Patricia Barber Cafe Blue

Patricia Barber Cafe Blue 1STEP

£175.00

The 1STEP Process:
 The Impex 1STEP process relies on short, tightly-controlled runs that require a new lacquer after each 500 pressings

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Patricia Barber Cafe Blue 1STEP

1STEP Process 180g 45rpm Double LP Pressed on VR900-Supreme Vinyl!

Cut From Original Analogue Work Masters by Kevin Gray at CoHearent Audio!

Strictly Limited To 5000 Numbered Pressings!

Patricia Barber has always been an artist’s artist, harnessing a restless imagination and an intellectualised curiosity to create visionary jazz that breaks boundaries and reorders perceptions.

She serves the chase: the unexpected musical note. The irreplaceable word. The irregular beating heart of jazz.

And Café Blue is the album that best personifies her genius. Spare, turbulent, quirky, and slyly humorous, there is no other jazz masterwork quite like it.

For the first collaboration with this musical vanguard, Impex’s 1STEP is exclusively cut from original analogue work masters and cut by Kevin Gray at CoHearent Audio.

The stunning fidelity, breath-taking dynamics and startling spacial realism surpass every other edition of this breakthrough album.

Features Patricia Barber Cafe Blue 1STEP

Patricia Barber Cafe Blue 1STEP
  • Strictly limited to 5000 numbered pressings
  • 1STEP Process
  • 45rpm 180 Gram Vinyl
  • Double LP
  • Pressed on VR900-Supreme Vinyl
  • Exclusively cut from the original analog work masters
  • Cut by Kevin Gray at CoHearent Audio
  • Deluxe booklet
  • Packaged in a heavy-duty 3-sleeve jacket
  • Cool retro-modern cloth-bound slip case

 The 1STEP Process:
The Impex 1STEP process relies on short, tightly-controlled runs that require a new lacquer after each 500 pressings.

This unforgiving format has the lacquer skipping the regular father-mother process, going right to a single convert and then pressing.

Though this dramatically increases mastering and production costs, it also assures each run is more consistent from disc to disc, with less noise, clearer details and deeper bass.

Reducing production complexity to just a single “convert” disc between the lacquer and the press greatly improves groove integrity, diminishes non-fill anomalies and increases signal integrity from the master tape to your system.

Two 180-gram 45-rpm LPs, pressed on VR900-SUPREME VINYL, and a deluxe booklet are packaged in a heavy-duty 3-sleeve jacket.

The jacket is then placed in a cloth-bound slip case that protects your investment and brings a cool retro-modern look to your shelves.

Strictly limited to 5,000 numbered pressings!

Tracklisting

What A Shame

Mourning Grace

A Taste Of Honey

Ode To Billie Joe

Too Rich For My Blood

Mahna De Carnaval

Inch Worm

Wood Is A Pleasant Thing To Think About

Nardis

The Thrill Is Gone

Romanesque

Yellow Car III

Brand

Impex Records

Impex Records

What They Do

You live for this. The anticipation of pulling open the heavy-plastic outer sleeve. The sensation of removing the disc from its heavy-board, tip-on jacket. The heft of the 180-gram vinyl disc sliding into your hand. The satisfaction of the perfectly flat LP becoming one with the platter. The astonishment at the record’s silence surface. And then, that sound – the brilliant, vivid fidelity – and the euphoric emotion of being there at the creation: inside hallowed recording spaces such as Columbia’s 30th Street Studio, Capitol Studio A in Hollywood, or Abbey Road in London. From the moment the stylus hits the groove, you’re enveloped by amazing performances captured in extraordinary, life-like sound. Music with unprecedented transparency, immediacy and richness of tone. Pristine sound that comes as close to the original analog master tape as is humanly possible. Deep feelings abound as you experience the impeccable craftsmanship of an IMPEX RECORDS audio disc. This is the reward you’ve earned for a deep-seated love of music, your commitment to superior sound and the countless hours and prodigious capital you’ve invested in building a playback system that can transport you to your musical Nirvana. At IMPEX RECORDS, we make 180-gram LPs, 24K Gold CDs and Super Audio Compact Discs of uncompromising quality: exceptional products designed for discriminating listeners with a passion for music and sound. Our love for music, and respect for the art and science of sound recording, guides and informs every decision we make. Our dedication leads to obsessing over every detail of the craft for one purpose: to put you front-row center in the studio, club or concert hall to encounter great music exactly as it was recorded, with the highest of fidelity

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