Michael Fremer remains one of the chief analog gods in the world of music writers and critics.  We might call him Wotan, except that Mr. Fremer hasn’t yet made a rash decision that costs the cosmos its future. 

Michael writes that Lifeline: Music of the Underground Railroad is “an intensely transparent and three-dimensional recording produced live in front of an audience in the 500 seat Samueli Theater at Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa, California…. 

“The sound is intensely three-dimensional, especially the sensation of being in the audience when the deserved applause come after each performance. The singers appear before you convincingly effectively spread across the stage, bathed but not buried….

“Yarlung’s recording engineer Arian Jensen and producer and label owner Bob Attiyeh used Agfa 468 tape on a SonoruS ATR12 recorder employing SonoruS Holographic Imaging technology. Whatever that is, works.  An AKG C24 stereo microphone captured it all using an Elliot Midwood designed microphone preamplifier.”

Mr. Fremer discussed the repertoire and powerful singing in his article.  Enjoy the entire review here. 

Thank you Arian, for making this recording with me and for building our tape deck and the SHI18, and thank you Elliot for the superb mic preamplification.  I am blessed to work with a dream team, and that team includes our executive producers Craig and Diane Martin, and Michelle, Quinton, Mike and Robbie, the valiant members of Lifeline Quartet.  May their music inspire our eternal search for freedom and transcendence.   This LP is available through Elusive Disc in North America and abroad, and through Yarlung’s distributors around the world.  Enjoy!

–Bob Attiyeh

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