This Direct Metal Mastered Heavy Weight 180g Vinyl LP contains ten selections from Sara K.’s previous CD and DVD releases, including studio as well as live recordings.

The death-bells started ringing for the vinyl LP in 1982, the year in which the digital audio compact disc first appeared on the market, but in spite of all the doom ‘n’ gloom forecasts the vinyl LP has proved to be a true survivor. Regardless of all the constantly developing new techniques and formats in the field of music reproduction, the LP exists to this day and is valued highly by many listeners.

The vinyl LP normally has two sides of music – and Sara K. presents two sides of her musical artistry. On the one side we have her impressive and very convincing (solo) live concerts, where she fascinates her audience solely with her unique voice and her almost fragile-sounding accompaniment on the 4-string guitar. On the other side there are her beautiful studio recordings, where a whole range of musicians complement her pieces with an endless palette of musical styles, instruments and ideas: from concert harp, string quartet and accordion through to fretless bass, tuba and piano.

Stockfisch wanted to document these two sides of her work on the second release in their “In the Groove” series: an audiophile 180g vinyl LP, recorded onto vinyl using their own Neumann VMS-82 Direct-Metal-Mastering (DMM) cutting lathe.
Features:
• Heavy Weight High Quality 180g Vinyl
• Direct Metal Master
• Cut by Hendrik Pauler on Neumann VSM-82
• Mastering Monitors: B&W Bowers & Wilkins 801 D
• Pre-mastering by Hans-Jorg Maucksch at Pauler Acoustics, Northeim.