This thread is about music productions that show extraordinary excellence from technical point of view. Please cite one recording/album per post and add some information why it qualifies for this list.
To make a start:
Ólafur Arnalds - Broadchurch
Icelandic composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds is known to be meticulous about his recordings, often spending hours working on just a single sound to get it exactly the way he wants it. This album is the score of the famous British tv show Broadchurch. Besides the tracks So Close and So Far it is instrumental and limited to just piano, strings and some electronics. Arnalds records at a church in Reykjavik to get an ethereal, reverberating sound from the strings.
This album is kind of a reference to me demoing new hifi gear. The sound is constantly moving, shifting between low and high tones, between smooth strings and processed sounds. Especially Main Theme and The Journey are sweeping and will get me goose bumps (and sometimes even more, thanks to CA Solaris 2020).
To make a start:
Ólafur Arnalds - Broadchurch
Icelandic composer and producer Ólafur Arnalds is known to be meticulous about his recordings, often spending hours working on just a single sound to get it exactly the way he wants it. This album is the score of the famous British tv show Broadchurch. Besides the tracks So Close and So Far it is instrumental and limited to just piano, strings and some electronics. Arnalds records at a church in Reykjavik to get an ethereal, reverberating sound from the strings.
“People do use sound libraries and fake things on computers but I need live musicians to do the things I want,” he says. “No matter how much technology you have – and fake strings do sound incredible – and no matter how much you tweak the sound, you miss the humanity.”
This album is kind of a reference to me demoing new hifi gear. The sound is constantly moving, shifting between low and high tones, between smooth strings and processed sounds. Especially Main Theme and The Journey are sweeping and will get me goose bumps (and sometimes even more, thanks to CA Solaris 2020).