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Best Sounding new releases 2015

Tony Overwater & Bert van den Brink; Impromptu
http://www.soundliaison.com
http://www.soundliaison.com/images/A_MyMuseImages/tony-bert-200v5.jpg
Doug MacLeod; Exactly Like This
http://www.referencerecordings.com
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81FRQ4wS3QL._SY355_.jpg
These 2 hi-res audiophile downloads has gotten a head start for 2015, and I think it will be a very hard act to better for Sound quality, but lets see.
Please post if you have bought something which you find equals or better the 2 above.
Exactly like this;
[quote]His new album EXACTLY LIKE THIS is his third release with Reference Recordings. This is 'Genuine Original Acoustic Music' at its very best, in a richly detailed recording by Grammy-winning engineer Keith Johnson, made at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, CA. [/qoute]
Impromptu;
[qoute]The room was filled to the brim with audio enthusiasts, the closest listener being just a few feet from the musicians and the microphones.
When the audience is so close to the musicians, a synergy occurs. The audience becomes part of the music making and help spur the musicians on to great heights.
The musicians feeling the empathy from the audience dare to take chances that one rarely hears in a studio recording.[/qoute]
kefas
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slaw
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"Dgarretson: I've got the MMJ coming in. I'm glad to see it's on Capitol, any other label than ATO. (I long ago swore off any lp on the ATO label) Your recommendation makes me feel better about this purchase!

Having said this "Evil Urges" sounded very good." (really the only lp I own that sounds consistently good on ATO)

FWIW...It's odd that as I logged on to this thread I am listening to Steven Wilson's "Insurgentes" lp.
dgarretson
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Slaw, last week I saw Steve Wilson live on his Hand Cannot Erase tour. It was quite a show-- a very tight performance accompanied by creative use of video montage. Wilson is perhaps rock's most brilliant and eclectic collector of prog rock antecedents. He occasionally weakens into noodling or sentimentality, but never for long before delivering a major payload.

Though dating to 2014, the re-release of Nick Cave's catalog on BMG vinyl is well worth attention and vastly surpasses the mediocre SQ of the original CDs. So far I've got Let Love In, Murder Ballads, and Your Funeral, My Trial.
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hr1
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Now This - Gary Peacock Trio
schubert
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+1 for Now This, I'm the same age as Peacock and can hardly
get out the bed in the morning.
The music and sound are to die for! A true masterpiece.
dgarretson
2,599 posts
 
Some more 2015 jazz:

Charles Lloyd- Wild Man Dance. Bernie Grundman mastering and Joe Harley as "sound consultant."

Tim Berne's Snakeoil- You've Been Watching Me

Eberhard Weber- Encore. Great sounding electric double bass w/flugelhorn.
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