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[Black Bird]

Not available in Germany

[Finaero]

No wonder Vangelis can't collaborate with JMJ on his new album (aside from the previously established reasons), he's busy with a collaboration of his own

http://pitchfork.com/news/60990-gza-wor ... new-album/

[Finaero]

http://elsew.com/data/latest.htm

http://www.mediamarkt.de/de/product/_va ... 44429.html

If the 3 track snippets were of any indication, this album might be a return to form from him.

[shadow]

A new album? Finally!

[shadow]

Rosetta pre-orders have opened today!

[Dr_Jones]

It's a beautiful album. Andre Kuipers is explicitly named in the booklet, by the way!

[shadow]

Amore was actually released without permission of Vangelis from what I can find. I've run into that record recently actually, but I thought €40 was way too much for such a short (and unofficial) record.

[Finaero]

Also, I just noticed that both the vinyl and CD versions have a rather noticable skip around the 4:11 mark.

(Well actually, the vinyl and Spotify versions)

[shadow]

Haven't heard a vinyl rip yet, but no skipping on the CD that I can hear in the first track at 4:11...

[Finaero]

Whoops, forgot to mention the actual track name >_>

Talking about the title track "Rosetta".

[shadow]

No skip either, but there is a click betwee 4:12 and 4:13 which is not a skip from what I can see in the spectral frequency. But it's odd that the album has a couple of these errors non the less.

[Velodynamic]

Pictures from his home and studio in this album trailer.

[Finaero]

Track 8 (Rosetta) has some very slight distortion also happening on the right channel at 2:15.

Just go the CD version... and yeah, the distortions on Rosetta at ~2:15 and ~4:11 are present just like on the vinyl version. Same with the loud parts in Sunlight from 2:59-3:40ish.

The Spotify version also contains those issues, but since the Spotify master is full of LOUDNESSWAR anyway, it can be ignored from now on. ;P

I think it's definitely a shoddy master that's to blame here.

[shadow]

Bit of a shame because the Dynamic Range is insane for these days.

[Velodynamic]

Too bad that they didn't bother for 180 grams vinyls concidering that this is Vangelis best album since the Blade Runner. These vinyls are pretty wobbly.

Just go the CD version... and yeah, the distortions on Rosetta at ~2:15 and ~4:11 are present just like on the vinyl version. Same with the loud parts in Sunlight from 2:59-3:40ish.

I hear an other "glitch" on Rosetta at 2:36. To me it sounds like electrostatic noises somehow connected to that guitar sound.
The one on Sunlight is more like an ordinary "going through the roof" type of distortion.
In Mission Accomplie (Rosetta's Waltz) you'll find a pretty nasty one at 1:28 during the string's delayed part.
Perihelion 0:10 + several other "power punch" distortions.
On Elegy you have a constant background noise, like a humming distortion comming from the electric grid. Maybe poorly grounded?
Infinitude - lots and lots of background white noise plus minor electrostatic clicks here and there.
Return To The Void - some background white noise + electrostatic click at 2:15

So there we have it. But still I admire them to stay faithful with its originality and not trying to polish or "clean" the sound in order to hide smaller artifacts.
That would've sounded just as weird. There are some really, really nice tracks and sounds on Rosetta and I love the compositions.