Kamasi Washington – Heaven And Earth

I could have done without the vocal tracks, the orchestrated bombast and the choir. They kinda spoil my fun. But still there's some amazing music to be found on these 3 cd's

Sound quality is pretty lousy. Flat, distant, mushy... and based on the comments, the vinyl is at least as bad. Sad.

Great packaging, great idea. But sound quality of LP is not good. The mid-bass range is generally too loud, which fills out the sound of the other instruments. This is especially true for the songs that feature the string section.

If you can, try listening to other formats and compare. The difference is noticeable even when listening to Apple Music. There is a better balance of mid and low frequencies in the mix, and you will be able to hear more of the music.

Such a great album!! Even though I haven't opened the disc 5 :)
Street fighter mas is sooooo good (have you heard the version of Rodrigo y Gabriela?)!

If ONLY a label such as Blue Note had signed Kamasi, great band and album.
Yet again terrible SQ deserves too much better

Probably the best jazz album I’ve heard in years, this dramatic diptych conjures up all sorts of imagery in its two-and-a-half-hour runtime, but for me the most enduring image is that of an Afrofuturist take on Michael Powell’s A Matter of Life and Death. The ascent from Earth to Heaven is slow and uncertain but there’s not a single minute I’d take out of it.

All packaging ideas. Low quality vinyl. Pie sound. Too much pomp and circumstance and not enough focus on quality sound

"Beautiful packaging," I thought to myself as I opened the first four discs of this release. Then the sleeve was down from M to VG+ by the time I got the 5th "hidden" disc out by cutting through the perforation. Fail, and no reason for it. His follow-up release "The Epic," is more sensibly packaged.

For me the hidden record was great fun, its at least a thing i will use.
Have harder time whit boxsets full of T-shirts or other things i can never use to keep my box complete.

'Flat' SQ, some background surface noise. The choral sections sound really compressed and distorted at times. The hidden EP is a pain, even getting it out to listen to you need to grab it with your fingers (no inner sleeve), thereby adding finger smudges to the dust and paper fibres that are on every LP in this set due to the poor inner sleeve quality.