Barb Jungr - Waterloo Sunset SACD rip via PS3 to iso (3.18GB) | 24bit/88.2kHz stereo flac (1GB) | 24bit/88.2kHz Mch flac (2.70GB) | Linn | Hybrid Mch Great lyrics, great music, great songs, great singer, great technology: this is a TRUE DSD recording. If you're shopping on Acoustic Sounds you probably have good sense. If you also have good taste, you will snap this SACD up. Barb Jungr has a Jeet Kune Do approach to song interpretation. It is the "Way of no way". Whatever works. She falls into no category except the non-category of Adult Contemporary music. It would have sounded great 200 years ago, it will sound great 200 years from now. It is simply exquisitely superb pop music in content and execution. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Barb Jungr confirms her reputation as a peerless interpreter of the classic modern song with this, her 3rd album for Linn. With her previous 3 albums, Barb Jungr had already proved herself one of Britain's most engrossing cabaret singers & one of the most adroit song interpreters in modern vocal pop, & Waterloo Sunset does nothing to alter or diminish that assessment. It does feel like a small step backward in terms of content after the all-Bob Dylan program of Every Grain Of Sand, but it is certainly not a step down in quality & intelligence of performance. In fact, it is a return to the interpretive eclecticism of Bare, with its dramatic overhauls of pop tunes (in effect, similar to her contemporary Cassandra Wilson, if not in style) by the Everly Brothers, Leon Russell, & Richard Thompson (a masterful, almost art song "The Great Valerio"), among others, intermingled with a few of Jungr's own delightful originals. It might even be thought of as a dressed-up version of that album, nowhere more evident than in the Ray Davies-penned title tune. The stripped-down take from Bare is damaged, lonely, movingly reflective; the reimagined version of "Waterloo Sunset" is wistful, sure, but also bluesy, impregnable, rounding the corner toward sanguinity. That this Brit Invasion song sounds perfectly fluent & fluid coming after the Tin Pan Alley jazz chestnut "Laugh Clowns Laugh" says much about the caliber of the writing, of course, but also about how Jungr is able to locate & explore the je ne sais quoi of a composition, what is both ageless & new, unknown, what connects even as it perplexes. The album sustains this inquisitive mood, plowing into emotions that lurk beneath façades, like the enigmatic clowns & jesters that dance through the lyrics, & finally bubbling over on the marvelous concluding rehabilitation of Steve Miller's "The Joker," in which a crass come-on is transformed into an effusive flirtation. It's something to behold. Jungr had not quite gotten Mr. Zimmerman out of her blood either, so fans of Every Grain Of Sand have a couple more Dylan treats in store with versions of the classic "Like A Rolling Stone" & the more recent Love & Theft track "High Water (For Charley Patton)." Calum Malcolm again produces beautifully, employing a carnival of colors & textures; the entirely new backing band is crackerjack throughout, breezing through music hall, cocktail jazz, bossa nova, & Western swing with the equal panache. ~Stanton Swihart, ALLMUSIC Tracks: 01. Do You Play Guitar? 02. High Water 03. Cathy's Clown 04. This Masquerade 05. The Great Valerio 06. When Do the Bells Ring for Me? 07. Written in the Dark Again 08. Like a Rolling Stone 09. Lipstick Lips Lament 10. Laugh Clown Laugh 11. Waterloo Sunset 12. The Joker Vocals - Barb Jungr Producer - Adrian York Mixer & Engineer - Calum Malcolm Arrangements - Adrian York Bass - Geoff Gascoyne Drums - Nic France Guitars - Matt Backer Piano - Adrian York Violin - Stuart Hall ================================================= foobar2000 1.1.11 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2012-03-23 03:40:59 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Barb Jungr / Waterloo Sunset -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track (iso @ 0dB Gain) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR10 -7.60 dB -20.39 dB 3:53 01-Do You Play Guitar DR10 -7.20 dB -19.09 dB 5:49 02-High Water For Charlie Patton DR8 -8.51 dB -17.98 dB 3:36 03-Cathy's Clown DR10 -8.19 dB -20.13 dB 5:10 04-This Masquerade DR7 -7.49 dB -16.58 dB 3:50 05-The Great Valerio DR10 -8.92 dB -21.99 dB 2:55 06-When Do The Bells Ring... DR9 -7.77 dB -19.35 dB 5:26 07-Written In The Dark Again DR8 -8.72 dB -18.76 dB 6:04 08-Like A Rolling Stone DR7 -8.28 dB -17.42 dB 4:23 09-Lipstick Lips Lament DR10 -8.97 dB -21.55 dB 3:30 10-Laugh Clown Laugh DR9 -8.48 dB -20.31 dB 4:32 11-Waterloo Sunset DR8* -6.98 dB -17.43 dB 5:37 12-The Joker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 12 Official DR value: DR9 Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 176400 Hz Channels: 2 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 5645 kbps Codec: DST64 ================================================= .............and the multichannel layer ================================================= foobar2000 1.1.11 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1 log date: 2012-03-23 04:28:41 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Analyzed: Barb Jungr / Waterloo Sunset (New Surround Mix) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR Peak RMS Duration Track (iso @ 0dB Gain) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DR15 -6.09 dB -26.65 dB 3:52 01-Do You Play Guitar DR14*-5.84 dB -25.09 dB 5:50 02-High Water For Charlie Patton DR14 -7.46 dB -25.27 dB 3:36 03-Cathy's Clown DR15 -7.55 dB -29.05 dB 5:09 04-This Masquerade DR12 -7.21 dB -23.40 dB 3:49 05-The Great Valerio DR13 -7.54 dB -28.33 dB 2:55 06-When Do The Bells Ring... DR13 -5.89 dB -24.12 dB 5:26 07-Written In The Dark Again DR14 -7.51 dB -25.70 dB 6:04 08-Like A Rolling Stone DR14 -7.49 dB -24.16 dB 4:23 09-Lipstick Lips Lament DR13 -8.63 dB -28.46 dB 3:30 10-Laugh Clown Laugh DR14 -7.57 dB -28.30 dB 4:33 11-Waterloo Sunset DR14 -7.50 dB -23.93 dB 5:35 12-The Joker ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Number of tracks: 12 Official DR value: DR14 Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 176400 Hz Channels: 6 Bits per sample: 24 Bitrate: 16934 kbps Codec: DST64 ================================================= Checksum for iso: 0ce80d25a5fca2418a1e9bf846630de3 *BJWS.iso