Manafonistas

This title rang a bell, thx, Rosato. So, folks, I’m looking for this long player in excellent shape. Vinyl only, that’s the point. 50 Euros for a really rarely played copy of it. Any chances? I only know two people who love that album: Anthony Braxton and me :) – i have a rotten copy that sounds like scrambled eggs had been cooked on it. And even Gregs does not call it his own. Cloud walking with instruments.

I’ve never heared a record of Nils Frahm that captured my attention. For me it was nearly all neo-classical boredom, electronic minimalism that suggests more deepness than it actually owns, miles aways from fucking genius. In fact, it always sounded „tasteful“. Elevator music for the 21st century. But now I read, in „The Quietus“, his remarkable comments on his favourite albums, and the records are first class, too, and beyond the common consensus omnium. A buried treasure from the ECM catalogue is part of it, too. Only two records I don’t know at all. So I think, I will give him another chance. That said, he’s really praised by a lot of critics, and it was no arrogance not to join the choir.