Scardanelli’s Motley: A Survey of Recent Releases

As the reader of La Folia 1:1 has already discovered, Signor Scardanelli is a gentleman of a delusional cast of mind.

Label Report: Hat Hut Records of Therwil, Switzerland

Before I depart from cool, as I’m given to do when thinking about one of my very favorite labels, I’ll try to calm myself by speculating in a therapeutically boring manner about where to begin.

Singers, on Disc and on the Page

Like pornography, singers’ biographies are a literary genre that appeal to hard-core devotees.

New Label, Old Treasures

There are few certainties in life, but one of them is the assurance that when Ward Marston’s name is on the back of a historical CD reissue as the transfer engineer, the results will be first-rate.

Norman Blake

“Norman Blake?” you say, scratching your head because this guy’s name is about as familiar to you as the finer points of quantum theory.

Archeological Dig

Waste not, want not. I wrote these reviews for TAS about four years ago…

Stravinsky and Rachmaninoff

I am generally not the adventurous sort, tending to abide by Voltaire’s alleged remark that “marriage is the only adventure for the cowardly.”