Release : The Bassface Swing Trio - Plays Gershwin
Artist : The Bassface Swing Trio
Album : Plays Gershwin
Genre : Jazz
Source : CDDA
Label : Stockfisch Records
URL : http://www.bassface.de
Date : 08-31-2007
Encoder : LAME 3.97 / -V2 --vbr-new
Quality : 182kbps 44100 kHz Joint Stereo
Tracks : 6
Time : 36:59 min
Size : 48.49 MB
1 Oh, Lady Be Good 8:50
2 Embraceable You 4:47
3 Strike Up The Band 3:46
4 Our Love Is Here To Stay 7:14
5 The Man I Love 7:05
6 I Got Rhythm 5:17
the bassface swing trio plays Gershwin - Direct-to-Disc-LP + SACD-Hybrid
SFR 357.8045.1 - limited edition (audiophile 180g-pressing, numbered and signed
by hand) Direct-to-disc has been and still is the biggest challenge in
audiophile music production. Unforgettable are the works of Sheffield, Jeton and
courageous cutting engineers like Stan Ricker, who out-maxed the technical
possibilities of that time by provocative back-cutting. Stockfisch-Records
perfectly meets the conditions for such a fascinating vinyl adventure: A
recording studio with an outstanding FAZIOLI grand piano (model F 228) û the
soundboards of these pianos are built of precious Red Spruce from Val di Fiemme
in the Western Italian Alps, the same wood Stradivarius had used in his
instruments û, an in-house vinyl cutting lathe and contacts to numerous
ingenious musicians built up over many years. There are several ways to approach
such a project. We decided to go strictly analog. To maintain this cohesion, we
kept all recording paths, the mix and the signal path to the cutting head of our
VMS-80 cutting lathe analog.
What makes the result particularly interesting is the splitting of the analog
stereo sum into three destinations. In addition to the signal for DMM cutting,
we converted the mix into highest-grade DSD format (DIRECT STREAM DIGITAL/2,8224
MHz) - using a 1-bit converter - and into conventional digital audio format,
16-bit/44.1 kHz PCM, as well. This direct-to-disc vinyl record comes with a SACD
(DSD 2channel-layer) which also contains a CDhybrid-layer. This seems to be the
first opportunity ever available to compare three formats originating from the
same analog source and transferred unaltered into two digital formats. Music On
January 13, 2007 the bassface swing trio landed in Stockfisch Studios. These
amazingly talented musicians with nerves of steel are: Thilo Wagner - piano,
Jean-Philippe Wadle û upright bass, Florian Hermann - drums. They played
Gershwin, celebrating and improvising this music breathtakingly û and swinging!
the bassface swing trio performed their program twice for the A and B sides and
chose cut A1 and B2 for this vinyl pressing.