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Summary of Neil Young & Phil Baker's To Feel the Music
Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Music has been a great joy in my life. I’ve performed for more than fifty years, and written and recorded scores of albums. I’ve traveled around the world performing for audiences in dozens of countries. #2 The acceptance of poor quality ripples throughout the industry and makes it even more difficult to reverse direction. People get used to hearing this poorer quality and many never experience what music could sound like. #3 The deterioration of quality is not happening with other digital content, only audio. The record companies want to charge more to stream high-resolution music because it sounds better, but this is wrong. If the record companies were to take the price restrictions off the streaming companies, then it would be up to the streaming companies to improve their technology and bring high-quality music into the twenty-first century. #4 The music and technology industries argue that people can’t hear the difference between high and low quality audio, but that doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be there. Some people can hear the difference, and they deserve to be able to hear it.
The Book of Absinthe
A witty, erudite primer to the world’s most notorious drink. La Fée Verte (or “The Green Fairy”) has intoxicated artists, poets, and writers ever since the late eighteenth century. Stories abound of absinthe’s drug-like sensations of mood lift and inspiration due to the presence of wormwood, its infamous “special” ingredient, which ultimately leads to delirium, homicidal mania, and death. Opening with the sensational 1905 Absinthe Murders, Phil Baker offers a cultural history of absinthe, from its modest origins as an herbal tonic through its luxuriantly morbid heyday in the late nineteenth century. Chronicling a fascinatingly lurid cast of historical characters who often died y...
To Feel the Music
Neil Young took on the music industry so that fans could hear his music—all music—the way it was meant to be heard. Today, most of the music we hear is com-pressed to a fraction of its original sound,while analog masterpieces are turning to dustin record company vaults. As these record-ings disappear, music fans aren't just losing acollection of notes. We're losing spaciousness,breadth of the sound field, and the ability tohear and feel a ping of a triangle or a pluckof a guitar string, each with its own reso-nance and harmonics that slowly trail off intosilence. The result is music that is robbed of its original quality—muddy and flat in sound compared to the rich, warm sound artists ...
London
City of cities, the modern world’s first great metropolis, London has shaped everything from clothing to youth culture. It has a unique place in the world’s memory, even as its role has changed from the capital of the planet to its playground, and as its lived history has mutated into the heritage industry. In this book, Londoner Phil Baker explores the city’s history and the London of today, balancing well-known major events with more curious and eccentric details. He reveals a city of almost unmatched historical density and richness. For Baker, London turns out to be Gothic in all senses of the word and enjoyably haunted by its own often bloody past. And despite extensive redevelopment, as he shows in this engaging and insightful book, some of the magic remains.
Costa Rica Now
Costa Rica Now is an all-in-one Travel Guide to Living and Owning in Paradise. It is really three books in one designed to help its readers find the area that suits them best, understand the Costa Rican culture and provide information gained from firsthand experience about buying and owning property in Costa Rica. This comprehensive travel guide includes an introduction detailing why so many are moving to and investing in Costa Rica. Next is the unique trademarked WABIA Livability Index that familiarizes you quickly with the countrys main regions (WABIA is an acronym for Weather Access, Beauty, Infrastructure, Amenities). Costa Ricas Six Unique Regions is the first part of the book and a rea...
Lord of Strange Deaths
Forever associated with his creation of evil genius Dr Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer (1883-1959) was the king of pulp exotica. At the height of his fame he was one of the most popular writers on the planet. Lord of Strange Deaths is the first attempt to do justice to Rohmer. Contributors focus on subjects including Egyptology, 1890s decadence, Edwardian super-villains and Chinese dragon ladies, and the Arabian Nights. The result is a testimony to the enduring fascination and relevance of Rohmer's absurd, sinister and immensely atmospheric world.
City of the Beast
A work that combines biography and pyschogeography to trace Aleister Crowley's life in London. "I dreamed I was paying a visit to London," Aleister Crowley wrote in Italy, continuing, "It was a vivid, long, coherent, detailed affair of several days, with so much incident that it would make a good-sized volume." Crowley had a love-hate relationship with London, but the city was where he spent much of his adult life, and it was the capital of the culture that created him: Crowley was a post-decadent with deviant Victorian roots in the cultural ferment of the 1890s and the magical revival of the Golden Dawn. Not a walking guide, although many routes could be pieced together from its pages, this...
Austin Osman Spare
Austin Spare was described as the greatest draughtsman in England and was the enfant terrible of the Edwardian art scene but by the time of his death he was living in squalor and all but forgotten. This engaging biography charts the rise and fall of British art's darkest star, who was facinated by mysticism and spirtualism and practised automatic drawing before the Surrealists and developed a unique system of magic. By the 1930s Spare had retreated from fashionable society, living in poverty and obscurity but he never stopped working, only now is his work seen.
