Dear Friends at NativeDSD, Happy upcoming weekend to you, and in the US, Happy Thanksgiving! This month, Yarlung executive producer Russell Ward brings you one of Yarlung’s finest new recordings in the label’s 20-year history. Tokyo Quartet First Violinist Martin Beaver arranged for Quartet Integra to audition with us at Yarlung before they moved to […]
Dear Friends, The 2024 Munich High End Show was a culmination in several ways. It was my first visit, and now that the show is moving to Vienna, my last. All the luminaries were there, including my friends Jared and Jonas Sacks and our NativeDSD marketing director David Hopkins (I met David in person for the first […]
Dear Friends, It is a rare treat when a music writer and critic twists a producer’s arm to re-release an early album in a record label’s catalog. David Fung’s Evening Conversations put Yarlung Records on the audiophile map, and it was last released in 2012. Rush Paul, dear to all of us at NativeDSD, was […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
Theremin and Electric violin Producer’s Note from Alexey Pogarskiy It’s interesting that the word невесомость (weightlessness) appeared in Russian only about a hundred years ago, coined in the early 20th century by artist Kazimir Malevich creator of the famous “Black Square”. Today everyone understands what is meant by this term even though it has really […]
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 […]