Piano Red, The Lost Atlanta Tapes has been released on Landslide Records. This is blues and R&B legend William “Piano Red” Perryman’s final recording. Originally recorded in 1984 in Atlanta, GA, the master tapes were stored in good conditions over the years, however as is common with tape stock from that period the tapes were showing serious signs of sticky-shed and needed to be baked before transfer. After careful baking, digitization, a little remixing and some serious remastering, The Lost Atlanta Tapes sounded like they could have been recorded yesterday. Audio restoration and mastering by Michael Graves, Osiris Studio.
Afro-Beat Airways - West African Shock Waves Released
Afro-Beat Airways - West African Shock Waves released on Analog Africa. Osiris Studio restored just one of the songs in this collection, but it’s a great one, “Live in Other World” by Itadi. Audio restoration by Michael Graves, Osiris Studio.
Excavated Shellac: Strings Released on LP
Excavated Shellac: Strings was released today on Parlortone/Dust-to-Digital. It contains an amazing collection of rare 78 sides compiled by Jonathan Ward of the Excavated Shellac blog. Fourteen outstanding performances from the four corners of the world played on stringed instruments and recorded and released on 78 rpm records circa 1920-1950. Featuring fiddles, shamisen, charango, Paraguyan harp, Indian vina, Lebanese oud, Persian violin, Vietnamese moon guitar, and more.
This release is high resolution audio at its best. All the 78s were carefully transferred to 88.2 kHz / 24 bit digital files by Jonathan Ward in California. Then the resulting files were sent to Michael Graves for audio restoration and mastering. At no point during the process here at Osiris Studio was the audio down sampled. The vinyl master was cut directly from the high-res digital masters created here. This is an LP only release. Audio restoration and mastering by Michael Graves, Osiris Studio.
Sitka National Historical Park Preservation Project Completed
Osiris Studio has completed a large digitization project for the National Park Service’s Sitka National Historical Park. Over 200 hours of recordings have been preserved.
Osiris Studio Completes Project for The US Centers For Disease Control
Osiris Studio has completed the digitization and restoration of several venereal disease recordings for the David J. Sencer CDC Museum. The project consisted of 8 rare 16-inch transcription discs. Each record featured 1 15 minute public service announcement radio show per side with such artists as Hank Williams, Woody Guthrie, and Phil Silvers all warning of the dangers of venereal disease.
Rev. Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones - Jesus Christ from A to Z Released on LP
Rev. Johnny L. "Hurricane" Jones - Jesus Christ from A to Z released on Parlortone/Dust-to-Digital. The album is a great collection of recordings from Rev. Jones’ personal recordings of his services over the years. Rev. Johnny L. Jones stood out for his unique delivery that combined solid theological grounding and moody, explosive flights into a high-turbulence zone between song and speech, earning him a reputation as the Fireball Preacher and more famously, The Hurricane. The project consisted of digitizing hundreds of reel-to-reel and cassette tapes. Audio restoration and mastering by Michael Graves, Osiris Studio.
Osiris Studio Preserving Episcopal Church Archives
Osiris Studio has been selected by The Archives of the Episcopal Church to help preserve recordings in their collection. Approximately 200 hours of oral histories and interviews from 2 separate collections originally recorded to cassette tape will be digitized for preservation.
Utah Smith, I Got Two Wings Wins ARSC Award
Utah Smith, I Got Two Wings: Incidents and Anecdotes of The Two-Winged Preacher and Electric Guitar Evangelist (audio restoration and mastering by Michael Graves at Osiris Studio) has won the 2009 ARSC Award for Excellence for Best Research in Recorded Blues, Rhythm & Blues, or Soul Music. Congratulations to CaseQuarter records and Lynn Abbot!
Osiris Studio Upgrades Analog to Digital Converter
Osiris Studio installs new Prism ADA-8XR analog to digital converter. We auditioned several of the top converters in the world and decided on the Prism. Prism makes what is considered to be some of the most accurate analog to digital converters available in the professional audio world. We take the responsibility of converting our client’s audio artifacts to a digital format very seriously. Usually this is a onetime process for analog media reaching the end of its life. Therefore it is critical that the analog to digital conversion process be performed by only the best converter available. The Prism ADA-8XR is nothing short of state-of-the-art in this regard.
Osiris Studio Preserving Coca-Cola Archives
The Coca-Cola Company selects Osiris Studio for preservation project. The collection consists of 7,000 radio commercials recorded on a variety of sources; reel-to-reel tape, vinyl, shellac and acetate records.
“Coca-Cola’s corporate archive represents a national treasure and I am honored to have been trusted with the responsibility of ensuring part of its long-term survival,” says Osiris Studio’s Michael Graves. Spending the last few months preserving these recordings has been a very rewarding experience.”