The voice guides you quickly around the sphere. Then each channel play a range of sinus tones to verify level and bandwidth of reproduction. These test tones also serve to check transparency and properties of the codecs, including fold-down and headphone virtualization.

The tones start at 30Hz and ascend in octaves: 30 – 60 – 120 – 240 – 480 – 960 – 1.920 – 3.840 – 7.680 – 15.360

Channel order within interleaved WAV:
1: L
2: R
3: C
4: Lfe
5: Ls (side/surround)
6: Rs (side/surround)
7: Lrs (rear/back)
8: Rrs (rear/back)
9: Ltf (height front)
10: Rtf (height front)
11: Ltr (height rear)
12: Rtr (height rear)

If your immersive speaker layout is 5.1.4 then please omit/mute channel 5 and 6 from these files. If your immersive speaker layout is 5.1.2 then please also omit/mute channel 11 and 12 from these files.

NOTICE: For the time being, Dolby Atmos MKV dowloads are provided as direct download dropbox links and are not available for download through the downloader app. The download link will be supplied at checkout.

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This is the album’s debut in Stereo and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD, Stereo DSD 512, and 7.1.4 Channel Auro3D and Dolby Atmos TrueHD MKV Immersive Surround Sound at NativeDSD!

With arrangements by pianist Alan Broadbent, the sublime ballads album finds the Swiss trumpet legend and his Jazz ensemble addressing such Jazz classics as Mal Waldron’s “Soul Eyes,” Charlie Haden’s “Nightfall,” Les Alrich’s melodic and mellow “Old Friends”.

The album also features J. Russel Robinson’s “Portrait of Jennie,” a tune originally written for a 1948 movie of the same name and which became a hit song later that year for Nat King Cole before being covered by J.J. Johnson, George Shearing, Blue Mitchell, Red Garland, Oscar Peterson and Wes Montgomery. It was even included on Clifford Brown with Strings, the 1955 album that ignited Ambrosetti’s youthful ambition to pursue Jazz.

Franco Ambrosetti, Flugelhorn
Alan Broadbent, Piano, Arrangements & Conductor
John Scofield, Guitar
Peter Erskine, Drums
Scott Colley, Bass
Sara Caswell, Violin & Concertmaster

Note: For the time being, Dolby Atmos MKV downloads are provided as direct download Dropbox links and are not available for download through the downloader app. The download link will be supplied at checkout.

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This album is available today in Stereo and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD exclusively at NativeDSD. Plus Auro3D 5.1.4 Channel Immersive Surround Sound 96k FLAC. It is not available on SACD.

Concerto
Dedicated to the great Belgian clarinetist Eddy Vanoosthuyse, this concert was created over the Christmas holidays of 2006. It was premiered in Brussels in March 2007. “Concerto” for Clarinet and Wind Band is a work full of emotion and rhythm. With a soft touch of jazz it becomes a very easily enjoyable piece to all lovers of good music.

In large part, this concerto exploits a wide range of the technical possibilities of the clarinet, making use of most of its range. The virtuosity is present in much of the concerto contrasting with a middle section in which the melodies blend in with the environment, with a fresh and passionate touch. During this section, the composer puts no limits on the use of infinite pianissimos capable of hypnotizing us until we feel the pure essence of the music. In the final section, he makes the clarinetist showcase his/her virtuosity and best technical abilities, all wrapped up in a catchy rhythmic framework that will make us vibrate to the end.

“Concerto” is a work intended for an audience open to rhythmic and harmonic variety, and willing to experience a series of sensations that only good music knows how to give us.

Luxembourg Military Band
Eddy Vanoosthuyse, Clarinet
Oscar Navarro, Conductor & Composer

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This album is available today in Stereo and 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD exclusively at NativeDSD. Plus Auro3D 5.1.4 Channel Immersive Surround Sound 96k FLAC. It is not available on SACD.

Oscar van Hemel was among the most performed Dutch composers in the years 1935–1970. He received several awards for his work and his violin concertos were performed by well-known soloists such as Theo Olof and Herman Krebbers with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Van Hemel was a moderately modern composer who used classical musical forms combined with atonal harmonies and melodies. He applied the twelve-tone technique, bitonality, “germ cell technique” and serialism but continued to strive to captivate his audience through lyricism. In the First Violin Concerto, for instance, the orchestration is particularly colorful and accessible.

Oscar van Hemel was born in Antwerp, Belgium. His father cut cardboard books for barrel organs as an arranger and had a passion for brass bands. This characterized the childhood of Oscar, who played the violin and piano. In 1914, van Hemel successfully completed his violin studies at the Antwerp Conservatory. After the publication of his First Violin Sonata in 1936, he started composing more and more. Van Hemel settled with his family in Hilversum, Netherlands in 1949 and composed numerous works, many commissioned by Dutch broadcasting companies (such as KRO and NCRV) and the Dutch government, among others. 

Oscar van Hemel was among the most performed Dutch composers in the years 1935–1970. He received several awards for his work and his violin concertos were performed by well-known soloists such as Theo Olof and Herman Krebbers with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Van Hemel was a moderately modern composer who used classical musical forms combined with atonal harmonies and melodies. He applied the twelve-tone technique, bitonality, “germ cell technique” and serialism but continued to strive to captivate his audience through lyricism. In the First Violin Concerto, for instance, the orchestration is particularly colorful and accessible. 

The First Violin Sonata from 1933 is dedicated to Willem Pijper, whose “germ cell technique” is reflected in it. It has a brevity typical of van Hemel, with its four movements – Moderato, Allegretto, Lento and Vivace – lasting just 12 minutes. At the 1937 Internationales Musikfest in Dresden, this surprising work created wonderment at Oscar van Hemel’s hitherto unknown talent. Another gem, the Piano Trio from 1937, is captivating from beginning to end: Romantic temperament in the Moderato, somber musings in the Grave, concluded by a playful Rondo Finale reminiscent of Bartók.

Muriël van Hemel, Violin
van Hemel Ensemble
Frans Douwe Slot, Piano

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TRPTK says “you could say this is our most immersive project yet. In Suspended Animation, by Dark Cinder Veneer is out now! Immerse yourself in a deep, dark ocean of synths, pads and textures.”

Using a minimalist approach, the album travels in the limbo that exists between music and sound. The chord drones surrounded by slow, evocative hints of melody, harmony and sparse sprinkles of spacious sound, take you deep inside and simultaneously far out there.

The idea behind in suspended animation is the journey one takes through both dreams and fears. How does one overcome subconscious blockades and release oneself back into the life you want to live?

Travel safe in sound.

Dark Cinder Veneer

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This DSD Single is available at NativeDSD in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound DSD 256, DSD 128, DSD 64 and DXD plus Stereo DSD 512 and 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D Immersive Surround Sound.

Oh eye that sheds tears and swells
Oh my father, the deaf one, who sharpened its sting
Oh mother, she runs behind her mother
Feeding on grass, the heads of all grass

Beloved, you named me with love
After you named me, you named me again
You lifted me on your wings above the sky
And after you lifted me, you lifted me again

You lifted me on your wings above the sky
And you started communicating with me through signals and pain
You led me to injustice with a blind inclination
And due to your continuous leading, you led me

You reminded me of the days we had
I thought it was like today, twelve years old
After ten years, I can’t describe it
And you abandoned me, abandoned me, abandoned me.

Belal Alkhatib – Oud & Vocals
Rebal Korkmaz – Percussion

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On Tracks 7 thru 15 on Eclipse, Volume 2, Spee is accompanied by the South Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Ed Spanjaard. This is conductor Ed Spanjaard’s 9th album at Native DSD Music.

This album follows Spee’s first Eclipse album featuring the compositions of Joseph Wölfl, available in Stereo and 5 Channel Surround Sound at NativeDSD.

Spee tells us “There are many treasures to be discovered in the history of music. If you are just a little bit curious, a boundless world opens up, full of hidden gems, that the general audience is not aware of. It is one of my big passions to look for those treasures and to shine a light on them. This passion led me to make a series of albums entitled Eclipse, featuring music that nobody knows, but everyone should know.

Around the time we released the first volume of this series, with music by Joseph Wölfl, I was approached by conductor Ed Spanjaard. He was in the process of setting up a foundation in order to restore the legacy of Dutch pianist/composer Hans Henkemans to its proper status and he wanted a young pianist, who was open-minded towards unknown repertoire, to be involved with the foundation. Most of those involved were people who had known Henkemans personally and, as Henkemans died before I was born, they were from an older generation than myself. My involvement was to show the next generation of musicians the way towards Hans Henkemans’s music.”

Mattias Spee, Piano
South Netherlands Philharmonic conducted by Ed Spanjaard (tracks 7-15)

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This album is available at NativeDSD in Stereo & 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD plus 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D Immersive Surround Sound 96k FLAC. It is 2L’s 42nd Album in 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D Immersive Surround Sound at NativeDSD.

The exquisitely decorated 15th Century Choir Book known as the Old Hall Manuscript was lost to history for the best part of 400 years until its reappearance in a Catholic seminary at the end of the 19th century. The largest surviving collection of medieval motets and mass movements, it immediately became the most celebrated source of English music of the period.

It was written in the first instance by a single scribe to ensure that the music of his fellow singers was not forgotten. Many of them are known only from this manuscript, and on this album they find their voices again after more than half a millennium of silence, transformed by the singing of Trio Mediæval in the company of Catalina Vicens, alongside new music by David Lang and Marianne Reidarsdatter Eriksen.

This album was produced with financial support from Arts and Culture Norway, FFUK (The Fund for Performing Artists) and CREO.

Trio Mediaeval
Anna Maria Friman
Linn Andrea Fuglseth
Jorunn Lovise Husan

Catalina Vicens, Organetto

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The album is available at NativeDSD in Stereo & 5.1 Channel Surround Sound DSD plus 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D Immersive Surround Sound 96k FLAC. It is Aliud’s 20th Album in 5.1.4 Channel Auro3D Immersive Surround Sound at NativeDSD.

Yael Acher “Kat” Modiano says “Thanks so much for buying this album. My name is Yael Acher and my artist’s name, “Kat” Modiano, stems from two sources that are close to my heart. First up, “Modiano” is the old family name that my grandmother carried from her father, whose family came from Italy.

Secondly, “Kat” is my favorite person, the pivotal character in George Herriman’s masterpiece, “Krazy Kat,” a surreal, hilarious, cartoon strip from the first half of the 20c. It raises awareness for racism, police brutality, street crime, pacifism, human/ animal rights, individualism, ancient love, Otherness, gender identity, gossip, and anything that goes on between people in any community. Herriman’s non-conforming colorful or B/W visual aesthetics including Native American inspired graphic designs, is the backdrop for the dynamics between urban characters from a building in NYC who moved West to “Coconino,” a desert town in the middle of Monument Valley’s surreal landscape.

I composed most of the music on this album in autumn 2020, during a long Covid shutdown in Copenhagen, so when we recorded the first sessions in late February 2021, we were all fresh out of isolation. In fact, I remember leading the quintet and playing the flute part on “Air- Peng’s Flight” while trying to ignore the high fever I had from a Covid vaccination. It had to “mind over matter” during that session.

The music tells its own story differently to each listener. However, here’s the backdrop: Blue KAT Moves is a Funk-jazz suite, composed of contrasting parts. The ‘acapella’ interlude with multiple tracks.”

Yael Acher “Kat” Modiano – Flute, EFX, Bansuri (Indian Bamboo Flute), Industrial Beats, Electro-Acoustic Loops
Rashad Matthew Dobbins – MC Poet (Tracks 2, 6, 7)
Daniel Muschinsky – Piano & Keyboards (Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Kristor Brødsgaard – Double Bass & Electric Bass (Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Ayi Solomon – Percussion & Vocals (Tracks 1, 3, 4, 5, 8)
Niclas Compagnol – Drums (Tracks 1, 3, 5, 8)

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