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Steely Dan - Aja (1977) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

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Steely Dan - Aja (1977) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010] PS3 ISO + Hi-Res FLAC

Steely Dan - Aja (1977) [Japanese Limited SHM-SACD 2010]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 39:40 minutes | Scans included | 1,15 GB
or FLAC (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Full Scans included | 847 MB

Aja (pronounced Asia) is the sixth studio album by the jazz rock band Steely Dan. Originally released in 1977 on ABC Records, the album peaked at number three on the US charts and number five in the UK. It was the band's first platinum album and ultimately became their best-selling studio release, eventually selling over 5 million copies. In July 1978, the album won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Non-Classical Recording and received Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals. The credits for Aja list nearly 40 musicians, as band leaders Donald Fagen and Walter Becker pushed Steely Dan further into experimenting with different combinations of session players.

Steely Dan hadn't been a real working band since Pretzel Logic, but with Aja, Walter Becker and Donald Fagen's obsession with sonic detail and fascination with composition reached new heights. A coolly textured and immaculately produced collection of sophisticated jazz-rock, Aja has none of the overt cynicism or self-consciously challenging music that distinguished previous Steely Dan records. Instead, it's a measured and textured album, filled with subtle melodies and accomplished, jazzy solos that blend easily into the lush instrumental backdrops. But Aja isn't just about texture, since Becker and Fagen's songs are their most complex and musically rich set of songs – even the simplest song, the sunny pop of "Peg," has layers of jazzy vocal harmonies. In fact, Steely Dan ignores rock on Aja, preferring to fuse cool jazz, blues, and pop together in a seamless, seductive fashion. It's complex music delivered with ease, and although the duo's preoccupation with clean sound and self-consciously sophisticated arrangements would eventually lead to a dead end, Aja is a shining example of jazz-rock at its finest.

Tracklist:

01 - Black Cow
02 - Aja
03 - Deacon Blues
04 - Peg
05 - Home At Last
06 - I Got The News
07 - Josie

DSD Transferred from analogue master tapes by Hitoshi Takiguchi (Universal Studio Mastering).
Universal Japan # UIGY-9026

foobar2000 1.5.2 / Dynamic Range Meter 1.1.1

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Analyzed: Steely Dan / Aja
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DR Peak RMS Duration Track
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DR13 -4.11 dB -18.39 dB 5:08 01-Black Cow
DR13 -4.65 dB -19.56 dB 7:55 02-Aja
DR14 -4.47 dB -20.81 dB 7:33 03-Deacon Blues
DR12 -4.21 dB -18.75 dB 3:57 04-Peg
DR13 -4.01 dB -18.54 dB 5:32 05-Home At Last
DR13 -4.55 dB -19.74 dB 5:03 06-I Got The News
DR13 -4.92 dB -20.01 dB 4:32 07-Josie
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Number of tracks: 7
Official DR value: DR13

Samplerate: 2822400 Hz / PCM Samplerate: 88200 Hz
Channels: 2
Bits per sample: 24
Bitrate: 5645 kbps
Codec: DSD64


Thanks to PS³SACD!
Uncompressed SACD ISO size > 1,6 GB
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