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5 New DSD Releases
We have just released 5 new DSD albums at the NativeDSD Music Store. They include several musical genres and styles such as Jazz Ensemble, Lute, Chamber Music, Jazz Piano and Classical Guitar. The albums feature a wonderful set of recording artists including Carmen Gomes Inc., Carolyn Surrick & Ronn McFarlane, Sarah Kapustin & Roeland Jagers, Monty Alexander and Gaelle Solal.
A DSD Christmas is Coming
We have made a wonderful selection of 37 DSD Christmas albums for you. Just in time to prepare for the holidays. And the list includes Stille Grender – 2L’s DSD Best Seller album of Christmas Carols featuring the Norwegian Girls’ Choir with pianist Tord Gustavsen and a DSD bundle with this holiday release plus a special album of piano solos.
The Best of DSD in 2020
After a year of listening to all of the new DSD albums that were released at NativeDSD, our music experts – Senior Reviewer Bill Dodd and Technical Advisor Brian Moura – have now revealed 3 to 5 nominations in several musical categories for the DSD Albums of the Year for 2020. Take a look at this wonderful guide to fine DSD listening, as these 34 DSD albums are very highly recommended.
SAVE 15%: these 34 DSD albums are now available at NativeDSD Music with a 15% discount, automatically applied in your cart! (coupon aoty2020 is automatically applied when adding nominated albums to the cart)
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New Album of the Week
Our new Album of the Week 20% Off coupon: AOTW is revealed below. (the AOTW code will automatically apply to the cart so you will save instantly!)
Have a musical weekend,
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Up Jumped The Devil
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€19.99 - €29.99
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Carmen Gomes Inc.
Sound Liaison
Stereo & Multichannel DXD, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, and Stereo DSD 512
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Up Jumped The Devil is a new Stereo DXD recording from Carmen Gomes Inc. featuring the music of blues great Robert Johnson. It has already earned rave reviews and a perfect 5 Star rating by listeners and reviewers. By framing each of Robert Johnson’s songs with small instrumental miniatures, Carmen Gomes Inc. have created an album that sounds like an imaginary road movie.
The album uses two Josephson C700A microphones (vocal and bass) added to the central Josephson C700S as well as an ambient spaced pair of Josephson C617 microphones up high as the main source of ambience. The benefit sound wise, compared to a pure One Mic Recording, is the sound of Carmen’s voice and the double bass would not suffer when the band at certain moments raises the dynamic level.
Peter Bjørnild says “Listening one perceives Robert walking late at night, en route in the Mississippi Delta, reflecting back on his life. The low A, 27.5 Hz, from the bowed down tuned double bass representing the Mississippi night, the drums creating the sounds surrounding the night and the guitar being Robert’s mind. More than playing parts, guitarist Folker Tettero and drummer Bert Kamsteeg are playing moods. Sound Liaison actually asked Bert to play the lyrics instead of the drums, a task they knew especially he would be able to fulfill. Throughout the album Folker is in constant dialogue with Carmen’s melody line, sometimes edging her on and at other times comforting her. Folker decided to use an electric 12 string guitar on the small miniatures. The sounds he creates adds a whole new aspect to his musicianship and emphasizes his deep affinity for the blues. Carmen Gomes is at the top of her game here. Her ‘never the same way twice’ saxophone like vocal phrasing showing her jazz heritage and why jazz is in such great debt to the blues. Love in Vain in particular being a good example.”
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Love You Madly - Live at Bubba's
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€24.99 - €34.99
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Monty Alexander
2xHD
Stereo DXD, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, and Stereo DSD 512
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Love You Madly – Live at Bubba’s is a 13-track, 92-minute double album featuring famed Jazz pianist Monty Alexander. Accompanying Alexander on this spirited live date are bassist Paul Berner (Lionel Hampton Orchestra), drummer Duffy Jackson (Milt Jackson, Benny Carter), and percussionist Robert Thomas, Jr. (Weather Report, Jaco Pastorius, Carlos Santana). It has been converted from the Original Analog Master Tape to DSD and DXD by 2xHD Mastering in partnership with Resonance Records.
Drawn from Alexander’s personal collection, the vigorous, imaginative performances on Love You Madly were recorded to Analog Tape at the titular Fort Lauderdale, Florida nightclub on August 6, 1982. The recording engineer was the late Mack Emerman, legendary founder of Miami’s Criteria Recording Studios, the state-of-the-art facility where the Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, the Allman Brothers Band, and Aretha Franklin, among many others, had cut some of their biggest pop hits.
Monty Alexander – Piano
Paul Berner – Bass
Duffy Jackson – Drums
Robert Thomas Jr. – Percussion
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Tuhu
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€19.99 - €33.49
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Gaëlle Solal
Eudora Records
Stereo & Multichannel DXD, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, and Stereo DSD 512
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Winner of the Alessandria Competition, French guitar virtuosa Gaëlle Solal delivers a buoyant, heart-filled, Villa-Lobos-based program she has put together after several years of research and writing her own arrangements.
Works of the great Brazilian composer alternate with delicate and exuberant compositions of Pixinguinha, Nazareth, Jobim and Dyens, among others. A gem that merges Brazilian folk with Classical music into a unique, passionate album.
Recorded at the Auditorio San Francisco in Avila, Spain on September 10-12, 2019 in Stereo and Multichannel DSD 256 without DXD processing, Tuhu is exclusively available in DSD 512 Stereo, DSD 256 Stereo and DSD 256 Multichannel here at the NativeDSD Music Store.
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Reflections
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€19.99 - €33.49
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Sarah Kapustin, Roeland Jagers
Navis Classics
Stereo & Multichannel DXD, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, and Stereo DSD 512
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Navis Classics brings us a new album of Classical Chamber Music in Stereo and Multichannel DSD and DXD. In this interview, Sarah Kapustin and Roeland Jagers talk about the album’s origins:
Chamber music has been an important part of your lives for many years, including your time together with the renowned Rubens Quartet. The combination of violin and viola creates a surprisingly rich variety of sonorities and colors and you clearly relish playing in this formation. How did you come to the decision to take this duo to the highest level?
Over the last twelve years we have enjoyed acquainting ourselves with the small yet wonderful repertoire for our two instruments, always inserting a duo or two into our concert programs whenever possible. The COVID -19 pandemic has made us even more appreciative of our collaboration, and it sparked the wish to record some of our favorite pieces for posterity. During the lockdown we started brainstorming about which pieces would fit together well and came up with this collection of works which all feature the idea of canons and imitation and how those techniques have evolved over the past six centuries.
(find the full interview in the booklet)
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Fermi's Paradox
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€19.99 - €29.99
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Carolyn Surrick & Ron McFarlane
Sono Luminus
Stereo DXD, DSD 64, DSD 128, DSD 256, and DSD 512
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Grammy Nominated lutist Ronn McFarlane returns to NativeDSD with his third release - a new Stereo DSD and DXD album to follow his earlier album The Celtic Lute and the album Barley Moon with the ensemble Ayreheart. This time he performs in a duo with Carolyn Surrick.
McFarlane told us: It seemed ridiculous to even consider a recording for lute and gamba without something by John Dowland. It turned out just one of his compositions was for the two instruments – so we recorded it. If there’s Dowland, then there must be Marin Marais, one of the greatest composers for the viol who ever lived. If the gamba is going to sing a traditional Irish tune, why not a recitative and aria by Telemann? If she’s going to sing something by Telemann, why not an Ave Maria, written by Gounod and based on thematic material belonging to Bach?
If we loved it, the answer was, “Yes.”
As the pandemic increased in its fierce destruction, I sat alone, practicing. Some of us play from memory, some with the music in front of us. One night I began Amazing Grace. I had always played it in G major – there are lots of double stops easily available (playing more than one string at a time) and the instrument is super resonant in that key, but this time I tried C major. There was a kind of openness and freedom that had been hidden from me. I’ve played that piece for decades, but I had never heard it like that before. I sent a recording to Lindsey. I called Ronn. We had to include it.
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Pianist Josep Colom in Pure DSD 256 Stereo & Multichannel - no DXD processing
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€47.96 – €100.48
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Josep Colom's 4 DSD Albums on Eudora Records
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Classical pianist Josep Colom’s albums have been widely applauded and nominated for multiple awards. Now you can pick up all 4 in the recorded Stereo and Multichannel DSD 256 bit rate (with no DXD processing), only available at NativeDSD.Com at a discount with our specially priced DSD bundle! What could be better?
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Speaking of specially priced DSD bundles, don’t forget to have a look and pick up some of our earlier ones:
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One Microphone Recordings Bundle
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Discover Cobra Records Binaural Bundle
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Handel - Concerti Grossi Op. 6 and Op. 3 - Bundle
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Innovative Artists & Jazz from Buzz Bundle
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Rachel Podger's Vivaldi Violin Concertos Bundle
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€0.00
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The Best of Pipe Organ in DSD Bundle
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Now Available in Stereo DSD 512!
Summer Serenade by Jazz Sax player Benny Carter is our Album of the Week. This Analog Master Tape to DSD transfer is now available in Stereo DSD 512. Just in time for this one week sale through December 11, 2020.
AllMusic describes Summer Serenade by noting "Jazz Sax legend Benny Carter has recorded so many excellent swing sessions throughout his lengthy career that it is difficult to pick out the best ones. There's too much competition. This quartet date for this 2xHD-Storyville label album matches his alto sax with pianist Kenny Drew, bassist Jesper Lundgaard and drummer Ed Thigpen for four of Carter's originals and three standards. As a bonus, Richard Boone sings the good-humored 'All That Jazz'."
"The broad, sweeping phrases of Carter's improvisations have the structural stability of compositions in their own right. Here, his approach to benefits from having been honed through the decades."
-- Jan Fritz, Jazz In Europe
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Summer Serenade
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€15.99 - €33.29
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Benny Carter Quartet
2xHD
Save 20% with code: AOTW
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NativeDSD offers a new Album of the Week (AOTW) each Friday at a 20% Discount! This sale ends next Friday, at which time the new AOTW is presented here and on our NativeDSD Music homepage.
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exaSound E88 8-Channel Streaming DAC
€ 6,475.00 incl. VAT.
Featuring a reference-grade 32-bit digital-to-analog converter and Roon-Ready streamer in stylish full-size mono-block enclosure, the s88 delights with its ergonomic simplicity and sonic perfection
Available now at the NativeDSD Gear Store
Ships worldwide*
Free DSD albums included
* Except US & Canada
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Sonore microRendu v1.5
€ 479.00 incl. VAT.
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Sonore Branded systemOptique Certified Fiber Optic Cable
€ 60.00 – € 125.00 incl. VAT.
Up to 3 Meters (±9 feet) available now!
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And remember to check out the 34 Nominees for the NativeDSD Albums of the Year 2020! Automatically & temporarily reduced in price in your cart.
Browse - Albums of the Year
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