Jose Gonza***, In Our Nature - oh dear (production not music)
Posted by: JWM on 28 September 2007
Loving 'Veneer' so much, Mrs JWM and I were waiting with baited breath for the arrival of this new one. Even ordered two formats - CD and vinyl for 'his n hers' preferred...
'Veneer' was pushing the envelope on production though one could feel how the slight ragged quality at times emphasised the urgency of the music. But, oh dear, sadly with 'In Our Nature' the envelope bursts...
The levels on the recording sound so saturated that I was left panicking whether my stylus was knackered; so then tried the CD version to see how that was and panicked that my tweeters had blown.
A check using a number of other albums, LP and CD (including an excellent s/h Coltrane 'Blue Train' from eBay which also arrived today) allayed my fears. But sadly what this also shows is that the production of 'In Our Nature' is really awful! This is no prissy quibbling, I assure you! But real raw ragged distorted sound! And the real pity is that it detracts from the music, which I'm sure is excellent (if I could hear it).
'Veneer' was pushing the envelope on production though one could feel how the slight ragged quality at times emphasised the urgency of the music. But, oh dear, sadly with 'In Our Nature' the envelope bursts...
The levels on the recording sound so saturated that I was left panicking whether my stylus was knackered; so then tried the CD version to see how that was and panicked that my tweeters had blown.
A check using a number of other albums, LP and CD (including an excellent s/h Coltrane 'Blue Train' from eBay which also arrived today) allayed my fears. But sadly what this also shows is that the production of 'In Our Nature' is really awful! This is no prissy quibbling, I assure you! But real raw ragged distorted sound! And the real pity is that it detracts from the music, which I'm sure is excellent (if I could hear it).