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Percy Faith – Music Of Christmas (1959/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:15:46 minutes | 1,46 GB | Genre: Pop, Christmas
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
This is THE great album of iconic, classic Christmas instrumentals. No doubt at some point in the past half century or so you’ve heard at least a few of Percy Faith’s renditions of Christmas music standards, and listening to this album you will instantly recognize them. There’s a good reason that this recording is ubiquitous: they capture the sound of the Christmas season with near perfection, and even in the jaded 21st caentury, they for the most part song timeless. What lessens the experience with this particular reissue of this album is the very sloppy, indifferent mastering job done by Columbia. You don’t have to get too far into the CD to realize this; the very opening notes of the first track, Joy to the World, are cut off, as if the apprentice engineer who was making the digital transfer was asleep when the tape began running… and no one at Columbia actually gave enough of a damn to fix it! Aside from this, junior the engineer must have also selected a master used for running cassettes or eight tracks, since this is a very compressed and out of balance recording, whIle LP copies are far, far, better-sounding than this. In any event, the music is still wonderful and enjoyable despite the third-rate technical quality of the CD. Hopefully someone at Sony-BMG will one day wake up and do a proper remaster of this wonderful album.
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Percy Faith – Malaguena: Music Of Cuba (1958/2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:06 minutes | 902 MB | Genre: Latin Jazz, Latin Pop
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RevOla
As any visitor knows, there is more to Cuba than rum and sugar, more than gambling and good times, more than historic shrines and beautiful scenery. There is music, fascinating and unusual music, and it is constantly in the air. For this dazzling musical journey to Cuba, Percy Faith has selected a program of characteristic Cuban melodies, some familiar, some relatively unknown, and arranged them in that vivacious fashion for which he has become famous.
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Percy Faith – New Thing & Black Magic Woman (1974 & 1971) [Reissue 2019]
SACD Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 71:45 minutes | Front, Scans NOT included | 3,2 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Front, Scans NOT included | 1,42 GB
Features Stereo and Quadrophonic Surround Sound | Vocalion # CDLK 4625 | Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Percy Faith was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the “easy listening” or “mood music” format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though best known for his recording career, Faith also occasionally scored motion pictures. This Vocalion’s reissue features 2 LP on 1 SACD – New Thing (1974) & Black Magic Woman (1971).
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Percy Faith – Clair & Joy (1973-1972) [Reissue 2018]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 74:17 minutes | Scans included | 3,32 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,46 GB
2LP on 1SACD | Features Stereo and Multichannel Surround Sound | Label: Vocalion # CDLK 4614
70s magic from Percy Faith – two albums presented here in their quadrophonic mixes! Clair is a really wonderful album from Percy Faith – part of a handful of sweet 70s sides that really had him sounding a lot more groovy than before! The album almost has a 70s soundtrack vibe at times – with a mix of electric elements amidst the fuller orchestrations – all in a nicely compressed way that’s handled with the sort of production that must have made a record like this a real treat for the quadrophonic generation! There’s a bit of vocals at times – mostly wordless – and the tunes themselves really shape the grooviness of the album – with titles that include “Clair”, “Ben”, “Sweet Surrender”, “2001”, “I Can See Clearly Now”, “Summer Breeze”, and “Superfly”. Joy has the Percy Faith sound opening up in warm, mature modes for the 70s – still a fair bit of strings, but also maybe more of that careful couching of sound that could make 70s easy listening so different from the sound of a decade before! Some of the tunes here are a nice surprise – and include pop and soundtrack numbers that further take Percy into fresh territory – titles that include “Shaft”, “This Way Mary”, “Without You”, “Diamonds Are Forever”, “The Summer Knows”, “An Old Fashioned Love Song”, and “Gypsies Tramps & Thieves”.
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Percy Faith – Chinatown & Love Theme from Romeo and Juliet (2016)
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DST64 2.0 & 5.1 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 63:08 minutess | Scans included | 2,76 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,21 GB
Genre: Jazz, Easy Listening
Percy Faith (April 7, 1908 – February 9, 1976) was a Canadian bandleader, orchestrator, composer and conductor, known for his lush arrangements of pop and Christmas standards. He is often credited with popularizing the “easy listening” or “mood music” format. Faith became a staple of American popular music in the 1950s and continued well into the 1960s. Though best known for his recording career, Faith also occasionally scored motion pictures. This reissue compilation features 2 LP on 1 SACD – “Chinatown” (1974) & “Love Theme from “Romeo and Juliet” (1969).
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