This week, as the next stage of The HIDDEN Project, we released ten tracks from Dr. John McArthur's 1999 recording, remixed and remastered after 25 years, in a new collection we've called HIDDEN / 1.
We're grateful for the growing community of listeners who are discovering or -- alongside us -- rediscovering this music.
We love hearing what you hear as you engage the story and sounds of The HIDDEN Project.
We love hearing what you hear as you engage the story and sounds of The HIDDEN Project.
As he reflected on the space from then to now, John wrote this to share with you:
An expanse of 25 years – a quarter of a century - is quite long but when bereft of the object of one’s love during that time the expanse is interminable.
The waiting game becomes time’s full employment and then, quite suddenly, a change happens from within brought on by that same expanse. Moments from our past which we thought were lost to an evanescent forgetfulness are reconfigured to become beacons from the past that shine their light towards a future soon to be discovered.
This is the story of the original 1999 release of the “HIDDEN” album, for having lived a long time and having been graciously accepted by so many, it finds itself in its own future with a slight wardrobe change.
This new release has been expanded to include a second CD with 3 tracks of newly recorded music (more on this later) and the current artwork has been newly conceived through the beautiful photographs of John Decker.
While the original recording was so wonderfully done by Michael Hoddy, it was the musical ear of Grammy Award winning recording and mixing engineer Brian Losch who brought our creation into the 21st century, deepening its voice and allowing the music to sing with greater clarity to reach with a more powerful tenderness into the hearts and minds of new listeners and reaffirm its place with those who have shared in “HIDDEN” before.
The overall sound of this new release has in it a palpable strength that I feel and hear in such tracks as Liszt’s “ Funérailles” or Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann,” and I can’t miss the sonic glow that manifests in Rachmaninoff’s “Lilacs,” the J.S. Bach “Arioso” and Kreisler’s famous “Love’s Sorrow.”
For this, we owe a debt of thanks to mastering engineer, Kim Rosen, from Knack Mastering who listened carefully to the silences between the sounds and preserved a sense of space and phrasing, while adding a polish to the final experience.
“HIDDEN” is the fruit of a seemingly timeless and timely patience. It’s been our ardent desire and is our great pleasure to finally be able to share it with you all.
The waiting game becomes time’s full employment and then, quite suddenly, a change happens from within brought on by that same expanse. Moments from our past which we thought were lost to an evanescent forgetfulness are reconfigured to become beacons from the past that shine their light towards a future soon to be discovered.
This is the story of the original 1999 release of the “HIDDEN” album, for having lived a long time and having been graciously accepted by so many, it finds itself in its own future with a slight wardrobe change.
This new release has been expanded to include a second CD with 3 tracks of newly recorded music (more on this later) and the current artwork has been newly conceived through the beautiful photographs of John Decker.
While the original recording was so wonderfully done by Michael Hoddy, it was the musical ear of Grammy Award winning recording and mixing engineer Brian Losch who brought our creation into the 21st century, deepening its voice and allowing the music to sing with greater clarity to reach with a more powerful tenderness into the hearts and minds of new listeners and reaffirm its place with those who have shared in “HIDDEN” before.
The overall sound of this new release has in it a palpable strength that I feel and hear in such tracks as Liszt’s “ Funérailles” or Offenbach’s “Tales of Hoffmann,” and I can’t miss the sonic glow that manifests in Rachmaninoff’s “Lilacs,” the J.S. Bach “Arioso” and Kreisler’s famous “Love’s Sorrow.”
For this, we owe a debt of thanks to mastering engineer, Kim Rosen, from Knack Mastering who listened carefully to the silences between the sounds and preserved a sense of space and phrasing, while adding a polish to the final experience.
“HIDDEN” is the fruit of a seemingly timeless and timely patience. It’s been our ardent desire and is our great pleasure to finally be able to share it with you all.
You can listen to HIDDEN / 1 now
on Apple Music
on Apple Music
on Spotify
on Deezer
on Pandora
...and please consider sharing the music with someone who would also enjoy listening with us