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Mobile Fidelitys Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Presents the 1970 Albums Epic Scope, Tonal Depth, and Precision Details in Audiophile Clarity.
Mastered at MoFis California studio and housed in mini-LP-style packaging, Mobile Fidelitys numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Emerson, Lake & Palmer presents the benchmark album in audiophile sound. Clear, dynamic, and balanced, this collectible edition honors the perfectionist approaches that both informed the playing and recording of the record.
Supergroups existed before Emerson, Lake & Palmer formed in 1970. And, as we all know well, many came after. But few, if any, matched the English trios chemistry and its elevated combination of virtuosity, vision, and verve. Having influenced a multitude of followers, ELPs prowess was obvious from the start. The bands self-titled debut stands as a towering statement of creative imagination, execution, and discipline more than five decades after its original release.
Comprised of genre-defying originals and hybrid arrangements of two classical pieces, the album Rolling Stone originally and rightly said is best heard as a whole matches outrageous ambition with the otherworldly skills of three musicians who remain among the finest to ever pick up their respective instruments. While Emerson soon drew the lions share of headlines for his ability on keys clavinet, Moog, piano, Hammond organ, and pipe organ included Greg Lakes aptitude on guitar and bass, along with well as Carl Palmers monster talents behind the kit, created a three-headed hydra that devoured everything in front of it.
That extends to the radical reinterpretation of Bela Bartoks The Barbarian that begins the LP, a performance that in less than four-and-a-half minutes runs the gamut from distorted to churchy to angular and blustery. More classical flourishes, keyboard wizardry, hard-rock heaviness, and gothic signatures emerge throughout Knife-Edge, which reimagines music by Leos Janacek and J.S. Bach and ultimately invites you to explore a cathedral of sound teeming with separate bursts of keys and percussion.
And did someone say drumming? Check out Palmers monster salvo on Tank, a rhythmic showcase that marches out with knee-bent notes and mirror-reflected passages. Or dive into the mythological suite The Three Fates. Replete with three parts and Emerson playing the pipe organ at Royal Festival Hall, it shoots off sonic fireworks via sophisticated arpeggios, jazz improvisations, dancing counter-meters, sizzling chords, and a few explosions. Please dont hold anyone at MoFi responsible if your system cannot handle it; this is heady stuff.
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