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Love Da Capo on Numbered Limited Edition SACD from Mobile Fidelity!1967 Sophomore Album Established Love as Psychedelic Visionaries
Seamlessly Encapsulates Baroque Pop, Proto Punk, Bossa Nova, Garage Rock, and Hard-Driving Jazz
Mastered from the Original Master Tapes: Hybrid SACD Presents Interwoven Textures, Delicate Accents, and Huge Dynamics with Three-Dimensional Perspective
No West Coast band put a deeper psychedelic spin on the mid-60sÂ’ burgeoning folk-rock scene than Love. And during a twelve-month period between late 1966 and 1967, no group rivaled Arthur Lee and companyÂ’s freewheeling imagination and musical blend. LoveÂ’s tenure was brief, but its impact and influence will forever loom large. Home to the collectiveÂ’s lone Top 40 hit, Da Capo is psychedelia at its best: a thoroughly original, vivid, unrestrained canvas for LeeÂ’s beautiful, eclectic ideas and pioneering sonic journeys.
Mastered from the original master tapes, Mobile FidelityÂ’s numbered limited-edition hybrid SACD of Da Capo presents the album in living color. Interwoven textures, delicate accents, hand-stitched details, and wide-spanning dynamics integral to each songÂ’s framework and function emerge with three-dimensional perspective. MoFi engineers painstakingly ensured that the disc breathes with tube amplifier-like warmth and transparency, characteristics tethered to the eraÂ’s finest recordings. Background woodwinds, horns, and vintage organs occupy distinct spaces, while the soundstage boasts both excellent depth of field and width.
Arriving shortly after its debut, Da Capo established Love as psychedelia visionaries. A cult classic since its original release in January 1967, the record greatly expands on the experimentation of the BeatlesÂ’ Revolver and predates the Rolling StonesÂ’ Their Satanic Majesties Request, Fab FourÂ’s Sgt. PepperÂ’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, and Pink FloydÂ’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn by months. Executed by an expanded seven-piece lineup, Da Capo encapsulates baroque pop, proto punk, bossa nova, garage rock, and hard-driving jazz. Its limits are bounded only by LeeÂ’s scope, and the Memphis native remains unbounded throughout.
Accurately tabbed by critic Lillian Roxon as “an amusing paradox,” Lee’s identity as an African-American channeling the sound of a white Englishman expressing the Southern blues gives Da Capo added mysticism and muscle. From the tumbling house of mirrors that is the opening “Stephanie Knows Who” to the galloping, heavy, reverb-appointed “Seven & Seven Is” — a hit tune that confirmed Love’s identity as Los Angeles’ baddest street toughs — the effort swings and surprises, each turn leading down new corridors.
Such discovery lies behind the groundbreaking “Revelation,” a 19-minute jam that occupied the entire second side of the LP and strongly rumored to have been produced by an uncredited Neil Young. Originally titled “John Lee Hooker,” it progresses as a free-for-all boogie that, according to myth, soon inspired the Stones to pen “Goin’ Home.” Similar tradition is tied to Love’s harpsichord-fragranced “She Comes In Colors,” a baroque gem that led to the Stones’ “She’s a Rainbow.”
Features:
• Super Audio CD
• SACD Stereo SACD Layer
• This Hybrid SACD contains a 'Red Book' Stereo CD Layer which is playable on most conventional CD Players!
• Numbered, Limited Edition
• Mastered From Original Master Tapes
Selections:
1. Stephanie Knows Who
2. Orange Skies
3. Que Vida!
4. Seven & Seven Is
5. The Castle
6. She Comes In Colors
7. Revelation
