RIP INFO:
Joni Mitchell - The Hissing Of Summer Lawns (1975)
Elektra/Nonesuch 180g Vinyl Reissue
Lovingly transferred from vinyl to 24/96 by Darkivist 2012-03-23
Rip info:
- Spin Clean
- VPI 16.5 RCM with Audio Intelligent Solutions 3-step cleaning fluids
- Milty Zerostat 3
- Technics SL1600 with Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge and KAB Electro-Acoustics record clamp
- Musical Fidelity V-LPS phono preamp
- TASCAM FW-1884 DAW
- MacBook Pro
- Adobe Audition 3.0
- FLAC encoded with XLD
Great album, great pressing! Mastered by Bernie Grundman. Manually (and meticulously) declicked directly in Adobe Audition. As always: enjoy!
TRACKS:
SIDE ONE
1. In France They Kiss On Main Street
2. The Jungle Line
3. Edith And The Kingpin
4. Don't Interrupt The Sorrow
5. Shades Of Scarlet Conquering
SIDE TWO
6. The Hissing Of Summer Lawns
7. The Boho Dance
8. Harry's House / Centerpiece
9. Sweet Bird
10. Shadows And Light
ALBUM NOTES:
"This album is a total work conceived graphically, musically, lyrically, and accidentally-as a whole. The performances were guided by the given compositional structures and the audibly inspired beauty of every player. The whole unfolded like a mystery. It is not my intention to unravel that mystery for anyone, but rather to offer some additional clues:
"Centerpiece" is a Johnny Mandel-Jon Hendrics tune. John Guerin and I collaborated on "The Hissing Of Summer Lawns". "The Boho Dance" is a Tom Wolfe-ism from the book "The Painted Word". The poem "Don't Interrupt The Sorrow" was born around 4 a.m. in a New York loft. Larry Poons seeded it and Bobby Neuwirth was the midwife here, but the child filtered thru Genesis at Jackfish Lake, Saskatchewan, is rebellious and mystical and insist that its conception was immaculate.
Henry - more than an engineer - Lewy and his assistant Ellis Sorkin piloted these tapes to their destination; Henry and I mixed them; and Bernie Grundman mastered them at A&M Studios in Hollywood.
I drew the cover and designed the package with research help and guidance from Glen Christenson, Elektra/Asylum art director. The photo is Norman Seef's.
I would especially like to thank Myrt and Bill Anderson, North Battleford, New York, Saskatoon, Bel-Air, Burbank, Burundi, Orange County, the deep, deep heart of Dixie. Blue, National Geographic Magazine, Helpful Henry The Housewife's Delight - and John Guerin for showing me the root of the chord and where I was." - Joni Mitchell