tangotreats
05-08-2014, 07:42 PM
A Herr Salat / Tangotreats Co-Production
KOICHI SUGIYAMA
Syrius no Densetsu (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child)
Shared for the first time online in STEREO
NHK Symphony Orchestra
Choir "Circus" (lyrics by Michio Yamagami)
conducted by The Composer
My transfer from vinyl. FLAC at Level 8. Tagged in English. I will personally hunt down and beat with a large stick anybody asking for CUEs and LOGs.
SAMPLE TRACK (Track 1) - 01. prologue ~ ai no cantata - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/nsxsu8cvq5)
FLAC with all scans in PDF: https://mega.co.nz/#!hswmgCZJ!dOvd6hKuMbXR1G4oUGtyfEo9yZdlBKF9t2ub2zS iUS4 (216mb)
MP3 (-V0 LAME 3.99.5) with all scans in PDF: https://mega.co.nz/#!doBjQQ5b!C_4pTG8oJAnUFzQpLyhVcxLAZ1ITrFRXlE1Bqyw Ujg0 (78mb)
SCANS ONLY in insanely high-quality (all .PNG format): https://mega.co.nz/#!59hDlaDZ!b4PN90XvrV0Voz1Iz7Jt0VZCq2tRO4KEBZnxc54 3vZs (209mb)
Also included, painstakingly assembled, restored, ludicrously high quality scans of the album covers, luxury booklet, insert sheet, and Obi strip.
A classic? Yes. Rare as hen's teeth? Absolutely. Up there with Sugiyama's most inspired scores? Definitely. Released on CD? Nope. Can be found online? Well, yes, after a fashion - a noisy, inexplicably mono, fairly amateurish MP3 transfer has been circulating in the soundtrack community for a number of years, so it has at least been possible to hear this wonderful work: Whoever was responsible for the first transfer surely deserves credit for that. Nonetheless, if any classic score has been crying out for the Deluxe treatment, it's this one. In the absence of an official CD release, and the unlikelihood of one emerging in the future, I humbly submit my attempt. As ever, I would like to offer my heartfelt gratitude to Herr Salat for managing to find that which nobody else could. When I found out what was inside this particular package from Germany, I'm not ashamed to say I shed a manly tear of two.
The score is pure Sugiyama; and the central theme is gorgeous - one of the composer's loveliest melodies. (Which is just as well, because it features very heavily in the rest of the score!) It's hard to pick a highlight, but if I were forced, I'd single out track 5 for attention. A wonderful swelling brass chorale that's so simple on paper and yet utterly beguiling, as Sugiyama's best work tends to be. Track 6 pays tribute to Bernard Herrmann's "Beneath The 12-Mile Reef", and track 9 is a homage to Offenbach's famous "Can Can" (reimagined by Sugiyama as a bouncy piece for solo trumpet, oompah brass, and shrill woodwind. Track 11 begins with a brief quote from the final movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony.
Enjoy! And, thank you most sincerely, Herr Salat; you've done it again. :)
Technical notes for those interested:
This will be my second full transfer (after a one track test-run in the Abbey Road SFX Symphony album, and The Music Lovers soundtrack posted recently) made with a new and technique that eschews the traditional analogue Phono stage in favour of a flat, high bit-depth and high sample-rate transfer with the RIAA curve applied in the digital domain. I am now completely convinced that the process produces a superior sound. Doing more work digitally and removing an analogue equalisation stage (which introduces "colour" as a result of imprecise circuitry as well as distortion and noise - both of which are more than adundant in vinyl to begin with!)
As source material, I am happy to say I had access to mint condition, almost unplayed vinyl. The respect with which Japanese collectors tend to treat their records never ceases to amaze me, and inevitably makes the task of transferring most pleasurable. Clicks and other low-level typical vinyl noises were minimal and therefore easy to remove non-destructively. The close-miked brass presented a challenge as traditional automated click removal algorithms often mistake them for noise with obvious (and unpleasant) consequences. This was dealt with by careful intervention, a very light touch, and in some passages, click removal performed entirely by hand. Occasional artefacts remain audible where it would have harmed the original signal to remove them. Since the original LP was cut from a particularly hissy master-tape I have also applied a light and careful hiss reduction.
Enjoy! :)
TT
KOICHI SUGIYAMA
Syrius no Densetsu (The Sea Prince and the Fire Child)
Shared for the first time online in STEREO
NHK Symphony Orchestra
Choir "Circus" (lyrics by Michio Yamagami)
conducted by The Composer
My transfer from vinyl. FLAC at Level 8. Tagged in English. I will personally hunt down and beat with a large stick anybody asking for CUEs and LOGs.
SAMPLE TRACK (Track 1) - 01. prologue ~ ai no cantata - Listen and download mp3 - Kiwi6 Mp3 Upload (http://kiwi6.com/file/nsxsu8cvq5)
FLAC with all scans in PDF: https://mega.co.nz/#!hswmgCZJ!dOvd6hKuMbXR1G4oUGtyfEo9yZdlBKF9t2ub2zS iUS4 (216mb)
MP3 (-V0 LAME 3.99.5) with all scans in PDF: https://mega.co.nz/#!doBjQQ5b!C_4pTG8oJAnUFzQpLyhVcxLAZ1ITrFRXlE1Bqyw Ujg0 (78mb)
SCANS ONLY in insanely high-quality (all .PNG format): https://mega.co.nz/#!59hDlaDZ!b4PN90XvrV0Voz1Iz7Jt0VZCq2tRO4KEBZnxc54 3vZs (209mb)
Also included, painstakingly assembled, restored, ludicrously high quality scans of the album covers, luxury booklet, insert sheet, and Obi strip.
A classic? Yes. Rare as hen's teeth? Absolutely. Up there with Sugiyama's most inspired scores? Definitely. Released on CD? Nope. Can be found online? Well, yes, after a fashion - a noisy, inexplicably mono, fairly amateurish MP3 transfer has been circulating in the soundtrack community for a number of years, so it has at least been possible to hear this wonderful work: Whoever was responsible for the first transfer surely deserves credit for that. Nonetheless, if any classic score has been crying out for the Deluxe treatment, it's this one. In the absence of an official CD release, and the unlikelihood of one emerging in the future, I humbly submit my attempt. As ever, I would like to offer my heartfelt gratitude to Herr Salat for managing to find that which nobody else could. When I found out what was inside this particular package from Germany, I'm not ashamed to say I shed a manly tear of two.
The score is pure Sugiyama; and the central theme is gorgeous - one of the composer's loveliest melodies. (Which is just as well, because it features very heavily in the rest of the score!) It's hard to pick a highlight, but if I were forced, I'd single out track 5 for attention. A wonderful swelling brass chorale that's so simple on paper and yet utterly beguiling, as Sugiyama's best work tends to be. Track 6 pays tribute to Bernard Herrmann's "Beneath The 12-Mile Reef", and track 9 is a homage to Offenbach's famous "Can Can" (reimagined by Sugiyama as a bouncy piece for solo trumpet, oompah brass, and shrill woodwind. Track 11 begins with a brief quote from the final movement of Tchaikovsky's 6th symphony.
Enjoy! And, thank you most sincerely, Herr Salat; you've done it again. :)
Technical notes for those interested:
This will be my second full transfer (after a one track test-run in the Abbey Road SFX Symphony album, and The Music Lovers soundtrack posted recently) made with a new and technique that eschews the traditional analogue Phono stage in favour of a flat, high bit-depth and high sample-rate transfer with the RIAA curve applied in the digital domain. I am now completely convinced that the process produces a superior sound. Doing more work digitally and removing an analogue equalisation stage (which introduces "colour" as a result of imprecise circuitry as well as distortion and noise - both of which are more than adundant in vinyl to begin with!)
As source material, I am happy to say I had access to mint condition, almost unplayed vinyl. The respect with which Japanese collectors tend to treat their records never ceases to amaze me, and inevitably makes the task of transferring most pleasurable. Clicks and other low-level typical vinyl noises were minimal and therefore easy to remove non-destructively. The close-miked brass presented a challenge as traditional automated click removal algorithms often mistake them for noise with obvious (and unpleasant) consequences. This was dealt with by careful intervention, a very light touch, and in some passages, click removal performed entirely by hand. Occasional artefacts remain audible where it would have harmed the original signal to remove them. Since the original LP was cut from a particularly hissy master-tape I have also applied a light and careful hiss reduction.
Enjoy! :)
TT
