Return To Forever
Electric Ladyland Studios
New York City
1975-06-xx

Mastered by TheTooleMan
June, 2007

Lineage: unknown FM recording -> tape -> CD -> Sound Forge -> FLAC
Additional lineage: FLAC -> WAV -> CDR -> EAC (secure) -> FLAC (L8)

Thanks to Grassy Sound for sending me the original CD, which I've never
seen anywhere before!

Unfortunately, we don't know much about the origin of this recording. It's
a great studio performance by Return to Forever, with a live audience. Songs are
from their new (at the time) album "No Mystery" and their previous album "Where
Have I Known You Before."

The CD I received is muddy-sounding, with too little treble and way too much bass.
This was cleaned up in Sound Forge. There were a few level adjustments that I
smoothed out. Part of "Celebration Suite" was repeated on the CD, and this was
edited to remove the repetition. A little tape damage can be heard at the very end of
"Celebration Suite." It only lasts a second or two, and is not a big deal. FM noise and
some tape hiss are plainly audible in quiet parts of the recording, but do not present
much distraction, either, and was left as-is. Noise reduction was used only in very limited
amounts during talking and quiet introductory passages on this master. In one or two
quiet places, tape "print-through" is faintly audible.

RTF enthusiasts and fans will appreciate this recording for a number of reasons -
sound quality (after mastering), relative rarity, and a selection of songs, both new and "old."

TheTooleMan
June, 2007

Return To Forever:
Lenny White: Drums
Stanley Clarke: Bass
Al DiMeola: Guitar
Chick Corea: Keyboards

Tracks:
1. Chick Introduces the Band
2. Day Ride
3. Beyond the Seventh Galaxy
4. The Shadow of Lo
5. No Mystery
6. Vulcan Worlds
7. Stanley Speaks
8. Celebration Suite

Total time 54:22

Links:
http://return2forever.com/
https://sites.google.com/site/returntoforevershows/home

Support the artists! Buy their official releases, go to their concerts!
Trade freely! Do not buy or sell! Keep it lossless!

Oiginally uploaded to DIME by TheTooleMan in June 2007.
Reseeded by propylaen in January 2014.

Enjoy!

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