Any thoughts on differing CD REISSUES: Mono/Stereo Martin Denny, Esquivel - Tiki Music

G gwenners Member SF Bay Area Joined: Feb 08, 2005 Posts: 97	G gwenners Posted posted on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 9:51 AM On 2005-06-21 14:50, spy-tiki wrote: O.K. now I'm curious. One of the albums was recorded twice? Am I getting that right?Just to have a stereo version? If memory serves, I've heard that Exotica and Exotica II were recorded twice: once for their original monaural release, and the second for the stereo edition. I am only certain of it with the first album, and after numerous listenings over the last few years prefer the mono edition. Frankly -- and it could just be me -- I find Denny's piano work on the first to be a bit more "inspired." Maybe it is, as someone else mentioned, simply a matter of speed to the playing. It is also, perhaps, notable that there was a line-up change between the mono and stereo recordings of Exotica, with Arthur Lyman on the former, and Julius Wechter on the latter. Cheers, Gwen Smith

On 2005-06-21 14:50, spy-tiki wrote:
O.K. now I'm curious. One of the albums was recorded twice? Am I getting that right?Just to have a stereo version?

If memory serves, I've heard that Exotica and Exotica II were recorded twice: once for their original monaural release, and the second for the stereo edition. I am only certain of it with the first album, and after numerous listenings over the last few years prefer the mono edition. Frankly -- and it could just be me -- I find Denny's piano work on the first to be a bit more "inspired." Maybe it is, as someone else mentioned, simply a matter of speed to the playing.

It is also, perhaps, notable that there was a line-up change between the mono and stereo recordings of Exotica, with Arthur Lyman on the former, and Julius Wechter on the latter.

Cheers,
Gwen Smith

Post #189891 by gwenners on Fri, Sep 30, 2005 9:51 AM