Evening Star 💫

 

Listening to my Made in England on Polydor label first pressing of this classic Fripp & Eno’s disc makes me doubting the progress exists: after an incredibly pleasant and deep listening session, I switched to the nice HQ Japanese disk, just out of curiosity…

… the CD sounded so lesser vs. the vinyl disc: not in terms of the eternal, boring struggle between analog and digital, but gone was the deep involvement and the lysergic multilayered complexity popping out at every note.

Gone was the dynamics and subtleties and the sense of surprise.

The inter-note silence was a bit anechoic on CD, unnatural and two-dimensional , while the analog disc preserved the intrinsic sense of manual skill and tension involved in tapes looping and sound-on-sound recording.

An epiphany, intriguingly disturbing.

P.S. - also impressive considering my vinyl copy is 50 years old and after several - actually a lifetime - listening, it still plays beautifully and less noisy than many nowadays brand-new “audiophile” reissues! 

Stunning!

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