tangotreats
08-08-2015, 08:52 PM
A Kanyenda / Tangotreats Co-Production
The series of co-productions I have produced with Herr Salat must have made some impact, because at the beginning of this year, Kanyenda approached me with an interesting project; would I be interested in transferring some vinyl? By the way, the two records in question were in mint condition and featured rare scores by Kentaro Haneda and Seiji Yokoyama. Uh, let me think about this for about a sixteenth of a second - YES, PLEASE!
SEIJI YOKOYAMA
Symphonic Rhapsody 198X (Future War 198X)
The New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Hiroshi Kumagai
Scat by Kazuko Kawashima
My transfer from Kanyenda's vinyl; made and edited at 24-bit resolution 96000hz before downsampling to 16-bit 44100hz for distributions. Tagged in Japanese and English. Playing time 50:07.
FLAC (Compression Level 8) with High Resolution PNG scans (344mb) - https://mega.nz/#!NxZHST7L!ke3XW5OrVcmS44yfgmpoL5wWQyvR8Ffp_NG3J1kOiMM
MP3 (LAME 3.99.5 at -V0) with Lower Resolution JPG scans (94mb) - https://mega.nz/#!4kgkWLLR!YN6wlwaeSo5OEwo74jwjTIj6iZXqH7ITbUTE-25WJSI
MAIN TITLE (1:18)
EAGLE SCRAMBLING (3:47)
SERENADE OF LORA (3:06)
MIRAGE OVER THE WILDS (4:19)
BLUE ARABESQUE (1:31)
DISTRESS (3:31)
DANCING PRISM (2:51)
NOCTURNE (5:03)
THE LAST SUNSET (3:58)
CARAVAN ON THE FOREIGN WAY (2:33)
DEEPLY LOVE (2:32)
THE DAY OF SORROW (2:27)
TILL THE END OF MY LIFE (2:12)
THE LASTING LOVE (3:03)
STARDUST LULLABY (3:32)
PATHETIC LOVE, IT'S MY DESTINY (4:24)
My "sorry I'm late" apologies must be pretty legendary around these parts; Herr Salat knows all about my delays, and I'm afraid Kanyenda has been on the receiving end of the worst one yet. On the same week he made the request, I started a new relationship which has occupied my time (and money) - and in April, I had a stroke. My recovery goes well; my initial loss of feeling on the right hand side is *mostly* back - and fortunately there was no impact on my eyesight or hearing. Nonetheless, I've been really crappy at keeping Kanyenda informed and for that I must give my heartfelt apologies.
These are just magical - and you probably haven't heard them, or even heard *of* them.
The Haneda album should be coming up early tomorrow - I would have posted them at the same time but a recent update to Windows 10 has screwed up my scanner and, although the Haneda scans were completed I needed to go back to re-do a few (due to fingerprints on the glass...) so I'm going to work on that tonight and we'll be in business.
A little about the transfers. I really love Japanese vinyl. I deal with records from all over the world of varying ages and in a variety of conditions - I don't know why, but anything from Japan is invariably in mint or near mint condition. The Yokoyama album was indeed spotless, to the extent where I felt bad about actually taking it out of the case and putting it on the turntable - but once I had done so, initial predictions about the sound quality were proven correct - gorgeous, utterly gorgeous.
Track 7 (Dancing Prism) was difficult; cut pretty hot and featuring "awkward" instrumentation (close-miked drum set, bass drum, funky bass guitar) it caused a few tracking errors which I have only been able to partially resolve. This is a combination of five or six different transfers made at different tracking weights - tracking is consistent and there are no skips... but there is occasional audible distortion. I wasn't prepared to track any higher as it would have risked damaging the record. It still sounds gorgeous.
Oh yeah... and the English track titles. They're horribly Engrishy. They're also exactly what's printed in the booklet. C'est la vie!
The series of co-productions I have produced with Herr Salat must have made some impact, because at the beginning of this year, Kanyenda approached me with an interesting project; would I be interested in transferring some vinyl? By the way, the two records in question were in mint condition and featured rare scores by Kentaro Haneda and Seiji Yokoyama. Uh, let me think about this for about a sixteenth of a second - YES, PLEASE!
SEIJI YOKOYAMA
Symphonic Rhapsody 198X (Future War 198X)
The New Japan Philharmonic Orchestra
conducted by Hiroshi Kumagai
Scat by Kazuko Kawashima
My transfer from Kanyenda's vinyl; made and edited at 24-bit resolution 96000hz before downsampling to 16-bit 44100hz for distributions. Tagged in Japanese and English. Playing time 50:07.
FLAC (Compression Level 8) with High Resolution PNG scans (344mb) - https://mega.nz/#!NxZHST7L!ke3XW5OrVcmS44yfgmpoL5wWQyvR8Ffp_NG3J1kOiMM
MP3 (LAME 3.99.5 at -V0) with Lower Resolution JPG scans (94mb) - https://mega.nz/#!4kgkWLLR!YN6wlwaeSo5OEwo74jwjTIj6iZXqH7ITbUTE-25WJSI
MAIN TITLE (1:18)
EAGLE SCRAMBLING (3:47)
SERENADE OF LORA (3:06)
MIRAGE OVER THE WILDS (4:19)
BLUE ARABESQUE (1:31)
DISTRESS (3:31)
DANCING PRISM (2:51)
NOCTURNE (5:03)
THE LAST SUNSET (3:58)
CARAVAN ON THE FOREIGN WAY (2:33)
DEEPLY LOVE (2:32)
THE DAY OF SORROW (2:27)
TILL THE END OF MY LIFE (2:12)
THE LASTING LOVE (3:03)
STARDUST LULLABY (3:32)
PATHETIC LOVE, IT'S MY DESTINY (4:24)
My "sorry I'm late" apologies must be pretty legendary around these parts; Herr Salat knows all about my delays, and I'm afraid Kanyenda has been on the receiving end of the worst one yet. On the same week he made the request, I started a new relationship which has occupied my time (and money) - and in April, I had a stroke. My recovery goes well; my initial loss of feeling on the right hand side is *mostly* back - and fortunately there was no impact on my eyesight or hearing. Nonetheless, I've been really crappy at keeping Kanyenda informed and for that I must give my heartfelt apologies.
These are just magical - and you probably haven't heard them, or even heard *of* them.
The Haneda album should be coming up early tomorrow - I would have posted them at the same time but a recent update to Windows 10 has screwed up my scanner and, although the Haneda scans were completed I needed to go back to re-do a few (due to fingerprints on the glass...) so I'm going to work on that tonight and we'll be in business.
A little about the transfers. I really love Japanese vinyl. I deal with records from all over the world of varying ages and in a variety of conditions - I don't know why, but anything from Japan is invariably in mint or near mint condition. The Yokoyama album was indeed spotless, to the extent where I felt bad about actually taking it out of the case and putting it on the turntable - but once I had done so, initial predictions about the sound quality were proven correct - gorgeous, utterly gorgeous.
Track 7 (Dancing Prism) was difficult; cut pretty hot and featuring "awkward" instrumentation (close-miked drum set, bass drum, funky bass guitar) it caused a few tracking errors which I have only been able to partially resolve. This is a combination of five or six different transfers made at different tracking weights - tracking is consistent and there are no skips... but there is occasional audible distortion. I wasn't prepared to track any higher as it would have risked damaging the record. It still sounds gorgeous.
Oh yeah... and the English track titles. They're horribly Engrishy. They're also exactly what's printed in the booklet. C'est la vie!