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Elgar Cello Concerto in E Minor, Du Pré, Barbirolli, LSO Reissued By Electric Recording Company
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 10, 2018
It's difficult to believe that British born cellist Jacqueline Du Pré was but 20 years old on August 19th, 1965 when she delivered this recorded performance in famed Kingsway Hall with Sir John Barbirolli conducting the London Symphony Orchestra.

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Gillian Welch's 2003 "Soul Journey" on AAA Vinyl For the First Time
Michael Fremer  |  Sep 09, 2018
Gillian Welch's fourth album originally released in 2003 on CD-only finally gets an AAA release, cut by Stephen Marcussen on the Ortofon VMS-80 cutting system Welch and partner Dave Rawlings bought and restored. Now that's progress!

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Joan Baez's Debut Vanguard LP Coming From Craft, Cut From Original Master Tape
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 29, 2018
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Buffalo Springfield "What's That Sound?" Box Set —A Reissue Done 100% Right!
Michael Fremer  |  Jul 18, 2018
The Buffalo Springfield box set reissue fans have long awaited is finally here and it was well worth waiting for. Neil Young points out in the enclosed heavy paper full color "one sheet" that all five records were cut directly from the original master tapes, not tape copies. Each record has a Neil-created "SPARS code"

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Zappa Family Trust Releases AAA Edition of Frank's "Burnt Weeny Sandwich"
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 26, 2018
And this is how you do it correctly!: Supervised by the ZFT, the record was specially mastered for this release by Bernie Grundman with all analog production and cut directly from the 1970 ¼” stereo safety master tape in 2018.

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Graham Nash Talks About the Release of "Over the Years"— A Retrospective With A Twist (Corrected)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 19, 2018
AnalogPlanet last spoke with Graham Nash in 2016 upon the release of This Path Tonight, his latest collection of new songs. On June 29th RHINO will issue Over the Years a new 30 track, 15 song CD retrospective also available on vinyl as a 15 song double LP set. Over the Years includes songs originally released on CSN and CSN&Y albums as well as songs from the records he made with David Crosby and of course from his solo albums beginning with 1971's "Songs For Beginners".

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"Buddy Holly" Sounding Better Than Ever on This Analogue Productions 200g Reissue
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018
Buddy Holly's last album before "the day the music died" released in 1958 belongs in every rock-based record collection. It's not even a close call. And this reissue sourced from the original analog tapes still in superb condition and cut by Kevin Gray is by far the best sounding edition ever.

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"Gene Clark" Coming Soon AAA From Intervention
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018
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Katie Mahan Plays Gershwin (Direct-to-Disc)
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 05, 2018
It takes nerves of steel and a healthy serving of humility to agree to record direct-to-disc a solo piano recital but that's what Katie Mahan signed on for here. The results are both musically and sonically rewarding. Mahan gave her first piano recital at age 6, having decided at age 4 that she wanted to be a concert pianist after attending a performance of Gershwin's "American in Paris". From her online bio:

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500 Rock Records $500 Riverside CA
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 02, 2018
An AnalogPlanet reader just sent this Craig's List offering of 500 rock records in "good working condition" for $500.

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Jerome Sabbagh's Next Kickstarter Funded Release Will Be All-Analog, Cut by BG and Pressed at QRP
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 26, 2018
Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh's 2014 Kickstarter funded release The Turn was a musical and sonic success. It got great reviews here, in the Boston Globe, Stereophile and the L.A. Times. Now Sabbagh is back with another Kickstarter funded project but this time instead of recording analog and cutting from digital because of the extra expenses involved, he's going for an all-analog production.

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John Sebastian's First Solo Album Improves With Age (Amended to clarify was cut from tape and is AAA)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 18, 2018
Simon split from Garfunkel, Buffalo Springfield broke up. So did The Youngbloods, The Lovin' Spoonful and of course The Beatles. Yes, many '60s groups remained together, like The Rolling Stones and The Grateful Dead, but as the tumultuous '60s came to a close, others fragmented with leaders going solo.

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The Cranberries' "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?" First Time on Vinyl in 24 Years
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 11, 2018
What a voice, what a loss. Dolores O'Riordan, lead singer of the Irish group The Cranberries died suddenly in London January 15th, 2018 at age 46. She was in town for a recording session.

O'Riordan wrote lyrics and on some of the group's songs, the music as well, including three on this, the group's 1993 debut album. She also wrote music and lyrics on probably the group's best known song "Zombie"—her reaction to terrorist bombings by the Irish Republican Army—which is not on this album.

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New Jimi Hendrix Album "Both Sides of the Sky" Just Released (All Analog)
Michael Fremer  |  Mar 10, 2018
March 9 – Experience Hendrix and Legacy Recordings have released Jimi Hendrix’s new album Both Sides of the Sky today on CD, digital, and as a numbered 180-gram audiophile vinyl 2 LP set. NPR Music recently declared, “No rock figure before or since could breathe fire like Hendrix does, on his beloved well-known albums and on the assortment that is Both Sides of the Sky.” For the occasion, director John Vondracek has created a music video for “Lover Man,” a single from the album.

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Wilson Audiophile Recordings Series Reissues From Analogue Productions
Michael Fremer  |  Feb 10, 2018
Beginning in the late ‘70s, continuing throughout the 1980s and once in 1994 Wilson Audio Specialties founder Dave Wilson released a series of records that he co-produced with wife Sheryl Lee, many of which he also engineered. They were minimally miked—often a spaced pair of Schoeps was all—and mastered by an all-star lineup of disc cutters including Bruce Leek (who also shared engineering credit on some), Stan Ricker and Doug Sax (Google if any of the names are unfamiliar). The tape machine for all but the very early organ record Recital (Wilson W-278) was an Ultramaster™ by John Curl, a highly modified Studer 1/2" deck running at 30 IPS.

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