martes, 31 de marzo de 2009
Ian Bairnson
Nacido el 3 de agosto de 1953 en Shetland Isles (Escocia). Especialidad Guitarra y Saxo.
Ian Bairnson es posiblemente el mejor guitarrista de sesión en Europa en la actualidad. Ian despertó la curiosidad de Alan Parsons cuando tocaba la guitarra en el grupo Pilot, uno de los mejores grupos de pop rock del Reino Unido a mediados de los setenta.
Desde entonces, Bairnson aportó todo su arte en cada una de las obras de The Alan Parsons Project. Al margen de ello, Bairnson trabajó por su cuenta para otros artistas. Nombres como Chris DeBurgh, Beverley Craven, Michael McDonald, Mick Fleetwood, Sting, Tom Jones, Jon Anderson, Kenny Rogers, Stanley Clarke y Kate Bush, tienen el honor de figurar en su currículum profesional.Y todo esto sin mencionar otros tantos artistas germanos como Harold Flatermayer, o japoneses como Akira Inoue, con quienes ha tocado y colaborado.
miércoles, 18 de marzo de 2009
DVD The Best of Night of the Proms Volumen 2
Se trata de la segunda entrega del recopilatorio Best of Night of the Proms, que recoge filmaciones con canciones de diferentes artistas que han ido participando a lo largo de los años en estos populares y veteranos espectáculos europeos.
El sonido se nos presenta en Stereo 2.0 y en 5.1 Surround reprocesado a partir del stereo original con calidad de audio aceptable. Lo mismo con la imagen, que muestra una calidad correcta, alejada de las grabaciones en alta definición.
LANZAMIENTO: 2007.
TEMAS
TEMAS:
01. Il Novecento & Fine Fleur - Once Upon A Time In The West
02. Tears For Fears - Mad World
03. Ike Turner - Nutbush City Limits
04. James Brown - It's a Man's Man's World
05. Donna Summer - McArthur Park
06. Midge Ure - Vienna
07. OMD - Maid of Orleans
08. Manfred Mann & Chris Thompson - Mighty Quinn
09. Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
10. Lisa Stansfield - All Around The World
11. Chris De Burgh - Lady In Red
12. Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is
13. Cutting Crew - ( I Just ) Died In Your Arms
14. Tony Henry - Largo Al Factotum
15. I Muvrini - A Voce Rivolta
16. Al Jarreau - Roof Garden
17. Alan Parsons - Sirius - Eye in the Sky
18. Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells
19. John Miles - Music
20. Il Novecento & Fine Fleur - Land Of Hope And Glory
martes, 10 de marzo de 2009
THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT REMASTERED
Entre los años 2007 y 2008 Alan Parsons y Eric Woolfson, se ponen de acuerdo para volver a editar todos los discos del Project remasterizados, y con material extra. El material extra se compone principalmente por demos, mezclas y temas cantados por Woolfson que en los discos originales eran cantados por otros artistas. Prácticamente casi todo este material es de Eric Woolson, tanto material encontró para estas nuevas ediciones, que decidió sacar a la luz un nuevo trabajo ("The Alan Parsons Project That Never Was"), con temas que habían sido desechados para el Project. Los temas que pongo con el titulo de cada disco, son solo los "bonus tracks", los demás temas son los mismos que en los discos originales.
Discos y temas
-The Alan Parsons Project - Tales of Mystery and Imagination (Remastered Edit 2007) .
-Eric's Guide Vocal Medley 9.14 (Bonus)
-Orson Welles Dialogue 3.08 (Bonus)
-Sea Lions In The Departure Lounge - Sound Effects And Experiments 2.38 (Bonus)
-GBH Mix - Unreleased Experiments 5.22 (Bonus)
-Alan Parsons Project - I Robot (Remastered Edit 2007)
-Boules (I Robot Experiment)(Bonus) 1.59
-Breakdown - (Early Demo Of Backing Riff)(Bonus) 2.11
-I Wouldn't Want To Be Like You - (Backing Track Rough mix)(Bonus) 3.29
-Day After Day - (Early Stage Rough mix)(Bonus) 3.41
-The Naked Robot (Early Stage Instrumental Mixes)(Bonus) 10.19
-The Alan Parsons Project - Pyramid (Remastered Edit 2007)
-VOYAGER/WHAT GOES UP/THE EAGLE WILL RISE AGAIN (Instrumental Version)- 8:53 -
-WHAT GOES UP/LITTLE VOICE (Early Version Demo) - 4:04
-CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU (Early Version Demo) - 1:42
-HYPER-GAMMA-SPACES (Demo) - 2:19
-THE EAGLE WILL RISE AGAIN (Alternative Version - Backing Track) - 3:18
-IN THE LAP OF THE GODS PART I (Demo) - 3:12
-IN THE LAP OF THE GODS PART II (Backing Track Rough Mix) - 1:56
-The Alan Parsons Project-Eve (Remastered Edit 2007)
- Elsie's Theme From The Sicilian Defence (The 3:00Project That Never Was)
- Lucifer (Demo) (2:48)
- Secret Garden (Rough Mix) (4:42)
- Damned If I Do (Rough Mix) (4:46)
- Don't Hold Back (Vocal Rehearsal Rough Mix) (3:43)
- Lucifer (Early Rough Mix) (4:17)
- If I Could Change Your Mind (Rough Mix) (5:46)
Alan Parsons Project - The Turn Of A Friendly Card (Remastered Edit 2008)
-May Be A Price To Pay (Bonus) (intro - demo) - 1.32
-Nothing Left To Lose (Bonus) (basic backing track) - 4.35
-Nothing Left To Lose(Bonus) (overdub compilation) - 2.03
-Nothing Left To Lose (Bonus) (early studio version) - 3.12
-Time (Bonus) (early studio attempt) - 4.43
-Games People Play (rough mix) - 4.33
-The Gold Bug (Bonus) (demo) - 2.50
Alan Parsons Project - Eye In The Sky (Remastered Edit 2007)
-Sirius 2:03 (demo)
-Old & Wise 4:34
-Any Other Day (Studio Demo) 1:43
-Silence & I 7:35 (Early version)
-The Naked Eye 10:47
-Eye Pieces (Classical Naked Eye) 7:52
-The Alan Parsons Project - Ammonia Avenue (2008 Remastered)
-Don't Answer Me (Early rough Mix)
-You Don't Believe (Demo)
-Since The Last Goodbye (Chris Rainbow vocal overdubs)
-Since The Last Goodbye (Eric guide vocal - rough Mix)
-You Don't Believe (Instrumental tribute to The Shadows)
- Dancing On A Highwire / Spotlight (Work in progress)
-Ammonia Avenue Part (Eric demo vocal - rough Mix)
-Ammonia Avenue (Orchestral Overdub)
-The Alan Parsons Project - Vulture Culture (Remastered Edit 2007)
-No Answers Only Questions (Bonus) (Final Version) 2.12
-Separate Lives (Bonus) (Alternative Mix) 4.19
-Hawkeye (Bonus) (Demo) 3.18
-The Naked Vulture (Bonus) 10.44
-No Answers Only Questions (Bonus) (The First Attempt) 2.56
-Alan Parsons Project - Stereotomy (Remastered Edit 2007)
Light Of The World (Bonus) (Backing Track) 6.15
-Rumour Goin' Round (Bonus) (demo) 5.01
-Stereotomy (Bonus) (E. Woolfson Guide Vocal) 6.38
-Stereotomy (Bonus) (Backing Rough Mix) 1.24
-Alan Parsons Project - Gaudi (Reastered Edit 2007)
-Too late (Eric Woolfson rough guide vocal)
-Standing on higher ground , Losing proposition (Vocal experiments)
-Money talks (Cris Rainbow , Percussion overdubs)
-Money talks (Rough Mix backing track)
-Closer to Heaven (Sax , Chris Rainbow overdub section)
-Paseo de Gracia (Rough Mix)
-La Sagrada Familia (Rough Mix).
sábado, 7 de marzo de 2009
COLABORACIONES: Alan Parsons & Stephen Court - Sound Check 1993
LANZAMIENTO: 1993
TEMAS:
Temas
PINK NOISE TEST TONES Track 01: 1kHz sine wave reference tone @ -14dB FS Track 02: Pink Noise - Left channel only Track 03: Pink Noise - Right channel only Track 04: Pink Noise - Both channels & phase check Track 05: Bass band - 0-200Hz & phase check Track 06: Low mid band - 200Hz-1kHz & phase check Track 07: High mid band - 1kHz-Infinity & phase check Track 08: High Band - 7kHz-Infinity & phase check PINK NOISE 1/3 OCTAVE SPECTRUM ANALYSIS Tracks 09-40: 1kHz reference tone, 20Hz, 25Hz, 31.5Hz, 40Hz, 50Hz, 63Hz, 80Hz, 100Hz, 125Hz, 160Hz, 200Hz, 250Hz, 315Hz, 400Hz, 500Hz, 630Hz, 800Hz ,1kHz, 1.25kHz, 1.6kHz, 2kHz, 2.5kHz, 3.15kHz, 4kHz, 5kHz, 6.3kHz, 8kHz, 10kHz, 12.5kHz, 16kHz, 20kHz SWEEP TONES Track 41: 1kHz reference warble for sweeps Track 42: Sectional sweep tones down in 1 octave steps: 1kHz-500Hz, 500Hz-250Hz, 250Hz-125Hz, 125Hz-20Hz Track 43: Sweep tones up in 1 octave steps: 1kHz-2kHz, 2kHz-4kHz, 4kHz-8kHz. SINE AND SQUARE WAVE SPOT FREQUENCIES Tracks 44-55: 1kHz reference tone @ -14dB FS, 60Hz, 100Hz, 250Hz, 500Hz, 1kHz, 2kHz, 3kHz, 5kHz, 10kHz, 12kHz, 15kHz Track 56: Sine wave sweep 20Hz-20kHz Track 57: 1kHz square wave @ -20dB FS Track 58: 5kHz square wave @ -20dB FS MAXIMUM TONE LEVEL Track 59: 1kHz sine wave at 0dB FS INSTRUMENTAL AND VOCAL Track 60: Spoken word (mono) Track 61: Piano (stereo) Track 62: Acoustic steel-strung guitar - finger style (mono) Track 63: Acoustic steel-strung guitar - strummed (mono) Track 64: Nylon strung Spanish guitar (mono) Track 65: Electric guitar - clean sound (mono) Track 66: Electric guitar - distorted rock sound (mono) Track 67: Bass guitar (mono) Track 68: Flute (mono) Track 69: Saxophone (mono) Track 70: Male Rock (mono) Track 71: Bongos (mono) Track 72: Tambourine (mono) Track 73: Kick drum (mono) Track 74: Snare drum (mono) Track 75: Cymbals and hi-hat (stereo) Track 76: Toms (stereo) Track 77: Whole drum kit (stereo) Track 78: Violins (stereo -1st violins panned left, 2nd violins paned right) Track 79: Cellos and violas (stereo - starting with cellos only panned right, joined by violas panned left) MUSIC TRACKS Track 80: The Race by Yello Track 81: Limelight by The Alan Parsons Project, featuring Gary Brooker. Track 82: Seasons Of Our Lives by Graham de Wilde and Mitch Dalton. Track 83: Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor. Daniel Chorzempa, organ. SOUND EFFECTS Track 84: Sub machine gun - Chieftain tank target ranging (mono) Track 85: Chieftain tank: Firing - shell detonation - the target (mono) Track 86: Thunderstorm (stereo) Track 87: Steam trains (stereo) Track 88: F-16 and Tornado jets: flypast with afterburners (stereo) UTILITY TRACKS Track 89: EBU 25 frame timecode 10:00:00 to 10:05:00. Track 90: SMPTE non drop frame timecode 10:00:00 to 10:05:00. Track 91: SMPTE drop frame timecode 10:00:00 to 10:05:00. Track 92: A-440 tuning reference.
viernes, 6 de marzo de 2009
COLABORACIONES: BEST OF NIGHT OF THE PROMS CD
Recopilación de distintos conciertos Night Of The Proms con extractos de obras célebres de música clásica interpretadas por Il Novecento y Wayne Marshall, y acompañamiento orquestal a canciones de Roger Hodgson, Toto, John Miles, Howard Jones, Natalie Choquette, UB40, Alan Parsons, Status Quo, Ole Edvard Antonsen y Lisa Stansfield.(La caratula no corresponde al disco, ya que es un bootleg de audio).
DURACION: 75:30
GRABACION: Mesa de mezclas.
Temas
CANCIONES: Overture 5th symhony - Rosanna - Music - What is love? - Nessun Dorma - Red red wine - Sirius - Eye in the sky - Whatever you want - Nutcracker suite - Piano concerto #2 - All by myself - Landscape - Hold me close - All around the world - Sea songs - The logical song - French can can