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Pinnacle

"I couldn't stop listening!"

Pinnacle is a gorgeous album composed by the brilliant songwriter Jessica Carson. With this third Clandestine Amigo release, fresh new upbeat melodies are performed by some of the finest musicians in the Colorado music scene, including Bradley Morse from the Gasoline Lollipops, trumpeter Gabriel Mervine, keyboardist Tom Amend, and guitar/pedal steel player Eben Grace of Grace Design. Captivating melodies beautifully sculpted into some of the best music available masterfully recorded and mixed in pure DSD by Jay Elliott, this limited edition masterpiece is a must have.

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01 - Clandestine Amigo - That Deep Blue
02 - Clandestine Amigo - Anything For Your Love
03 - Clandestine Amigo - Promise
04 - Clandestine Amigo - Either Way
05 - Clandestine Amigo - Thank You
06 - Clandestine Amigo - Winter's Passed
07 - Clandestine Amigo - Dualities
08 - Clandestine Amigo - Maggie
09 - Clandestine Amigo - The Frame
10 - Clandestine Amigo - Ain t No Going Back Home
11 - Clandestine Amigo - Found My Faith

Pinnacle

Clandestine Amigo is Jessica Carson at its core. Her two other releases with Octave Records, Temporary Circumstances, and Things Worth Remembering, take you on a journey that resolves with the latest release, Pinnacle. Although some of the original members of the band appear in this recording, many guests were invited to make this album the most intricately produced of the three.

Jessica Carson- piano, electric piano, lead vocals, backing vocals Giselle Collazo- backing vocals, acoustic guitar Michael Wooten, Dru Heller, Jay Elliott- drums Bradly Morse, Seth Lewis- electric bass, double bass Kyle Donovan, Dave Devine- acoustic guitar, electric guitar Eben Grace- electric guitar, pedal steel Eric Wiggs- mandolin, slide guitar, acoustic guitar Gabriel Mervine- trumpet Tom Amend- piano, organ Alicia Jo Straka- accordion Dylan McCarthy- mandolin Bridget Law, Rebekah Durham, Sandra Wang- violin Joy Adams- cello Emily Bowman- viola

Features

  • One pressing Austrian gold-pressed dual-layer SACD
  • Pure DSD + PROMastered CD layers
  • Pure DSD recorded on the Sonoma DSD system
  • Mixed in analog on Octave Record's Studer analog console
  • DSD64, 128, 256, DSDDirect Mastered 192kHz 24 bit, 96kHz 24 bit, 44.1kHz 16 bit PCM available as downloads
  • No compression in the mastering or mixing process
  • CD layer of SACD playable on any CD player
  • Mastering monitored through the PS Audio DirectStream DAC and FR30 loudspeakers
  • All tracks are hand-curated on the aspen FR30 loudspeakers in Music Room Three
  • Limited edition one-pressing physical media

Artist and Production Credits

The recording was brilliantly captured in pure DSD by Octave Records' engineer, Jay Elliott at Animal Lane Studios in Lyons, Colorado. The tracks were later mixed at Octave Records' studio in Boulder, Colorado on a 32 track Studer (formerly owned by Neil Young) by Jay Elliott and mastered on the Sonoma DSD workstation.
Microphones used:
Coles 4038
Neumann U87
Neumann U67
ADK Z-251
BeesNeez LuLu FET KM84
Royer 121
AKG C24 as modified by Tim Paravicini
AKG C414
Audix D4
Sennheiser 421
Beyerdynamic M201
EV RE20

Preamps:
Manley Force Vacuum Tube
Fred Forssell SMP-2b
2016 Grace Design M201MK2
Summit Audio TPA 200B
Neve 5012

Recording System:
Sonoma 32 track DSD recorder
Trident 48 channel monitoring system

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