Gerard Dole - Mechanical Parlor Organ - Organina ThibouvilleThe Organina Thibouville is a small mechanical organ popular in the drawing rooms of the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a device designed for home entertainment, it played folding punched cards imprinted with dance tunes, excerpts from operas, patriotic songs, and hymns. This recording was made in Paris in 1981 with a restored organ and original cards.

Sammartini / I Musici Ambrosiani / Suppa

This Is Christmas (2017)

anyone might have guessed it was a bridge between the previous year's lauded album Who Needs Who and the next big venture

and with extensive new notes by Charles Waring

and the Epic LP "Silver's Blue"

including records released under the Terry Preston and Simon Crum identities

both from the '80's)

These understated masters of an essentially 19th-century playing style were joined in three piano trios - including the 'Ghost' and 'Archduke' - by a Hungarian violinist from a younger generation

Bunny Wailer

yet rapturously poignant Arietta of Op

so speaks Thom Yorke on the inspiration behind the name of the new trio consisting of himself

Long before it became fashionable