vinyl & shellac audio
The 7' D-19738 record. And again there is an interesting effect – in the voice of Aida Vedishcheva you can hear live, human intonations, which in the common recording was not audible.
Continue reading “Caucasian Prisoner (Kavkazskaya plennitsa), 1969 LP Rip”
A flexible record of the late 1960s, the voices of the artists are recorded very expressively. Nikulin, it turns out, in each line of “A nam vse ravno” improvises and changes the pronunciation of phrases, then exaggerates, then jokes, then deliberately accentuates the fragment, this is most clearly heard when listening directly from the record and is not heard at all in the common digitization. Mironov sings much simpler, the loss of clarity on his vocals does not affect so much, but listening to him in Lo-Fi is still more interesting.
Continue reading “Diamond Hand (Brilyantovaia ruka), 1969 LP Rip”
Recordings with great clarity of sound, judging by the sound – the originals of the 1940s. Wonderful musicians, a trip to Mexico of seventy years ago.
Remastered from flexible records, Russian pop-rock of early 1970s, classical audiophile sound of germanium transistors equipment. Record shows competent work of musicians and sound engineers — dense bass, correct compression, full-fledged voices, a bit dirty, but clear highs. Today, such level of pop music sound is completely unattainable.
The records are bent in some places so that incorrigible creases remain on the surface. When playing in these places, loud bass “plops” and floats are heard.
The expressiveness of the Energophone-II sound is most clearly visible on the female vocals of “Добрые приметы”.
Lo-fi audiophile sound of Dinette. Django's musical extravaganza!
Continue reading “Django Reinhardt – Memorial Album Vol.2, 1956 LP rip”
Re-release of the 1947 recordings. The tracks are distinguished by a powerful drive a la Vendredi 13 and stunning clarity of sound.
Clarinet Solo – Hubert Rostaing
Continue reading “Django Reinhardt – Memorial Album Vol.3, 1956 LP rip”
The album was recorded by Django a month before his death. Contains unusual composition without a rhythm guitar and a second soloist. Django emphasised on sound extraction and gave rise to a surprisingly melodious, plastic and expressive guitar improvisations.
Continue reading “Django Reinhardt – The Great Artistry, 1953 LP rip”
Digitally remastered Impulse of 1986. The magic of the album is preserved but the timbres are liquid. ALS is the best avant-garde album – the last period of Coltrane's work and the best line-up he's ever played with.
Continue reading “John Coltrane – Love Supreme, 1965 LP mono”
Warm, jazzy atmosphere of Atlantic studio, Hi-Fi 1950s. Coltrane is clearly out of shape and out of luck with the microphone, frequently blowing into idle. The rest of the participants are on top.
Continue reading “Milt Jackson, John Coltrane – Bags & Trane, 1961 LP mono”
Japanese reissue of 1984, thin, flexible and light LP with convex sides, such a pity. The tracks were recorded on Prestige in 1957-58, a collection of ballads was published in 1963 and sounded accordingly cool in the original. The Japanese certainly did their best, but they only got technical Hi-Fi. The Jazz, scrubbed and combed, was dejected, but not dead — Coltrane is in good shape, and so are his sidemen. I wish I could listen to the original though.