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.
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 […]
After her extremely well received debut album in 2013, violinist Lisa Jacobs joins The String Soloists for her second album ‘L’Arte del Violono’ featuring violin concertos composed by Pietro Antonio Locatelli. The String Soloists’ was founded by Lisa herself in 2014. This is a dynamic international string ensemble based in Amsterdam. It has 14 string […]
“All the stars collide into a single ray” (and the outcome was recorded on tape) was the result of my most brief encounter with Naxatras to date. It was meant to be a short session, perhaps 3 days in the studio, to record two songs. One was commissioned by the Metal Hammer magazine and appeared […]
It is always a pleasure for me to introduce a new album by Josep Colom. He is a poetic artist whose performances never fit the traditional mould; in a world of dazzling virtuosity and unbelievable speed and precision, Colom seems to belong to another time, a time where the performer’s personality used to shine with […]
They could easily have spent their whole lives living worlds apart, but the chance encounter between the two songwriters of The Coo feels like it was always meant to be. Matt Arthur, finding himself somewhat lost and unfulfilled at home, left Britain on a spontaneous trip to Amsterdam, alone, searching for a spiritual and musical […]
All Things Common celebrates choral music by Tarik O’Regan recorded in the British composer’s new home state of California. Tarik and family moved to the United States a few weeks before our recording sessions. They are happily ensconced in San Francisco, weathering the Covid-19 lockdown with perseverance and a healthy British sense of humor and […]