


Schwarz, who was a senior sound engineer for Bayerischer Rundfunk from 2001 to 2015, has received multiple awards and nominations, including a Grammy nomination for Best Immersive Audio Album (formerly, the Surround Sound category) in 2020.Īfter the sessions, Anderson and Schwarz took the recordings back to their home base in Brooklyn, New York, for final edits, then traveled to Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California, where they created the stereo and 5.1 surround-sound mixes. Clique was co-produced by Barber and Anderson Schwarz was technical producer.Īnderson, who has been Barber’s recording engineer for 26 years, has received 11 Grammy Awards, including one for Best Surround Sound Album of 2012: Barber’s Modern Cool. Joining Barber are the other members of her current trio-drummer Jon Deitemyer and double bassist Patrick Mulcahy, with guest appearances by guitarist Neal Alger and tenor saxophonist Jim Gailloreto.īoth albums were recorded in multitrack DXD (Digital eXtreme Definition-32-bit/352.8kHz PCM) at the Chicago Recording Company by the husband-and-wife recording team of Jim Anderson and Ulrike Schwarz. On Clique, Barber performs songs by Rodgers and Hammerstein, Lerner and Loewe, Stevie Wonder, Lee Hazelwood, Thelonius Monk, and others. Coming later this year is a 33rpm LP a 45rpm LP and a reel-to-reel tape release will follow in 2022.Ĭlique was recorded in January 2019, at the same time as Higher, an album of original material based on Barber’s song cycle Angels, Birds, and I. Clique will also be streamed by Apple Music, Spotify, Tidal, and Qobuz.

Stereo and 5.1 surround-sound mixes will be included on the SACD, and available as hi-rez downloads.

On August 6, Impex Records will release Clique, an album of jazz standards by Patricia Barber, on MQA CD, SACD, and hi-rez download. We’re just past the halfway point of 2021, but I think I’ve already heard my favorite album of the year.
