Wally Badarou – Echoes

Phenomenal pressing with great mastering. Such a timeless and unique album

This is a great pressing - loud and detailed with a full, rich sound. Definitely one to get if you can find it.

Did Island just totally forget about their deluxe editions? This, Grace Jones' 'Living My Life' and 'Slave To The Rhythm' - amongst much other cult material have just been forgotten. Shame on them.

Bout Styles, which are incorrect here as they didn't exist in 1964
"Usage of the Downtempo tag for music from before c. 1989 or as a generic tempo descriptor is likely to be contentious. Users should also be aware of the wide variety of potentially better tags for more specific slow electronic styles.!"

"Future Jazz Music Description
Arising in the second half of the 1990s and also called nu jazz, Future Jazz is higher tempo, less funky, and less live performance-oriented than acid jazz. It has stronger influences of Brazilian and Latin jazz styles, although it rarely uses horns. It often comes from producers influenced by drum & bass."

This stupid reissue is broken up by 1-second silences between the tracks, where on the original they flowed into one another. All I can say is you're really not missing anything, 321 people who want this item!

Isn't the track "Chief Inspector" 3:14 min. long (as opposed to 5.58 min. in the tracklist here) ? Label says 3'14 too.

I have a rip of this CD with 11 tracks - can anyone verify if Chief Inspector (Alt Take) is a bonus track on this disc?

Anyone know if the cd re-release from 2018 has been remastered?

https://wp.me/p9OUMP-vI My interview with Wally which touches on Echoes whilst looking at his career as a whole.

Can anyone confirm quality of this record? It seems to be pressed same year as the first UK pressing, by Island Records, so that leads me to believe it should be as good as the first, but I don't know?