Tim Bowness - Powder Dry new album with Steven Wilson 5.1 mix (CD + DVD-V)

[Robert van Diggele]

Powder Dry contains 16 tracks over a 40 minute duration and it's fair to say it's the most eclectic of my releases; moving from the accessible to the experimental, the soft to the hard, the electronic to the acoustic etc. As a first - beyond the performance and production all being me - it also contains a couple of instrumentals.
Steven Wilson has mixed the album in stereo and 5.1 Surround.
It was exciting putting the music together and, overall, it feels like something different (for me) in several places: A fresh start almost.

Facebook announcement

Tim recently signed to KScope.

 

[haikubass]

Pre-order up. Rather confusingly, listing says 5.1 Dolby Digital, while the disc shows dts and DVD-Audio logos
https://burningshed.com/tim-bowness_powder-dry_cd_dvd

 

[JediJoker]

Pre-order up. Rather confusingly, listing says 5.1 Dolby Digital, while the disc shows dts and DVD-Audio logos
https://burningshed.com/tim-bowness_powder-dry_cd_dvd
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DVD-Audio logos mean nothing these days. DTS logos, on the other hand, are unlikely to be used unless the license fee has been paid. Here's hoping. Too bad it's not a Blu-ray with lossless surround, though. I guess that's out of Tim's production budget.

 

[SHB]

Ordered from BS!

 

[haikubass]

DVD-Audio logos mean nothing these days. DTS logos, on the other hand, are unlikely to be used unless the license fee has been paid. Here's hoping. Too bad it's not a Blu-ray with lossless surround, though. I guess that's out of Tim's production budget.

It was Tim himself who said that it's probably gonna be a DVD-A on his facebook profile last week, so yes, there is still hope

But yeah, the confusion associated with the misuse of the DVD-Audio logo has been around for about a decade.

 

[Godman]

Facebook announcement

Tim recently signed to KScope.

Just ordered it from Burning Shed

 

[beerking]

I, also, have just ordered it from Burning Shed.

 

[François]

On the Kscope mailing list it says Dolby Digital 5.1 :

'Powder Dry' will be released on the following formats:

• Limited edition – 2 disc - CD & DVD - includes DVD with 24 bit 48khz PCM stereo and 5.1 Dolby Digital mixes by Steven Wilson

On Burning Shed too…

 

[colsky]

I've just ordered from Rarewaves:

https://www.rarewaves.com/products/0802644802077-powder-dry-cd-dvd-edition

£13.31 there (free postage), and they currently have a 10% sale off everything there until Friday night (code RWMAY10) if you spend £20, so down to £11.98 so its a no brainer!

I combined it with the David Gilmour Luck and Strange bluray, which I hadn't pre ordered yet. That's £24.67 there, so £22.20 after 10% off :

https://www.rarewaves.com/products/0198028048194-luck-and-strange

Rarewaves also have the 2 Howard Jones sets for £24.82 each, £22.34 after 10% off, which I haven't ordered yet. Shall I or shan't I

 

[J. PUPSTER]

Almost missed this one; September is gonna be another huge surround month! -

 

[beerking]

Tim Bowness is in the room.
Arrived today
Listening now

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

Tim Bowness is in the room.
Arrived today
Listening now

Out of interest, is the 5.1 audio Dolby Digital or DTS?

It's also available at Amazon UK. Currently priced at £14.99: -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powder-Dry-Tim-Bowness/dp/B0D4RNBXLL

 

[beerking]

Out of interest, is the 5.1 audio Dolby Digital or DTS?

It's also available at Amazon UK. Currently priced at £14.99: -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powder-Dry-Tim-Bowness/dp/B0D4RNBXLL

It states in the Audio selection, Dolby Digital.
Although to be fair this is so good that his choice of Dolby Digital for the surround mix doesn't detract from the overall sound.
Is there anything that Mr Wilson touches that isn't a great mix?

 

[svengaleekie]

Out of interest, is the 5.1 audio Dolby Digital or DTS?

It's also available at Amazon UK. Currently priced at £14.99: -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powder-Dry-Tim-Bowness/dp/B0D4RNBXLL

As mentioned above it's 5.1 DD.

 

[colsky]

Out of interest, is the 5.1 audio Dolby Digital or DTS?

It's also available at Amazon UK. Currently priced at £14.99: -

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Powder-Dry-Tim-Bowness/dp/B0D4RNBXLL

£12.93 at Rarewaves. My copy will arrive from them tomorrow:

https://www.rarewaves.com/products/...0E*MTcyNjE3ODEzNi4xLjAuMTcyNjE3ODEzNi4wLjAuMA..

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

It states in the Audio selection, Dolby Digital.
Although to be fair this is so good that his choice of Dolby Digital for the surround mix doesn't detract from the overall sound.
Is there anything that Mr Wilson touches that isn't a great mix?

Thanks for the confirmation...

If I buy this disc I'll probably convert the Dolby Digital stream to flac in order to remove the dialnorm...

 

[M-K]

Disappointing that there is space left on the DVD. It's 5.1 AC3. Space enough for a DTS9624 track. No hires / 24bit as advertised. And the DTS logo appears on the DVD and package as well?!??! Where it is?
Years ago, when Neil Wilkes was commercially active, we would have got a DVD-Audio, if he had done the authoring This DVD-A logo is still on the DVD and package too. And wrong.

 

[SeeMoreDigital]

It's a shame nobody bothers to use the option to encode 6-channel [5.1] LPCM audio at 48kHz/16-bits for DVD-Video...

Back in the day I used to create such muxes using Muxman v0.16.8

 

[mandrix]

Well. I guess Tim is making so little money that he doesn't want to pay the DTS licensing fees. Or doesn't care. Sad.
It's true: DD can sound good. If I had my druthers, I'd druther DTS just the same.
You can fit both DD and DTS of your average sized album on a DVD5 I believe, as far as the audio, though it's been a while since I authored any so don't hold me to it.

 

[mandrix]

All of B.O.C.'s live BD's are DD. I can sort of see it in this case, but still rather have DTS.
OK through ranting.