Felix E. Martinez
300 Club - QQ All-Star
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- Mar 20, 2006
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Telarc is hitting 'em out of the park lately. Hot on the heels of the phenomenal "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," we've got the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet's "Brazil," also to be released September 25, 2007.
The music is intoxicating. The musicianship, amazing. The production and surround mix by Robert Friedrich, outstanding!
Those LAGQ fans disappointed by the conservative, ambient-style surround mix of 2006's "Spin" will find lots to love in "Brazil," which returns to the guitar-in-each-corner aggressive surround approach of "Guitar Heroes."
LAGQ's arrangements in "Brazil" have expanded to include flute, sax, percussion, and vocals on several of the tracks.
The only nitpick I have is that the disc plays rather loud for an acoustic, classical guitar-themed album. Not that it's dynamically compressed, but since there aren't huge transient peaks naturally occurring in the material, the overall level seems to have been "normalized," or raised a bit more than I would like. Still, the clarity of the native DSD recording (recorded on the Sonoma 32-track workstation at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound this past March) once again reveals that there's nothing like hi-res surround. I mean, nothing.
On a scale of 1-10 I would definitely give this a 9. Fantastic release. Looking forward to more from Telarc.
The music is intoxicating. The musicianship, amazing. The production and surround mix by Robert Friedrich, outstanding!
Those LAGQ fans disappointed by the conservative, ambient-style surround mix of 2006's "Spin" will find lots to love in "Brazil," which returns to the guitar-in-each-corner aggressive surround approach of "Guitar Heroes."
LAGQ's arrangements in "Brazil" have expanded to include flute, sax, percussion, and vocals on several of the tracks.
The only nitpick I have is that the disc plays rather loud for an acoustic, classical guitar-themed album. Not that it's dynamically compressed, but since there aren't huge transient peaks naturally occurring in the material, the overall level seems to have been "normalized," or raised a bit more than I would like. Still, the clarity of the native DSD recording (recorded on the Sonoma 32-track workstation at George Lucas' Skywalker Sound this past March) once again reveals that there's nothing like hi-res surround. I mean, nothing.
On a scale of 1-10 I would definitely give this a 9. Fantastic release. Looking forward to more from Telarc.
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