Recording Reports

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.

Recording Reports

Focusing on Jane Ira Bloom’s Latest Album “Picturing The Invisible: Focus 1”

What do you get when you mix virtuosic musicianship, top-level audio engineering, and the task to record an album remotely via the internet? Answer: you […]

David Hopkins on Jul 19, 2022

Recording Reports

Meet the Magicians: Bert van der Wolf of The Spirit of Turtle

Welcome back to Meet the Magicians. In the second interview of the series I speak to Bert van der Wolf, founder and owner of The […]

David Hopkins on Jun 28, 2022

Recording Reports

Meet The Magicians: Tom Peeters of Cobra Records

Welcome to the first edition of ‘Meet the Magicians’, an interview series where I take you into the rooms with engineers, producers, musicians, and anyone […]

David Hopkins on Jun 07, 2022

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John Cage, Erik Satie, 840 and other numbers

Guitarist Enno Voorhorst has just released the album “840” on Cobra Records. It features the guitarist playing compositions from Satie, Poulenc, Andriessen and Françaix. Since, […]

Enno Voorhorst on Nov 08, 2021

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An Interview with Andrey and Andrey about Russian Painting

We wanted to know more about the recent album ‘Russian Paintings‘ by the Russian Terem Quartet on the Russian ReachSound Art label. So we went […]

Floor van der Holst on Oct 20, 2021

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Interview with young composer Maarten ter Horst

Today marks the release date of “Introspect” String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 by the composer Maarten ter Horst (b. 1987), performed by the Helikon […]

Floor van der Holst on May 14, 2021

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Personal Letter from Gonzalo Noqué

Dear DSD Friends, Schubert & Schumann by pianist Javier Laso is a pure DSD release with no conversion to DXD. All DSD bit rates were […]

Gonzalo Noqué on Apr 16, 2021

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At 9 P.M. after Lockdown: Improvisation Q&A

Where do improvisations come from? In what way is the improviser different from other musicians? How can one guess what their partners are going to […]

Olesya Rostovskaya on Apr 02, 2021

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In The Studio with Carmen Gomes – Producer’s Note

As I am writing this I am listening with my player randomly playing through these Sound Liaison recordings with Carmen Gomes Inc., I notice similarities […]

Peter Bjørnild on Feb 19, 2021

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How to understand peals in the Russian tradition

Despite the of prohibition of bell peals after the revolution in 1917, which lasted for several decades during the Soviet period, the culture of the […]

Olesya Rostovskaya on Jan 15, 2021

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Norwegian Girls Choir – Christmas Carols recorded in DXD

The Norwegian Girls Choir and pianist Tord Gustavsen combine their talents in a programme of popular and cherished Christmas carols, leading the audience from quiet […]

Morten Lindberg on Nov 12, 2020