The Wind In The Willows [Pure DSD]

The First DSD Audiobook!

The Wind In The Willows is a classic children’s story written by Kenneth Grahame.  On this DSD album, the book is read in its entirety by Yarlung’s Bob Attiyeh.  The audiobook (spoken word) lasts over 5 hours. It was recorded in Stereo DSD 256 and is being released by NativeDSD in Pure DSD.  Due to the length of the recording, this will be a DSD Download with exceptionally large files (the Stereo DSD 256 edition of the album is 51.4 GB in size).

NativeDSD hopes that you will enjoy listening to this first-ever DSD audiobook recording!

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The Wind in the Willows

Reading, hearing, and rereading Kenneth Grahame’s Wind in the Willows has been a principal joy for me since my mother first read this book to me when I was four years old. We still have that hardcover edition. I was the same age as Kenneth Grahame’s son when his father first created Mole, Rat, Badger and Toad, and told him these bedtime stories. I dedicate this audio book to my sweet mother, Linda, who introduced her children to great literature, including Wind in the Willows.

Kenneth Grahame first published Wind in the Willows in 1908. Our world looked very different in 1908. Argentina opened Teatro Colon in that year, the “finest opera house in the world,” to which Caruso, and later Callas would travel during the “summer season.” World War I was not yet on the horizon, or barely. We nostalgically portray the Edwardian period romantically. And indeed, Grahame captures this golden age of long summer afternoons and garden parties among the scenes and seasons of his precious novel. (keep reading in the booklet..)

Yarlung recorded this book in the Arian Jansen studio, using the Hapi by Merging Technologies, and Pyramix software recording in DSD 256.

This is overkill for sure, for an audio book. Toad would have been proud of me. I thank my friend Mike Rosell for the album cover and artwork. Rosell pays homage to the great characters depicted by Ernest H. Shepard in the 1931 edition of the book published by Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. Mike too grew up with Mole and Ratty and Toad. He joins me in saluting them.

— Bob Attiyeh, Narrator & Producer, Yarlung Artists