AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Pure Pleasure PPFAR1001 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Limited Edition - Pure Analogue Audiophile Mastering

Mastered by Seam Magee at Abbey Road  - Pressed  at Pallas Germany

Paul Clarvis is one of the UK's most respected and talented percussionists and has played with everyone from Mick Jagger and Nina Simone to Herbie Hancock and Andy Sheppard. As one of the most requested session musicians, he has played on numerous film soundtracks including "Star Wars", "Thunderbirds", "The Constant Gardener", "The Passion, Troy", "King Arthur", "Kingdom Of Heaven", "The Bourne Ultimatum", "Lord Of The Rings", "Batman", "Spy Games", "Captain Corellis Mandolin", "Shakespeare in Love"," James Bond", "Billy Elliot", "Notting Hill", and many others.

He co-leads his own band Orquestra Mahatma which specialises in improvisations on folk tunes from all over the world, and also leads an improvising trio "For All the Saints" with Stan Sultzmann and Tony Hymas. "Starry Starry Night" finds him teamed up with pianist Liam Noble, best known for his quirky, individual compositions and improvisations. Liam has also worked with Stan Sultzmann, as well as many other artists including Ingrid Laubrock, Anita Wardell, Harry Beckett, Christine Tobin, Chris Bisco and with cult minimalist composer Moondog, where he and Paul Clarvis first met.

Paul Clarvis is the idiosyncratic classical percussionist who was Leonard Bernstein's first choice on his UK trips, and who is nowadays equally active on the jazz and contemporary-classical circuits. His eclecticism isn't a career move or a calculated experiment, but an almost innocent openness to playing and hearing all music with equal wonderment. Liam Noble is one of the UK's most sophisticated jazz pianists, having absorbed all the usual suspects from Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk to Keith Jarrett and Brad Mehldau and resynthesised them in a personal style that avoids mimicry while remaining part of the acoustic piano jazz tradition.

Clarvis and Noble have made what you might call a "modest" album here - it avoids grandstanding effects and seeks to be no more than an open and empathetic conversation about standard songs by everyone from Duke Ellington to Paul Simon. Some are built up in hints, like Shadow of Your Smile, and some are great tunes played respectfully straight, such as the ballad Dear Someone and a rollicking Maple Leaf Rag. Simon's So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright suggests the Mehldau link, and Moondog's Paris is underpinned by the obligatory bass-drum boom that was the composer's trademark. The album might not grab by the lapels, but it's exquisite and casually joyous music-making between consummate improvisers nonetheless.

Musicians:

• Paul Clarvis (drums)
• Liam Noble (piano)
• Track Listing:
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  1. Mood Indigo 
  2. Shadow Of Your Smile 
  3. Dear Someone 
  4. Maple Leaf Rag 
  5. Vincent 
  6. Poor Butterfly 
  7. Whispering 
  8. So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright 
  9. Embraceable You 
  10. Do You Know What It Means To Miss New Orleans
  11. Paris

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Plated and Pressed at Pallas in Germany on 180 gram Virgin Vinyl

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Pure Pleasure Records
The Restoration of the Art of Sound
180g Vinyl Mastered From The Best Available Sources

At the beginning of the 90s, in the early days of audiophile vinyl re-releases, the situation was fairly straightforward. Companies such as DCC, Mobile Fidelity, Classic Records and, of course, Pure Pleasure all maintained a mutual, unwritten ethical code: we would only use analogue tapes to manufacture records. During the course of the present vinyl hype, many others have jumped on the bandwagon in the hope of securing a corner of the market. Very often they are not so ethical and use every imaginable source to master from: CDs, LPs, digital files, MP3s – or employed existent tools from the 80s and 90s for manufacturing.

A digital delay is gladly used when cutting a lacquer disc because tape machines with an analogue delay have become quite rare and are therefore expensive. When cutting the lacquer, the audio signal is delayed by one LP revolution against the signal, which controls the cutter head, and for this a digital delay is very often employed. Of course, the resultant sound signal is completely digital and thus only as good as this delay.

We should like to emphasize that Pure Pleasure Records on principle only uses the original master tape as the basis for the entirely analogue cutting of lacquer discs. In addition, the pressing tool is newly manufactured as a matter of principle. We only employ existing tools for manufacturing if an improved result is not forthcoming, e.g. the title Elvis Is Back, which was mastered by Steve Hoffman and Kevin Gray, or several titles from our Philips Classics series, which in any case Willem Makkee cut from the original masters at the Emil Berliner Studios in the 90s. It goes without saying that we only used the mother and that new tools were made for our production. To put it in a nutshell: we can ensure you that our releases are free from any kind of digital effects and that the lacquer discs are newly cut.

There really is nothing quite like it.  It’s the touch, the feel, you have to stop and stare, the cover,  the real thing, even the smell.

Its tangible, you can feel it, see it, study it,   muse/dream over it, it’s real, someone  has spent hours and hours over its construction and presentation. Pure Pleasure Records is just that, Pure Pleasure and that is what it has set out to be.  The music and the physical record.  Something to keep, treasure, admire and above all enjoy.Of course with vinyl it’s not just a record, it’s the cover,  the sleeve notes, you are  holding a unique package, produced by craftsmen.

60 Years Pallas