Patrica Barber Cafe Blue 1 STEP LP
$
99
Favourite Auctions
To save auctions to your favourites, please login
If you don't have an account, please register
Description
Patrica Barber Cafe Blue 1 STEP. Condition is "Used" but in mint condition. Shipped with USPS Media Mail.
1STEP Process 180g 45rpm Double LPPressed on VR900-Supreme Vinyl!
Cut From Original Analog WorkMasters by Kevin Gray at CoHearent Audio!
Strictly Limited To 5000 NumberedPressings!
Patricia Barber has always been an artist's artist,harnessing a restless imagination and an intellectualized curiosity to createvisionary jazz that breaks boundaries and reorders perceptions. She serves thechase: the unexpected musical note. The irreplaceable word. The irregularbeating heart of jazz.
And Cafe Blue is the album that best personifies her genius.Spare, turbulent, quirky, and slyly humorous, there is no other jazz masterworkquite like it.
For the first collaboration with this musical vanguard,Impex's 1STEP is exclusively cut from original analog work masters and cut byKevin Gray at CoHearent Audio. The stunning fidelity, breathtaking dynamics andstartling spacial realism surpass every other edition of this breakthroughalbum.
The 1STEP Process:
The Impex 1STEP process relies on short, tightly-controlledruns that require a new lacquer after each 500 pressings. This unforgivingformat has the lacquer skipping the regular father-mother process, going rightto a single convert and then pressing. Though this dramatically increasesmastering and production costs, it also assures each run is more consistentfrom disc to disc, with less noise, clearer details and deeper bass.
Reducing production complexity to just a single ''convert''disc between the lacquer and the press greatly improves groove integrity,diminishes non-fill anomalies and increases signal integrity from the mastertape to your system.
Two 180-gram 45-rpm LPs, pressed on VR900-SUPREME VINYL, anda deluxe booklet are packaged in a heavy-duty 3-sleeve jacket. The jacket isthen placed in a cloth-bound slip case that protects your investment and bringsa cool retro-modern look to your shelves. Strictly limited to 5,000 numberedpressings!
''A long serious asthma attack had sidelined me for anentire year before and during the time I wrote the music for Cafe Blue. In arepeat of so many childhood episodes of being sick, exiled, looking out thewindow at other kids playing, coughing up mucus at my mother's insistence,crying myself to sleep, doing breathing exercises into an inhalation metergiven to me by the hospital to increase my lung capacity, there I was again at37 years old, very sick. My existence centered around the inhalation meterwhich showed a dangerously low number. Over the course of that year, I was ableto increase my lung capacity, day by day, incrementally, from a reading of'almost dead' to a normal, even robust lung capacity. But it took a full year,all my savings, and extreme patience to bring myself back to the world of theliving.
Toward the end of that year, feeling better, I startedworking again with music, my great love. At the Gold Star Sardine Bar, BillAllen, the owner, had insisted that I sing songs exclusively from the classicAmerican Songbook. My mother had taught me all of these songs, but I reallylearned them well during the 9 years of 6 nights a week at the Gold Star. (Thesmoke from the club also made me sick, as they had cigarettes on the tables.)Intimate knowledge of this song library gave me access to harmony, lyrics,secrets to what can make a song work. And like many other singers of the era, Iwas frustrated that there was no quality contemporary song repertoire. Havingtime on my hands, I decided to give songwriting a try. Pretty quickly Irealized I had a talent for it. The emotion you hear in the songs on Cafe Blueis some combination of my sadness at being imprisoned, my love for music andlife, and my joy in seeing light at the end of the tunnel.'' - P.B., December2019
Features
- Strictly limited to 5000 numbered pressings
- 1STEP Process
- 45rpm 180 Gram Vinyl
- Double LP
- Pressed on VR900-Supreme Vinyl
price rating
![Taylor Swift Red Taylor's Version (4LP RED COLOUR VINYL Target Exclusive) [2021]](https://www.popsike.org/php/thumbnail.php?url=https://www.popsike.pics/pix/20220215/194835772506.jpg)
