2024 SURROUND RELEASES

[haikubass]

You've probably all figured out by now that the announced mysterious "mind blowing" Quadio box is Joni Mitchell’s The Asylum Albums and that in fact each of the four individual titles actually includes an Atmos mix too.

Other blu-ray additions from the past week are two reissues with Atmos mixes - firstly, Seal's sophomore album, and also Herbert Grönemeyer's 40 year old Bochum (40th Anniversary).

Finally, The Church's The Hypnogogue, one of the standout streaming titles in Atmos last year, is now available as a download at ImmersiveAudioAlbum.com (no region restrictions on this one).

 

[LTW]

For anyone interested, the Kickstarter pre-order for my prog-rock project Look To Windward is live. CD/Blu-ray with 5.1 mix.
The main post for it is here:
https://www.quadraphonicquad.com/fo...are-live-free-5-1-download.35911/#post-774151

 

[haikubass]

The main announcement of the past week has been the release of David Gilmour's new solo album. Luck and Strange is being released with a Dolby Atmos mix on both standalone BD-A and in a big box (TBA), and although these won't be out until September, the first single is already on streaming services.

The next title in Barclay James Harvest's long line of 5.1 recordings is a video of their performance with the Slaithwaite Philharmonic Orchestra last year, Philharmonic! The Orchestral Concert, once again mixed in surround by @Stephen W Tayler.

In Japan, SACD reissues of Steve Hackett's recent recordings continue, this time with the Squackett project and the Surrender of Silence album - again, it can be assumed that the 5.1 mixes are identical to the original ones.

Now one title I have missed, already published in FLAC format via Bandcamp on April 1: Electric Moo - Air Conditioner Duet No. 2, a discrete Quadraphonic release by QQs own @Electric Moo. Thanks for the heads up!

And finally three lossless Atmos downloads via IAA. The first is Sampling With Franny by Richard Houghten, again mixed by @austinsignal, and the others are two albums from The National, First Two Pages of Frankenstein and Laugh Track, again of course, being part of a series of titles from Beggars Group, available only in the US.