Urban Flamenco, the third album by Stephen Duros, is now available in the LL. Sometime in late November the album will become available from all the usual digital vendors and streaming services, such as iTunes, amazon.com, MOG, Spotify and so on.
Stephen will sell a small edition of 50 signed CDs from his website. These should become available by the middle of November. Check his website for more information.
alva noto + ryuichi sakamoto “s” tour Alva Noto’s blog about touring with Ryuichi Sakamoto. Looks to be a great experience. There are many YouTube examples. Here is the first one I looked at.
It reminded me of a project Andrew Gaskin did in 2007, when he remixed three tracks from One Guitar. You can find them in the ListeningLounge.
And as these things go, then I also received an email from Andrew yesterday…
Here is Andrew’s remix, called Out ot the Blue – Big Blue Room Mix
Our monsoon continues and we had another fine rain storm this afternoon.
In the morning Jon and I compared AIFF, FLAC and 320kbps mp3 files in my studio, using Stax Earspeakers and a Stax tube amp. The FLAC files had been encoded and decoded using xAct, which is a fine FLAC app for Macintosh. The 320 mp3 was made with Peak Pro, which uses a LAME encoder – the same encoder we use for the ListeningLounge.
The result was what one would expect: AIFF, followed by FLAC and mp3. What we did not expect was how very close the quality between these formats was. Unless you have a great set of headphones or speakers – and the ears and experience to process what comes through them – you will not hear a difference. Another interesting point was that the treble side of the music was indistinguishable, it was the bass where one could detect shades of difference.
Here is a piece called Untitled Rumba. And yes, it might sound familiar to you as an old version of it can be found in the ListeningLounge. However, Jon and I worked on it recently (((for a compilation CD))) and this here is the result:
You can download the high quality 320 kbps mp3 version here.
I wrote the music in 2003 or 2004 and recorded the guitars during the La Semana sessions. Last year Jon added new bass and synth parts and I re-mixed the whole thing. Perfect for a Monday Morning, isn’t it!!
