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Sketches Of Spain - Original Master Recording - Sealed

MILES DAVIS Sketches Of Spain (Original Master Recording limited edition 5-track LP mastered by Krieg Wunderlich at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab on the Gain 2 Ultra Analog System, specially plated and pressed on 180-gram High Definition Vinyl. Originally released in 1960, arranged & conducted by Gil Evans, the album weds Spanish themes, lush orchestrations, romantic timbres, and Davis' increasingly lyrical methods in a tender ceremony that continues to resonate more than five decades after its original release. Picture sleeve individually gold-foil numbered & factory sealed. Recommended)

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Release Year 2012 - 12 years ago
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
Complete Stock List Go to Miles Davis
Product Catalogue No MFSL1-375
Music Genre Progressive, Jazz, Male Solo
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DAVIS' FINAL AND MOST IMPRESSIVE PAIRING WITH ARRANGER GIL EVANS YIELDS WATERSHED INNOVATIONS

1/4" / 15 IPS analog master to DSD 64 to analog console to lathe

Miles Davis and Gil Evans bridged styles and collaborated on high-concept projects a total of three times during their celebrated career. For their final act, they created Sketches of Spain, a peak moment in each luminary's career and a transformative album that weds Spanish themes, lush orchestrations, romantic timbres, and Davis' increasingly lyrical methods in a tender ceremony that continues to resonate more than five decades after its original release.

Side I
Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
Will O' the Wisp

Side II
The Pan Piper
Saeta
Solea

Part of Mobile Fidelity's Miles Davis catalog restoration series, the genre-defying 1960 classic has been given the ultimate white-gloves treatment. Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed at RTI, this exquisite 180g LP significantly expands the soundstage that frames the orchestra and digs deep to eradicate a dryness that many critics have found as an anathema to its overall enjoyment. Here, at last, is the full-figured perspective long deserved by the woodwinds, strings, and percussion, all of which come alive with previously unheard definition and detail.

With both Evans and Davis attracted to the blues undercurrents permanently entrenched in the Spanish flamenco strains, listeners can finally wholly detect the myriad microdynamic tonalities, brooding ostinato devices, and minor pedal points that stamp the compositions with divine sensibility and goffered effect.

Multi-note motifs, brief improvisational solos, fanfare sweeps, and contrapuntal exchanges inform the flamenco-spiced pieces, but so do unconventionally voiced instruments that come into full relief on this reissue. Davis' Harmon-muted trumpet is abetted by an assortment of bassoons and French horns that create pleasing contrasts and sounds (pp, mf, ppp) that get to the heart of Sketches of Spain: splashes of color. Seldom, if ever, did Davis ever so expressively and liberally paint with color. And in Evans, he has a likewise-minded partner to help draw out variegated shades, adamantine layers, and striated distinctions.

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Recording Artist Miles Davis
Product Title Sketches Of Spain - Original Master Recording - Sealed
Product Information Miles Davis Sketches Of Spain - Original Master Recording - Sealed USA vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
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