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                  Steely Dan - Aja (2010 SHM-SACD)
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Artist...............: Steely Dan
Album................: Aja (2010 SHM-SACD)
Genre................: Rock
Source...............: SACD
Year.................: 1977
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 65 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 88200 HZ / 24 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: 

Included.............: NFO,MD5, M3U
Covers...............: Front Back CD 

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                       Tracklisting
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   1. (00:05:09) - (64,61%) Steely Dan - Black Cow
   2. (00:07:55) - (65,48%) Steely Dan - Aja
   3. (00:07:36) - (63,91%) Steely Dan - Deacon Blues
   4. (00:03:57) - (65,04%) Steely Dan - Peg
   5. (00:05:33) - (64,70%) Steely Dan - Home At Last
   6. (00:05:07) - (64,90%) Steely Dan - I Got The News
   7. (00:04:33) - (63,17%) Steely Dan - Josie

Playing Time.........: 00:39:52
Total Size...........: 779,44 MB




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".This Cisco reissue is vastly superior to both the original pressing and to Mobile Fidelity's ½ speed mastered reissue.This is sublime ear candy and more importantly magnificent music making. No wonder it retains its attraction 30 years after first being issued. More proof that we're living in the second coming of analog." Music = 10/11; Sound = 10/11 - Michael Fremer, www.musicangle.com

"If you were an audiophile in the 70s, you owned Aja." - Rolling Stone, 2001, placing it No. 145 of the 500 Greatest Albums Ever Recorded

And now, in commemoration of its 30th anniversary, Aja IS BACK - IN EVEN GREATER GLORY! Remastered by Kevin Gray, cut at AcousTech Mastering, Pressed on virgin 180-gram vinyl at RTI! Aja has now gotten the royal treatment!

This Cisco reissue has been personally approved by Donald Fagen and Walter Becker as well as Aja recording engineer Elliot Scheiner.

"(Aja) is the most perfect thing I have ever heard in my life. It is a religion." - Gareth Jones, renowned record producer/engineer


Long argued as one of the (if not THE) best rock recording ever and a permanent fixture on many a demo system in the late '70s and '80s, Aja was the culmination of everything Donald Fagen and Walter Becker aspired to accomplish in their storied careers. It was the first album certified platinum (eventually selling more than 5 million copies in the U.S.) by the then-new RIAA sales tracking system. It made Steely Dan superstars. It contained three ubiquitous U.S. Top 40 singles in "Peg," "Josie" and "Deacon Blues," though each of the seven tracks are wonderful. 

And then there's the sound. Deservedly winning the 1978 Grammy Award for non-classical engineering, Roger "The Immortal" Nichols was helped by a who's-who of the top audio guys in the industry: Bill Schnee, Al Schmitt and Elliot Scheiner. The meticulous recording is almost fetishistic in its attention to detail.Every note of even the densest tracks can be clearly heard, with every instrument perfectly placed.




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