(You'll get standard DTS sound from DTS-capable DVD players and, even better, lossless high-resolution audio from a DTS 96/24-compatible player.) The surround mixes are nothing short of revelatory, using all available channels to amplify Gabriel's ambient side while breaking out the percussion in fascinating ways and driving home the music's subterranean bass. Gabriel says in an accompanying essay that "music can stand more repetition than video and music together." Play gives us something extra in light of that: fresh 5.1 surround mixes in both Dolby Digital and DTS 96/24 for every track, with Gabriel/U2 production vet Daniel Lanois at the helm for most songs. The focus is explicitly on conceptual pieces, the lone visual exception being a 2004 live rendition of "Games Without Frontiers" among the extras. From the 1977 promo for "Modern Love" to 2003's "Growing Up" and much between, it's all here, and most viewers will be pleasantly surprised to find more than a couple videos they missed along the way. Gabriel has assembled and polished an evening-filling 26 clips, all of them collaborations with innovative visual artists and directors like Stephen Johnson, Matt Mahurin, Francois Vogel, and Sean Penn. But that doesn't make it any less thrilling to watch-or to listen to. Is it any surprise, then, that Play: The Videos is a music DVD for the ages? Nope. Peter Gabriel has long been revered for his great songwriting, cinematic soundscapes, riveting concerts, and groundbreaking videos. Sean Noonan - (with Marc Ribot guesting on guitar!)ĭisclaimer - I am not affiliated in any way to this label, just love the stuff they put out, if you have some love for modern jazz and multichannel I urge you to check the above samples.Ĭheck out Peter Gabriel's Play the Videos, the 5.1 DTS 96/24 mixes here are awesome, a collaboration with Daniel Lanois. Gordon Grdina / Gary Peacock / Paul Motian. Heck, so many albums I love from this label, if I start describing each I wont finish, so just check out the releases page for camples, all these are surround recordings: Prismatic in approach and global in scope, with references that extend to progressive rock, West African drumming, and Indonesian gamelan, the tunes Armus and von Tilzer have written for their band are unique in contemporary music, and very beautiful as well.” (Alexander Varty, The Georgia Straight) “ has at its fingertips an array of compositions that effortlessly span eras and genres, sounding at times like early jazz, modern jazz, impressionist salon music, and late-20th-century minimalism, occasionally all at once.
Jerry Granelli- Sandhills reunion - spoken words over very moody jazz, feels like a road trip in the wilderness of america of a different era.Īros - Train song - I cant explain it better than one review it got:
#Agstudiofutur metamorphosis hd dolby surround 5.1 free#
This label offers mostly modern jazz and all the package that comes with that definition -įrom free improvised jazz to fusion and world music and everything in between. HOWEVER they sound fantastic- really lovely recordings straight to multichannel DSD, with some excellent material too. These are all SACDs, no LFE just 5.0, and not too discrete, (mostly ambience of the studio), I find that only lossless can faithfully approach the smoothness of analog.Īpart for the obvious choices (Wilsons etc) I really love some releases on the Songlines label. Oh, and I would be remiss if I forgot to mention the Deluxe version of Pink Floyd's new release, The Endless River. Three more great ones are The Beatles - Love, Mike Oldfield - Tubular Bells and David Gilmour - Remember That Night has a very special version of Echoes. That is one album that really grew on me from hearing it in 5.1. Transatlantic Whirld Tour 2010 is incredible.Īnother fantastic sounding mix is Donald Fagen's The Nightfly. Fragile has some missing parts on some of their mixes, and CTTE tended to overemphasize the BGVs and put Rick way down in the mix. In Absentia and deadwing are among the best sounding 5.1 mixes ever.Īs for Yes, The Yes Album and Relayer are the two better 5.1 mixes.
If you like Porcupine Tree, all of their albums are fantastic in 5.1. The ELP albums in general were somewhat of a disappointment to me, but they are still worthwhile if you like ELP. The Pulse DVD sounds fantastic, as does the Yes Symphonic Live. The TAAB disc souds somewhat harsh, but A Passion Play was a major improvement. Some of my discs don't do it for me because the compositions didn't do much for me. Of course, you really have to like the music to begin with.
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