Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
31	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30	1	2	3	4

Bering Strait - Bering Strait (2003)

Date: 16 Nov 2011 09:39:52

For the benefit of the geographically challenged, the Bering Strait is the stretch of water, 55 miles across at its narrowest, between western Alaska and eastern Siberia, the place where the U.S. and Russia come the closest to connecting. In fact, since it is frozen over more than half the year, it's the point at which the two countries do connect. The name is an appropriate one, then, to be taken by a Russian group playing Western-style country music. The classically trained musicians certainly known their way around Nashville licks, and lead singer Natasha Borzilova has her accent under control to the extent of sounding American, if not actually southern. As a result, you could listen to most of the group's debut album without knowing that they come from Obninsk. But if the members transcend the novelty status of their origins, Bering Strait necessarily faces a second challenge: Is it a significant country act? And here the answer is more problematic. Producer Brent Maher has marshaled the usual songwriting pros in Music City and given the group a contemporary country (which is to say, pop/rock) sound that makes it possible to play them on country radio alongside Faith Hill and Shania Twain, but that means that, for the most part, Bering Strait is just another mediocre Nashville product. It isn't until near the end, with the instrumental "Bearing Straight," which is actually a medley of bluegrass and new age tunes, that the group's musicianship begins to have an individual flavor. This is followed by "Porushka-Paranya," a country hoedown with Russian lyrics. If the album contained more tracks like that, instead of being dominated by bland romantic ballads, Bering Strait might seem like an interesting new wrinkle in country music instead of another run-of-the-mill Nashville project with exotic origins.–by William Ruhlmann

––––––
Tracklist
––––––

1. What Is It About You 3:53
2. Tell Me Tonight 3:53
3. I Could Be Persuaded 2:50_Play_
4. When Going Home 4:07
5. I'm Not Missing You 4:26
6. I Could Use A Hero 4:22
7. The Trouble With Love 3:44_Play_
8. Jagged Edge of a Broken Heart 3:58
9. Only This Love 3:33
10. Bearing Straight 5:52
11. Porushka-Paranya 2:42_Play_
12. Like A Child (live) 3:46

Personnel:
Natasha - Borzilova - Vocals,Acoustic Guitar
Ilya Toshinsky - Guitar,Banjo,Vocals
Lydia Salnikova - Keyboards,Vocals
Alexander Arzamastsev - Drums
Alexander "Sasha" Ostrovsky - Dobro,Steel Guitar,Lap Steel
Sergei "Spooky" Olkhovsky - Bass

EAC LOG

Exact Audio Copy V1.0 beta 3 from 29. August 2011

EAC extraction logfile from 8. November 2011, 21:53

Bering Strait / Bering Strait

Used drive : ASUS DRW-24B1LT Adapter: 3 ID: 0

Read mode : Secure
Utilize accurate stream : Yes
Defeat audio cache : Yes
Make use of C2 pointers : No

Read offset correction : 6
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Null samples used in CRC calculations : Yes
Used interface : Native Win32 interface for Win NT & 2000

Used output format : User Defined Encoder
Selected bitrate : 1024 kBit/s
Quality : High
Add ID3 tag : Yes
Command line compressor : C:\Program Files\Exact Audio Copy\FLAC\FLAC.EXE
Additional command line options : -6 -V -T "ARTIST=%artist%" -T "TITLE=%title%" -T "ALBUM=%albumtitle%" -T "DATE=%year%" -T "TRACKNUMBER=%tracknr%" -T "GENRE=%genre%" -T "COMMENT=%comment%" %hascover%–picture="%coverfile%"%hascover% %source% -o %dest%

TOC of the extracted CD

Track | Start | Length | Start sector | End sector
––––––––––––––––––––––––––––-
1 | 0:00.00 | 3:53.68 | 0 | 17542
2 | 3:53.68 | 3:53.41 | 17543 | 35058
3 | 7:47.34 | 2:50.46 | 35059 | 47854
4 | 10:38.05 | 4:07.70 | 47855 | 66449
5 | 14:46.00 | 4:26.01 | 66450 | 86400
6 | 19:12.01 | 4:22.20 | 86401 | 106070
7 | 23:34.21 | 3:44.30 | 106071 | 122900
8 | 27:18.51 | 3:58.22 | 122901 | 140772
9 | 31:16.73 | 3:33.02 | 140773 | 156749
10 | 34:50.00 | 5:52.64 | 156750 | 183213
11 | 40:42.64 | 2:42.15 | 183214 | 195378
12 | 43:25.04 | 3:46.67 | 195379 | 212395

Range status and errors

Selected range

Filename D:\MUSIK\Bering Strait - Bering Strait [FLAC] (2003)\Bering Strait - Bering Strait.wav

Peak level 98.8 %
Extraction speed 6.7 X
Range quality 99.9 %
Copy CRC F051630E
Copy OK

No errors occurred

AccurateRip summary

Track 1 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [FC645FD0], AccurateRip returned [CA5EF2A8] (AR v2)
Track 2 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [5E132957], AccurateRip returned [FBD22C83] (AR v2)
Track 3 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [6BA7564F], AccurateRip returned [8CEA7C5A] (AR v2)
Track 4 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [C0DEF15B], AccurateRip returned [110F59B8] (AR v2)
Track 5 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [8E6E8906], AccurateRip returned [08EC509D] (AR v2)
Track 6 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [B963DA3C], AccurateRip returned [6F746F9C] (AR v2)
Track 7 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [24C28F30], AccurateRip returned [52A7E114] (AR v2)
Track 8 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [26CB4340], AccurateRip returned [93C943A4] (AR v2)
Track 9 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [FE0E0990], AccurateRip returned [9EA0FC51] (AR v2)
Track 10 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [D961FB00], AccurateRip returned [1DF6765A] (AR v2)
Track 11 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 2) [859F1B3B], AccurateRip returned [B61951CC] (AR v2)
Track 12 cannot be verified as accurate (confidence 1) [DB62DD82], AccurateRip returned [99A3A864] (AR v2)

No tracks could be verified as accurate
You may have a different pressing from the one(s) in the database

End of status report

==== Log checksum 74AF68677FDC29A3AE0EA8A47E721AD053824ACCE8832AA0C82A5661E1C45071 ====

AllMusic

BIO: The country group Bering Strait took one of the more unusual paths to major-label status in Nashville. Natives of Obninsk, Russia, the group – consisting of Ilya Toshinsky (guitar, banjo, vocals; born November 28, 1977), Natasha Borzilova (vocals, guitar; born August 19, 1978), Sasha Ostrovsky (dobro, steel guitar, lap steel; born August 11, 1980), Lydia Salnikova (keyboards, vocals; born August 10, 1980), and Alexander Arzamastsev (drums; born September 15, 1973) – was organized by a bluegrass-loving music teacher. (Sergei "Spooky" Olkhovsky [born February 15, 1978] replaced an earlier bass player, and mandolin and fiddle player Sergei Passov, an original member, dropped out after participating on their debut album.) They began to play out as teenagers and earned opportunities to visit Nashville in the early '90s. Eventually, they attracted the attention of a Nashville-based manager, who brought them over the U.S. and sought a record deal for them. They signed to Arista Nashville, but that label shuttered before they could record an album. The former head of Arista moved on to Gaylord, a start-up label, and they followed him there, recording an album with producer Brent Maher. But that association fell through, too, and it was not until January 2002 that they followed the same record executive to his next berth with the newly formed Universal South imprint of Universal. Finally, in January 2003, their self-titled debut album was released, while their travails were detailed in the 90-minute documentary The Ballad of Bering Strait.–by William Ruhlmann

In case you encounter dead links in any of my posts, please send me a private message !!!!

NO mirrors and/or direct links in your comments, please !!!!

****Visit My Blog****

Country 2000s Lossless Alternate Country