Rumer : Into Colour

Taken from Rumer's newsletter

Into Colour is finally complete. Hi! I am delighted to announce that “Into Colour” is finally complete! The release date in Japan will be November 5th. I want to take this opportunity to thank all of you for your support and encouragement and for being on this journey with me. Here is a link to a video teaser for the album.

If you pre order the CD from Amazon.co.uk, you will receive a complimentary digital download upon release.. If you purchase the album through iTunes, you will receive one digital track straight away and two more over the next few weeks.

1. Intro (Return Of Blackbird) 2. Dangerous 3. Reach Out 4. You Just Don't Know People 5. Baby Come Back To Bed 6. Play Your Guitar 7. Sam 8. Better Place 9. Pizza And Pinball 10. Butterfly 11. I Am Blessed

The Making of Into Colour

After Boys Don’t Cry, around January 2013, I moved to California and rented a hippy cottage in Laurel Canyon for inspiration. I wrote songs with Stephen Bishop, my songwriting idol, sang a duet with Jimmy Webb at McCarthur Park , sat under a tree and listened to P.F Sloan tell stories, and made many pilgramages to listen to Terry Reid play blues long into many a Palm Desert night. When we were choosing the songs for Boys, at the time, I never for a moment thought I would ever get to meet any of those songwriters. In L.A I was lucky enough to hook up with Burt Bacharach and Dionne Warwick’s long time music director Rob Shirakbari, a composer producer and arranger extraordinaire, who went on to produce and co-write this album with me.

I have been honoured to work with some of the best musicians in the world on this record - including; Paul Pesco, Shawn Pelton, Zev Katz, Porter Carroll and Everett Bradley. These great musicians have featured regularly on the fantastic ‘Live From Daryl’s House’ show. I am so grateful to that show for the opportunity, the friends I made, and for being the first time many of you heard my music.

Audirvana Plus 2.0

I've been using Audirvana for years now (since 2009 when it was a free application) and recently upgraded to Audirvana Plus 2.0 paying upgrade fee for USD 39.00.
You can check it at  http://audirvana.com/ for full details.
I think it's worth to do that since this version is equipped with full visual interface to control and maintain all music files (include iTunes music if you want), especially for flac files.

Following is the screen shots of Preference and some setting arguments are extended with this upgrade.

You can choose converter as Apple core audio as well.

Interesting point is that disable functions are added to prevent stable playback if desired, NICE!

You can add folders to and delete to sync music file  with visual interface, SO NICE!

You can choose the order appearance as well.

This maybe the most convenient upgrade feature to maintain metadata visually!

iTunes Integrated Mode is still valid and you can see the old interface when you take it.

iFI Audio micro iDSD

I purchased this with reservation and got it when it was released.

Specification of this headphone amp is so powerful and I have no way to utilize full functionally active at this moment.

I use this one simply as a DAC for iPhone and macbook pro with micro iUSB and iTUBE.

I also use AirPlay with Airport via toslink cable since it's too easy for streaming music data with iPhone and macbook pro.

It comes with lots of cables and attachments.

and manual is so simple and this isn't enough for advanced users, so I refer the following page (in Japanese).

This is the decent review of this meaty monster, but written in Japanese, so you can use google translate to the language you'd like to read.