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Pat Metheny – Orchestrion Label:Nonesuch – 516668-1 Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP Country:Germany Released:2010 Genre:Jazz Style:Free Improvisation Tracklist A1Orchestrion15:48 B1Entry Point10:28 B2Expansion8:35 C1Soul Search9:19 C2Spirit Of The Air7:45 Credits Composed By, Arranged By, Guitar, Other [Orchestrionics], Producer – Pat Metheny Coordinator [Project Coordinator] – David Sholemson Design – Barbara De Wilde Engineer [Assistant] – Hyomin Kang Executive-Producer – Robert Hurwitz Mastered By – Mark Wilder Photography By – Henry Leutwyler Producer [Associate] – Steve Rodby Recorded By, Mixed By – Joe Ferla Technician [Director] – David Oakes Technician [Guitar Tech & Tuning] – Carolyn Chrzan Technician [Orchestrionic Instrument Maintenance & Repair] – Boris Klompus, Leif Krinkle Technician [Piano Tuning] – Mike Miccio Technician [Technical Assistance] – Pete Karam Notes Orchestrionic instruments custom-built for this project by Eric Singer and LEMUR (League of Elecronic Musical Urban Robots), Ken Caulkins at Ragtime West, Mark Herbert, Cyril Lance and Peterson Electro-Musical Products. Disklaviers provided by Yamaha Piano.  Cymbals provided vy Sabian. Drums provided by Sonor. Mallets provided by Vic Firth and Mike Balter.  Recorded at Legacy/MSR Studio NYC October 2009  Mastered at Battery Sound 

GERMAN 180g FIRST PRESSING DOUBLE VINYL ALBUM WITH INSERT AND ORIGINAL POLY-LINED INNER SLEEVES. There is no CD or download card with this listing

SLEEVE: VERY GOOD+, WOULD BE EXCELLENT MINUS EXCEPT FOR A SMALL MIDDLE TOP SEAM SPLIT.  INSERT AND INNER SLEEVES EXCELLENT MINUS.

DISCS: EXCELLENT MINUS. NO SCRATCHES, JUST A FEW MINISCULE HAIRLINES. CLEAN LABELS.

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, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant and you 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.