NICK DRAKE PINK MOON LTD EDITION BOX SET STILL SEALED AUDIOPHILE RECORDING

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Nick Drake Pink Moon on Limited Edition Box Set w/ LP + Poster + Handwritten Lyrics Facsimile + Download

 Exact Replicated Audiophile Virgin Vinyl Pressing

 Remastered from the Original 40-Year Old Analog Master Tapes by the Original Co-Producer and Engineer John Wood at Abbey Road

 Housed in a Box Showing the Original Master Tape Box From Which the Vinyl was Mastered

 Pink Moon, Nick Drake’s third and final album, was originally released on Island Records in 1972 and is the record that made him the cult figure he remains to this day. Recorded in November of 1971, the beautifully spare 11-song set only features Drake's vocals, guitar, and piano. The music comes across as peaceful and unadulterated through its richly woven textures of tone and melody. Although the story behind his music is undeniably tragic, what he left behind here is truly breathtaking.

 Drake’s reluctance to tour or overtly sell his work led to the initial 3,000 pressings selling poorly but never quite selling out; Island kept the title on catalog. However, interest in Pink Moon exploded when Volkswagen used the title track to promote their new Cabriolet in the US in the late '90s. Drake's poorest-selling album soon became a best-seller, and the interest in his tiny canon blossomed. Original first-pressing LP values soared above the $600 mark, thus allowing inferior counterfeit bootleg vinyl editions to proliferate.

 40 years on since its birth, USM re-presents the album in an exact replicated vinyl pressing, re-mastered by the original co-producer and engineer John Wood at Abbey Road and pressed on audiophile virgin vinyl with the original gatefold sleeve, inner sleeve, paper labels, the promotional shop-poster and a facsimile of Nick's handwritten lyrics to four of the songs, all gathered together in a box showing the original master tape box from which the vinyl was mastered.

"His voice conveys, in its moans and breathy whispers, an alluring sensuality, but he sings as if he were viewing his life from a great, unbridgeable distance. That element of detachment is chilling. To reinforce it, messages of isolation gradually float to the surface of the songs' spare, eloquent melodies." - Rolling Stone, Anthony DeCurtis

"He arrived at midnight and we started. It was done very quickly. After we had finished I asked him what I should keep, and he said all of it, which was a complete contrast to his former stance. He came in for another evening and that was it. It took hardly any time to mix, since it was only his voice and guitar, with one overdub only. Nick was adamant about what he wanted. He wanted it to be spare and stark, and he wanted it to be spontaneously recorded." - John Wood, sound engineer for Pink Moon

 Features:

• Exact replicated audiophile virgin vinyl pressing

• Remastered by original co-producer/engineer John Wood at Abbey Road from the original 40-year old master tapes

• Original gatefold sleeve, inner sleeve, paper labels, promotional shop-poster, and facsimile of handwritten lyrics to 4 songs

• Housed in box showing original master tape box from which the vinyl was mastered

• Choice of 3 free downloadable versions: 24 bit Digital, MP3 and Dubbed from disc

posted on 02/07/2013
5 Stars
Reviewer: jonathan

A finely crafted vinyl and musical experience in every way. My copy has a complete lack of surface noise, revealing a big, detailed, warm and intimate presentation of this amazing music. If that is not enough, the outer box & included materials is a pinnacle of quality construction and attention to detail. Very highly recommended.