VANGELIS Antarctica OST EX+ 1983 1ST PRESS! Obi & Insert Japan Polydor 28MM 0290
Sold Date:
January 25, 2021
Start Date:
December 5, 2020
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$28.99
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Vinyl: EX+ Play Graded. Sounds Excellent! Polydor Labels are Clean and Bright. This is the 1983 Japan Polydor 1st Pressing! 28MM 0290. This is Vangelis at his best, just after Chariots of Fire. Plus, it's a great Kurahara Film! See Review Below!
Cover: EX+ (see photos) Has Obi strip and Insert with photo and credits. Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright. Seams and spine are solid and clean, essentially flawless. No splits. No writing. No bumps. No creases. Spine print is crystal clear.
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All records are packaged securely with the vinyl outside the jacket (to avoid seam split in transit). The vinyl and jacket are sandwiched between two cardboard stiffeners and shipped in a custom cardboard record mailer box.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl. Why experience the worse elements of both formats? These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared. They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound. There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider. Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive. Inner details are clearer. On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant. The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music. REVIEW
Antarctica is a soundtrack album by the Greek composer , released in 1983. It is the score of the 1983 Japanese film
("
Nankyoku Monogatari", lit. "South Pole Story") directed by , and was nominated by the for "Best Music Score". Synthesisers of "Theme from Antarctica" conjure cold and desolation, but also a bright landscape not lacking in beauty. "Antarctica Echoes" has minimal melody showing the vastness of the landscape. "Song of White" is cold-sounding, while "The Other Side of Antartica" has a sinister sound. "Deliverance" is the theme that plays at the end of the film when the handlers on the first expedition find corpses of seven dogs, that eight of the dogs broke loose, and two of the dogs, Taro and Jiro, return alive.
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