GRAMMY® Award winning Yarlung Records brings fresh musicians to the classical music world using minimalist audiophile recording techniques to deliver sound as close to living performance as possible.  Rather than using recording studios, engineer Bob Attiyeh produces these albums in concert halls famous for their acoustics, including Walt Disney Concert Hall and Ambassador Hall in Los Angeles.  Yarlung uses both analog tape and high resolution digital media for CDs made with special alloys, high resolution digital downloads, and 180 Gram vinyl LPs, mastered by Steve Hoffman.

Yarlung repertoire ranges from the 11th century through the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, with a special focus on new music from the 20th and 21st centuries.  Artists include top soloists as well as superstar young musicians at the beginnings of their international concert careers.  Yarlung brings artists into your living room; you can hear their music, their breathing, and almost their heartbeats.

Yarlung Records congratulates Lalo Schifrin and Antonio Lysy on their GRAMMY for Antonio Lysy at The Broad: Music from Argentina.  Bravi!

Analog tape has always been my favorite medium.  So when Greg Beron of United Home Audio and Jim Hannon and Jonathan Valin from The Absolute Sound encouraged and cajoled Yarlung Records to make our analog tape available, I was delighted.  Yarlung Records supports the Renaissance in listening to audiophile tape started by the valiant Tape Project.  We continue in their footsteps and offer 1/4 inch tape recorded at 15 inches per second using the CCIR/IEC curve.

We make tapes individually for each order, so please allow a few weeks for delivery.  Each album costs $125, and contains one reel of tape. Take advantage of a $50 discount if you order all four tapes using the "Buy all four albums" button.

We begin with the SonoruS Series of four Yarlung albums, graciously underwritten by SonoruS Audio LLC.

Janaki String Trio debut	Elinor Frey & David Fung Dialogues for 'cello and piano
The Art of the Violin Petteri Iivonen	Antonio Lysy at The Broad Music from Argentina

Antonio Lysy & Bob Attiyeh after winning the 2010 Latin GRAMMY	The first Yarlung tape makes a splash with Greg Beron's tape deck at 2010 CES show

While I like analog tape the best, working with tape is not easy.  Tape can be fragile; it can get flaky; it can get sticky.  My favorite tape (introduced to me originally by Bob Hovland) is Agfa 468.  This is a high bias tape with open, transparent sound.  I like this formula best for classical music.  Even though Agfa is no longer in business, RMG makes this tape using the same 468 formula.  We are grateful to RMGI North America for making this tape available to us.  Please contact Tim Davis at Recording Data Service for more information.

Trickier even than finding the right tape, is playing it back on properly designed equipment. Record circuitry is relatively uncomplicated.  Playback circuitry, on the other hand, is considerably more sensitive and requires precise and very quiet electronics for music to sound correct. Len Horowitz designed custom tube record circuitry for our studio tape machines that we use to make our original recordings. This equipment sounds good! But it is the size of a kitchen stove or washing machine and uses cooling fans which can be noisy.  It is not easy to transport.  It does not fit in most audiophile listening environments; you would want a separate room for the analog tape equipment. 

Fortunately, people like Arian Jansen make superb analog tape playback equipment that sounds wonderful and fits beautifully in your listening room. Arian recently introduced his ATR10 with all custom tube output stage electronics and a honed Studer/Revox transport. Available by special order. We are grateful to Arian for creating such fine analog equipment, and for generously underwriting our first analog tapes. I use the ATR10 when I make your tapes.  It is indeed a superb playback machine.

- Bob Attiyeh, producer

SonoruS ATR10