foobar2000 1.3.7 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1
log date: 2020-02-21 10:56:26
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Analyzed: Agnes Obel / Myopia
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR9 -0.22 dB -11.67 dB 4:44 01-Camera's Rolling
DR9 -0.20 dB -10.90 dB 4:56 02-Broken Sleep
DR9 -0.20 dB -11.26 dB 5:29 03-Island Of Doom
DR12 -0.30 dB -17.28 dB 2:17 04-Roscian
DR8 -0.20 dB -10.29 dB 5:17 05-Myopia
DR10 -0.20 dB -15.19 dB 2:28 06-Drosera
DR10 -0.21 dB -11.74 dB 3:26 07-Can't Be
DR9 -0.21 dB -13.36 dB 2:30 08-Parliament Of Owls
DR8 -0.20 dB -11.52 dB 4:29 09-Promise Keeper
DR9 -0.20 dB -12.93 dB 4:17 10-Won't You Call Me
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Number of tracks: 10
Official DR value: DR9
Samplerate: 44100 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 1304 kbps
Codec: FLAC
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Об исполнительнице (рус.) | About Artist (ru)
Агнес Обель
Агнес Обель (полное имя – Агнес Каролин Тааруп Обель; род. 28 октября 1980 г. в Копенгагене, Дания) – датская певица, композитор и автор песен, с 2006 года постоянно проживающая в Берлине. С раннего возраста девочка играла на фортепиано – именно это занятие раскрыло в ней талант к написанию песен. Еще в юношестве Агнес организовала группу Sohio в Копенгагене вместе с продюсером и музыкантом Элтоном Тиндером из Дании. Они работали вместе, пока каждый не начал сольную карьеру.
Дебютный альбом Агнес ‘Philharmonics’ вышел в 2010 году, обратив на себя внимание критиков и публики: пластинка приобрела статус «платиновой» в Дании, Бельгии и Франции. На датской церемонии Music Awards 2011 Агнес получила сразу пять премий: лучший альбом года, лучший поп-релиз года, лучший дебют года, лучшая певица года, лучший автор песен года. В сентябре 2013 года вышел второй альбом ‘Aventine’, а спустя еще три года – ‘Citizen of Glass’. Последний на сегодняшний день альбом Агнес Обель ‘Myopia’ увидел свет в феврале 2020 года на двух престижнейших лейблах – Blue Note и Deutsche Grammophon.
Агнес Обель поет приглушенным нежным голосом, задумчиво и спокойно парящим под аккомпанемент фортепиано, скрипок, виолончели, арфы. По признанию самой певицы, она не воспринимает себя как вокалиста, играющего на фортепиано. «Пение и игра на фортепиано для меня совершенно равнозначны. Они, может, и могут существовать друг от друга, но при этом очень между собою связаны. Можно назвать их двумя равнозначными голосами», – говорит Агнес. Меланхоличные композиции, словно появившиеся под влиянием саундтреков к фильмам Дэвида Линча и Альфреда Хичкока, чувственная красота мотивов, сродни мелодиям Эрика Сати и Клода Дебюсси, а также прекрасные аранжировки – все это делает творчество Агнес Обель неповторимым и легко узнаваемым. https://www.last.fm/ru/music/Agn%C3%A8s+Obel/+wiki
Об исполнительнице (англ.) | About Artist (en)
Agnes Obel
A Berlin-based, Danish-born singer/songwriter and classically trained pianist with an elegant and elastic voice, Agnes Obel's poised and melancholic chamber pop draws from the same atmosphere-heavy well as cinematic spellcasters like Antony & the Johnsons and Lisa Hannigan, but with a succinct aura of Scandinavian refinery. Her evocative blend of classical, pop, jazz, and electronic music found success in Europe on the strength of the platinum-selling Philharmonics and Aventine. Her ambitious 2016 release, Citizen of Glass, which introduced ghostly electronics, voice modulation, and a late-'20s monophonic synthesizer called a Trautonium into the mix, helped to establish her overseas as well.
Born Agnes Caroline Thaarup Obel on October 28, 1980, she took up the piano at a very young age, honing her craft amidst the strains of Bartok and Chopin emanating from the fingers of her musician mother. She later drew inspiration from the work of Swedish jazz pianist Jan Johansson, and it was between those two worlds that her own sound began to emerge. Citing influences as diverse as PJ Harvey and Claude Debussy, and drawing comparisons to the likes Ane Brun, Eva Cassidy, and Joni Mitchell, Obel's 2010 debut, Philharmonics, was written (with the exception of a cover of John Cale's "I Keep a Close Watch"), performed and produced by the artist herself. Pure, austere, and remarkably poised, the pristine mix of instrumentals and atmospheric, melancholy balladry was both a critical and commercial success, especially in her native Denmark, where the record went double platinum. Composed, produced, arranged, and mixed by Obel herself at Chalk Wood Studios, 2013's impressionistic Aventine was another commercial success, charting in nine countries. For her much-anticipated third studio album, 2016's transparency-themed Citizen of Glass, Obel experimented with vintage synthesizers, as well as her own voice, which is at times heavily modulated. The LP earned Obel the Album of the Year award from the Independent Music Companies Association. In 2018 she inked a deal with Deutsche Grammophon and curated a Late Night Tales compilation. 2020 saw Obel release her fourth full-length effort, Myopia, which was entirely self-recorded.
James Christopher Monger, AMG https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/tf7e2w/agnes-obel-myopia
Об альбоме (англ.) | About Album (en)
Info for Myopia
For almost a decade, Agnes Obel has been one of the most independent and original artists in contemporary music. Now she has returned with new music, releasing the enchanting single "Island Of Doom", ahead of the release of her highly anticipated new album Myopia.
Following the same principles as with her previous albums (Philharmonics, Aventine and Citizen Of Glass), which she completed as a one-woman project in her own Berlin home studio, Obel has been under self-imposed creative isolation with the removal of all outside influences and distraction in the writing, recording and mixing process for Myopia. “The albums I’ve worked on have all required that I build a bubble of some kind in which everything becomes about the album.”
“For me the production is intertwined with the lyrics and story behind the songs,” says Obel. This is precisely what makes her music so compelling and the same is true with Myopia. “Paradoxically, for me I need to create my own myopia to make music.” Obel was experimenting with techniques of recording processing, warping and pitching down vocals, strings, piano, celesta and lutheal piano, finding ways to melt these elements together to become one and twisting them in a way that you feel at home within the sound she conjures throughout the record.
Although Obel’s music can often curate a monologue of modern-day dystopian-esque news stories that we are all now subject to, the contents of ‘Island Of Doom’ are much more personal, as she explains: “The song is made up of pitched-down piano and cello pizzicato and vocals, all choirs are pitched down and up… In my experience when someone close to you dies it is simply impossible to comprehend that you can’t ever talk to them or reach them somehow ever again. They are in many ways still alive because in your consciousness nothing has changed, they’re still there with everyone else you know.” https://www.highresaudio.com/en/album/view/tf7e2w/agnes-obel-myopia
Состав | Artists
Vocals, Piano, Keyboards, Synth, Beats, Beats [Rhythms] – Agnes Obel
Cello – Charlotte Danhier (tracks: 2, 5), Kristina Koropecki (tracks: 2, 3, 5, 6, 9)
Violin – John Corban (tracks: 1, 2, 5 to 7, 9)
Written-By, Arranged By, Producer, Mixed By, Recorded By – Agnes Obel