A new record has been released with recordings of the first songs of the composer Raimonds Pauls, which were made in 1968 and 1969 in the Riga sound recording studio and which have remained in the original magnetic tape to this day. A year ago, the recordings underwent a scrupulous restoration, and on September 21, a new double-track edition reached the audience. According to its publisher, Plate Publishing, this is a special release, as all the previous ones have been held hostage by their time and technical possibilities.
The Riga sound recording studio, located in the heart of Old Riga, in the premises of the Reformed Church, has been a part of the recording company “Melodija” for more than 30 years. Thanks to the unique acoustics of the room, the studio is still one of the most in demand among professionals.
In the sixties of the last century, the studio made the first recordings of Raimonds Pauls.
“It took a lot of work to record one such record. There was no great technique already, but there were good sound directors here, ”recalls composer and pianist Raimonds Pauls.
Margarita Vilcāne, Ojārs Grīnbergs, Zdzislavs Romanovskis and Nora Bumbiere sang the songs of Raimonds Pauls, which at that time caused a revolution in Latvian pop music, but today can be considered classical values and included in the “canon of Latvian culture”. Now the newly established publishing house “Plate” in cooperation with “Baltic Records Group” and “Riga Sound Recording Studio” has repeatedly released recordings of these songs. The process of restoring the records has been very gentle, revealing the original sound as accurately as possible.
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“Hearing these original recordings, it became clear that the full potential of the great work has not been fully realized in previous editions,” says sound engineer, record restorer Mārtiņš Krastiņš. “Its sense of presence, closeness and directness. The recordings are transferred to the new media from the closest original source material that exists. A tape that spun and wrote when the singers sang! We can’t get closer. “
Raimonds Pauls notes: “At that time I released all the first records. I remember well. Now it’s funny that at concerts, especially country concerts, I get old records on stage. The ladies have found them somewhere in the barn or elsewhere. They are so browned, but something has survived. “
Music journalist and reviewer Uldis Rudaks emphasizes: “This is our history, and it must be preserved. The disc has proven to last longer than a CD.
We don’t know if the CD will sound in 50 years, but the records made 60 years ago still sound. ”
In order to highlight the high professional level of the former Latvian sound recording studios, the publishing house “Plate” promises to continue re-publishing sound recordings made in Latvia in the future.
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