Randy Burns - Songs For An Uncertain Lady download mp3 flac

Joe Phillips, a one-time chief engineer at ESP-Disk, about the ZYX reissues:“Both albums ['Evening Of The Magician' and 'Song For An Uncertain Lady'] were released on CD in the early nineties by a German company, ZYX Records, through a very bad licensing deal with ESP. They were horrible! All they did was transfer LP copies directly to the CD master without any processing, so surface skips, clicks and pops were all there, like playing a badly worn record. There was even an egregious speed error on many of the tracks, where it was slowed down almost a whole note. It sounds as if the turntable speed wasn't calibrated or something. Wow.”

This is a pretty interesting fact. Thanks. On teh other side: If you check the label (pictures) you'll see that the timestamps for the individual songs are wrong indeed. The (finally sort of) remastered reissue shows that the songs have a different lenght. That does not explain why Phillips speaks of a "slow down almost a whole note". The first rip I found orientated on the original times on the LP label and they are significantly pitched. I guess I have to get my hands on the vinyl to figure out.