Press release | “This album is an emotional, passionate and profound tribute to my homeland. Yet I do not want to speak just for myself with my music. Every person has a homeland and connects with it very personal memories and feelings. Unfortunately a lot of people cannot live in their homeland or return to it at any time without any danger. The present floods of refugees speak for themselves. With regard to current events, I dedicate my compositions Forced to Flee My Homeland and Your Tears Will Dry to all refugees, who had to or still have to leave their homelands for various reasons.” - Martin Vatter
This recording was made in the legendary MPS-Studio in Villingen with a Bösendorfer Imperial grand piano which sounds wonderful. Amongst others Friedrich Gulda and Oscar Peterson recorded their much acclaimed albums here.
Picture above: recording situation and recording room with the legendary Bösendorfer Imperial concert grand built in 1979 at the MPA-Studio in Villingen.
Microphones used: 4 x Neumann U 87, 3 directly above the hammers and 1 behind, 1 x Neumann SM 69 in the curve, 2 x Bruel & Kjaer 4006 as room microphones.
It was the renowned sound engineer Gerd Puchelt who recorded. Due to the special use of microphones – a combination between microphones positioned very close to the piano strings and microphones placed at a slightly larger distance from the concert grand – this authentic audiophile recording possesses both enormous richness in detail and excellent dynamics - DR12, as well as an airy transparency. The concert grand literally breathes. Take a sound bath!
The recording does not only exist as an audio CD and a high resolution recording 24BIT / 96kHz, but also as a purely analog tape recording for a potential record pressing.
The composition Forced to Flee My Homeland is a very special highlight. All sounds were exclusively produced by damping inividual piano strings. Experience how exceptional a concert grand can sound …
About the pianist
Since 1994 the pianist Martin Vatter has published numerous CD productions which were acclaimed in the music press many times. He was portrayed on Bavarian television and on Bavarian radio. The style of his compositions is somewhere between classical music and jazz and therefore they do not fit into any category of genre. Experience Martin Vatter’s distinctive musical signature. Piano music that touches the soul …
For further info: to Martin Vatter website
To hear some samples: click here
