Vintage Kitchen Songs, Vol. 1

You are there too.

Debut Spectral Matching Mastering based entirely on the Time Domain.

What does that mean?

The flow of the music is much less D-i-G-iT-a-L and much more Analog and natural. The time distortions common to CD are removed. It is pure lossless 16/44.1k acoustically ambient music for you to enjoy and your ear+brain to relax with.

Developed in 2025-2026 by David Elias there are no 3rd Party Tools/Software/Hardware/DAW used to accomplish the most obvious but overlooked way of mastering any digital PCM recordings be it acoustic, jazz, classical, rock, you name it.

Listen to the album as a lossless full preview...

it has taken me a long time to arrive at this album release. it wasn't a forest through the trees challenge. it was the forest of dreams and deciphering enough by listening carefully enough to build the right dream narrative grove from largely unreleased recordings. from blue straw to green dreams to persistent heroic journeys for love alone, to mythical legends of stellar proportions and revelations on our human conditions, to wide reconnaissance of the highways of brother and sisterhood songwriters all sharing their musically encoded messages for better or for worse without promises, just with camaraderie extended to all, to seventeen years of dreaming aloud declared as whispered thoughts to the oldest granite on the planet, to the entire narrative of love newly sprung and embraced with full admiration only to face fulfillment of the inevitable mortal condition we all face, to true companionship in a single shared morning where everything that really matters is truly seen, to heroic and epic journeys towards spiritual and carnal freedoms told from under a tropical rainstorm weeping on a far-away pacific island, to the symbolic and cathartic message in a bottle cast away without concern yet still with acceptance of finality, to final testaments of the eroding and exhausted mother of us all from her dusty brown and grey to green, to blue skies then the waters lapping the beaches under the cyclops of solar stares that first deliver then carry us all finally away to the only unity we ever have, each carried by us within the very us that makes and keeps us us despite our grasps for finding solace and comfort elsewhere, though we may search from A to Z. all told using just 6, then just 4 strings and just enough chutzpah.

(This album is the first release I have using a compilation of processes (.bat files under CMD Win 11) and I began putting together and documenting in late 2025 through May/June 2026. I refer to the process in general as Spectral Matching. It uses pure time domain as the basis for MASTERING or REMASTERING each track on this album. It can read any codec and bitrate/bitdepth master and write any codec and bitrate/bitdepth remaster. The goals of my Spectral Matching techniques are: 1) Recover the "Air" with full ambient resonance, harmonics, natural attack/decay, that is still in the 16/44.1k digital masters but needs Spectral Matching remastering to make use of only the time domain (not frequency) to bring it back out as ambient natural sound for human ears; 2) Create a set of tools and docs that are 100% free of any 3rd party software, licensing, whatever. My techniques used to remaster every song on this record "Intuitive Dream-Narratives (Vintage Kitchen Songs, Vol. 1)" used no commercial application software or DAW of any kind. It is all very simple to operate at the command level and uses only ffmpeg and ffprobe (open source) directly through command calls in Windows CMD batch files. No licenses or purchases are required to make use of this tool that I hope to share with others in the future as soon as I nail down some remaining final steps to make it more bomb proof and very easy to use for anyone with no real training -- It is designed especially for use by unsigned independent musical artists like me who want good sounding masters but don't know who can or how to or how much or any of that stuff. Stay tuned.)

released July 11, 2026

All Songs Written and Performed and Spectral Matching Remastered by David Elias, Copyright 2026, David Elias Music, Volcano, Hawaii, USA