AAA 100% Analogue
This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head
Analogue Productions (Atlantic 75 Series)
All the hallmarks of a top-notch Analogue Productions reissue are here for you to savor:
Mastered directly from the original master tape by and cut at 45 RPM.
Pressed at Quality Record Pressings, and housed in tip-on old style gatefold double pocket jackets with film lamination by Stoughton Printing.
Female R&B singers were expected to be forceful, big-voiced divas (like Aretha Franklin) or come-hither seductresses (like Diana Ross), but Roberta Flack had her own unique approach. Flack's voice is vast, deep and stately - where some singers confuse frenzy with passion, she is confident, majestic and unhurried, intense in a profound yet reserved manner. Flack's gift is to draw attention to the song, not herself. Title song "Killing Me Softly" was her second No. 1 hit, establishing her as a major modern R&B stylist.
She didn't limit herself by genre, either - Flack gave distinctive interpretations of songs by major folk singer/songwriters Janis Ian ("Jesse") and Leonard Cohen ("Suzanne"), and she played up-tempo tunes when it struck her fancy ("I'm A Girl"). Killing Me Softly perfectly captures Flack's distinct aesthetic at its most fully formed point.
Side 1
1. Killing Me Softly With His Song
2. Jesse
Side 2
1. No Tears (In The End)
2. I'm The Girl
Side 3
1. River
2. Conversation Love
3. When You Smile
Side 4
1. Suzanne
