MALANDO – Best Selection

The Dutch composer and musician Arie Maasland hid behind the stage name Malando. During his time as leader of the sextet „The Jumping Jacks” he noticed the audience’s positive response to tango. He then developed his own style within the genre. He successfully toured the world with his orchestra until he retired from the stage in 1979. During his career he wrote around 150 compositions for orchestra and wind band.

UHQCD stands for Ultimate High Quality Compact Disc and is a joint development of the Japanese CD replication company Memory-Tech and the Audio Quality CD Company from Hong Kong. Unlike conventional CDs, UHQCDs are not pressed from polycarbonate, but cast from a photopolymer and cured with UV light. Another layer of high-purity polycarbonate is applied to protect the softer photopolymer from scratches. The combination results in a significantly reduced reflection of the laser light inside the CD and an unrivaled precise edge transition between pits and lands of the CD. UHQCDs are 100% compatible with regular CD players. Musically, the sound is strongly reminiscent of analog master tapes.

The discs offered by Universal Japan are additionally MQA ( Master Quality Authenticated ) encoded . If you output the digital signal from the digital output of your CD player or the previously ripped data stream of your music server to a corresponding MQA DA converter, you can generate a 24-bit signal with a sampling frequency of up to 352 kHz from the CD data.

While the first UHQCD series from Universal Music Japan used the DSD data of previous SHM-SACD releases, albums that were not previously released on SHM-SACD are now also appearing with increasing popularity. Typically, the master tapes from the Universal Archive are reconverted to DSD and then post-processed with the appropriate MQA encoder. The UHQCDs are therefore ideal for music lovers who want to get as close as possible to the sound of the recording but do not have a SACD player.

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1. Blue sky

2. I kiss your hand, Madame

3. Tango delle Rose

4. Pearl fisherman tango

5. Tango Notturno

6. In a small pastry shop

7. Ole guapa

8. Jealousy

9. Un violon dans la nuit

10. A Garden in Italy

11 Lamento Gitano

12 Blue Tango

13 Isle of Capri

14 La Violetera

15 A Night in Monte Carlo

16 Orchids in the Moonlight

17 Cabecita

18 Hear My Song Violetta

19 Tango du reve

20 The Jewels of the Madonna

21. Il pleut sur la route

22. Dark Eyes