David Berger and the Sultans of Swing:
The sonic experience is heightened by the extreme care taken to record the band live in the studio without headphones, mix it with absolutely no compression and run it through an analog board, so that what you hear on this CD is as close to a live performance as ever captured on any jazz CD. Leif Marten Olofsson the CEO/Chief Designer of Marten Design, makers of top-of-the-line audiophile speakers says, "In the autumn of 2005 I had the pleasure to see and listen to David Berger and his Sultans of Swing live in Sweden. Since then they have been a favourite for me both musically, and when we do demos with our speakers. This latest album has a directness and uncompressed dynamic that shows all the benefits of our speakers. Fantastic!"
I will say that the idea was to record a jazz album as dub as possible, and Chris and Danny at Good and Evil totally hooked it up, they tracked it on a 2” 16-Track Deck at 15 ips; and mixed down to a 1/2” at 30 ips and we compressed the shit out of it, and put the mixes as in your face as we could. I especially love the crackly organ...
I for one think recording is not merely an exact copy of live performance or trying to be "as close as natural concert"
If that is the mode of artistic expression one want to take. Hey more power to the artist.
But otherwise. I'd say fooling around with various recording tool is a legit artistic expression. I don't think any jazz audiance is foolish enough to think a recording is suppose to be an exact copy of a live performance instead of yet another representation of an artist work.
If somebody can create a surreal sonic effect as work of art in form of recording. Why not? I am all ears.
Posted by: squashed | 06 May 2006 at 08:07 PM