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DescriptionAll tracks are Properly tagged with art embedded in tag. Steely Dan – 1977 - Aja (2010 Japanese Limited SHM-SACD) [mp3@320]  Steely Dan  Wikipedia: Steely Dan is an American jazz rock band whose music also blends elements of funk, R&B, and pop. Founded by core members Walter Becker and Donald Fagen in 1972, the band enjoyed great critical and commercial success starting from the early 1970s until breaking up in 1981. Rolling Stone has called them "the perfect musical antiheroes for the Seventies". Steely Dan reunited in 1993 and has toured steadily ever since. Recorded with a revolving cast of session musicians, Steely Dan's music is characterized by complex jazz-influenced structures and harmonies. Becker and Fagen are whimsical, often sarcastic lyricists, having written "cerebral, wry and eccentric" songs about drugs, love affairs, gambling, and crime. The pair is also known for their near-obsessive perfectionism in the recording studio: Over the year they took to record Gaucho (1980), an album of just seven songs, Becker and Fagen hired at least 42 studio musicians and 11 engineers. Steely Dan toured from 1972 to 1974 before retiring from live performances, becoming a studio-only band. After the group disbanded in 1981, Becker and Fagen were less active throughout most of the next decade, though a cult following remained devoted to the group. Since reuniting in 1993 Steely Dan has released two albums of new material, the first of which, Two Against Nature, earned a Grammy Award for Album of the Year. They have sold more than 40 million albums worldwide and were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in March 2001. In a VH1 list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time, Steely Dan were listed at #82. Aja (2010 Japanese Limited SHM-SACD)  Artist: Steely Dan Title: Aja Format: SACD, Hybrid, Album, Stereo, Reissue, Remastered, SHM-CD SACD Mastering: Hitoshi Takiguchi (Universal Studio Mastering) Producer: Gary Katz Release Date: September 23, 1977, (Japanese Limited SHM-SACD June 30, 2010) Recorded: January to July 1977 Label: Geffen Records, Universal Records Japan Catalog: UIGY-9026 Barcode: 4988005614384 ASIN: B003EW4KCA Genre: Rock, Jazz Rock, Classic Rock, Soft Rock Duration: 39:40 Wikipedia: Aja (pronounced like Asia) is the sixth album by the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Originally released in 1977 on ABC Records, it became the group's best-selling album. Peaking at No. 3 on the U.S. charts and No. 5 in the United Kingdom, it was the band's first platinum album, eventually selling over 5 million copies. In July 1978, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording. In 2003, the album was ranked number 145 on Rolling Stone's "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time" list. It is widely regarded as a good test recording for audiophiles because of its high production standards. Donald Fagen has said the album was named for a Korean woman who married the brother of one of his high-school friends. The cover photo by Hideki Fujii features Japanese model and actress Sayoko Yamaguchi. The album features several leading session musicians. The eight-minute-long title track features jazz-based changes and a solo by saxophonist Wayne Shorter. AllMusic Review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine: Steely Dan hadn’t been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen’s obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Instead, it’s a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But Aja isn’t just about texture, since Becker and Fagen’s songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs — even the simplest song, the sunny pop of “Peg,” has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It’s complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo’s preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest.  01 – Black Cow - 5:07 02 – Aja - 7:56 03 – Deacon Blues - 7:26 04 – Peg - 3:58 05 – Home At Last - 5:31 06 – I Got The News - 5:03 07 – Josie - 4:30 Personnel: Steely Dan: Donald Fagen – lead vocals (all tracks), synthesizer (all tracks but 4), police whistle (2), backing vocals (2, 5, 7) Walter Becker – bass (3), guitar (2), guitar solos (5, 6, 7) Additional Musicians: Victor Feldman – electric piano (1, 3, 7), vibraphone (5, 6), piano (5, 6), percussion (2, 4) Joe Sample – electric piano (2), Hohner Clavinet (1) Paul Griffin – electric piano (4), backing vocals (4) Michael Omartian – piano (2) Don Grolnick – Hohner Clavinet (4) Larry Carlton – guitar (1, 2, 3, 5, 7), guitar solo (6) Denny Dias (2), Dean Parks (3, 6, 7), Steve Khan (4) – guitar Jay Graydon – solo guitar (4) Chuck Rainey – bass (all but 3) Paul Humphrey (1), Steve Gadd (2), Bernard Purdie (3, 5), Rick Marotta (4), Ed Greene (6) – drums Jim Keltner – drums (7), percussion (7) Gary Coleman – percussion (4) Tom Scott – tenor saxophone (1), Lyricon (4), horn arrangements Wayne Shorter (2), Pete Christlieb (3) – tenor saxophone Jim Horn, Bill Perkins, Plas Johnson, Jackie Kelso – saxes/flutes Chuck Findley, Lou McCreary, Slyde Hyde – brass Michael McDonald (4, 6), Timothy B. Schmit (2, 5, 7), Clydie King (1, 3, 6), Sherlie Matthews (1, 3, 6), Venetta Fields (1, 3, 6), Rebecca Louis (1, 6) – backing vocals Note: This is not my rip My thanks to the original uploader    ♪♬♫ ENJOY! ♪♬♫ Related Torrents
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