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Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Jennifer Warnes Pop Classic on Crystal Clear Green Vinyl!
All-Tube Mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering from the Original Master Analog Tapes on 180 Gram Vinyl!
One-Time Pressing of 3,000 Individually Numbered Copies!
New Inner Sleeve and LP Labels!
Pressed at RTI!
Impex Records is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of The Hunter with a one-time, individually-numbered pressing of 3,000 in crystal clear green vinyl! Jennifer Warnes acclaimed follow-up to Famous Blue Raincoat features a Grammy-nominated recording by Elliot Scheiner and all-tube mastering by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering using Jennifers personal original analogue master tapes.
The Hunter was released five years after her breakthrough with Famous Blue Raincoat. A TOP 100 LP when first released in 1992, The Hunters audiophile credibility is best summed up by Elliot Scheiners Grammy-nominated recording and mix. It contains the charting single Rock You Gently, a sonically dense yet expansive cover of The Waterboys classic The Whole of the Moon, a soulful Jennifer Warnes/Leonard Cohen composition Way Down Deep, Todd Rundgrens Pretending to Care and even a Donald Fagen tune (Big Noise, New York). She owns every tune here, backed by a-list session players who ground the songs with solid and unobtrusive authority, letting Jennifers peerless interpretive skills bring the soul of every lyric to the forefront. Ms. Warnes uses her voice to serve the lyrics, allowing the song to return the favour.
The follow-up to Warnes FBR offers crisp percussion cues, solid bass throughout but especially during Way Down Deep and a surprise chamber quartet on the title track Neil Gader, TAS Guide to Audiophile Demo Disc
Arista (now Sony/BMG) never released The Hunter on vinyl in the U.S. A regular-weight LP floated around Europe for a while but is not noted for exceptional sound or quiet vinyl.
Remastered by Chris Bellman at Bernie Grundman Mastering, the sonics are luscious. Warnes has always had an audiophiles ear and was hands-on with this effortone of the last from now-defunct Cisco Records. It soars effortlessly, restoring warmth and delicacy and easily besting the earth-bound but otherwise excellent CD. Its an example of both an artist in full charge of her powers, and analogue art its very best. Greg Cahill, The Absolute Sound
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