Dramatic live musical performance and one of the most dynamic recordings ever made will take you and your audio system to the limit. Long time established audiophile demo track Stimela (The Coal Train) is pure emotional energy and dynamic punch rarely captured on tape. Full recordings cut at 45rpm on 4LP from the Original Master Tapes by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and pressed at RTI.

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• Limited Edition Deluxe Box Set
• 4 LP 45rpm on 180 Gram Audiophile Vinyl
• Pressed at RTI, USA
• Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio
• Cut from the Original Analog Master Tapes
• Deluxe Gatefold Cover by Stoughton Printing
• Insert with David Hewitt notes (original recording engineer)
• Full 12 Track performance for the first time on 45rpm vinyl!

New 180g 45rpm Vinyl 4LP Box Set Edition featuring Full 12-Track Program As Originally Recorded; Housed In Custom Designed Slipcase Packaging with Exclusive Interview with Hope Engineer David Hewitt. Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the Original Analog Tape; Plated and Pressed by RTI.

A longtime audiophile demonstration disc, Hugh Masekela's heralded 1994 live album Hope will show off your system's dynamic range as well as any record ever released. Recorded in the Summer of 1993 at Washington, D.C.'s Blues Alley with a fiery seven-piece group, Hope finds the late great music legend revisiting his rich history with a touchstone 7-song set which covers material reaching over five different decades and several countries and composers. The songs are diverse, passionate and transcendent, and as for the sound...incredible!

What more can be captured from the masterpiece that the late trumpet great left devoted fans? Now cut at 45 RPM and spread over four 200-gram premium LPs, you're about to discover the answer to that question! The eight sides of vinyl reduce distortion and high frequency loss as the wider-spaced grooves let your stereo cartridge track more accurately. And this set is plated and pressed at Quality Record Pressings. Virtually silent surfaces coupled with sharp delineation of musical detail are QRP pressing hallmarks. Two Stoughton Printing old-style tip-on gatefold jackets house the four LPs, which are contained in a custom-designed slipcase reproducing the original artwork.

Unlike a prior 45 RPM version that included seven songs, this reissue contains the full program as originally recorded with all 12 tracks included! Plus, as an added bonus, Analogue Productions throws in a special insert – featuring an exclusive interview with Grammy/Emmy Award-winning engineer David Hewitt, who recorded Hope originally. "Hugh's record is right up near the top for a lot of reasons," Hewitt says. We used stuff from our stash of mics as opposed to what you'd find typically at a jazz club. We actually had control via the record label and producers, so we could take our time. We had the ability to mic the room for abient sound...you've got people that actually know and appreciate the music and respond accordingly. What you've got there is all the right stuff at the right time and the right people, and then something magical happens."

"Hope is one of those intensely visceral, large as life, and immediately present recordings that will make pretty much any system sound at least very good, and will cause better ones to raise goose bumps." – Wayne Garcia, The Absolute Sound

"The high quality original mix plus Analogue Productions' superb mastering has resulted in a terrific, very transparent sonic with great impact." - John Henry, Audiophile Audition

Track Listing:

01. The Abangoma (The Healers)
02. Uptownship
03. Mandela (Bring Him Back Home)
04. Grazing in the Grass
05. Lady
06. Until When
07. Languta
08. Nomali
09. Market Place
10. Ntyilo Ntyilo (The Love Bird)
11. He le Se (The Dowry Song)
12. Stimela [Coal Train]

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