He believes the main reason behind vinyl's comeback is a desire to conjure up the magic of buying music--a feeling that's been lost in the era of immediate gratification offered by Apple and Amazon.

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But it was basically a muddy, touristy mess, with underwhelming music and not a hint of the magic we had naively hoped for.

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Former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Perry, also a former negotiator with North Korea, told me this was a magic moment, with different peoples speaking the same language of music.

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In 1990, he wrote the music and lyrics for "The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets, " a theatrical collaboration with the American writer William Burroughs based on a German folktale.

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The evening ended with the magic of Arab songs sung in Syrian-Armenian, by Lena Chamamyan, first prize winner in 2006 of music on Middle East Radio Monte-Carlo.

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If he can work the technical magic a second time, fans will be able to get their hands on music collections from even the most obscure of artists who have little chance of getting distributed today all courtesy of the Internet.

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