who pressed flexi-discs. The catalogue number puts it down to being pressed around 1979.

If it’s a UK pressed flexi-disc, it was probably pressed by Lyntone. Although Lyntone tended not to print the year of release on their labels, I should be able to roughly estimate when it was issued based on […]

This shop must have had 40 or 50 different micro-genres, known by the shop owner, but impenetrable to anyone else. You simply couldn’t find anything.

There was a short-lived second-hand shop in Leeds that was similarly weird. The main CD rack went from something like A-H and then jumped to something like T-Z. The remaining titles were on another rack nearby. […]

Support for classical works went into Lyrion (formerly Logitech Media Server, as used by Squeezebox devices) about a year or so ago. Despite Logitech not being involved any more, the software is still being […]

I used to see someone regularly who often wore a Cropredy branded shirt – something a bit higher-end that a standard T-shirt. I once started to talk to him about recently seeing Richard Thompson play live – he had […]

I’ve three different shuffle settings on my Lyrion – server. One shuffles classical music by work, appending all of the tracks from that version of that work together if there are more than one track. Another […]

I tried to purchase the 10CD boxed set back during lockdown, but it was out of stock., so went for the 6CD set instead. Some of these boxes do eventually get re-pressed, or if the demand is low, they may only […]

There’s also a 6CD boxed set on Erato containing all of Ciccolini’s piano recordings of Satie, including those on which he accompanied a vocalist.

There’s an album with Don Elliot that’s not worth bothering with, as it’s effectively just a jam session from the late 1950s that wasn’t meant to be heard. The sound quality is also terrible.

It may still be possible to strip the DRM from files stored on one of these soon to be unsupported Kindles using the same unofficial Calibre plugin, although I’m not certain it still works with recent downloads. […]

I suppose Humph didn’t introduce Bill Evans to the audience in the same way he used to introduce Colin Sell on I’m Sorry I Haven’t A Clue!

Amazon turned off the ability to download books a while ago, so that won’t work. The Kindle will still be able to handle files transferred to it via USB, but these will have to be free of DRM. Files from Amazon […]

It’s the Kindle Fire 7 (i.e. the first 7-inch model) and not the Kindle Fire 7 that’s discontinued. These are models manufactured in 2012 or earlier, and which used different communication protocols and EBook […]

John Coltrane issued two different recordings of Ascension; his 38-40 minute long free-jazz album issued in 1966. Not long after its release, Coltrane decided that he preferred the other take recorded at the […]

Anton Webern composed many short works and movements. His entire published output from Opus 1 to Opus 31 has been twice issued by CBS/Columbia on 4 LP boxed sets, the first in mono under the supervision of Robert […]

I’ve a CD of Morton Feldman’s String Quartet (1979), which consists of a single movement that runs for about 79 minutes – although performances can last longer. His second string quartet is also a single […]