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Jan Akkerman - Profile (1972) US 1st Pressing - LP/FLAC In 24bit/96kHz

Posted By: Fran Solo

Date: 1 Feb 2020 13:24:03

Jan Akkerman - Profile
Vinyl | LP Cover (1:1) | FLAC + cue | 24bit/96kHz & 16bit/44kHz | 800mb & 200mb
Mastered At Sterling Sound
Label: Sire Records Company/SAS 7407 | Released: 1972 | Genre: Progressive-Rock

Fresh Air
Aa Must Be My Land
Ab Wrestling To Get Out
Ac Back Again
Ad The Fight
Ae Fresh Air – Blue Notes For Listening
Af Water And Skies Are Telling Me
Ag Happy Gabriel?
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B1 Kemps Jig
B2 Etude
B3 Blue Boy
B4 Andante Sostenuto
B5 Maybe Just A Dream
B6 Minstrel/Farmers Dance
B7 Stick

Distributed By – Famous Music Corporation
Mastered At – Sterling Sound
Credits
Bass – Bert Ruiter (tracks: A1, B3, B5), Jaap Van Eyck* (tracks: B7), Jan Akkerman (tracks: A1)
Design – John Van Den Berg
Drums – Frans Smit (tracks: B7), Pierre Van Der Linden (tracks: A1, B3, B5)
Electric Piano – Jan Akkerman (tracks: A1)
Guitar – Jan Akkerman
Guitar [Spanish] – Jan Akkerman (tracks: B4)
Lute [Alto] – Jan Akkerman (tracks: B1, B2, B6)
Photography By – Dolf Straatemeier
Piano – Ferry Maat (tracks: B7)
Producer – Tim Griek
Written-By – Anonymous (tracks: B1), Diabelli* (tracks: B4), Jan Akkerman (tracks: A, B3, B5 to B7), Carcassi* (tracks: B2)
Barcode and Other Identifiers
Matrix / Runout (Side A (etched)): SAS-7407-A-2
Matrix / Runout (Side B (etched)): SAS-7407-B-2 RL
Matrix / Runout (Side A/B (stamped)): Sterling

Equipment

This Rip: 2018
Cleaning: RCM Moth MkII Pro Vinyl
Direct Drive Turntable: Technics SL-1200MK2 Quartz
Cartridge: SHURE M97xE With JICO SAS Stylus
Amplifier: Marantz 2252
ADC: E-MU 0404
DeClick with iZotope RX5: Only Manual (Click per click)
Vinyl Condition: NM-
This LP: From my personal collection
LP Rip & Full Scan LP Cover: Fran Solo
Password: WITHOUT PASSWORD

What can a man do with a guitar?
Being referred to as one of the best guitarist on the globe this moment had to come: the ultimate guitar solo record. To be more specific: the ultimate guitar side of a record.

Side one is filled with the Fresh Air piece, roughly based on some strange concept I don’t understand really well. The sub-parts itself however correlate with their titles. The song opens with psychedelic keys played by Akkerman himself on Fender piano, a great atmospheric start. Soon the Wrestling to get out part begins and a non-melodic jazz extravaganza is about to unfold. The title being the best way to discribe Akkerman’s guitarplaying: it’s like a mad rage to do the extreme. You will hear sound you’ve never heard before and speed beyond the imaginable. The basslines by Bert Ruiter (Focus) and drums by the masterfull Pierre van der Linden guide us to the best of hard jazz/rock or heavy fusion (which do you prefer?). I love the groovin’ bassplaying. Fresh air – blue notes for listening is again a track with a title that doesn’t need no explanation when you’ve heard it. One of the few relaxing tracks of the album. Jan Akkerman drops the speed for atmospheric guitar play, reminding me a bit of Robert Fripp. This is a welcome piece of music between two storms. For after this we’ll get to hear some more Akkerman solo’s of mad musicianship. This is the best track Jan Akkerman ever recorded in my opinion.

Side two. I don’t listen to it very often but it is a midiocre collection of lute and blues songs which don’t mach at all. I’m not even goin to tell something about it.

Conclusion. Now.. can a one side record make a masterpiece. I think in this case it does. The Fresh Air suite is a progressive masterpiece, a Fusion end point (this is fusion in the extreme) and a guitar axeman track of the highest skill. One of my most important records in my collection. Five stars! (but just for side one).
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