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Our storewide sale is extended three more days! It now ends at the end of day on Memorial Day, Monday, May 31st.

6 New DSD releases

Check out the Six New DSD Releases we have in store for you, below or online, and get them while the price is lowered by 15%

NativeDSD Plus - 15% Off Your First Year!

Benefit from lower DSD resolutions with a NativeDSD Plus subscription. Now 15% off your first year of membership!

Some folks like to play lower DSD rates aside from the one purchased for use at other playback setups.

• Always play the correct & compatible DSD rate on different audio setups (DAC’s) across your listening locations and devices.

• Invest in the highest rate available today while playing the lower rates now until you perhaps upgrade your DAC.

• Special Plus Member Pricing on our products.

To get lower rates included, sign up for our NativeDSD Plus program. Benefit from a 15% reduction in price for your first year if you sign up today.

NativeDSD Downloader Updated to Version 2.0.5!

The NativeDSD Downloader has been updated to Version 2.0.5. for both Mac and Windows this week. Check out the list of improvements in Version 2.0.5 here. If you already use our Downloader app, you should have seen a prompt to accept the update.

If you are not yet using our Downloader, we suggest you give it a try as it simplifies the music download process and enables you to play the files directly after downloading, no more unzipping needed :)

Recommendations

• Can You Recommend Some DSD Jazz?
  NativeDSD’s Technical Advisor Brian Moura recommends 9 stunning DSD Jazz albums in this special DSD Jazz edition of Brian’s Corner. Included in the list of DSD Jazz favorites is the new #1 DSD Best Selling Album at NativeDSD - Love Her Madly: Live at Bubba’s by Jazz Pianist Monty Alexander and his Trio (Paul Berner, Duffy Jackson & Robert Thomas Jr.). A double album worth purchasing - even before getting it at 15% Off thru Memorial Day!

• 40 DSD Classical Recommendations

  In the past week, our Senior NativeDSD Reviewer Bill Dodd has selected 40 Classical DSD Albums that he highly recommends! Find them in the latest Dodd’s DSD Discoveries blog post.

Happy Storewide* 15% Sale shopping from all of us at NativeDSD.

*Price reduction is automatically applied during checkout. Valid on all Downloads, SACDs and LPs (only Analog Tapes are excluded). Ends May 31, end of day, CET. The next storewide sale is not expected until the end of November of this year.

Hidden Gems of Dutch Baroque Vocal Music

Holland Baroque explores the monastic musical traditions of 17th-century North Brabant, together with a group of established early music vocalists. Brabant 1653 unveils hidden gems of Dutch music history, as well as of baroque music at large. The album’s central figure is Benedictus à Sancto Josepho, pre-eminent organist and composer of Brabant in the late seventeenth century and known in France as “le grand Carme”. By putting his music and that of contemporaries in the limelight, artistic directors Judith and Tineke Steenbrink search for a distinguishable Brabant Style, and convincingly demonstrate that the Netherlands possessed a much richer musical culture than is usually acknowledged.

Holland Baroque is an original and innovative baroque orchestra that approaches baroque repertoire through a fresh and contemporary approach, with a focus on improvisation and collaborations with outstanding artists from different traditions. Brabant 1653 is their third PENTATONE album, after having released Silk Baroque (2019) and Polonoise (2021) with the label. Holland Baroque also appears on the Channel Classics Records label with various releases in DSD & DXD at the NativeDSD Music Store.

Beethoven by Special Arrangement is the second release at NativeDSD from the Sonolumina Ensemble on IsoMike. The album explores classic chamber music from Beethoven with a twist. New arrangements and orchestrations featuring clarinetist Russel Harlow and the Sonolumina Ensemble bring an added layer of depth and colors to enjoy on these already outstanding compositions.

IsoMike is a unique 4 microphone recording technique invented by Ray Kimber of Kimber Kable fame. It provides a very natural soundfield in Stereo and full 4 Channel Pure DSD Surround Sound. We invite our listeners to pick up the latest in the IsoMike DSD recordings.

Anicca is the second (and final) DSD and DXD Single from Min Xiao-Fen, a creative pioneer, expert of the Pipa, and World Music fusion artist. This DSD and DXD Single is a preview of her White Lotus album scheduled for release on June 25th, 2021 in DSD and DXD at NativeDSD.

The DXD/DSD Single is exclusively available from NativeDSD. It is attractively priced to invite you to take a listen ahead of the album release date! This single will be track 3 of the 12-track White Lotus album.

Acclaimed Norwegian trumpeter Tine Thing Helseth releases her new album “Magical Memories”on LAWO Classics. The recording is deeply personal. It is made up of Helseth’s favorite pieces which explore the full sound, range, and moods of the instrument.

It includes music she remembers hearing during her childhood such as Lindberg’s “Gammal Fabodpsalm fran Dalarna'' and Purcell’s “Trumpet Tune in C major” as well as modern songs for special occasions such as Sjoberg’s “Den forsta gang jag sag dig” a Swedish love song translated as “The First Time I Saw You”. Composers include Marcello, Telemann, Grieg, Moraeus, Lindberg, Sommerro and many more.

Tine Thing Helseth says: “This is a very personal album to me. Whilst I was growing up my mother also played the trumpet, and many of these pieces are works that I listened to laying on the floor next to the organ whilst she was at rehearsals. She took me when I was 6 weeks old! Other tracks are just lovely melodies and songs that people often use on special occasions: happy or sad. So, the album is filled with my musical memories and my hope is that it will bring musical memories to the listeners as well.”

Helseth and organist Kare Nordstoga recorded the album in Oslo Cathedral, during Norway’s lockdown in late August and early September 2020. They worked from late in the evening into the early hours of the morning to carefully capture the perfect sound, undisturbed by even the already minimized noise of the outside world.

This physical sanctuary reflects the haven Helseth creates for her audience and throughout the album, the listener is transported into a world of vivid colors and emotions. For Helseth, it is a place where she can express herself in the most personal and genuine way. She and Nordstoga improvise on three of the tracks, the Sjoberg and two wedding marches joining them together with listeners to experience the magic of music.

Empty Triangles is a retrowave Electronic Music project from Audio Define. The album aims to get the best sound out of classic hardware synthesizers. This edition of Empty Triangles is the flat transfer of the instrumental self-titled debut album from the Original Analog Master Tape. All of the DSD Bit Rates have been created in the DSD Domain by NativeDSD Mastering Engineer Tom Caulfield.

The result of this DSD release is drastically different from the digital release of the album available on streaming services and other digital stores. This edition is a NativeDSD Exclusive.

The Sky Is Crying (DXD & DSD Remastered) is a new Analog Tape to DXD & DSD transfer from 2xHD Mastering and Storyville Records.

Sonny Boy Williamson is a true original. Every blues harmonica player has struggled to master his style. You can hear his licks played by James Cotton (whom Sonny Boy raised and tutored), Junior Wells, Howling Wolf, Junior Parker and literally hundreds of other harp players. But one listen to Sonny Boy and you’ll know no one else was quite the same.

It’s hard to think of a single song he recorded not worth listening to again and again. In this outstanding recording quality, you can hear the exchange from Lung to Breath to Harmonica, plus Sonny Boy’s distinctive gravelly voice. This album is a must have for any blues fan.

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Kind regards, Floor