THE SONGS OF BURT BACHARACH

 Antonella Vitale Quartet and Friends

• • Available for sale: LP (Crystal Vinyl 180 gr. - Direct Metal Mastering - One Step) + in omaggio FILE HD (START OF SHIPMENTS MONDAY 7/6/26)

SIDE A 21:48

• What The World Needs Now Is Love, 5:32 Aldo Bassi, flugelhorn

• The Look Of Love, 5:13 Aldo Bassi, flugelhorn / Gerry Popolo, soprano sax

• I’ll Never Fall In Love Again, 6:02 Gerry Popolo, tenor sax

• Tra la sabbia e il mare aperto, 4:57 Enrico Bracco, guitar / Gerry Popolo, flute

SIDE B 21:17

• Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head, 3:31 Gerry Popolo, tenor sax

• (They Long To Be) Close To You, 5:27 Gerry Popolo, soprano sax

• I Say A Little Prayer, 6:06 Gerry Popolo, soprano and tenor sax

• Walk On By, 6:13 Gerry Popolo, soprano sax

• • All compositions by Burt Bacharach / Hal David
  • except for “Tra la sabbia e il mare aperto” by Antonella vitale
  • All arrangements by Andrea Beneventano and Antonella Vitale

Antonella Vitale Quartet

• Antonella Vitale, voice
• Andrea Beneventano, piano
• Francesco Puglisi, doublebass
• Alessandro Marzi, drums and percussions

Featuring special guests:

• Gerry Popolo, saxophones and flute
• Aldo Bassi, flugelhorn
• Enrico Bracco, guitar

• • 88.2kHz / 24bit original recording made at Magister Recording Area, Preganziol (Italy)
  • on August, 27, 28, 29, 2007 and January, 3, 4, 5, 2008
  • Analog remix and remastering made at VLS Studio, Naquera (Spain) on May, 7, 2026

• Marco Lincetto, producer
• Marco Lincetto and Stefano Isola, recording engineer
• Stefano Isola, editing engineer
• Marco Lincetto, mix and mastering engineer
• Marco Lincetto, cover photo
• L’Image, design and layout

DMM and PET: The perfect solution for the best vinyls ever

Direct Metal Mastering (DMM): Audio is etched directly into the metal (copper) using a high-frequency carrier system and special diamond pins, vibrating at more than 40kHz, to facilitate etching (Father/Positive -> Galvanic/Negative Stamper -> Final Vinyl)

This allows for improved accuracy in the grooves produced, resulting in improved sound output (particularly with reduced background noise and increased response to high frequencies).

Actual benefits of using PET, polyethylene terephthalate, in audio vinyl printing

Perfect centering (eccentricity) vertical and horizontal, ensures significantly reduced wow & flutter during playback.

The grooved surface is ultra-smooth, resulting in very low background noise, which ensures greater effective dynamics, with much better transient response.

It ensures less deformation of the groove during contact with the stylus, resulting in longer life over time, and greater extension and stability of high frequencies.

Insensitivity to static electricity means that it is much less sensitive to dust accumulation and impulsive extemporaneous noises (tick-tocks)

Injection molding, on the other hand, is much more precise and therefore causes less distortion of the grooves, hence a more stable stereophonic image, improved wide and deep and spatial depth.

Note

Antonella Vitale, jazz singer, but also sensitive author and musician. Together with a series of highly talented musicians from the Italian jazz scene, such as Andrea Beneventano on piano, Francesco Puglisi on double bass, Alessandro Marzi on drums, Gerry Popolo on saxophones and flute, Aldo Bassi on flugelhorn and trumpet, and Enrico Bracco on guitar, he offers a new and absolutely original reinterpretation of some of Burt Bacharach's most famous songs. From "Walk on by" to "What the world needs now", from "The look of love" to "I'll never fall in love again", from "Raindrops keep falling on my head" to… many others and at the end of the album on side A, an original composition by Antonella herself.
The album was recorded as usual at the large Area Magister Studio in Preganziol, using high-resolution digital technology in the 24bit / 88.2kHz standard, but above all using the extraordinary analog machines present in the studio. And what about the piano, the noble Steinway & Sons D274 Concert Grand, born in New York in 1930 and today, perfectly restored.
At the console, two technicians whose names are known to enthusiasts: Marco Lincetto, with Stefano Isola as an exceptional guest.
Soft and detailed sounds, top-notch dynamics, a beautiful and captivating voice: another pure diamond from the Ladies of Velut Luna.