Product Description
RARE Half Speed Mastered Original Mobile Fidelity Sound Library Japanese Pressing, With Heavy Grade Gatefold Cover. It Is Very Hard To Find This Vintage Audiophile LP With Vinyl In Such Top Condition!
Half Speed Mastered Original MFSL Vinyl Pressings (Late ’70s – Early ’80s) Are Highly Sought After By Collectors & Audiophiles — Because They SOUND INCREDIBLE! (They Also Keep Increasing In Value)
An Impeccable Album From The Sophisticated Steely Dan Men, Walter Becker, Donald Fagen & Co.
Condition – Vinyl: NEAR MINT! Sound quality is FANTASTIC!
Condition – Cover: VERY GOOD PLUS. Medium ring / shelf wear, ink loss, spine creases. Inner gatefold is Excellent!
The original Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab company operated from 1977 to 1999, specialising in high quality reissues of classic albums. MFSL Original Master Recordings are exclusively transferred from the original stereo master tape that the musicians recorded in the studio (not from a second, third, or fourth generation copy of that master tape). Each Original Master Recording employs MFSL’s exclusive half-speed mastering process, thus capturing every nuance of sound from the master tape. Quality, not quantity, is the overwhelming consideration in the creation of each Original Master Recording. The number of pressings is strictly controlled. These limited editions assure you that the quality of the last pressing matches the quality of the first. Original Master recordings were custom pressed by the Victor Company of Japan (JVC). Super Vinyl, an exclusive compound far superior to even so-called 100% virgin vinyl, is utilized to achieve maximum clarity and startling quietness…. Super Vinyl also bestows unsurpassed durability to each Original Master Recording LP, achieving a “playing lifespan” at least five times longer than mass-produced records.
Side 1:
Black Cow
Aja
Deacon Blues
Side 2:
Peg
Home At Last
I Got The News
Josie
AMG –
A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock at its finest. Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs -- even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest.