Yarlung celebrates two people close to us whom we have lost in the past few months. My friend the veteran Yarlung executive producer Carlos Mollura passed away in February, and my sweet mother Linda Attiyeh died last November. Both Carlos and Linda believed whole-heartedly in Yarlung and in our mission, and supported us unstintingly since our inception. We dedicate Antonio Lysy’s Yarlung 15th Anniversary edition of his GRAMMY® Award winning Antonio Lysy at The Broad: Music from Argentina to Carlos. He and his wonderful wife Haydee (my honorary sister) underwrote this album and serve as executive producers. I have loved Wind in the Willows since my mother first read it to me when I was four years old, and we dedicate Yarlung’s first audio book to Linda Attiyeh. Many thanks to executive producer Mike Rosell and audio engineers Cliff Harris and Scot Derwingson-Peacock for your talent and guidance.
Our first distributors for Wind in the Willows are NativeDSD (a first!) and Audible, the ubiquitous Amazon audio book platform. More audio book options will follow in coming weeks.
Antonio’s success, and the recognition he earned with Antonio Lysy at The Broad: Music from Argentina helped put Yarlung Records on the map around the world. Carlos and Haydee wanted to help us celebrate this recording afresh with a re-release in honor of Antonio and in honor of Yarlung’s 15th Anniversary. Rushton Paul reviewed our Anniversary version in Postive Feedback, paragraphs here shared with permission:
When Bob Attiyeh sounds excited about some sonic improvement he’s achieved, I pay attention. In this case it is Bob’s announcement of a 15th Anniversary remastering of the famous Antonio Lysy at the Broad: Music From Argentina, a recording that has received rave reviews since its release on vinyl in 2010 and as an EP in DSD256 in 2015. Could it sound even better?
Oh, yes! Unequivocally.
In the liner notes, Bob tells us: “In this remastering, we used SonoruS SHI18 technology to glean all the phase information and dynamic content embedded in our Agfa formula 468 tape to create an even more vivid and three-dimensional soundstage for this release.”
And, indeed, everything does have a greater clarity, a greater transparency, a greater delicacy of harmonics…. The remaster sounds so much truer to the sound of the instruments as I would expect to have heard them in the hall. There is simply a greater clarity, a finer delineation of the harmonic overtones, a bit cleaner definition of transients. I am delighted to have this now in my library.
So, congratulations to Bob and his team for this remaster. It is tremendously well done.
Rush Paul, PFO, January 22nd, 2022
Many thanks Rush, and kudos to you Antonio, Arian Jansen of Yarlung Records and SonoruS Audio, Carlos and Haydee!
–Bob Attiyeh