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Changeling: The Autobiography of Mike Oldfield

Author: Aasemoon

13 Nov

I have no idea why it took me so long to finally read this book. This is my all time favourite musician, I grow up with his music, and yet it took me until now to read the autobiography. And now after finally reading it, somehow I wish I had read it sooner.

I’m not going to get into what Oldfiend’s music means to me or why, that’s too complicated for words. But let’s just say that my whole life, his music has been my sanctuary, my way of getting through tough times, and a description of my feelings.

So it’s been quite meaningful reading about where the magic comes from. It’s fascinating reading the stories behind the albums and the author’s own feelings and state of mind when he was coming up with each piece of the music. And I also really enjoyed the author’s language. The honesty, simplicity, and the “lessons learned”. The book is a wonderful journey and honestly, I think it’s totally worth reading even if you’ve never listened to a single track of Mike Oldfield’s.

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Even Cities of Gold | Aleksi Eeben

Author: Aasemoon

18 May

Oh ♡!

<a href="http://aleksieeben.bandcamp.com/track/even-cities-of-gold">Even Cities of Gold by Aleksi Eeben</a>

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Sony Walkman NWZ-B173F – Exoneration!

Author: Aasemoon

9 May

After the rather tragic [or not?] death of my old lousy MP3 player, I started looking for something “good”. And by that I mean something that has nothing in any way resembling an iPod. And it’s actually both very annoying and very sad that nowadays it’s very hard to find a simple MP3 player that both does the job and is not somehow trying to imitate an iPod. =P

A couple of years ago I got my mom a Philips MP3 player which has turned out to be a very nice one, so that’s where I started. Trouble though, was that I was looking for something very compact, and with some very specific functions, and Philips doesn’t have that. And well, No, I didn’t look at Sony Walkman at first. Why? Well because I wasn’t hearing a lot of good things about it on one hand, and on the other hand back when I was buying my mom’s player, they officially had nothing interesting.

After searching through the catalogues of some of my usual go-to brands and a few others, and not finding what I was looking for, I did eventually end up back at Sony’s door. And that’s when I come across the “NWZ-B173F”. To me it seemed rather perfect. Small, comfortable controls, clippable, with radio and voice recorder and the pretty nice zap-in feature and a tiny but clear screen. But then of course I looked into the reviews and once again it didn’t look very good.

The reviews paint a pretty unseemly picture of the Walkman players in general, and this model very much so as well. Main target of criticism is the design of the player, and the USB cap. It’s been said for instance that the cap is a loose fit, and starts to fall off after a few uses. And that the controls don’t function very well. There’s also been criticism on the sound quality and just about everything else.

Reading through the specs and having a closer look at the design, I decided to go with my guts and get the player anyway. And I’m so glad I did!!

It’s been a few months now since I started using the NWZ-B173F, and I’m EXTREMELY happy with it. I can’t for the life of me understand where all the nonsense comes from. The cap is not loose, the controls are perfect, and the sound quality is superb. I’m a bloody audiophile after all, I would know.

Now this wouldn’t be such a big deal on it’s own.. but I think I’m starting to see a pattern. In the past few years, Sony has produced some brilliant hardware, all of which have somehow ended up with either unfair, or really terribly unfair reviews. What is going on here? I mean I know that they have also produced their fair share of pure nonsense, but how exactly have their line of Android tablets and ebook readers ended up so underrated? Heck, even the NEX cameras are quite underrated, for what they’re capable of.

So well, yes, I am a bit of Sony fangirl I guess. And this is my attempt at exonerating the Walkman MP3 player. I’m also planning on writing about a few more pieces of Sony hardware soon enough…

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Filed under: Electronics, Gadgets, Music, Reviews, Sony, Walkman

Joss Whedon’s “Much Ado About Nothing”

Author: Aasemoon

16 Dec

Of all the versions of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” that I have seen so far, old and new, classic and modern, my favourite has to be Joss Whedon’s! I watched it some weeks ago for the first time, and a few nights ago again. I never thought I’d enjoy a version more than the digital theatre one with David Tennant and Catherine Tate, but I liked Joss Whedon’s even more than that! It’s just too cute! =D

Of course Joss Whedon and Jed Whedon also created their own version of “Sigh No More”, the famous soundtrack of Much Ado [with Shakespeare’s own lyrics!]. It’s quite nice, definitely the nicest version of it I’ve heard. =)

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The 38th Winterthur Music Week

Author: Aasemoon

29 Aug

A couple of weeks ago there was this years “Winterthurer Musikfestwochen”, which I attended for the first time. For some good 10 days there was fantastic open-air concerts in a couple of different venues in Winterthur, a total of 5 – 7 performances every day. I was there with friends as often as I could, and really enjoyed some truly awesome concerts. Here’s some of my favourite performances of this year. I must add it’s now easier to decide that since I’ve had time to listen to their albums… =)

Portico Quartet. Modern/Electro Jazz band from the UK. I have no idea how I had not listened to these guys before… I listen to their style/genre rather often, and I seem to know most of their “related” artists. In Wintethur I heard them for the first time, and I had my mind blown. I really truly LUVED their performance, and the guy on Contra Bass took my breath away. I’ve been listening to their albums since… far too much probably…. 😉 [More pictures here.]

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Wilber Calver and his Afro Cuban Celtic orchestra. Can you imagine that? Yes, a mix of Cuban Music and Celtic bagpipes! This is definitely among the most creative fusion music that I’ve heard in my life, and I really enjoyed the performance. I’ve also been listening to their albums since. [More pictures here.]

Hathors. High energy rock band from Winthertur, Switzerland. These guys shook the venue really. =) Also a first encounter for me, and quite an enjoyable one. [More pictures here.]

Daniel Norgren. Blues/Folk band from Sweden. Great music, great performance, great talent… And then of course at some point during the performance the guy ripped a guitar string, which he actually managed to replace without even stopping the performance! The song continued, probably a little longer than it should have been [;)], with their singing and the drums and the contra bass. And by the end of it, the guitar string was replaced and tuned. =) Way to go confidence! [More pictures here]

So these were my favourites, but there were many more great performances that we attended. Moop Mama, Luca Little, Min King, and many more…..

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Violent Nature by ASD & minimalartifact

Author: Aasemoon

29 Jul

Well surprise surpriiiiiiiiise! =D New ASD demo it out and it just won 1st place at Euskal 2013. YES!

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Pearls [Silent Queen] by Aisth

Author: Aasemoon

12 Sep

Somehow I NEVER get enough of this…. It’s such a shame that Aisth doesn’t have a lot of tracks.

<a href="http://enoughrec.bandcamp.com/track/pearls-silent-queen">Pearls (Silent Queen) by Aisth</a>

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The Inner Light

Author: Aasemoon

17 Aug

This episode of Star Trek and this song are very special to me. Apparently the song has been made into a full symphony. Who else remembers this?

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Metamorf II by Satori

Author: Aasemoon

5 Aug

Assembly 2012 I’m afraid did not really excite me that much in regards to the quality of the demos, to be completely honest. But at least there was a ton of excitement to be had for the release of Metamorf II, the new Satori demo. Check out the pure awesomeness! 😉