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.
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 get one amazing album story. I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with the talented team of Jane Ira Bloom, Ulrike Schwarz, and Jim Anderson. Jane is an award […]
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 Spirit of Turtle. We discussed his life, his music, and of course DSD. Step behind the curtain with me, to Meet the Magician. Bert van der Wolf has not only […]
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 else who is involved in making the magic of music come to life! I spoke with Tom Peeters – founder, owner and producer at Cobra Records. It was a pleasure […]
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, we have received some questions about John Cage’s composition 4’33 and Enno Voorhorst promptly offered to write a blog about John Cage and Erik Satie. Of course, Enno Voorhorst also […]
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 ahead and asked the two founding members – Andrey Konstantinov and Andrey Smirnov – some questions. 🙂 Why is the album called Russian Painting? Andrey Konstantinov The album is called […]
Today marks the release date of “Introspect” String Quartets Nos. 1 & 2 by the composer Maarten ter Horst (b. 1987), performed by the Helikon Quartet and recorded by Tom Peeters for Cobra Records. Floor van der Holst (NativeDSD’s Label, Product & Marketing Manager) interviewed the young composer. After speaking with Musicians and Producers about […]
Dear DSD Friends, Schubert & Schumann by pianist Javier Laso is a pure DSD release with no conversion to DXD. All DSD bit rates were created in the DSD Domain. It is a ‘one mic per channel’ recording. I can honestly say that this project is the one I’m most proud of to date. It […]
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 play? And should one commit hara-kiri after the improvisation? Three experienced musicians, who recorded a live concert album called, “At 9 p.m. after Lockdown” – on the first day after […]
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 and differences. If I name the similarities first, that’s the easy list. It’s the same band, recorded in the same room by the same engineer. The sound of the albums […]
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 Orthodox peal is still widely spread across Russia. It has survived, and is known to everyone in modern Russia, regardless of their faith, because the sound of bells goes far […]
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 melancholy to expressive improvisations and sparkling, ecstatic moments. Anne Karin Sundal-Ask directs the performances with attention to each individual singer and to the distinctive sound of the choir as a […]
A piano roll made in 1925, featuring the composer as soloist, is used on this new recording of the Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. Jan Bouman played the French horn in the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra. On the lookout for a new piano, he came across a pianola, a mechanical instrument with a reputation […]