Bernie Krause Citadels Of Mystery SEALED 1978 MFSL 1/2 SPEED PROMO VINYL LP
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Description
Item Details:
Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Product Code: 1-505
Format: ½ Speed Audiophile Virgin Vinyl LP Original Factory Sealed
This is for a MFSL LP was pressed in Japan before Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs eventually pressed their Lps in the United States. The LP was Half-Speed Mastered with the Ortofon Cutting System from the Original Stereo Master Tapes. This MFSL LP has a special static free, dust free inner sleeve and heavy-duty protective packaging. This LP has been Out of Print for 30+ years and a bonafide audiophiles collectible.
This Limited Edition FACTORY SEALED LP is an audiophile collectors item that simply gives the feeling of being directly in the studio with the artist. Used nothing but the finest lacquers. The more you play the LP, your stylus will polish the grooves and actually improve the sonics of your MFSL LP. This recording is mastered from the Original Session Tapes. This Out of Print LP has all Liner Notes, Photos, and Artwork from the Original LP faithfully recreated.
Discography About The Record:
Considering the fraught circumstances in which this album was recorded, it's a miracle it sounds as serene as it does. Originally, this was planned as a collaborative project between Krause and his musical partner, Paul Beaver, for Columbia, but that deal collapsed when CBS executive Clive Davis was fired. Then Beaver died of a brain hemorrhage in January 1975, leaving Krause to record it for Takoma as a solo artist, albeit with the help of numerous side players (including a young Mark Isham, who plays flügelhorn on "Heights of Machu Picchu") and arrangers. Then the record wasn't released for another four years. In some respects -- particularly the mellow jazz-pop melodies on much of the material -- it was of its time. In other respects it was ahead of its time, particularly in the genre-blending of the arrangements, which mixed fusion-like jazz with Latin-flavored production, Krause's own synthesizer shadings, film score-like ambience, and some of the placid traits that would come to be associated with new age music. It's a hard album to describe and evaluate, because in some respects it's so ordinary and bland, and in others rather far-out. The blandest aspects are the smooth jazz-pop casts of some of the melodies and arrangements, as well as the occasional hokeyness of some of the more dramatic-cinematic passages. But these weave in and out of pretty cool-sounding tribal-type percussive segments, some eerie synthesizer parts (as on the fade of "Flight to Urubamba"), and chant-singing that sounds like it's out of an Afro-Caribbean ritual. The very beginning of "Citadel, Ay Bobo," in fact, almost sounds like Bobby McFerrin gone ethnic-avant-garde. It would have been a more interesting (if less accessible) record had Krause concentrated on those weirdest parts. But if that's what you want, you'd be better off hunting down early Exuma albums rather than something like this, which had a far greater outreach to mainstream listeners.
Tracks:
Side I (Machu Picchu Suite)
1 Festival Of The Sun 6:11
2 Heights Of Machu Picchu 3:58
3 Flight To Urubamba 4:58
Side II
1 Jambo, Jambo (Zimbabwe, Africa) 7:08
2 Stonehenge: A Mid-summer's Day Dream 3:29
3 Citadel, Ay Bobo 5:09
RECORD CONDITION:
THE VIRGIN VINYL ALBUM IS STILL ORIGINAL FACTORY SEALED.
COVER CONDITION:
PROMO COVER IS STILL SEALED AND COVERED IN ITS ORIGINAL SHRINK WRAP W/ CORNER WEAR
NO OTHER IMPERFECTIONS ON THE COVER:
No creasesNo seam splits
No stickers
No cut-out (drill) holes
No cut-out corners
No saw-marks or indents
No dirt/dust rubbing stains (friction marks caused by rubbing against other covers)
No yellowing from aging
No writing
No tape
No water damage
No warping
No wax, glue, paint or liquid drops on the cover
No glue traces or wax residue.
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