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Release Round-Up Special: James Taylor, CSN, "Blade Runner" Released by Audio Fidelity

July 16, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

CSN Gold DiscIn lieu of a standard Release Round-Up this week, here's a look at the major three titles that are out today: the latest gold discs and SACDs from Audio Fidelity. The titles released today are Crosby, Stills & Nash's CSN, James Taylor's Gorilla and Vangelis' soundtrack album to Blade Runner.

The third studio album by the folk-rock supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash, released in 1977, is crucially different from the ones before - this time, there's no contribution from Neil Young. (Young had sat in on 1970's Déjà Vu and 1971's live 4 Way Street, all the while making a name for himself in the greater rock canon.) In the time since, Crosby and Nash recorded three albums together, while Stills formed the short-lived Manassas and toured with Young. (A CSNY compilation, So Far, was released in 1974.) A perfect fit with the post-Laurel Canyon rock of Hotel California and Rumours, CSN yielded a major hit in "Just a Song Before I Go," a Top 10 single. This 24-karat gold disc version of CSN has been mastered by Steve Hoffman at Stephen Marsh Audio.

James Taylor's Gorilla sees the iconic singer-songwriter return to form somewhat after the more muted success of the previous year's Walking Man, which yielded no hit single and failed to peak within the U.S. Top 10, as his previous three albums for Warner Bros. had done. Gorilla, produced by Russ Titelman and Lenny Waronker, featured smooth session work by the likes of Danny Kortchmar, Russ Kunkel, Leland Sklar and others from the famed session collective "The Section," and yielded a Top 5 hit with a cover of Marvin Gaye's "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)." Hoffman also took to Stephen Marsh Audio to master this 24-karat gold disc.

Blade Runner SACDThe film Blade Runner was perhaps too good for its time. Ridley Scott's 1982 adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, was a dark neo-noir sci-fi film, set in a dystopian, overrun Los Angeles and featuring Harrison Ford as a burnt-out detective on one last assignment: to "retire" a set of "replicants" - organically-harvested robots who are near-indistinguishable from humans - who have illegally landed on Earth. Owing to a series of studio-mandated edits and a generally different, E.T.-esque approach to sci-fi at the time, Blade Runner didn't get its due until the 1990s and 2000s, when a series of re-edits restored the film closer to Scott's brilliant vision. Owing to the film's initial failure, an album of the film's brilliant BAFTA and Golden Globe-nominated score, assembled by synthesizer master Vangelis (fresh off an Oscar win for Chariots of Fire) would not be released until 1994. That album program is now mastered for SACD by Kevin Gray at Cohearant Audio.

All three titles are available today, and can be purchased after the jump.

Crosby Stills & Nash, CSN (24K Gold CD) (originally released as Atlantic SD-19104, 1977 - reissued Audio Fidelity AFZ-144, 2013)

  1. Shadow Captain
  2. See the Changes
  3. Carried Away
  4. Fair Game
  5. Anything At All
  6. Cathedral
  7. Dark Star
  8. Just a Song Before I Go
  9. Run from Tears
  10. Cold Rain
  11. In My Dreams
  12. I Give You Give Blind

James Taylor, Gorilla (24K Gold CD) (originally released as Warner Bros. BS 2866, 1976 - reissued Audio Fidelity AFZ-151, 2013)

  1. Mexico
  2. Music
  3. How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)
  4. Wandering
  5. Gorilla
  6. You Make It Easy
  7. I Was a Fool to Care
  8. Lighthouse
  9. Angry Blues
  10. Love Songs
  11. Sarah Maria

Vangelis, Blade Runner (SACD) (originally released as Atlantic 82623-2, 1994 - reissued Audio Fidelity AFZ-154, 2013)

  1. Main Titles
  2. Blush Response
  3. Wait for Me
  4. Rachel's Song
  5. Love Theme
  6. One More Kiss, Dear
  7. Blade Runner Blues
  8. Memories of Green
  9. Tales of the Future
  10. Damask Rose
  11. Blade Runner (End Titles)
  12. Tears in Rain

Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Crosby Stills and Nash, James Taylor, Vangelis

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