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

Impex - IMP6007 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - AAA 100% Analogue

Mastered by Bernie Grundman -  Pressed at RTI 

The Absolute Sound Super Disc List    TAS Harry Pearson Super LP List

Sonic Monster This LP has many things going for it. Some great songs and deluxe packaging. One thing that strikes me about it is that there is monster bass and the sound is very warm. . Here it is in likely even better sound. Sound 5/5 LP Review

Jennifer Warnes The Hunter on 180g LP The Hunter was released five years after Jennifer Warnes' breakthrough with her critically acclaimed Leonard Cohen tribute, Famous Blue Raincoat. The Hunter is a varied affair that features songs from Todd Rundgren ("Pretending To Care"), The Waterboys ("The Whole Of The Moon"), Donald Fagen ("Big Noise, New York"), and mentor Leonard Cohen, who also guest appears on "Way Down Deep," as well as some of her own original material.

Available once again by popular demand, the Grammy-nominated recording by Elliot Scheiner now features all-tube mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering using Jennifer Warnes' personal original analog master tapes who also supervised the reissue throughout the process.

It's an example of both an artist in full charge of her powers and analog art at its very best." - Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound Magazine,

All-Tube Mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering From the Original Master Analog Tapes on 180 Gram Vinyl! 

Available once again by popular demand, Jennifer Warnes' acclaimed follow up to Famous Blue Raincoat features a Grammy-nominated recording by Elliot Scheiner and all-tube mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering using Jennifer's personal original analog master tapes. Personally supervised by the artist.

'The Hunter' was released 5 years after her breakthrough with 'Famous Blue Raincoat'. A TOP 100 LP when first released in 1992, The Hunter's audiophile credibility is best summed up by Elliot Scheiner's Grammy nominated recording and mix. It contains the charting single "Rock You Gently," a sonically dense yet expansive cover of The Waterboy's classic "The Whole of the Moon," a soulful Jennifer Warnes/Leonard Cohen composition "Way Down Deep," Todd Rundgren's "Pretending to Care" and even a Donald Fagen tune ("Big Noise, New York"). She owns every tune here, backed by a-list session players who ground the songs with solid and unobtrusive authority, letting Jennifer's peerless interpretive skills bring the soul of every lyric to the forefront. Ms. Warnes uses her voice to serve the lyric and this allows the song to return the favor. 

"The follow-up to Warnes' FBR offers crisp percussion cues, solid bass throughout - but especially during "Way Down Deep" - and a surprise chamber quartet on the title track" - Neil Gader, TAS Guide to Audiophile Demo Disc  

1. Rock You Gently

2. Somewhere, Somebody

3. Big Noise, New York

4. True Emotion

5. Pretending to Care

6. The Whole of the Moon

7. Lights of Louisianne

8. Way Down Deep

9. The Hunter

10. I Can't Hide

 

Impex Records is the exciting audiophile label from the team that brought you Cisco Music. With more than 20 years experience and 150 titles released, Cisco Music developed many of the techniques used by other labels to make higher quality 180-gram LPs, SACDs and Gold and aluminum CDs.

We brought definitive editions Jennifer Warnes' The Well, The Hunter and Famous Blue Raincoat in multiple formats, including a 45 rpm box set that Absolute Sound magazine declared "defines the state-of-the--art in vinyl playback." Other classic reissues we nurtured to fantastic rebirths include the jazz-rock perfection of Steely Dan's Aja, Joan Baez' Farewell Angelina, NathanMilstein's poetic interpretation of Dvorak's Violin Concerto and four exquisite 45-rpm Three Blind Mice LPs.

Even in our humbler origins we were trusted with the distribution and production of The Super Analogue Disc, the original audiophile 180-gram LPs. King Records recognized, from the very beginning, that Cisco Music brought unflinching passion to the music and unflailing dedication to the process of bringing that music to the most discerning listeners in the world.

Now as Impex Records some of the original Cisco staff (Abey Fonn, Robert Pincus and Robert Sliger), along with Robert Donnelly, will follow and expand our own high standards for a new generation of audiophile products. Analog products will always be cut using analog tapes and analog mastering at the finest mastering facilities like Sterling, Cohearent and Bernie Grundman--just as it should be. Gold CD's will always be cut with high-definition digital or analog tape transfers from original sources. We will introduce America to Sony's revolutionary Blu-Spec CD, which redefines production excellence in 16-bit digital playback.

With a singular vision for making the best records anywhere, Impex Records is poised to expand Cisco Music's peerless legacy well into the 21st century. It's going to be quite a journey and we look forward to your joining us. We have committed ourselves, with every new release, to your complete satisfaction.

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