12/18/2022 0 Comments Talk talk spirit of eden sacd![]() ![]() Legend holds that when the A&R man at EMI heard it, it brought him to tears-not just because of its tidal beauty, but because he knew it wasn’t going to sell. What if the massive EMI corporation had known that when Talk Talk delivered the masters to Spirit of Eden in the spring of 1988, the record would be a once and future marvel of pop music, the nexus into which jazz and minimalism poured and out of which a new post-rock flowed. If only Talk Talk’s record label felt the same way. Rare is rock music this simple made with such toil and unbearable emotion that there’s no better way to classify Spirit of Eden than by the elemental virtue of its sound, the very first thing of all music. It is a deep blue book of sound, humid with melancholy. ![]() One moment (a muted trumpet, for instance) is always placed exactly where it should be alongside another (feedback from a blues harmonica), thousands of hours of tape painstakingly laced together as part of the vision and spiritual largesse of its composers, singer-songwriter Mark Hollis and co-writer/producer Tim Friese-Greene. A poorly engineered, or sourced, SACD can sound bad too.Never once do these six songs reveal the thought or labor that went into them, never once is there too much or too little. However, SACD is just a format and the sound quality is still dependent on the quality of the original recording, mastering and production. Any other SACD titles are likely to be found at online audiophile recordings e-tailers.ītw, the much-anticipated multi-channel hybrid SACD of Pink Floyd's "Wish You Were Here" will be shipping in about a week, after being delayed for years.Ī SACD format has the potential of sounding much better than a CD. The SACD of "Dark Side of the Moon", being possibly the biggest selling SACD title ever, can still be found at retailers like Walmart or Best Buy. Hindered by a format war (with DVD-Audio, which SACD ultimately won) and the emergence of MP3, SACD has re-established itself as an "audiophile format". ![]() While SACD was originally conceived to replace CD, the format never gained acceptance by consumers. is the de-facto online reference for SACD. You can read about SACD at its wikipedia page. A poorly engineered, or sourced, SACD can sound bad too. Click to expand.A SACD format has the potential of sounding much better than a CD. ![]()
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