SAUCE: Waiting for Godiva

Imagine the intimacy of a song whispered into your ear, so close it raises goose bumps.

ZoomTone Records gives your ears what they deserve: real magic from real music captured alive and breathing by the new technology of SACD. We offer music as a performance, not a product. It's fragile, not perfect.

Real music is hard. It's a whole lot easier to hammer out a product in a studio with overdubs, reverb and endless editing than it is to pare down to two voices, two microphones and one guitar. Michael Willson and Beth Rudd recorded this entire album in eight hours with a single engineer in an old stone church. Except it didn't take eight hours. It took a few decades of practice to make it sound this great.

The result is Waiting for Godiva, a collection of re-invented classics and original interludes. The guitars, like the music, are classics: a 1974 handmade Thomas Humphrey and a 1995 Martin OM21. While their singing is very precise, the vintage on Willson and Rudd has not yet been determined.

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STILL: Martha's Trouble

The first thing you notice is the intimacy.

Compared to other records you’ve heard, other voices you’ve encountered, this one is stripped bare. No fake reverb, no artificial vibrato. Jen is here. With you. Right now.

Her voice will remind you of Norah Jones or Natalie Merchant or Eva Cassidy. But it won’t. Because Jen is an original, someone you’ve never heard before. Listening to her is an experience.

Then you hear Rob on the guitar. Followed by another guitar... That’s Chris. Then a third guitar—Jerry. The music gets more and more complex, but the ideas stay simple. Then the air is shattered by Jen’s djembe, the drum making your speakers ache—just a little bit.

Still is anything but. It’s passionate and heartfelt and honest and you’ll
never forget it.

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Track 39 : Wendy and the Lost Boys

Here's what I want you to do. Just one thing: Listen to Wendy singing
Amazing Grace acapella. There. Thanks.

For years, Wendy Sayvetz has been singing her heart out underground in Grand Central Station. Every day, thousands of people applaud her and buy her records.

Here, for the first time in high-resolution SACD format (like a CD, but it
sounds better) is an acoustic recording of Wendy, performing with her
husband on acoustic guitar and her mentor Sam on clarinet.

Recorded live in a church, you won't forget this one. But don't read, listen.

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