18/03/2024
Looking back to those nostalgic memories of childhood, I could rewind and spin those timeless melodies from the age old method of listening to those nostalgi melodies once again. Bringing some of the lost past with Vinyls from sources as I could lay my hands on, listening to the 'song sung blue' by Neil Diamond to Ludwig van Beethoven's genres of classical music, including the symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas and opera, to Big B Live recording from global shows, Suman Kalyanpur to Cliff Richards, and Carpenters, Ann Murray and Anandashankar's first LP, and the list adding up as and when some amazing records is available online. The old first pressed once with such intricate musical notes. Vinyl has been the best sound in terms of analogue output, even with the latest digital versions, the touch and feel of music and the scratch and the occasional bumps, you actually end up feeling and listening to Music, very much a thing of the past reliving in modern times, thanks to Amazon bringing Audio Technica (Japan) back from an era of the Magic of sound and acoustics, reliving the nostalgia back after over five decades.
My search for any Vinyl from the forgotten junks that probably ended up with most of us in the dark alleys of storerooms and garages. I shall be happy to lay my hands on any such amazing meroirs.
My days to come will often fill with such scratch and music in the still of the nights... to hear the Nightingale sing its famous numbers coming strainght out of the dark vinyl through the renovated 2300 watts PMPO SONY sound system bringing out the songs unheared often the Rhinestone Cowboy, or the Gil Ventura Saxophone, the Osibissa with Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram or the Khaike Paan Banarasiwala sung live by Amithabh Bachchan with Kalyanji Anandji, Tagore songs by Hemanta Mukherjee, or it is the Call of the Valley with Pt Sivakumar Sharma and Pt Hariprasad Chaurasia, or the West meets East with Pt Ravi Shankar and Yehudi Menuhin the list is just adding up and I am happy that I am able to hear the unheared cries of music that was always there idle waiting to be played and heared... and Nipper, the star mascot of the HMV logo. From the painting by British artist Francis Barraud who had a brother named Mark. When Mark passed away, Francis inherited a bunch of his stuff which included a phonograph player, recordings of Mark's voice, and Mark's dog, Nipper also known as the RCA Victor dog a mixed-breed made up of the stately fox terrier and the charming bull terrier.... and my 'ET' the Pomeranian would have loved to hear the songs as was Nipper... to be continued!
