The Beach Boys - Sunflower - SACD

Product no.: CAPP 069 SA

The Beach Boys - Sunflower - SACD
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Analogue Productions - CAPP 069 SA - Hybrid SACD Stereo  

Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio

Limited Edition -  Hybrid SACD plays on ALL CD Players 

During the tail end of The Beach Boys' time with Capitol and the beginning of their tenure with their own label, Brother Records, the group produced a string of acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful albums. Sunflower followed Smiley Smile and preceded the magnificent Surf's Up, and it afforded the other band members a chance to contribute tracks alongside Brian Wilson. It continued a run of eclectic releases noted for beauty and inventiveness, but the public simply didn't get it. Stand-out tracks include 'Cool, Cool Water' and 'Forever,' and the standard is high enough for it to figure in a number of 'All-Time Greatest Album' lists." — Sound Quality = 90% - Ken Kessler, HiFi News
 
The ultimate pressings of the Beach Boys discography from Analogue Productions!
 
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio, most from the original master tapes or best sources available
 
Stereo mixes produced by Mark Linett and Alan Boyd / Mixed by Mark Linett
 
Audio production — Mark Linett - For Brother Records — Elliott Lott
 
Hybrid Stereo SACD plays in both CD and SACD players, as well as all SACD-compatible DVD players
 
"These are the best sounding and best-looking versions of the Beach Boys records that have ever been produced. We want everything about these to be better than the original." 
 
A musical legacy that began in Hawthorne, California and went on to conquer the world. Analogue Productions presents the ultimate pressings of 14 essential Beach Boys albums!
 
Mastered by Kevin Gray, most from the original master tapes, now presented on Hybrid Stereo SACD, these are awesome recordings to experience. 
 
For the early part of the Beach Boys career, all of their singles were mixed and mastered and released only in the mono format. Hits were made on AM radio in mono. And the mono of those times worked well for Brian Wilson — famed co-founder, songwriter and arranger — who suffers from partial deafness. The mono mixes were where Wilson paid intense attention, and the dedication paid off!
 
We’ve taken 10 of the most classic, best-sounding Beach Boy titles ever and restored them to their mono glory!
 
But there’s no disputing that the close harmonies and one-of-a-kind rhythms of hits like “Surfer Girl,” “In My Room,” “Little Deuce Coupe” and more lend themselves naturally to stereo. So we’ve got your 2-channel needs covered with prime stereo mix versions as well.
 
The Beach Boys' practice of double-tracking their vocals really lends itself to stereo mixes. Split left and right, as they are on a lot of those early stereo versions, those doubled vocal parts can really envelop the listener, surrounding them with Wilsons, Loves and Jardines!
 
Sunflower is considered by most fans — and some of the Beach Boys themselves — to be their finest work after Pet Sounds. More so than any other Beach Boys album, it's a true group collaboration, with Carl Wilson overseeing the production and mixdowns. Brian Wilson himself was very involved in the creation of this album, which includes one of his most enduring compositions, "This Whole World," as well as an expansion of a fragment from the Smile sessions, "Cool Cool Water," featuring some of the band's most intricate and playful interlocking vocal parts. Sunflower is also the home of some of Dennis Wilson's most enduring work, including the uptempo album opener "Slip On Through," and the classic Beach Boys ballad "Forever."
 
Sunflower, originally titled Add Some Music (after the group's initial single for Warners, "Add Some Music To Your Day," which failed to garner enough airplay to become a hit), underwent several lineup revisions before its eventual release in the late summer of 1970. The album, hailed by the U.K. music press as "The Beach Boys' Sgt. Pepper, failed to sell, despite glowing reviews and wide acclaim for its rich sonic texture (due in no small part to the efforts of Beach Boys' engineer Stephen Desper, a noted pioneer in quadrophonic and surround sound technologies
 
Selections:
1. Slip On Through
2. This Whole World 
3. Add Some Music To Your Day
4. Got To Know The Woman
5. Deirdre
6. It's About Time
7. Tears In The Morning
8. All I Wanna Do
9. Forever
10. Our Sweet Love
11. At My Window
12. Cool, Cool Water
 

 

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