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I don't know if it counts as the musical edge in this case. She sounds like she's stuck in the mid-'90s. Not in a horrible way. It just sounds like we've heard it before, though her vocals still provide amusement. I'm still liking the album. Not enough to recommend, considering, but if she ever has a proper release, I'd tell people to give her a try.

Watching AC/DC: Live at Donington. Definitely better sound quality than The Who but still can't touch The Eagles: Farewell Tour I.

Got some cds from Amazon today - Mad Season, Bright Eyes' Four Winds EP and Amos Lee's debut (self titled). The Bright Eyes is surprisingly good stuff - quite a bit more fleshed out sound than I'm used to hearing from him. Amos Lee is really good, too - kind of like a more soulful male counterpart to Norah Jones.

Stevie Ray Vaughan in da house tonight. Cranking the new Odyssey's.....

"Say What!"

So what kind of levels are you getting? Any shutdowns yet?

Dave, these Odyssey amps are killer. To think that I basically have a 6,000+ Symphonic Line amp under the hood.

A little more SRV tonight on Pandora while I cruise the forums on the BIG screen.... "May I Have a Talk With You"...on Blues at Sunrise...

Just imagine how great they'll be when they are broken in . Sorry about that, Randy. I just had to get that one in .

Tonight is time for "The Doors".

Bach: The Goldber Variations - Glenn Gould - Re-performance
Warning - this is not the original recording, but rather a "robotic" Yamaha piano playing back from material of the original 1955 Glenn Gould recording. Two versions are included - headphone-optimized stereo and multi-channel. They are very different, stereo is its own recording, not just downmixed multi-channel track. Surround recording sounds as if you are sitting much further away from the instrument, while stereo captures what a person sitting at the instrument would have heard. The instrument is very different from the original 1955 and so are acoustics of the studio. Of course the oh so familiar vocalizations are absent as well. With all those disclaimers and controversy in mind the sound is just phenomenal. It is as close to beaming Glenn Gould to our age as it gets (albeit in different place than original NY 30th street church and using a different instrument). I could not help listening to this several times over the last few days and will probably need to listen to satisfy myself - it is just magnetic.
In no way it is a replacement of the original 1955 mono recording, but that is what makes it interesting as well as the debate whether you can actually use Glenn Gould's name on the cover.

I heard an NPR story on the technology behind this re-recording. The amount of detail the re-performance includes is pretty amazing. I wonder what other artists they'll tackle next?

http://zenph.com/technology.html

Does it say which Yamaha they're using? Is it one of the player piano types, or a Clavinova? Can I get the file anywhere...

Not that I've touched my piano for about 2 months. Bad me.