Jean-Luc Ponty ‎- Open Mind (1984) Original FR Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Posted By: Fran Solo

Jean-Luc Ponty ‎- Open Mind
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz | 900mb
Mastered At Future Disc Mastering
Label: Polydor/823581-1 | Released: 1984 | Genre: Jazz-Rock


A1 Open Mind
A2 Solitude
A3 Watching Birds
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B1 Modern Times Blues
B2 Orbital Encounters
B3 Intuition


Drums – Casey Scheuerell (tracks: A3), Rayford Griffin (tracks: B2)
Guitar – George Benson (tracks: B1)
Synthesizer – Chick Corea (tracks: A1, A3)
Notes
Mastered at Future Disc Mastering, Hollywood CA
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Barcode (Scanned): 042282358110







This Rip: 2015
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
Direct Drive Turntable: Marantz 6170
Cartridge: SHURE M97xE With JICO SAS Stylus
Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
DeClick with iZotope RX3: Only Manual (Click per click)
Vinyl Condition: NM
This LP: From my personal collection.
LP Rip & Full Scan LP Cover: Fran Solo
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Excellent addition to any prog rock music collection.
Jean-Luc Ponty plays himself some really modern keyboards here, creating very atmospheric textures, rather urban, often flirting with a jazz-New Age style. To enhance the modern aspect of the music, Ponty plays a VERY "bottom" synth bass, which gives very much color, personality and depth to the music. Ponty is so much involved in the keyboards that it seems his electric violin almost becomes a secondary instrument here: his electric violin is however still very present, but it seems to be less monolithic and to merge more with the rest of the music: sometimes, it participates to the rhythm itself, or it is just simply played with less speed, focusing more on the sound or on the ambience itself. Chick Corea plays some good & nervous keyboards solos! The overall sound is very clean, fresh and modern. The complex keyboards exploration on "Orbital encounters" is absolutely impressive. The echoed atmosphere created with the violin sound on "Intuition" is really breathtaking! Every track is at least very good, so that this record is among his best ones.
Review by greenback, progarchives.com
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