Wow, who's genius, the musicians or Manfred Eicher? It must now thousands of concert recordings ECM will be in the archive (it is, each concert of the ECM - artists would taped) how just came on this pearl? It must have so that the decision-making process in 1989, which record the presence of Japan in 1979 to the plate "Personal Mountains" will be published, the parties concerned must be strongly remembered. So much so that 33 years after the ASuftritt and 23 years after "Personal Mountains" now exists "Sleeper". "Sleeper" is imaginative to me as a staff Mountauns. So I thought when you insert the 2nd CD that pressing plant would have confused the CD, the beginning of "OASIS" sounded with flute and congas (there are no data available on the instrument, it is a marimba-like sound) when Oregon hätzte on the Stage lost. Who has traveled Personal Mountains, will smile about as imaginative the quartet improvises on now "Sleeper". Hard to believe that only one day between shots is ...
However, a drawback is the packaging. The second CD depends so firmly on the spindle on that you have to bend it dangerous, in order to pull out of the holder. But that's for the CD almost pure poison, love "Case" manufacturers! Because it protects the label side of a CD only a very thin layer of lacquer the vapor deposited, thin aluminum layer also, which reflects the laser beam. Aluminum reacts immediately with oxygen to form aluminum oxide and is thus transparent. This would make a CD unreadable. The bending and wrangling but can damage the relatively brittle coating layer with very fine cracks, so that over time durchdiffundiert oxygen. Early Cases have since "stressed out" the CDs less ...
