Miles Davis Bitches Brew #D Ltd Ed MOFI 180 Gram Vinyl 2LP (Sealed)

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Serial #7838!

Numbered, Limited Edition 180g Vinyl! Pressed at RTI!
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes!
Rolling Stone 500 Greatest Albums of All Time - Rated 95/500!

Monumental 1970 Double Album is Signpost for Jazz Fusion: Psychedelic Record  Still Sounds Ahead of Its Time More Than 40 Years Later

Otherworldly Sonics: Mobile Fidelity Delivers the Consummate Pressing of the  Uncompromising Work Ranked by Rolling Stone as Among the Greatest 100 Albums of  All Time

Grammy Award-Winning Set Ignores Convention, Pursues Funk and Rock Directions  Via Innovative Rhythms and Groundbreaking Ensemble Configurations

"Listen to This." As the original working title for Bitches Brew, the  instruction and invitation resonates to this day as the best way to approach a  record that shattered conventions, altered music history, and, more than 40  years later, still sounds far ahead of its time. The aural Mount Rushmore of  jazz fusion, Bitches Brew is rightly ranked by virtually every significant press  outlet among the 100 greatest albums ever made in any genre. Sewn together with  vibrant colors, voodoo textures, and ethereal moods, the 1970 landmark emerges  with supreme detail and nonpareil feeling on Mobile Fidelity's definitive 180g  33RPM 2LP set.

Mastered from the original master tapes and pressed on 180g vinyl at RTI, this  collectable audiophile 33RPM version of Bitches Brew joins the ranks of eleven  other essential Miles Davis sets given supreme sonic and packaging treatment by  Mobile Fidelity. Having established new possibilities for studio-recording  techniques, the record can now be experienced to maximum degree by way of this  analog edition that widens and deepens the soundstage, opens up separation  between instruments, and broadens the dynamic range. If ever a jazz album can be  said to have gone to outer space and back, this is it.

Davis conceived Bitches Brew by having the musicians stand in a semi-circle,  where he pointed at them with vague directions for tempo, solos, and cues. The  collective improvisation and interplay spawned a galaxy of melodies and grooves  that were later spliced together by producer Ted Macero. Here, these distinct  creations take shape with utmost realism. Mobile Fidelity's version envelops you  in expansive warm tonal blankets. Compositions stretch across jet-black  backgrounds and paint abstract canvasses on par with those of Axis: Bold As Love  and Abraxas. Juxtaposed percussion, loose jams, and melodic segues explode with  impressionistic verve.

Gathering a Hall of Fame-worthy lineup of musicians and tweaking it according to  his desires, Davis follows through on his idea to "put together the greatest  rock and roll band you ever heard" on Bitches Brew. Central to his proposition  is the presence of two (and sometimes three) drummers and two bassists, a  tactical move that thrusts rhythms into a central focus. Akin to the futuristic  album cover art, the drum-driven suites head toward distant universes and  uncharted territories—at once hypnotizing and grooving, charting maverick  adventures with quixotic rock, funk, and R&B elements.

Conceptually, Davis described Bitches Brew as "a novel without words" and "an  incredible journey of pain, joy, sorrow, hate, passion, and love." The vast  psychedelic expanses of warped echoes, liquid reverb, and tape loops confirm  such ambitious contrasts of light and dark, fear and hope. Yet the most absolute  characteristic of this watershed effort lies in how it resists definitive  interpretation and encourages free thought—the very principles with which Davis  conceived the everlasting beauty and fascination that is Bitches Brew.

All the composer would else likely want for open-minded listeners is for them to  hear it at its full potential, a dream realized by Mobile Fidelity.

Features:
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastering by Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab
• Specially Plated and Pressed on 180 grams of High Definition Vinyl
• Double LP
• Special Static Free - Dust Free Inner Sleeve
• Pressed at RTI
• Heavy Duty Protective Packaging
• Mastered from the Original Master Tapes

Musicians:
Miles Davis, primary artist, trumpet
Dave Holland, bass
Harvey Brooks, bass, electric bass, bass guitar, electric guitar
Bennie Maupin, bass clarinet
Airto Moreira, cuica, percussion
Don Alias, congas, drums, percussion
Jumma Santos, congas, percussion, shaker
Jack DeJohnette, drums
Lenny White, drums
Billy Cobham, drums
Chick Corea, electric piano
Larry Young, electric piano
John McLaughlin, guitar, electric guitar
Joe Zawinul, organ, electric piano
Jim Riley, percussion
Wayne Shorter, soprano saxophone

Selections:
1. Pharaoh’s Dance
2. Bitches Brew
3. Spanish Key
4. John McLaughlin
5. Miles Runs the Voodoo Down
6. Sanctuary