Joni Mitchell – Hejira – MOFI Hybrid SACD
Joni Mitchell Embarks on Open-Ended Journeys and Chronicles Restlessness on Hejira: Expansive, Jazz-Minded Effort Is Ranked the 113th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone
Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Plays with Authoritative Detail, Tonality, Immediacy, and Clarity: First Time 1976 Set Is Presented in Audiophile Sound on Disc
Joseph Bonner – Impressions Of Copenhagen – Pure Pleasure Records 180g Vinyl LP
Originally released by Theresa in 1992, this frequently exquisite set features the McCoy Tyner-inspired piano of Joe Bonner on four originals, Cal Massey’s Quiet Dawn, and Lush Life.
Bonner and a rhythm section are joined by a string quartet, trumpet, trombone, and flutist Holly Hofmann (the leader provided the arrangements) for music that is both lyrical and often passionate.
Bonner is an underrated talent, and this is one of his finest recordings
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures – Vinyl LP
Joy Division – Unknown Pleasures Vinyl LP: Post-Punk Atmosphere, Pressed for Analogue Depth
Minimal. Iconic. Utterly Immersive.
Released in 1979, Unknown Pleasures stands as one of the most influential debut albums in alternative music. With Martin Hannett’s signature spacious production and Joy Division’s restrained, emotionally charged performances, the album created a blueprint for post-punk that still resonates today. Ian Curtis’s voice cuts through the cold textures with urgent vulnerability, while the band’s tight, pulsing instrumentation builds an unrelenting, hypnotic soundscape.
This vinyl edition honours the stark sonic architecture of the original recording. Peter Hook’s melodic bass lines, Stephen Morris’s crisp drumming, and Bernard Sumner’s sharp guitar tones are rendered with clarity and atmosphere, while the pressing captures every reverb-drenched nuance of Hannett’s production. Played on a revealing system, Unknown Pleasuresis not just heard—it’s felt.
A vital record in the evolution of modern music, this pressing is the definitive way to experience Joy Division’s dark brilliance in full analogue form
Judee Sill “Heart Food” – Intervention Records 180g Vinyl
Julie London – Latin In A Satin Mood – Analogue Productions 200g Vinyl
Analogue Productions has brought back Julie London sings Latin In A Satin Mood in dramatic, deserving fashion. Remastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, and plated and pressed on 200-gram vinyl at Quality Record Pressings, the crispness and vibrancy of this recording is spectacular.
Exotic and Latin albums were big deals in the 1950s and early '60s, and singers as diverse as Dean Martin, Lena Horne, and Peggy Lee were recording with castanets and bongo drums. Like Peggy Lee, London combines a restrained vocal approach with jazz phrasing and a cool attitude with icy sex appeal on this album of relaxing Latin standards. Julie does look beautiful on the cover, and the backup male "mariachi-esque" serenade ads to the romantic ambiance.
Kate Bush – Lionheart – Fish People Records 180g Vinyl LP
Kate Bush – The Kick Inside (2018 Remaster) – Fish People Records 180g Vinyl
Kicking things off with a whimper, not a bang, Kate Bush quietly released her 1978 debut, The Kick Inside and that disc still to this day affects an incredible number people. There are so many elements that make this disc unique – Kate’s soaring soprano, her warm piano playing – but the one thing that perhaps sticks out most is how different her sounds were from anything else circulating at that time. Ten years before ‘Alternative’ hit the forefront, this music was neither easy nor palatable, truly an alternative from the other styles out there. Among the more legendary tracks, search out The Man With The Child in His Eyes and her timeless classic Wuthering Heights.
Kate Bush Hounds of Love – Fish People Records 180g 1LP Coloured Vinyl LP
Kenny Dorham – Matador Numbered Limited Edition HQ-180g Vinyl LP
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Limited To 5000 Pressings
• Audiophile 180g Vinyl LP
• 33rpm
• Available on all-analog LP for the first time in nearly 50 years
• First time ever on HQ-180
• Mastered by Chris Bellman from the original analog master tapes
• Original single disc jacket with ribbed paper tip-on over heavy-board stock
• Pressed at RTI
Khachaturian Gayne Ballet Suite 2LP 45rpm 180g Vinyl LSO Fistoulari Everest Classic Records
Rarely has a record label been so influential and so associated with trend-setting recording techniques for its time as Everest Records. Hollywood sound man Harry Belock and audio dealer-engineer Bert Whyte started the label as the stereo era dawned. They acquired 3-channel 35mm magnetic film recording equipment in 1959, and through the early ’60s recorded in this fashion, as did Mercury Records.
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- Limited Edition
- 2LP 45rpm 200 Gram Vinyl
- Cut From Original 35mm Magnetic Film Tapes
- Mastered Using ‘All Tube’ Cutting System
- Mastered by Bernie Grundman
- Classic Records 200-gram Super Vinyl Flat Profile
- Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, QRP USA
- Stoughton Printing tip-on old style covers
- 2 LP’s Packaged in protective clear sleeve
Kirsten Edkins – Shapes & Sound – Cohearent Sound 180g Vinyl
Shapes and Sound by jazz composer/saxophonist Kirsten Edkins
Shapes and Sound from jazz saxophonist Kirsten Edkins is the debut LP release from Cohearent Records — the new record label companion to famed mastering engineer Kevin Gray's latest enterprise, an all-valve (vacuum tube) recording studio (Cohearent Recording) adjoining his home-based mastering facility in California.
"It's the 'essence of an era' we are trying to recapture with today's musicians, not the sound of specific spaces, engineers or recordings," Gray told music reviewer Michael Fremer.
