ALICE COLTRANE Reflection On Creation & Space NM IN SHRINK '73 Impulse 1ST PRESS

$

130

Vinyl:  NM Play Graded.  Plays Like New!   Super high gloss vinyl.  Impulse! Labels are Clean and Bright. These are the True 1ST PRESSING Impulse! Labels.  This is the audiophile acclaimed Santa Maria, CA Pressing of this 1973 Impulse!  AS 9232-2 1ST PRESSING!  This is no regular compilation!  This essential release of John Coltrane's wife, Alice, creates a semblance for enchantment and transportative emotional journeying...Special to this vinyl release is the remixing of the original tunes in Quadraphonic channeling!  Even on a Stereo system, these recordings explode in enhanced dimensions.  During these dates you'll hear the contributions of such luminaries as Pharaoh Sanders, Jack DeJohnette, Ron Carter and many others.  allmusic gives it 4 1/2 stars!!! 
See Review Below!
In the Dead Wax:  matrices, etched.  Also, on all 4 sides:  the S glyph ((Pressed at Columbia's Santa Maria, CA Pressing Plant)) Full Dead wax details cheerfully given upon request. 
Cover: NM (see photos)  IN SHRINK!  Gatefold.  Being a Gatefold album, and seeing that the Shrink is intact, the inner Gatefold has not seen the light of day in over 50 years...Very Rare to find a Gatefolded albums like this with the Shrink Intact.  Nice high gloss on cover. Front and back of cover artwork and text are rich, clear and bright, essentially flawless. Seams and spine are solid and clean.  No splits.  No writing.  No stickers.  Spine print is crystal clear.
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Why buy a first or early pressing and not a re-issue or a ‘re-mastered’ vinyl album? 
First and early pressings are pressed from the first generation lacquers and stampers. They usually sound vastly superior to later issues/re-issues (which, in recent times, are often pressed from whatever 'best' tapes or digital sources are currently available) - many so-called 'audiophile' new 180g pressings are cut from hi-res digital sources…essentially an expensive CD pressed on vinyl.  Why  experience the worse elements of both formats?  These are just High Maintenance CDs, with mid-ranges so cloaked with a veil as to sound smeared.  They are nearly always compressed with murky transients and a general lifelessness in the overall sound.  There are exceptions where re-masters/re-presses outshine the original issues, but they are exceptions and not the norm. 

First or early pressings nearly always have more immediacy, presence and dynamics. The sound staging is wider.  Subtle instrument nuances are better placed with more spacious textures. Balances are firmer in the bottom end with a far-tighter bass. Upper-mid ranges shine without harshness, and the overall depth is more immersive.  Inner details are  clearer.  

On first and early pressings, the music tends to sound more ‘alive’ and vibrant.  The physics of sound energy is hard to clarify and write about from a listening perspective, but the best we can describe it is to say that you can 'hear' what the mixing and mastering engineers wanted you to hear when they first recorded the music.  

Reflection on Creation and Space Review

by Steven McDonald

This album is worth acquiring in its original vinyl form, just for the quadraphonic remixes -- this alone makes it far more than just the average compilation. Selections are drawn from all of Alice Coltrane's Impulse releases (with Ptah the El Daoud receiving the least attention) and arranged into a musically functional running order, rather than a strict chronological order. Covering the years 1968-1972, this comprehensive overview covers all of Coltrane's acclaimed early albums.  This album coincides with Coltrane's withdrawal from secular life in 1972 and is contemporary with her joining the Vedantic tradition as well as beginning her studies with the renowned Hindu gurus Swami Satchidananda and Sathya Sai Baba, hence inclusion of such visionary pieces as Journey in Satchidananda/Galaxy in Satchidananda.