Producers and Engineers provide NativeDSD listeners insights on their recording process and give notes on the production, see the recording setup and find direct links to the music discussed.
Canto Ostinato is hugely popular in The Netherlands and has been performed in many different ways. There is no fixed length of the piece and there are many legendary performances of over 3 or 4 hours. According to the composer the musicians should decide during the performance how and when to continue a next section. […]
Last August we visited the DSD Studio to tell you about 3 upcoming albums being recorded for release in Direct Stream Digital (DSD). They were Yuko Mabuchi Plays Miles Davis with the Yuko Mabuchi Trio with JJ Kirkpatrick from Yarlung Artists, Drown by John Babel from TRPTK and I Want You by Vanessa Fernandez from […]
It is such fun to announce the completion of Yuko Mabuchi plays Miles Davis. Tom Caulfield completed the DSD mastering for you in the past few days, and we’re grateful to release this recording ahead of schedule. Yuko is thriving, with important recent and upcoming concerts at Segerstrom Center for the Arts this past January, […]
Something old, something new, something borrowed, and something blue. People say you’ll need these four things to have a great wedding and a successful marriage. I’d argue it’s more than that – to us, they were four facets of our latest recording, “Where The Fence Is The Highest” by Danish jazz guitarist Teis Semey. “Where […]
NativeDSD is delighted to welcome AudioDefine Records’ first DSD release: Cask’s latest critically acclaimed 78-minute epic Life is a Terminal Illness. Since releasing “See What Tomorrow Brings” in July 2018, Cask has found himself a huge talking point among the progressive rock community; reaching number one in the Australian independent charts on ReverbNation. The analogue […]
Korean organ virtuoso Jung-A Lee and I conceived this recording as a gift to welcome Simon Woods to Los Angeles. Simon serves as our new CEO at the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Yarlung has enjoyed a long and successful friendship with this orchestra, and with the support of our friend Deborah Borda, recorded five albums with […]
Music for piano and percussion. It’s a duo that doesn’t currently have a lot of repertoire, but does deserve it. It can be more expressive and more explosive than any other kind of duo imaginable. In this album, the beautiful sonority of a big Fazioli grand piano, combined with the raw force and timbre of […]
Accompanying her debut at NativeDSD, cellist Alisa Weilerstein writes a personal note about the repertoire, ensemble and recording session. An intensely beautiful account of the thoughts and experiences behind this new DSD Release from PENTATONE: Alisa Weilerstein & Trondheim Soloists: “Transfigured Night”. Schoenberg fled Vienna in 1934, four years before my grandparents escaped. So, as […]
August is often the time when thoughts turn to vacations, travel, time off and relaxing. I’m sure that many of you are enjoying such thoughts and activities this month. In the world of music, this August has been quite active as several recording and mastering sessions are well underway in preparation for new albums to […]
Yarlung Records’ producer Bob Attiyeh warms you up for their new DSD Release “Ciaramella – Dances On Movable Ground“ Dear friends, George Klissarov generously sponsored Yarlung’s first DSD releases. His Canadian company, exaSound, makes superb DACs that many of us in the NativeDSD community know and love. They vary from compact units that connect via […]
It is a real pleasure to be in the Spotlight and being able to introduce some of our albums here at Nativedsd. I’m a fervent admirer of the recording philosophy of using as less microphones as possible, choosing the best possible acoustics and spending the needed time with the best possible equipment until getting the […]
After Antonio Lysy won Yarlung’s first GRAMMY® Award for Music from Argentina and Te Amo, Argentina (both available on NativeDSD) we have looked forward to collaborating again, especially to include a Swiss recording of the Kodaly Duo with Antonio’s father the eminent Argentine violinist Alberto Lysy. Kudos and thanks to Claude Cellier at Merging Technologies, our executive producer who made […]