(Pop Rock, Blues Rock, Folk Rock) [LP] [16/48] Gary Eckstein - Fata Morgana - 1981 (Hed Artzi), FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Analyzed: Gary Eckstein / Fata Morgana
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DR         Peak         RMS     Duration Track
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DR13      -0.77 dB   -17.45 dB      1:44 01-A1. LaMidbar sa'enu (Into the desert, carry us)
DR15       0.00 dB   -17.95 dB      5:18 02-A2. Shayeret haRochvim (Riders' caravan)
DR14       0.00 dB   -18.21 dB      4:42 03-A3. Kibui orot (Lights out)
DR12      -0.41 dB   -15.37 dB      2:59 04-A4. Shir haNokdim (Shepherd song)
DR13      -0.66 dB   -16.14 dB      0:58 05-A5. At adama' (You, the land)
DR14       0.00 dB   -17.23 dB      3:31 06-A6. Adama' admati' (Land, my land)
DR14       0.00 dB   -15.83 dB      3:00 07-B1. Lamidbar (Into the desert)
DR15       0.00 dB   -16.57 dB      4:02 08-B2. Tiyul Leyli (Night excursion)
DR14       0.00 dB   -16.82 dB      1:27 09-B3. B'f'at HaKfar (By the village's edge)
DR14       0.00 dB   -17.03 dB      7:06 10-B4. Me'ever LaNahar (Beyond the river)
DR16       0.00 dB   -18.72 dB      4:04 11-B5. Lipa HaEglon (Lipa the coachman)
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Number of tracks:  11
Official DR value: DR14
Samplerate:        48000 Hz
Channels:          2
Bits per sample:   16
Bitrate:           877 kbps
Codec:             FLAC
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fokkertism wrote: Not my rip. Reuploaded because I noticed in Audacity that it was only really 48khz rather than 96khz, with the rest being empty data. Downsampled to 16/48 in SoX.
Original lineage text file follows.
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Gary Eckstein - Fata Morgana (1981)
Media: Hed Artzi – BAN 14845 Original Israeli 1st pressing (1981)
Equipment:
- VPI HW-17 Record Cleaning Machine
- Technics SL-1200MKII Turntable, KAB Mod
- Nagaoka MP-300 Moving Magnet Cartridge
- Outboard Alpha Design GT40 DAC
- Audacity 1.3.13Beta
Ripping Method:
- Record cleaned on VPI machine.
- Audio sampled at 96/24.
Audio restoration:
- LP in Excellent- condition, some surface noise, de-click using ClickRepair 3.9.1 - no degradation in sound quality.
- No groove noise elimination used in order to preserve information.
- No normalization or compression used.

Enter the arid world of the Judean and Negev deserts, of the scorching Jordan Valley, land of Bedouins, camel-led caravans, "Palmach" marauders. Take classic folk songs from Israel
and play them in a contemporary, sleek jazz-pop production and you have "Fata Morgana". Every tune here is Israeli tradition and has been sung around campfires countless times by
Palmach "desert rats" during Israel's path to independance and by teens on field trips and campouts. These songs would be sung a capella or, if available, accompanied by a
shepheard's recorder, acoustic guitar and a darbuka hand-held drum. But here it's remarkeably different: "LaMidbar Sa'enu (Into The Desert, Carry Us)" opens with haunting
a-capella choruses and minimal percussion suggesting the camels' stroll. The mood changes into a jazz-funk "Shayeret haRochvim (Rider's Caravan)";
"Me'Ever la'Nahar (Across The River)", with heavy guitars and slow heavy rhythm evokes the slow, laboring caravan marching through the searing heat of an unforgiving desert,
the cadence of the camel's stride, guitar solos searing as the midday desert sun over distant plaintive voices that are drowned out by desert winds.
Finally, "Lipa The Carriage driver" or Coachman, folk favorite, breaks down the winds of rapid change with a simple message of good sense - relax, take it all in a slow pace..

Gary Ekstein, Moshe Levi - voices
Gary Ekstein - guitar
Moshe Levi - keyboards (3,6,7,8,10,11), percussion (3)
Miki Shaviv - bass (2,3,6,7)
Alon Nadel - bass (8,10,11)
Meir Israel - drums (2,3,6,7,8,9,10,11)