For Serious Analysis and Musical Pleasure
This LP is a DALI first. It follows the sudden revival of the vinyl format, which continues to gain momentum throughout the music industry. Rumors have it that 80% of today's releases are also available on vinyl.
This LP is based on our fourth CD compilation in a audiophile-praised series. These collections represent our best effort to provide reliable tools to assist you in the effective evaluation and demonstration of the accuracy and musicality of audio components. Music is important to us, too important to allow it to be mangled by MP3 conversion or crushed by dynamic range compression or diminished by inferior playback equipment. That’s why we this time decided to add a LP to our collection - alongside continue publishing the DALI CD’s.
This compilation contains a mix of household names and less familiar artists in various genres, recorded, mixed and mastered using different methods. Please give it a spin or two on a quality audio system. Preferably on a system you know well. Chances are that you will hear and appreciate what we consider to be superior sound quality on the majority of the selected tracks. Don’t expect to like them all! Taste is different! But hopefully we have inspired you by introducing you to one or two tracks and/or artists that you’d never heard about. Long live great music, great recordings and great audio systems. Long live the good old CD!
Enjoy!
VOL 4 ARTISTS
LUKAS GRAHAM
Happy Home is a bit different from the “ghetto pop” genre – a term Lukas Graham often uses about his music – and was written in collaboration with Rasmus Hedegaard, one of Denmarks best DJ’s. Lucas’ strong vocal and honest lyrics create an insistent and intense atmosphere, forcing you to listen.
VESTBO TRIO
Vestbo Trio could be the band that draws you back to instrumental music again (it’s about time!). Inspired by the sound and timbre of jazz music, and always aiming to connect with the listener like a great singer would, Vestbo Trio’s music has a charm that will delight you.
JACQUES LOUSSIER
When Jacques Loussier presented his jazzy version of Bach with his PLAY BACH in 1959, not even his producer at Decca Records expected that a million copies of the five albums would be sold by 1965. In Paris, London, Berlin, Tokyo, Sydney and New York, Jacques Loussier polarised as well as unified the classical and the jazz worlds. Called a pioneer and even “the grandfather” of crossover, Loussier’s tasteful work was acknowledged by Glenn Gould: “Play Bach is a good way to play Bach”.
EVA CASSIDY
Refusing to bend her music to music industry conventions and expectations, Eva Cassidy was known only within the DC area during her lifetime. Eva left behind one live album, a duet album, and various studio demos and live recordings. In the intervening 20 years, Eva Cassidy’s music has proven timeless and universal.
TOM JONES
“We wanted to go back to basics, go back to the source, it was just me singing live with a rhythm section - no overdubbing, no gimmicks, no complicated horn and string arrangements, just get the song down in an entire take, capture the meaning of the song, its spirituality, its life, and capture that moment, right there. And I think that’s what we’ve done,” says Tom Jones, the 75 year old singer from Wales, describing ‘Praise and Blame’.
MUSICA TEMPRANA
Misa Criolla is a masterpiece when it comes to recording. You can hear the room – it is extremely difficult to record the sound of a room, but in this case you can feel the atmosphere and the air around the voices of the choir for a sublime sound experience.
MICHAEL PENN
In the early ‘80s, Penn formed the group Doll Congress, which garnered a fervent local following but never expanded their fan base outside of Southern California. In 1987, Sean Penn hosted Saturday Night Live and brought Michael along as a musical guest; the performance revived his interest in music – and the rest is history!
LAURIE ANDERSON
Laurie Anderson is one of today’s premier performance artists. Known primarily for her multimedia presentations, she has cast herself in roles as varied as visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist.
