JOHN COLTRANE A Love Supreme (IMPULSE! Deluxe Edition) FLAC

ΓΓé¼┼ôAll previous digital incarnations of A Love Supreme have been derived from a 1971 second-generation master tape. While this tape did not suffer from the processing and alterations that noise reduction systems cause, it did add equalization and compression to the original recording and had an inexplicable flaw in the left channel during the first three minutes of ΓΓé¼┼ôPursuance.ΓΓé¼┬¥ The tape was not physically flawed, so it must be assumed that the problem was caused in the 1971 transfer process.

This situation was a cause of great concern until it occured to us that A Love Supreme was originally issued in 1965 in territories other than the United States. The hope was that we could find a contemporaneous copy of the original master that would not have this affliction. A March 1965 master was found at EMIΓΓé¼Γäós London vaults and dispatched to New York. Not only was the problem absent on that tape, but it had no added equalization or compression. A relieved Rudy Van Gelder declared it to be as close to the real thing as one could get in the analog domain without having the original tape. ΓΓé¼┼ôThis tape preserves the sonic details with vivid accuracy: ElvinΓΓé¼Γäós cymbals, the deep intensity of the vocal chant, and the openness of the group sound.ΓΓé¼┬¥

There are other uploads of this album out there but I wanted to post this excerpt from the liner notes of this version. ItΓΓé¼Γäós an extremely important piece of work for me....... It is said that Coltrane was spoken to by God before he recorded this. ΓΓé¼┼ôA Love SupremeΓΓé¼┬¥ is ColtraneΓΓé¼Γäós recognition that his talent comes from God. This is ColtraneΓΓé¼Γäós gift to Him.