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02-03-2013, 18:52
So today was 'record shopping day' - once a month, my better half and I go to a preselected record shop – preferably one we've not been to before – and each make at least one purchase, then we listen to the records together in the evening. This was an event that I implemented a while ago, in order to encourage her to take more ownership of the sound system, since she likes music very much, but is in the habit of letting me dictate what we listen to all the time (plus I think she's slightly intimidate by all the gear).
The 'rules' are that the record/s should not be something that we're already familiar with, and it certainly should not be something that either of us already owns in another format - the point is to discover new stuff together.
So, today was March's outing. We went to Analog Collector (http://analog-collector.fr/) - a shop that caught our eye a few months back, but which always seemed to be closed whenever we went. Anyway, today it was open, and it was great! Fantastic selection of classical music, plus a decent jazz selection, and bits and bobs of electronic, musique concrete, and avant garde; a mixture of new and second hand, but from the look of the records that I saw, the quality for second hand was very high. If you're ever record shopping Paris, I highly recommend it.
The missus went for a collection of 'Works for 2 Pianos', with pieces from Britten, Bartol, and Stravinsky. I had my eye on a collection of early electronic pieces that had been entries for a composition competition in 1968, but then found something that seemed to odd to pass up - a work by Charles Dodge called 'Earth's Magnetic Field - Realisations in Computed Electronic Sound', from 1970. It seems to be a very early piece of computer music, in which magnetic field data is translated into sound - I'm a sucker for a silly concept ;)
And since next month we'll both be working abroad, and in different countries, I used this to justify a trip to another shop, called 'Bimbo Towers', which specialises in underground experimental stuff, with an emphasis on music from Japan. There I picked up a collection from Teresa Rampazzi called 'Musica Endoscopica' - more electronic music from the 70s.
Here are some pics – will report back with listening impressions :)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020340.JPG
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020337.JPG
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020342.JPG
The 'rules' are that the record/s should not be something that we're already familiar with, and it certainly should not be something that either of us already owns in another format - the point is to discover new stuff together.
So, today was March's outing. We went to Analog Collector (http://analog-collector.fr/) - a shop that caught our eye a few months back, but which always seemed to be closed whenever we went. Anyway, today it was open, and it was great! Fantastic selection of classical music, plus a decent jazz selection, and bits and bobs of electronic, musique concrete, and avant garde; a mixture of new and second hand, but from the look of the records that I saw, the quality for second hand was very high. If you're ever record shopping Paris, I highly recommend it.
The missus went for a collection of 'Works for 2 Pianos', with pieces from Britten, Bartol, and Stravinsky. I had my eye on a collection of early electronic pieces that had been entries for a composition competition in 1968, but then found something that seemed to odd to pass up - a work by Charles Dodge called 'Earth's Magnetic Field - Realisations in Computed Electronic Sound', from 1970. It seems to be a very early piece of computer music, in which magnetic field data is translated into sound - I'm a sucker for a silly concept ;)
And since next month we'll both be working abroad, and in different countries, I used this to justify a trip to another shop, called 'Bimbo Towers', which specialises in underground experimental stuff, with an emphasis on music from Japan. There I picked up a collection from Teresa Rampazzi called 'Musica Endoscopica' - more electronic music from the 70s.
Here are some pics – will report back with listening impressions :)
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020340.JPG
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020337.JPG
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/28198906/AoS/P3020342.JPG