Afternoon, everyone -
There seems to be some question, obliquely referred to here and there, as to the legitimacy of Sepia's Cinerama releases which I'd like to bypass for the moment and ask if anyone has a take on their decision to leave all the voice slates at the heads and tails of all 20-odd tracks of newly released music, as opposed to the tracks from the original LP which are also included? There's nothing haphazard or accidental about it to my ears - seems like a deliberate decision that someone made when they were putting the CD together.
I can't say I'm a fan of this, to be brutally honest. It doesn't play as an album of music at all. Listening experience seems to have been put beneath concerns related to... I dunno, audibly documenting take numbers for posterity? Occasionally one of the labels might include some control room chatter if the composer says something juicy or amusing, I think some of the BYU releases left some in on bonus tracks or raw takes included at the end of the disc, applause from the musicians sometimes, but I can't recall hearing a CD that left every track's slate in.
If this is an artistic decision that other labels are considering, please don't.
