Gongasufi: A Sufi And A Killer
I’ve also been digging the debut LP from Gongasufi, A Sufi And A Killer, on Warp">http://warp.net/records/gonjasufi/debut-album-a-sufi-and-a-killer#0">Wa… Records. You listen to the first track and you’re like, “Hmm?” Listen to the second track and you’re like, “Oh.” Listen to the third track and you’re like, “What the hell is this?” Listen to the fourth track and you’re in love, you’re on your way to the record store even though you swore off buying records for a month, or at least until the next payday, but whatever, you have to have this record now. Now.
Good Times
I spotted this familiar magazine in the lobby of the hospital where, just last Saturday, my sister gave birth to a healthy, handsome boy.
It was our March 2007 issue—someone needs to renew the hospital’s subscription. Flipping through its pages was like taking a walk back in time.
Good Work
"I love hard work," John Atkinson had said earlier. "I can watch it all day long."
Goodbye to the Revel Salon2
At around this time last week, John Atkinson and I left the office and headed out to Bay Ridge to pack up the large and lovely Revel">http://www.stereophile.com/floorloudspeakers/608revel/index.html">Revel Ultima Salon2, voted our "Joint">http://www.stereophile.com/features/1208poty/index1.html">Joint Loudspeaker of the Year" for 2008 and a speaker that JA absolutely adores. He selected it as his overall product of the year:
Grabbing for Notes
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Graceful Curves and Strong Lines
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Grails: Doomsdayer's Holiday
It's Friday evening. I would like to be at home, sitting on the orange couch, a beer in my hand, the light rain tapping against my windows, listening to Grails' Doomsdayer's Holiday. Sounds bleak, doesn't it? But Grails are really kind of perfect for this sort of warm, rainy autumn night, with their dark mix of Eastern psychedelia, folk, metal, and free-jazz ramblings. Beautifully recorded, too, with heart-jolting impact and sweet, sweet dynamic range.
Great Art
Green
It's a good, good thing you">http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/the_rega_p3-24_iin_colouri/">… voted for green because that's the color I was going to pick anyway. It was a landslide. Foreshadowing of something greater, perhaps. (Yeah, you know what I'm talking about.)
Greenhaus Events at Pitch Perfect Audio
Photo: DeVore Fidelity
Sunday, January 15, 59pm and Monday, January 16, 69pm: As a way to recuperate from the madness of the Consumer Electronics Show and with a hat tip to Devore Fidelity's popular Monkeyhaus listening parties, Pitch Perfect Audio (300 Brannan Street, Suite 209, San Francisco) will host their first “Greenhaus” events.