Miles Davis - Miles in the Sky (2LP, Ultra Analog, Half-speed Mastering, 45 RPM)
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Miles Davis, trumpet [click here to see more vinyl featuring Miles Davis]
Wayne Shorter, tenor saxophone [click here to see more vinyl featuring Wayne Shorter]
Herbie Hancock, piano, electric piano [click here to see more vinyl featuring Herbie Hancock]
Ron Carter, bass [click here to see more vinyl featuring Ron Carter]
Tony Williams, drums
George Benson, electric guitar on "Paraphernalia" [click here to see more vinyl featuring George Benson]
2 LPs, gatefold sleeve
Limited numbered edition
Original analog Master tape : YES
Half-speed Mastering
Gain 2™ Ultra Analog
Heavy Press : 180g
Record color : black
Speed : 45RPM
Size : 12”
Stereo
Studio
Record Press : RTI
Label : MOFI
Original Label : Columbia
Recorded January 16 and May 15–17, 1968 at Columbia Studio B in New York City
Engineered by Arthur Kendy, Frank Laico
Produced by Teo Macero
Remastered by Krieg Wunderlich
Originally released in 1968
Reissued in 2015
Tracks:
Side A :
- Stuff
Side B :
- Paraphernalia
Side C :
- Black Comedy
Side D :
- Country Son
Awards:
TAS Super LP List! Special Merit: Informal
Reviews :
“Mo-Fi's Miles reissues keep coming. Porgy and Bess another atmospheric Miles-Gil Evans collaboration dropped early 2020. While all of these Miles albums are musically significant and many are sonically excellent on both original pressings and on these reissues, the biggest sonic surprise was how much better the reissued quintet (Shorter, Hancock, Carter, Williams) recordings sound compared to the originals. Whatever happened in the original mastering has been vastly improved on Nefertiti, Miles in the Sky and Filles De Kilimanjaro. If you have originals and think, you're covered, you're not! Get these while you can.” Michael Fremer, Analog Planet
"With the 1968 album Miles in the Sky, Miles Davis explicitly pushed his second great quintet away from conventional jazz, pushing them toward the jazz-rock hybrid that would later become known as fusion. Here, the music is still in its formative stages, and it's a little more earth-bound than you might expect, especially following on the heels of the shape-shifting, elusive Nefertiti. On Miles in the Sky, much of the rhythms are straightforward, picking up on the direct 4/4 beats of rock, and these are illuminated by Herbie Hancock's electric piano -- one of the very first sounds on the record, as a matter of fact -- and the guest appearance of guitarist George Benson on "Paraphernalia." All of these additions are tangible and identifiable, and they do result in intriguing music, but the form of the music itself is surprisingly direct, playing as extended grooves. This meanders considerable more than Nefertiti, even if it is significantly less elliptical in its form, because it's primarily four long jams. Intriguing, successful jams in many respects, but even with the notable additions of electric instruments, and with the deliberately noisy "Country Son," this is less visionary than its predecessor and feels like a transitional album -- and, like many transitional albums, it's intriguing and frustrating in equal measures." AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Ultra Analog™ : The GAIN 2 Ultra Analog™ Series stems from the use of the Gain 2 system, mastered at half speed from the original master tapes where possible, capturing and uncovering as before undiscovered sonic information.
Half-speed mastering. In half-speed mastering, the whole process is slowed down to half of the original speed. A typical 33 1/3 rpm record is cut at 16 2/3 rpm. The source material is also slowed down (reducing the pitch in the process) meaning the final record will still sound normal when played back. Slowing the whole process down allows more time, which means the end result sounds better and is more efficient — allowing engineering to minimize the effects of inherent limitations within the vinyl format. The result is a more accurate and more open high-frequency response in the half speed vinyl when compared with a normal speed recording.
Ratings :
AllMusic : 3,5 / 5 , Discogs : 4,43 / 5 , Michael Fremer : Music = 9/11; Sound = 9/11