The Sophisticated Audiophile

April 30, 2010 • 11:01 am 2

To Have & To Hold – A Film About Vinyl

To Have & To Hold is a 90 minute documentary about vinyl. The director Jony Lyle describes it as a ‘musicmentory’ to celebrate the age of vinyl records. The best part about the trailer to me is the segment on Blue Note records. They nailed it there. However, I don’t understand how anyone can have a documentary on vinyl that does not include Michael Fremer. That’s a missed opportunity to say the least. Nevertheless, it looks like an amazing project. It’s one to be on the look out for. Enjoy the trailer.

Filed under: 45 RPM, Analog, Audiophile, Jazz, Video, Vinyl, Blue Note, LP, Records, Turntable, Vinyl

April 28, 2010 • 3:14 pm 4

What Vinyl Resurgence? It Never Left!

Vinyl never went out of style.

Mark Twain said it best, “The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated”. If records could speak, I’m sure they would say the same thing. I’ve been an analog fiend for the last 10 years, and throughout the entire time, all I heard was “vinyl is coming back”. At what point will the jury just hang it up and concede that it has arrived? Better yet, why don’t they dig deeper and understand that for there to be a revival, the subject or object must have died? Honestly, just do a google search on the vinyl resurgence, you’ll get a boatload of articles, blog entries and forum posts. However, they have been saying this for years. This has to be the longest resurgence on Earth!

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Filed under: 45 RPM, Analog, Audiophile, Vinyl, 45, Audiophile, LP, Records, Vinyl

April 24, 2010 • 7:25 am 6

Who is Segun Bucknor?

Segun Bucknor is definitely not a household name. It seems that when it comes to Afrobeat, the first and last name that comes to the mind of most people is Fela Kuti. However, there were many talented musicians who were Fela’s contemporaries that never garnered international stardom. Bucknor was one of them. He had a very brief career. It only lasted 6 years, but they were 6 glorious years. He might not have been popular internationally, but he was wildly popular in Nigeria, Ghana and Benin from 1969 to 1975.

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Filed under: Afrobeat, Funk, Jazz, Afrobeat, Fela Kuti, Highlife, Nigeria, Segun Bucknor, Soul, Yoruba