Neil Palfreyman
1K Club - QQ Shooting Star
I know this forum has a lot of fans of the surround releases from Rob Reed's various projects; Magenta, Sanctuary and Kompendium. You may not know that he has another "fusion" project with vocalist and song writer Steve Balsamo called "Chimpan A", the first eponymous album of which was released way back in 2006. For those that haven't heard it; it's quite hard to pigeon hole the style! Rob says that the only rule for Chimpan A is that everything is allowed, so I guess it's progressive in the true sense of the word, but includes everything from rock, folk, dance, electronica, classical to street poetry/spoken word, all fused together, sometimes in the space of a few bars!
Anyway, he's been threatening a follow up for ages, and has just put album number two, "The Empathy Machine" up for pre-order. It was gong to be his "usual" special edition CD/DVD with DD and DTS 48k for the 5.1 mix, released in physical format on the 10th April. But, in response to the situation in the world right now he's decided he wants to get something positive out quickly, so he's making high resolution, uncompressed versions of both the stereo mix (wav) and 5.1 surround mixes (flac) available when any of the physical editions are pre-ordered.
Once again, I've been play testing the surround mixes for this project, and can tell you that it's right up there to Rob's usual exceptionally high standard, but I would add that something about the fusion style of Chimpan A makes it work particularly well in surround!
For more info on Chimpan A here's a promo and an interview.
More information and prices and how to pre-order are here. My understanding is that an e-mail to a Dropbox will be sent on completion of order processing.
On a personal note from me; I'm obviously feeling what everyone else is right now. I wish you all good health, both physical and mental. The human race will get through this and, who knows, we may find some un-looked for silver linings along the way, so stay positive!
Anyway, he's been threatening a follow up for ages, and has just put album number two, "The Empathy Machine" up for pre-order. It was gong to be his "usual" special edition CD/DVD with DD and DTS 48k for the 5.1 mix, released in physical format on the 10th April. But, in response to the situation in the world right now he's decided he wants to get something positive out quickly, so he's making high resolution, uncompressed versions of both the stereo mix (wav) and 5.1 surround mixes (flac) available when any of the physical editions are pre-ordered.
Once again, I've been play testing the surround mixes for this project, and can tell you that it's right up there to Rob's usual exceptionally high standard, but I would add that something about the fusion style of Chimpan A makes it work particularly well in surround!
For more info on Chimpan A here's a promo and an interview.
More information and prices and how to pre-order are here. My understanding is that an e-mail to a Dropbox will be sent on completion of order processing.
On a personal note from me; I'm obviously feeling what everyone else is right now. I wish you all good health, both physical and mental. The human race will get through this and, who knows, we may find some un-looked for silver linings along the way, so stay positive!
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