Dear Zornlisters, this is all personally coloured Dutch esp-disk information. please delete this, if not interested. regards, Remco
valuable body of work. Think of the careful packaging and extensive liners (no slight to the good work done by Remco!) and the sturdy distribution network Folkways enjoys. That would have been the best.never heard that story.
I didn't think the Dutch were up to the task, including myself. Didn't you think *I* was surprised when they gave *Me* the call to do these ESP make-overs? I was born in 1971, and just grabbed the opportunity to be on a Sun Ra record! And then learned learned learned, in order to be able to form some kind of vision on the non-european part of the ESP catalogue. I still cross my eyes spontaneously though, when I see those butchered texts on Ayler's SPIRITS REJOICE. But generally, it has been fun. Think of the economical boon to we consumers had
they been allowed to realize their intention of pairing appropriate sessions to create packages with more generous running times.
That bothered me too, I rushed to the shops to buy the old Bells/ Prophecy as a two-on-one disc. Keep in mind, that all tapes were being remastered at the same moment I had to write the texts, so I had to listen to my father's records, and buy others myself second hand.
Calibre briefly reaps the benefits of name recognition, which they'd hoped to funnel into new recordings a la Impulse. This one is so on the mark, I just can't believe you weren't in my living room, where Bernard Stollman heard for the first time that there were going to be 'new' esp disks. You should have seen the look on his face. And mine, when I discovered I slipped my tongue. Always thought the new recordings belonged to the package deal.
Is there anybody out there who has actually seen NEW esp cd-titles on Calibre? And instead, the market dips and
the company can't realize its vision. Pity, that.
Calibre came right out of another Dutch bankruptcy, Via Records. Ah well. Regards, Remco