Soundtracks Links

Super Hi-Fi Digital Audio in Linux (Linux Today)

Linux Today Blog: "There is a chapter for golden-eared audiophiles, who have been left behind in the rush to lo-fi MP3s and poorly-engineered CDs with no dynamic range to speak of, no balance, no nuances-- just shove all the levers to the top and call it good. So, as usual, to do it right we have to do it ourselves, and one interesting option is DVD-Audio."

Biography of Yoko Kanno (BellaOnline)

This is a biography of anime music composer Yoko Kanno.

Music Review (rediff.com)

Shankar Mahadevan was an Indian classical vocalist before he became Shankar. Loy Mendonsa was a jazz-funk keyboard player before he became Loy. Ehsaan Noorani was a blues-rock-fusion guitar player before he became Ehsaan.

Bjorn Again brings note-perfect ABBA renditions to Bloomington venue (The Pantagraph)

Chad Holtzman is a Canadian employed by Australians to play a Swede on behalf of dancing queens everywhere — from here to Timbuktu, in fact. But the extreme global demands haven’t dampened his enthusiasm and bemusement over spending the past seven years carrying the titular burden of Bjorn Again, the world’s first and most successful ABBA tribute band.