NEW vinyl reissue label - CLASSIC REISSUES - Gentle Giant - Harmonium - awesome!!

Go nuts, friends in the USA - there is a new vinyl reissue label on the scene, and it's only for us Canadians.

Of particular interest is the new reissue of Gentle Giant's Acquiring The Taste - in my opinion, along with Three Friends, the best of the GG catalog. And what a reissue this is! It's a Pallas pressing, very well done - flat, clean, dead quiet. The cover is to a very high standard, a great quality job and a well reproduced gatefold - easily better than an original. There is an original Vertigo swirl label - cool touch.

The sound is amazingly good. Immediately I noted the very full, warm bass. There is an uncanny clarity and depth, but still, a warm, vibrant, 'alive' sound. The midrange is warm and full - unlike many contemporary American remasterings, there is no scooping out of the mids to produce that 'audiophile' tinkly sound that appears on the surface to be more clear and detailed, but misses the music by a long shot.

If you can get it sent to you, pay the bucks and do it. It's that good.

Harmonium was a very popular French Canadian proggy/folkish group with a large Quebec following that still exists today. Their first self titled album has been reissued on the Classic Reissues label along with their more proggy and better second, Si On Avait Besoin D'Une Cinquieme Saison. Both sound far better here than originals and are to the same high standard sonically as the Gentle Giant. No doubt these reissues will sell like hotcakes in Quebec and French Ontario. Many thanks to Classic Reissues for getting these back into print.

A great start to what hopefully will be a major new player in the vinyl reissue market. Support them by placing an order now.