New Recordings from First Impression Music

[garylkoh]

Winston Ma at FIM just released a bunch of new K2HD Ultimate Discs - they are a special series, so individually numbered, limited edition.

I'm now listening to The Very Best of Andrea Bocelli - Vivere and the sound is astounding. They are not yet on his website, and he thinks that they will sell out before he can get a chance to have his website updated. When I went to pick up my order, they only had a few left.

Other titles are:
Kyung Wha Chung - Con Amore
Sarah Brightman - the Andrew Lloyd Webber Collection
Carpenters - Gold
Nana MousKouri - At Her Very Best
LSO/Argenta - Espana
Hayley Westerna - Pure
Kurt Edelhagen - Holiday in Italy

Call his office to order if anyone's interested.

 

[flez007]

I am after the Patricia Barber titles, will contact them.

Thanks for the heads-up Gary!

 

[mullard88]

Hi garylkoh,

Thank you for this post. I have the K2HD sampler and have ever since been waiting for their new titles.

 

[DWR]

I sent them an email inquiring whether I could get a copy of the Carpenters Gold and here is the reply I received back.

Dear sir,

We have very limited 'The Carpenters Gold' in stock, it may or may not be available for sell to retail. We shall notify you if we have any that is available for sell.

-Ken

FIM customer service

 

[garylkoh]

Call the office - 425 883 3330. Speak to Winston or Henry and say Gary sent you. If they sell out, they are sold out.

The Carpenters is one of my guilty pleasures too.

 

[DWR]

Hahaha Gary, yeah I thought I might get laughed at for that one, that should be a great sounding disc though, and thank you for the phone # I appreciate it.

Dan

 

[DWR]

Gary, I just got off the phone with Winston (what a nice guy) the Carpenters Gold is not a K2HD that they have done. It is the same disc that is available thru Elusive disc, he was extremely helpful on the phone though. I really enjoy their K2HD recordings so I'll have to see what else they come out with in the future, thanks again.

Dan

 

[garylkoh]

Dan,

Yes - the Carpenters Gold is not a FIM production. But Winston made a very, very limited number of Ultimate Discs out of it. If he sent you to Elusive Disc to get the disc, he's probably sold out of the Ultimate versions.

I'll demo the Ultimate Disc at RMAF, and I suspect that some people will laugh, but the wise ones will sit down and be mesmerized by the truth, warmth and emotion in Karen Carpenters voice.

Cheers
Gary

 

[DWR]

That is what he said, so I ordered the Universal mastered version from Elusive, enjoy the RMAF!

 

[garylkoh]

Visited Winston yesterday - he is recovering from brain surgery - and found that despite his long recuperation, he hasn't stopped working!!

Two new titles have been released - and they are already almost completely sold out. They are in his new UltraHD format which he says is even better than K2HD. Both were mastered by Michael Bishop and when Winston demo'ed them, I was quite flabbagasted.

The first he calls "Loudspeaker Destroyers" with HUGE cone popping dynamics - Super Trio by Niels Thybo, Bo Stief and Lennart Gruvstedt. The final line in Winston's liner notes state "please be pre-warned that if your system catches fire and smokes as a result, we at FIM will not provide any warranty. Sorry about that."

The second contains some of my favorite music from Three Blind Mice - Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Midnight Sugar, Misty), Isao Suzuki (My One and Only Love) and Yoshiko Goto (And I Love You So). I know... some of my friends tell me that Jazz needs to be American, and Japanese Jazz is 'Jass'. I love it all the same. The disk is The TBM Sounds!

Get them before they run out. Winston's on his run towards retirement, and he may not reprint any of the next 10 titles that will be his final works. (He's also got vinyl in the works..... single sided, 45RPM clear vinyl..... I'm saving my pennies already.)

 

[MylesBAstor]

Visited Winston yesterday - he is recovering from brain surgery - and found that despite his long recuperation, he hasn't stopped working!!

Two new titles have been released - and they are already almost completely sold out. They are in his new UltraHD format which he says is even better than K2HD. Both were mastered by Michael Bishop and when Winston demo'ed them, I was quite flabbagasted.

The first he calls "Loudspeaker Destroyers" with HUGE cone popping dynamics - Super Trio by Niels Thybo, Bo Stief and Lennart Gruvstedt. The final line in Winston's liner notes state "please be pre-warned that if your system catches fire and smokes as a result, we at FIM will not provide any warranty. Sorry about that."

The second contains some of my favorite music from Three Blind Mice - Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Midnight Sugar, Misty), Isao Suzuki (My One and Only Love) and Yoshiko Goto (And I Love You So). I know... some of my friends tell me that Jazz needs to be American, and Japanese Jazz is 'Jass'. I love it all the same. The disk is The TBM Sounds!

Get them before they run out. Winston's on his run towards retirement, and he may not reprint any of the next 10 titles that will be his final works. (He's also got vinyl in the works..... single sided, 45RPM clear vinyl..... I'm saving my pennies already.)

Yes Winston's been promising vinyl for some time now. Time to put up or shut up

Have the TBM mentioned on vinyl and all are awesome BTW.

 

[garylkoh]

He's been working with Chad to get the vinyl done at his new pressing plant. Problem is that Winston won't compromise, and he hasn't issued anything new for nearly 9 months because he couldn't find a good enough CD pressing plant. Now that he has a good enough vinyl pressing plant, he's likely to be moving ahead real soon.

 

[MylesBAstor]

He's been working with Chad to get the vinyl done at his new pressing plant. Problem is that Winston won't compromise, and he hasn't issued anything new for nearly 9 months because he couldn't find a good enough CD pressing plant. Now that he has a good enough vinyl pressing plant, he's likely to be moving ahead real soon.

Yes I'm waiting for that new Gary Karr recording, among others.

 

[microstrip]

Gary,
Being in Europe I have little hope I can get these CDs - even selling small quantities obliges sellers to fill long customs forms and manufacturers can not do it for small orders.
Do you know if these CDs will be later released by HDtracks as music files ?

 

[RUR]

Yes I'm waiting for that new Gary Karr recording, among others.

New Gary Karr? What can you tell me about it, Myles?

 

[MylesBAstor]

New Gary Karr? What can you tell me about it, Myles?

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=FIMLP006

Two others worth buying IMHO:

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=CRLP2000QP

http://www.elusivedisc.com/prodinfo.asp?number=IMXLP3001-45

 

[RUR]

Thanks, Myles - I'll pre-order it. I have the Adagio and it's a thing of beauty.

 

[MylesBAstor]

Thanks, Myles - I'll pre-order it. I have the Adagio and it's a thing of beauty.

Yes, I have a friend who hates every reissue and even he bought the Adagio

 

[garylkoh]

Gary,
Being in Europe I have little hope I can get these CDs - even selling small quantities obliges sellers to fill long customs forms and manufacturers can not do it for small orders.
Do you know if these CDs will be later released by HDtracks as music files ?

Try this: http://www.sieveking-sound.de/

He's the largest FIM distributor in Europe.

 

[Ronm1]

The second contains some of my favorite music from Three Blind Mice - Tsuyoshi Yamamoto (Midnight Sugar, Misty), Isao Suzuki (My One and Only Love) and Yoshiko Goto (And I Love You So). I know... some of my friends tell me that Jazz needs to be American, and Japanese Jazz is 'Jass'. I love it all the same. The disk is The TBM Sounds!

I've got TBM's MS orig cd and a xrcd24 remaster a FIM reissue is tempting...I also have Misty(XRCD), but its not a fav as I don't like that performance...Midnight Sugar IMHO is much, much better. Sonics are excellent on both, though...