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One of our favorite recent mastering jobs

Helldorado is a band from Norway that will soon be known in the USA.
After they contacted us and we heard their music,
we couldn't wait to hear the rest of their CDs.
These guys rock!

The new CD is "Sinful Soul".

"...At de i tillegg har fått skiva mikset i New York av Barry Diament, sier bare alt om ambisjonsnivået (han har gjort det samme for bl.a. Led Zeppelin og AC/DC)..."
Read the review in Nordlys

Click on the album cover to visit Helldorado's Web site.

Visit Helldorado's MySpace site here.

One of our favorite mixing and mastering jobs

Lucio Cadeddu's recent editorial at TNT-Audio mentions Work of Art albums Lift and Waves.

This accolade and the return of warmer weather has us listening to and skankin' along with
one of our favorite albums of '08, "Waves".

Click on the album cover to visit a page with samples from the CD.

Work of Art:
Work of Art Music
Sword In The Stone Records
more

Another of our favorite recent mastering jobs

Some albums we work on move us to the point where we keep on listening
long after the session is over and the master has been delivered.

Jason Vitelli's debut "No Photographs" is a perfect example.

Click on the album cover to visit a page with samples from the CD.

Visit Jason's MySpace site here.

Critical acclaim for the first Soundkeeper Recordings release, Lift

"...Fortunately, for the hopeful aficionado of both good music and sound, our prayers have been answered..."
"...You will also wonder what it would have been like if all of the early folks artists could have had the same opportunity to be recorded with such accuracy.  What a delicious thought..."
"...To summarize the merits of this CD: The material is freshly imaginative and simmered in talent; the sound is spacious and superbly mastered..."
Read the review from The Audiophile Voice here.

"...This is a recording to cherish for its uncanny ability to present a clear window into the acoustic proceedings, recorded in a natural, airy space..."
"...If your system is up for it, you will not hear any better in terms of image dimensionality or a dynamic sense of a real recording space with layers of air and space between the musicians..."
"...Halperin reminds me of the late George Harrison, delivering biting social commentary, sly humor and lilting imagery wrapped in pop hooks that grab the listener and linger in the mind long after the last mandolin chord is struck..."
Read the review in Stereo Times

In the July 2007 issue of Stereophile,
Wes Phillips used the 24/96 DVD-R version of Lift
as one of his reference recordings
for his review of the Sonics Anima loudspeaker:
"...I'd admired Soundkeeper engineer Barry Diament's wonderfully recorded disc on CD, but his higher-res DVD is an ear-opener.
It's not that there's so much going on in those extended high frequencies, but it's obvious that they're not there at all on the "Red Book" CD.  It's not so much a question of night and day as one of life and death..."

"...Halperin leads his band, Work of Art, through ten songs on Lift,
his music a wonderful combination of folk, bluegrass and country.
Lift sounds about as lifelike as any recording I've ever heard..."
Read the review on SoundStage!

"...Simply, this recording picks you up and brings you into the hall where the Music has been recorded.  The "being there" sensation is perhaps the strongest I've ever felt while listening to a disc..."
Read the review on TNT-Audio.

"Mastering engineer Barry Diament decides to show the major labels how it should be done."
Read about it in Stereophile.

Read the review in TONE Audio.
(When you get there, click on "Download Issue 8".  See page 94.)

Read about it in a SoundStage! editorial.