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Notes from Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab:

"Miles Davis Sketches of Spain on Numbered Limited Edition 180g LP

Davis’ Final and Most Impressive Pairing with Arranger Gil Evans Yields Watershed Innovations

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.

Part of our 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.

Indeed, in its three-decade-plus history, we has never been prouder to have the honor of handling efforts as important as Davis’ key recordings. It’s why the label’s engineers have taken every available measure to insert listeners into the space occupied by Davis, bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Jimmy Cobb, percussionist Elvin Jones, and the 18-piece orchestra. 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."

Track Listing

1. Concierto de Aranjuez (Adagio)
2. Will O’ the Wisp
3. The Pan Piper
4. Saeta
5. Solea

Other Details Vinyl Weight: 180g Vinyl Colour: Black Number of Discs: 1 Record Size: 12" Original Release Year: 1960 Release Year of this Version: 2013 Label: Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab Catalog Number: MFSL 1-375 Package Type: Jacket Manufactured in: US Our Products All of our records are BRAND NEW, UNPLAYED and UNOPENED - Direct from the distributor or record label. Tax Through our registered business, Northern Volume, we are required to charge tax based on your location in Canada. The GST/HST rate will depend on your province of residence in relation to our location in Ontario and is based on your final purchase price. (Does not apply to US or International buyers) Shipping We ship to Canada, the USA, Australia and select locations in Europe. Check the shipping tab to get an accurate shipping price. Our records are shipped safely in high quality LP shipping boxes - see an example Save with Combined Shipping We have a special combined shipping rate for customers in the USA & CANADA! If you are buying multiple items, you pay the full shipping rate of the item with the highest shipping price, then only $1 for shipping each additional item! Simply click on the "Buy it Now" button for each item and follow the directions, waiting to make payment until you have done this for each item. At the end, your invoice should adjust and give you a total with the special shipping rate. If you encounter difficulty with this process, please contact us. If you are an international buyer (outside of the USA & Canada) looking for multiple items, this discount does not apply. Please contact us directly for a shipping quote.