Invisible Cities: Part One

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ADS’ founder Gustavo Cândido declares a passion as a recording engineer for supreme high fidelity, using the best equipment, cables, microphones and recording technique he can assemble and apply to the project. And, listening to the stereo release of this album, I am quite impressed with the quality he has achieved. Well done!

But more importantly, I am impressed with the musicianship here. This is improvisational jazz by two artists who have performed together on stage for over 30 years. Their knowledge of each other is immediately apparent in the interchange of ideas. Yet significantly, it does not sound stale, it does not sound simply a warm re-tread. Instead, the music sound refreshingly immediate, of the moment.

Rushton Paul - Source

Audiophile Style 5 out of 5

An Amazing Recording

A couple weeks ago engineer Gustavo Candido from the new record label ADS contacted me about an album that seemed right up my alley, recorded in a great room, live, in one take. I was interested, but cautious. Gustavo sounded like an extremely nice guy who knew what he was doing, and who also had the utmost respect for, and was inspired by, one of the best engineers in the business, Morten Lindberg. Based on our conversations, I was excited to hear what Gustavo and musicians André Mehmari and Sergio Reze had created.

Gustavo sent over the holy grail of recording formats for me to listen to on my system, a discrete immersive DXD album. This format is second to none and usually ranges from 10 to 16 channels of unprocessed music in WAV files. In this case, I received the album Invisible Cities Part I, in 5.0.4 WAV files (5 ear level channels, 0 LFE channels, 4 ceiling / height channels). Along with the album Gustavo included detailed liner notes and additional information about how the album was created. So far, so good. As long as the music was good, I was set for an audiophile’s dream experience. Provenance, liner notes, recording details, what more could I want!

I listened to the entire album a couple times, start to finish, without interruptions. That isn’t a normal course of action for me, listening to an album from an unknown label, unknown musicians, unknown engineer, and unknown everything. I usually give a few tracks a spin, then move on. Not the case with Gustavo Candido’s recording of André Mehmari and Sergio Reze on Invisible Cities Part I.

Invisible Cities: Part One by André Mehmari and Sergio Reze, engineered by Gustavo Candido on the ADS record label is available starting today at NativeDSD. The available formats are two channel stereo PCM 24/176.4, DSD64 through DSD256, multichannel 5.1 in PCM and DSD, discrete immersive DXD 5.0.4, and Dolby Atmos in an MKV container. NativeDSD offers track previews for those who don’t want to take my word for it that this album is just beautiful. Give it a low res spin on the web and enjoy it in full high resolution after downloading. You won’t be sorry.

Chris Connacker - Source