Hejeria [VINYL]

"Joni Mitchell Embarks on Open Journeys and Chronicles Restlessness on Hejira: Jazz-Minded Effort Is Ranked the 113th Greatest Album of All Time by Rolling Stone Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP Set Plays with Authoritative Tonality, Airiness, Immediacy, and Clarity: Pressed on MoFi SuperVinyl Joni Mitchell is the only artist who could've made Hejira. The legendary singer-songwriter said as much when discussing the album decades after its release. Yet that fact seemed obvious from the moment the gold-certified effort streeted in fall 1976. An adventurous travelogue, probing narrative, and offbeat homage to freedom, Hejira remains an inimitable entry in the catalog of recorded music - a spare, gorgeous, meditative series of sonic vignettes comprised of floating harmonic pop, cool jazz, soft rock, and sensitive vocal elements that beckon feelings of motion, discovery, and selfexamination. Sourced from the original analog master tapes, and pressed at Fidelity Record Pressing on MoFi SuperVinyl, and strictly limited to 3,000 numbered copies, Mobile Fidelity's UltraDisc One-Step 180g 45RPM 2LP set presents the record with definitive detail, accuracy, and directness. Playing with a virtually nonexistent noise floor, it reproduces in enveloping fashion the tones, textures, and craftsmanship that help Hejira function as the equivalent of a liberating trip down an open road with nothing but blue sky and natural landscape in the immediate vicinity. The contributions of the A-list musicians - most especially, Jaco Pastorius and Larry Carlton - emerge with cohesiveness and transparency. Everything about Hejira signals it's time for a departure from norms and the past, one that leads to a heightened sense of clarity and perspective. Or, as Mitchell said upon choosing the album title, it's time for ''leaving the dream, no blame.'' Mobile Fidelity UltraDisc One-Step Process Instead of utilizing the industry-standard three-step lacquer process, UltraDisc One-Step (UD1S) uses only one step and bypasses two processes of generational loss. In addition to revealing extra musical detail and dynamics otherwise lost due to the standard copying process, the UD1S technique produces a final LP with the lowest noise floor possible today. 1/4'' / 15 IPS DOLBY A ANALOG MASTER >> DSD 256 >> ANALOG CONSOLE >> LATHE STRICTLY LIMITED TO 3,000 NUMBERED COPIES Numbered Limited Edition UD1S 180g 45RPM 2LP Set