Various Artists Thorens: Tribute To A Legend (2 LP)

Thorens personal favorite tracks will bring listening pleasure pure. Tracks having accompanied long periods of private and professional life. Recordings from the 70s, 80s and 90s, but also very recent productions, because an interest in and enthusiasm for music doesn’t just stop at some point. Especially not if you can enjoy it with the very best hi-fi technology.
This album is intended to celebrate one turn table in particular: the TD-124 is the epitome of everything that makes Thorens so unique, admirable and desirable.
Let yourself be taken on a journey through a personal record collection. Discover the sonic peculiarities and moods that await discovery from track to track. You’ll discover great test tracks: We’ve emphasized authentic timbres and the greatest possible dynamics during mastering. What you can expect is exciting music, lots of variety – even if the basic genre is Jazz in the broadest sense – and always a bit of a technical as well as a musical challenge.
To best transmit this musical experience, the cutting has been made using the DMM process and 180 Gr. Virgin Vinyl for the pressing.
"Brand owner Gunter Kürten and the professionals of In-Akustik have selected attractive titles for music lovers and audiophile gourmets alike and had them pressed into flawless 180g records. And of course, this sound confectionery not only sounds captivatingly good from a Thorens." - Stereo, February 2022
"Category Listening pleasure." - Stereoplay, February 2022

Features:

• DMM - Direct Metal Mastering
• Double LP
• 180 gr Audiophile Pressing
• Gatefold Cover

Selections:

Side A
1. Dancing Wittgenstein (Jazzrausch)
2. Let`s Start (Kuti Fela)
3. Shapes (Haffner Wolfgang)
Side B
1. Leonardo’s Lady (Mangione Chuck)
2. Feelings (Alexander Monty Trio)
Side C
1. New June (Tokunbo)
2. What A Difference A Day Makes (Washington Ingram)
3. Lento (Nah Youn Sun)
4. Volver Volver (Buika Concha)
Side D
1. Temptation (Chamberland Chantal)
2. You Don´t Know What Love Is (Rouse Charlie)
3. Cool Struttin' (The Sonny Clark Memorial Quartet)
4. 88 Basie Street (Basie Count & His Orchestra)