Ramblings of Altus

This week brings you Artifacts of Distant Memory in FLAC format.

Creating these FLAC files is a good test of my audio CD masters. I’ve discovered the master for this release was full of bad sectors after only three years. The moral of this story: Always have redundant backups!

While I was outputting a new audio CD from my data files, I found the following blurb amid the wav files.

Long lost thoughts emerge to the surface, brought up by sight, sound, smell or touch. At times it brings a reflection of happiness… a longing to return to a past event. Perhaps a haunting memory, dulled by the passing of time.

Altus invites you to explore your mind, to remember memories long forgotten.

You can now download the 2006 release The Wanderer in FLAC format.

For those who are unaware, the FLAC format is a lossless audio codec, which means that the quality is the same as any audio CD. It also allows you to listen and burn to CD without any gaps between tracks that exist when using MP3 files.

You can learn everything you need to know about FLAC here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

I’ve created a straight-forward discography page with links for when you’re looking for a specific album, but not sure what year is was written.

http://www.altusmusic.ca/discography.html

Bert Strolenberg of Sonic Immersion has written a review about “Coma Cluster“.
Check it out here.

Thanks as always, Bert!

Now available to download in FLAC are all three Winter Embrace releases (including Winter Embrace II). Anyone who purchased Winter Embrace II through Blue Water Records will receive an e-mail on where to download in the next couple of days, as well as those who donated money directly to me.

You can learn everything you need to know about FLAC here:
http://flac.sourceforge.net/

Happy holidays!