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The Ocean Surf: A Surround Sound Experience SACD by Solitudes label will completely transform any living space into a spectacular seashore. Specially designed and produced for SACD, but playable on any standard CD player, you will experience 64 times the clarity, depth, and audio resolution of a traditional CD. And featuring true 5.1 high-resolution surround sound, this Solitudes Ocean Surf SACD offers an audio experience like no other. It really is the next best thing to being there.

Songbirds: A Surround Sound Experience is a program that will completely transform any living space - immersing the listener in the melodious world of songbirds. With 64 times the clarity, depth and audio resolution of a traditional CD, and featuring true 5.1 high-resolution surround sound, this Solitudes SACD is an audio experience like no other. It really is the next best thing to being there.

Thunderstorm: A Surround Sound Experience SACD will completely transform any living space into the heart of a crackling thunderstorm. Specially designed and produced for SACD, you will experience 64 times the clarity, depth, and audio resolution of a traditional CD. And featuring true 5.1 high-resolution surround sound, this Solitudes Thunderstorm SACD offers an audio experience like no other. It really is the next best thing to being there. While this is a continuous play, uninterrupted program, six track points have been created to allow for easy access to preferred sections. This way you can choose to listen to the wildlife and distant birdcalls take cover as the storm rolls in or you can advance to the peak of the storm where the wildlife is silent and all you hear is the thunder and rain.

Two Against Nature — Steely Dan's Grammy winner for Album of the Year! The brilliance of Steely Dan remastered and reissued by Analogue Productions! Recorded to a multi-track analog tape, mixed to 24/96 and mastered and cut by Scott Hull at Masterdisk. Hull won a Grammy for the mastering of the original Two Against Nature LP.

Walter Becker and Donald Fagen were remarkable craftsmen from the start, as Steely Dan's debut, Can't Buy a Thrill, illustrates. Each song is tightly constructed, with interlocking chords and gracefully interwoven melodies, buoyed by clever, cryptic lyrics. All of these are hallmarks of Steely Dan's signature sound, but what is most remarkable about the record is the way it differs from their later albums. Of course, one of the most notable differences is the presence of vocalist David Palmer, a professional blue-eyed soul vocalist who oversings the handful of tracks where he takes the lead. Palmer's very presence signals the one major flaw with the album – in an attempt to appeal to a wide audience, Becker and Fagen tempered their wildest impulses with mainstream pop techniques.

Led by the songwriting and virtuoso musical duo of Walter Becker and Donald Fagen, Steely Dan released an extraordinary run of seven albums on ABC Records and MCA Records from 1972 through 1980. Filled with topline musicianship, clever and subversive wordplay, ironic humor, genius arrangements, and pop hits that outshone the Top 40 of its day, their records, which were as sophisticated and cerebral as they were inscrutable, were stylistically diverse, melding their love of jazz with rock, blues, and impeccable pop songcraft.

Though Steely Dan recorded prolifically for much of the '70s, they toured for only a brief spell early in that decade, deciding they much preferred the studio to the road. This allowed them to craft a wry, nuanced and hyper-literate series of albums - from 1972 to 1980 - that are highly regarded by connoisseurs of pop hooks, jazz harmony and desiccating wit. Beneath the highly polished surface of Steely Dan's music, astute listeners could hear a visceral love of and identification with the very soul of jazz. Donald Fagen and Walter Becker referenced Duke Ellington, Stan Getz and Horace Silver at least as much as any rock-oriented source material. Even so, there was a certain accessible quality to songs like "Reelin' in the Years," "Do It Again" and "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" that allowed Steely Dan to connect with rock fans.

The Brilliance of Steely Dan on Hybrid SACD! Steely Dan's Last Studio Album with Founding Member Walter Becker! Newly Remastered from the Original Analog Tape by Bernie Grundman Direct to DSD!