Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall - 180g LP

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Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall - 180g LP
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AAA 100% Analogue This LP was Remastered using Pure Analogue Components Only from the Master Tapes through to the Cutting Head

Pure Pleasure / Colpix PPAN SCP455 - 180 Gram Virgin Vinyl - 

Pure Analogue Audiophile Remaster -  Pressed at Pallas Germany - Colpix SCP 455

AAA 100% Analogue - Mastered at Abbey Road by Sean Magee

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This 180g reissue is a live album recorded in 1963 at Carnegie Hall. Singer/pianist/songwriter Nina Simone performs seven songs including "Black Swan", "Will I Find My Love Today" and the instrumental "Theme from Sayonara".

Pianist and singer Nina Simone defied categorization by blending classical, jazz and popular music into an unconventional and highly personal idiom. Over four decades, she galvanized audiences with albums and performances replete with deep passion and keen attention to emotion. 

Fiercely honest, Simone was admired for her eccentricity and individualism. She was known for her spirited personality on and off the stage and  voicing her opinions about social topics of the time. 


The legacy of Simone's music and message can be heard not only in jazz but amongst the many pop artists who cite her influence. Several of Simone's songs have become jazz standards, and her voice is even familiar to audiences who don't know her name through their frequent use in movie soundtracks and commercials. 

In 1963, Nina was adamant about making a solo appearance at Carnegie Hall in fulfillment of her childhood dream as the first black female classical pianist. None of the concert promoters would undertake such a presentation because they did not believe she could carry off a solo concert. Therefore, when I resigned from the NYPD [New York Police Department], I took my pension rebate and, on the advice of experts in the music industry, hired Felix Gerstman, New York City's premier concertmaster, to manage the presentation

• Re-mastering by Sean Magee at Abbey Road Studios

Musicians:
Nina Simone, piano & vocal
Alvin Schackman, guitar
Phil Orlando, guitar
Lisle Ackinson, bass
Montego Joe, drums 

Selections:
Side One: 

1. Black Swan (From "The Medium")
2. Theme From Samson And Delilah
3. If You Knew
4. Theme From Sayonara
Side Two: 
1. The Twelfth Of Never
2. Will I Find My Love Today
3. The Other Woman / Cotton Eyed Joe

Recorded May 12, 1963

Nina Simone - Nina Simone At Carnegie Hall - 180g LP

 
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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.

Pure Pleasure  Records bring you vinyl albums of quality Jazz - Blues - R+B - Soul - Funk, remastered by some of the best engineers in the world and pressed on 180 gram audiophile vinyl at what is probably the best pressing plant in Europe 

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