wauw. impressive.
" Just when you thought you’d heard every possible take on the songbook of Robert Johnson, from true acoustic versions to Clapton’s electric tracks, up jumps singer Carmen Gomes with her own rendition. The legendary bluesman died aged just 27 in 1938, amidst all those ‘sold his soul to the devil’ legends, and left a catalogue of just 29 songs, so you could argue there’s nothing new to hear. However, Gomes gives her selected tracks an atmospheric, mystical spin, with minimal backing, a simple mic set-up, in Sound Liaison style, and a ‘straight to DXD’ as-live recording approach. Her sultry voice has immediacy and intimacy, the instruments captured with real vitality, and the whole recording drips with presence and a sense of performance. I can imagine this one proving popular on the demo circuit if we ever get back to them – and that would be no bad thing. AE " hifi news and record review
CD and Mp3; https://carmengomes.bandcamp.com/album/up-jumped-the-devil-discovering-the-music-of-robert-johnson-part-1-a-sound-liaison-one-mic-audiophile-recording
DXD,DSD and Flac; https://www.soundliaison.com/index.php/677-up-jumped-the-devil-carmen-gomes-inc
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She has a new album out following the rules of the Arch Manifest;
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The Arch Manifesto;
Each recording starts and ends with the main artist alone in the hall the only interplay being the acoustics of the hall and his own mind. No audience is present except the ghosts from the past. When the band enters the music must create an Arch, going from the single instrument performance to the more complex band performance and back to the last solo performance. The same principle goes for the engineering; each recording starts out with only one microphone (stereo). As the music gains in complexity more microphones may be deployed, the only limit being the imagination and technical skills of the recording engineer. The producer and engineer must make the album feel as one, it should have a unifying ‘sound’, despite the different recording techniques employed. Frans always says; “The art of recording is a question of listening and the more you listen the better you get at it.”
3 dimensional and deeeeeeep 
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Most of the coolest recordings are from Mtv unplugged which were recorded in New York by famous singers.
I like to listen to them very much.
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Ohhh, that one’s eerie. I can feel it moving clean through my head. I think this track officially flossed my brain.
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That is so good
Love this one
Check it out on TIDAL master quality if possible 
This album has some great test tracks, sounds super wide on the planar triplet iems (S12, Hook, Timeless)
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I find this decade-ago-superhit interesting sounding considering soundstage - in particular a nice efect of very distant snare drum and guitar on far right from 0:48.
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I’m just shy of half way through this playlist. It’s exceptional. Soundstage, imaging & dynamics are making me smile.
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One of my go to
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Amazing music! Thanks for sharing!