If you are familiar with Frank Acoustics and his merry band of products, this new offering will definitely give you something to think about. Well, to all and sundry, the past year whizzed by with nary a review from Analogue Fellowship and we were literally starved of things to see and listen to. Frank Acoustics, or the man himself, …
The Analogue Fellowship had our usual breakfast get-together with Rune Skov of Gryphon Denmark and TK Han, boss of Rave Audio Singapore, in the middle of a hazy, downtown KL. Meeting Rune for the first time, you might mistake him for the captain of Real Madrid FC, Sergio Ramos. The resemblance is uncanny and Rune rolled up …
Audiophiles familiar with the gentle giant that is Flemming Erik Rasmussen, founder and chief designer of all things Gryphon, will now have to deal with new company CEO Jakob Odgaard. Flemming, as we are all aware, has taken a more backseat role in the management and get a good, deserved rest. Jakob was down here around these parts …
Tetsuaki Aoyagi of DS Audio dropped by over the weekend and the Analogue Fellowship played host to one of Asia’s youngest and most visionary audio designers. Aki-san, as he is called by his friends, is 32 years young and he and his wife are expecting their first baby soon (December, in fact). Aki-san was here to visit Centre Circle …
Release Date: 5 September 1983 Label: Polydor Catalogue No: 815 277-1 In 1983 I was a first-year college student with a rather huge question for the world; WTF happened to Paul Weller and The Jam? It was a valid question as The Jam was the biggest band in the UK and topped the New Musical Express …
Release date: 19 September 1988 Label: 4AD Catalogue No: CAD 807 In October 1988, about a year after starting my first job in Kuala Lumpur, I went down to Victoria Music Sungai Wang and bought this LP. I noticed the record section was getting smaller as compact disc started to overwhelm the small shop. Whenever there, I usually …
Release Date: February 1982 Label: Polydor Catalogue No: POLS 1057 In 1982 I had to go to Kuantan to take the TOEFL in order to go study in America. For the uninitiated, TOEFL means Test of English as a Foreign Language. It is the lowest means of entry requirement into any tertiary institution stateside. I traveled in …
Louis Desjardins flew in from the Munich High End Show to attend to some important business matters relating to his brand. The designer and owner of Kronos showcased a new offering – the Reference Phono Amplifier, at Perfect Hi-Fi’s Kuala Lumpur showroom. The Analogue Fellowship spent an afternoon in his company to see what makes this extraordinary gentleman …
As promised, we would look at some interesting album cover artworks that were hugely popular back then. If you take the time and browse through the stacks and stacks of old records at the basement of Amcorp Mall on a Sunday morning, you will probably be there until dinner time. I firmly believe that most of the vinyl …
The Blue Nile – A Walk Across The Rooftops Release date: 30 April 1984 Label: Linn Records (UK), A&M (US) Catalogue No: LKH-1, CS 6-5087 I have always wondered about this. I am sure some of you readers out there would have wondered along with me at some point in time. The question I always had in mind …