For my birthday this year I received a gramophone and though I was immensely excited about it when I got it, I didn't have any speakers to connect it to, meaning that it has been standing on a shelf for months without being used. Yet, today, I finally got it working! the speakers I'm using are a not-that-fantastic-but-okay pair of iPod speakers. This means I finally got to listen the vinyl records I have had lying around for a while. My collection includes a couple of free 7"s (from my time as an NME reader), a couple I bought in a secondhand shop yesterday (one features Beethoven's 8th symphony in F major - and both sound really scratchy - my mom reckons they're from the '40s) and an old, old copy of The Beatles' Revolver (inherited from my grandmom - and for some reason tucked in the sleeve for Sgt. Pepper). The best experience I had with the gramophone today, though, was when I decided to give the Benoît Pioulard 7" vinyl I got as part of a bundle earlier this year a listen. I haven't had a chance to listen to it before - and as it turns out, both tracks are really, really nice. I can't share them with you since I don't think they're online anywhere (but you can buy the vinyl here: http://www.pioulard.com/lee.htm), but both tracks are truly worth it. Both songs may be covers ('Someone's Rocking My Dreamboat', originally by Ink Spots and 'Sundown, Sundown' originally by Lee Hazlewood) without me having known the originals, so I'm not going to compare. But they just sound so fitting, so calming - like most of Benoît Pioulard's stuff does. Both songs are perfect soundtracks for staring at the turntable while that little, black record turns round and round and round. So romantic.
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