Reference-Quality CD Recorded & Mixed Live To Two Tracks!
With drums played by Brad Dutz, trumpet played by John Fumo and bass played by Randy Landas, the tracks on Moon Jazz were recorded and mixed live to two tracks by Tony Minasian of Tonian Labs in California.
"Tony Minasian returns to behind the purist recording console, giving us his third 16-bit 44.1kHz high-resolution effort after Hang Around and Comparing Sticks. With his modified recording equipment then refusal to indulge the usual mastering games, Tony captures the full dynamic range which his three acoustic players here on trumpet, double bass and percussion coax from their instruments. As with Minasian's earlier two productions, it once again shows how CD resolution is perfectly capable of giving us thrillingly life-like sound if the man in charge knows how to and isn't contractually obligated to pander to commercialism; or tasked to polish turds. On Moon Jazz, the tonal verity of the players is astonishing. Being fed with this much of a head start over the usual productions, even a modest system shines brightly. Particularly sundry bells, triangles, cymbals and the power of hand drums should be quite startling but likewise for the uncut trumpet. It's that peculiar startle factor when something in our bodies feels alarmed in a good way. Our frontal lobes know perfectly well that we're hearing a recording. We spun it up, we hit 'play'. Who are we kidding? Even our eyes tell us that nobody is there. Yet something inside of us buys into the illusion more fully than usual. And that creates a strange but exhiliarint frisson. Particularly when blown into a mute, a trumpet hits very high harmonics to give it that particular rusty slightly warbling or watery flavor as we here get on 'Torque' and 'The Turn'. Meanwhile the walking bass underneath is wiry yet rotund, heavy but not without overhang; and the percussion as direct as a razor blade scratching over skin looking for a hair stubble. Where at least for my tastes Moon Jazz exceeds Tony's precursors is on musical merit. This isn't just a sonically brilliant effort. Musically too it's something I'll spin up again and again." - Srajan Ebaen, www.6moons.com
Features:
• CD
• 16-bit 44.1kHz high-resolution
• Recorded and mixed live to two tracks
• Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tony Minasian
• Jewel case
Musicians:
Brad Dutz, percussion
John Fumo, trumpet
Randy Landas, bass
With drums played by Brad Dutz, trumpet played by John Fumo and bass played by Randy Landas, the tracks on Moon Jazz were recorded and mixed live to two tracks by Tony Minasian of Tonian Labs in California.
"Tony Minasian returns to behind the purist recording console, giving us his third 16-bit 44.1kHz high-resolution effort after Hang Around and Comparing Sticks. With his modified recording equipment then refusal to indulge the usual mastering games, Tony captures the full dynamic range which his three acoustic players here on trumpet, double bass and percussion coax from their instruments. As with Minasian's earlier two productions, it once again shows how CD resolution is perfectly capable of giving us thrillingly life-like sound if the man in charge knows how to and isn't contractually obligated to pander to commercialism; or tasked to polish turds. On Moon Jazz, the tonal verity of the players is astonishing. Being fed with this much of a head start over the usual productions, even a modest system shines brightly. Particularly sundry bells, triangles, cymbals and the power of hand drums should be quite startling but likewise for the uncut trumpet. It's that peculiar startle factor when something in our bodies feels alarmed in a good way. Our frontal lobes know perfectly well that we're hearing a recording. We spun it up, we hit 'play'. Who are we kidding? Even our eyes tell us that nobody is there. Yet something inside of us buys into the illusion more fully than usual. And that creates a strange but exhiliarint frisson. Particularly when blown into a mute, a trumpet hits very high harmonics to give it that particular rusty slightly warbling or watery flavor as we here get on 'Torque' and 'The Turn'. Meanwhile the walking bass underneath is wiry yet rotund, heavy but not without overhang; and the percussion as direct as a razor blade scratching over skin looking for a hair stubble. Where at least for my tastes Moon Jazz exceeds Tony's precursors is on musical merit. This isn't just a sonically brilliant effort. Musically too it's something I'll spin up again and again." - Srajan Ebaen, www.6moons.com
Features:
• CD
• 16-bit 44.1kHz high-resolution
• Recorded and mixed live to two tracks
• Recorded, mixed and mastered by Tony Minasian
• Jewel case
Musicians:
Brad Dutz, percussion
John Fumo, trumpet
Randy Landas, bass
Selections
- Tension For Attention
- Triste Perdida
- Breath Within Breath
- Temple Of Silence
- Improv For Dinosaurs
- Where Is Number Nine?
- Crossing Over
- Torque
- The Turn
- Tension For Attention tk 2
