Category: Media

Allman Brothers “Mountain Jam”

Just found a 2:42 video excerpt from the 33min gem (see audio only version below).

Gregg Allman – vocal and organ
Duane Allman (Yes! with Duane!) – slide guitar
Dicky Betts – lead guitar
Berry Oakley – bass
Jai Johanny Johanson – drums
Butch Trucks – drums

The quality is terrible, so if anybody knows where a better version can be found, please drop me a line

youtube.com/watch?v=D29T-VhqUNQ

Audio only:

Intro 5:23:70
Drum solo 5:23:70
Bass solo 5:23:70
Grand finale 5:23:70

2L against the loudness war or DSD64 download

Mozart Violin concerto in D major

2L (Lindberg Lyd Ltd) is about to hammer another nail into the CD’s coffin. You can buy and download albums (not many at that time)  in DSD64, FLAC 24/96 and FLAC 24/96 multichannel formats  from their website. Or test taste the HiRez for free here.

The picture shows sono- and spectrogram of W.A.Mozart: Violin concerto in D major (KV 218) – Allegro
Marianne Thorsen / TrondheimSolistene / Øyvind Gimse (Stereo WAV 24bit/96kHz). And it sounds accordingly 😉

What a difference from the crap like this recording!

More info:

Porcupine Tree and the loudness war

Porcupine Tree - clippings

This is the second track from Porcupine Tree “Deadwing” called “Shallow”.

WYSIWYG… It sounds just like the graph in SND.  Especially if upsampled without decreasing the volume – like badly scratched disk. And yes, loud. Can it be any worse?

/usr/local/bin/sox effects: polyphase clipped 329755 samples; decrease volume?

Lakshminarayanan Shankar, double violin, Raga Aberi

Shankar Raga Aberi This is something what blew me away, made me listening despite all my efforts to concentrate on my work, what gave me goose bumps all over the place.

Just look at the list of musicians:

o- Lakshminarayanan Shankar (10-string double violin)
o- Vikku Vinayakram (ghatam)
o- Zakir Hussain (tabla)

Raga Aberi was nominated for a 1996 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album.