The Subject: Re: Japanese re-issues At 10:53:19 on 03/11/08, Kenny (kenny@kennyrankin.com) wrote:
Hello Secret,
The tape for Silver Morning was not kept in the proper storage, and it had some flaws.
It went to DAT from the tape, and was re-mastered from the DAT. Vinyl was not part of
the process. That may be the reason it was never put in the CD format, back in the day.
I love this recording, and when I took control of the masters, this was the best they could
do. The Japanese CDs that you spoke about, are all from the same masters as the ones
that I re-released, in the last two years.
>Hello Kenny! >Just wanted to say I am enjoying the first 7 re-issues from Japan and a friend there got me a lovely laminated box in a Silver Morning design to hold them in! Great stuff.
>I had a question about the mastering on these. Is it the same as US copies? The Silver Morning album sounds as if mastered from vinyl - is this the case? Were the tapes lost?
Just curious.
>I grew up with the Beatles and lots of Brazilian music in my house. My sister had a couple of your albums I recall. Pity it's taken me 30 years to discover them but better
late than never.
>Speaking of Brazilian music...a couple of years ago I got to see Joao Gilberto play his first show ever here in Boston - what a gem.
>Anyway, your records all sound great to me. I see you are in Massachusetts in the Fall but only a private gig - hopefully there will be plans for other shows?!
>Cheers, >seakret
