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AKA ブレーメン４ 地獄の中の天使たち
A Herr Salat / Tangotreats Co-Production
YASUO HIGUCHI
Bremen Four – Angels In Hell
Bremen Theater Orchestra
conducted by
Yasuo Higuchi
My transfer from Herr Salat’s vinyl. Deluxe (3000×3000) scans included. Track titles in English. As with previous uploads which are sourced from an analogue medium, demands for LOG files and/or AccurateRip results will be met by a very iritable Englishman brandishing a large pineapple and a bottle of hot sauce.
FLAC with Giant PNG Scans – https://mega.nz/#!cWRECCwA!KtzKGKb-OJ_5zQPPd6liuixU6j2y0JZVA4PuB_KtT-E
(New links February 2019. MP3 version has been withdrawn. It’s 2019, folks.)
So… wouldn’t it be great if Yasuo Higuchi wrote a score that was along the same lines as Phoenix 2772? What’s that? He did? Where? Right here, folks!
Leave it to the king of this thread, Herr Salat, to find what nobody else could (if they even knew it existed) – an absolutely spotless, mint-condition vinyl edition of this forgotten Higuchi masterpiece. I must offer my customary thanks for his efforts and financial commitment to these ongoing projects; engaging the services of Japanese middleman services, paying for the item to be shipped three times (from the auctioneer to the middleman, from the middleman to Herr Salat in Germany, and then to me in England) – it can’t be easy and this gentlemen deserves all the praise in the world for this post.
Never released on any medium but LP, Bremen Four is a fantastic companion piece to Phoenix 2772 – action and romance abound, with Higuchi’s flawless sense of melody, imaginative orchestrations, and totally unique and exciting harmonic language all present. The cue "Superlovers" is Higichi’s arrangement and abridgement of Richard Wagner’s "The Mastersingers Of Nuremberg" prelude. As a bonus track, I have included at the end of the album, the full Prelude as performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Klaus Tennstedt.
Enjoy!
TT
You’re right – a lot of it comes from records that have been well cared for. It’s all too easy to mess up an LP. Excessive handling, exposure to heat, scratches, playback with a worn stylus, cleaning with corrosive fluids, etc – all have the power to completely and permanently wreck a record.
My method is one of minimal intervention and extreme care. Good quality equipment all the way down the line, combined with some judicious (frequently manual, extremely minimalist) restoration and remastering. That’s about it. Lately I have been digitising and restoring at 24-bit 96000hz which provides benefits here and there before dithering and downsampling to 44100hz 16-bit for the final master.
Vinyl is a pain in the arse. I know this only too well. Vinyl should be wrapped around women’s legs and not on turntables, if I had anything to do with it… but, well, you know… 🙂
Edit: Just because, here’s an example of one of my transfers from an LP in pretty average condition. It spent twenty-five years in the Music Department’s library at a South London university before I got my hands on it. It’s been played a lot, scuffed, scratched, generally mishandled – not completely destroyed, but not particularly well looked after either. With more work, this could sound a lot better – but there’s no point because it’s been released on CD! (Rachmaninov – Symphony No 1 1st Movement [excerpt] LSO / Previn) https://mega.co.nz/#!ssI1kSra!MA3W4in9TFxTH6uLmot4XBJ4Os1Ql0CdSdPh0KR kIa0
FLAC with Giant PNG Scans:
Part 1 (https://rbfi.io/dl.php?key=/7AeS/1-DaylightStealingsTime.zip)
Pt. 2 (https://rbfi.io/dl.php?key=/LOa0/2-CelebratoryNihilisticAggression.zip)
Pt. 3 (https://rbfi.io/dl.php?key=/sQzP/3-PaxtonPaxtonPaxton.zip)
However, the reupload only contains the JPEG scans. If anybody has the original PNG scans, please, for the love of God, post them here!
However, the reupload only contains the JPEG scans. If anybody has the original PNG scans, please, for the love of God, post them here!
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dropmefiles.com/m1n4N
https://mega.nz/#!cWRECCwA!KtzKGKb-OJ_5zQPPd6liuixU6j2y0JZVA4PuB_KtT-E