TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Session #1

2 copper tube microphones, 2 preamps and 4 silver cables hand built by Didrik De Geer, Stockholm

Sony PMC-E7700 with 16 bit AD converters rebuilt by DeGeer to better service his microphones

Location: Wooden chapel, Tjärnö, Sweden

Session #2

DeGeer mics & preamps, Sony V77, Roland VS880

Location: Wooden chapel, Tjärnö, Sweden

Session #3

2 Neuman 149 tube microphones, Mauranius SMF-5, Sony V77, Roland VS880

Location: Stone Church, Konstancin, Poland

Instruments: 7 course lute, tuned 440, made by Martin Haycock, 1996 as scaled down copy of a lute form Vendelio Venere, Vienna, 1582; 8 course renaissance lute tuned 415, made by Martin Haycock, 1984; Theorbo made by Klaus Toft Jacobsen, 1985, tuned 440

Engineered by Gert Palmcrantz; Carl-Henrik Hansson

Mastering: Torbjörn Samuelsson, Digital Fabriken AB, Sweden

CD HISTORY

This CD was released in 1999 to be sold exclusively on the internet as a downloadable CD on the Liquid Music Network (Liquid Audio). Tracks were downloaded by Sony Music Club, Channelfly, Blacksound and Mainstreet Music Club. The CD received airplay on several classical musical radio stations and was featured on “Afternoon Classics”, WFCR-FM (Amherst, MA) , “A Distant Mirror,” WWFM, NJ as well as Radio Classic in Warsaw, Poland. Collectively, more than 1,000 CD’s were sold by Lindum Records (UK), Radio Classic (Poland), and after concert sales. The recording is now distributed by The Orchard and is available online from all major sellers.

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