Newland Records: due Aug 2022 KG mastered Howard McGhee ‘Dusty Blue’ & Blue Mitchell ‘Blue Mitchell’

Next two releases due in August from Newland Records: Home

Howard McGhee - ‘Dusty Blue’

• Mastered from the original analog tape transfers by Kevin Gray
• 12” insert featuring a photographic print
• Printed & Pressed at Pallas on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a deluxe reverse-board jacket.
• Officially licensed from Bethlehem / BMG

Blue Mitchell - ‘Blue Mitchell

• Mastered from the original analog tape transfers by Kevin Gray
• 12” insert featuring rare photographs and words from Doug Sides
• Printed & Pressed at Pallas on 180 gram vinyl and housed in a deluxe reverse-board jacket.
• Officially licensed from Mainstream

 

Is this the right Blue Mitchell albums:

Blue Mitchell - Blue Mitchell

 

Yes - seems so:

 

Home
details and pictures there

 

The Blue Mitchell title is also known as "Soul Village"

Here is the album if anyone wants to give a listen first:

 

And the Howard McGhee "Dusty Blue" album if you want to hear before you purchase...

 

Preordered the Blue Mitchell title, sounds like a nice one.
Hope they or Craft does Blue Soul or Blue’s Moods in a similar manner.
Also wondering why they skipped a catalogue ID NEWLAND003…

 

Available for preorder on Amazon U.K. at £26.20:
Blue Mitchell - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Blue-Mit...l+vinyl&qid=1653730800&sprefix=,aps,48&sr=8-6

 

£35.48 w/ shipping through Ochre, £26.20 through Bezos Prime. I wouldn't mind if the difference were £1-2 but at nearly £10, I had to do the shuffle.

 

Or £25.99 (before P&P) at Juno for:
Blue Mitchell Blue MITCHELL - Blue Mitchell Vinyl at Juno Records.
Howard McGhee Howard McGHEE - Dusty Blue Vinyl at Juno Records.

 

Howard McGhee ‘Dusty Blue’ also now up on Amazon U.K. for preorder at £26.19 - https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B09YPL56JW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

 

Liking this one especially.

 

Both releases will be pre-ordered when available at my usual retailer .

 

A Deluxe box set from Newland is apparently being announced next week too.

 

Looks like 003 could be announced on the 8th of September.

Also, interestingly, Newland Instagram account seems to have not yet addressed some questions they received on their posts on whether the original analogue tape transfers KG uses to cut the lacquers are done in the analogue domain.

I am not that fussed about source medium as long as the mastering is done right (and these are by KG so should be good) but I hoped the recent events would underline the importance of clarity in marketing.

 

It’s interesting to see a new label releasing high quality records like these three. This is what a reissue should be. I’m curious about nr.3 .

 

After experiencing QC issues with Newland’s Gerry Mulligan release, I am happy to report that my copy of Blue Mitchell is flat and free of surface noise. Nice matte cover too:

 

Do you know if this album and other New Land’s releases were mastered from an analogue source orthere was a digital step here? The info on hypestickers shows „mastered from the original Analogue Tape Transfers”, a copy of original tape of a digital file could be used. I like the sound of each three releases very much, so I don’t want to complain, but to know the kind of source.

 

with that language, 99% sure everyone assumes its a digital source

 

Looks like on Dusty Blue at least, they used BMG's existing digital transfers of the original analogue tape, as the tape is lost now.
They mention that on Night Lights, they used the actual original tapes but it's probably also from a transfer as the hype sticker suggests, which I assume a digital transfer.

You'd think that labels would get the need for absolute clarity after what Mofi went through but here we are, still trying to get a word here, a word there and having to make assumptions... They are doing the exact same thing Mofi did (on their OneStep inserts), explaining the whole process but omitting a detail while making you think you got the full picture.



3 months earlier:

 

It's preorder now on some stores:
NEWLAND003 Charles Mingus - A Modern Jazz Symposium Of Music And Poetry (2 LP?)

 

Cheers, looks like it leaked before their announcement indeed.

Modern Jazz Symposium On Music & Poetry

 

Ordered Dusty Blue. I always counted on it being digital so Im fine with it. I wonder if they transferred tapes to PCM or DSD back in those days (90s I guess?). Not that I think one sounds worse but DSD does not allow edits so if its that then I guess its a quite flat off the tape sound the Kevin is cutting.

 

I have ordered Dusty Blue 4 times (2 Amazon, 2 Ochre), all of them came with top seam splits.
And I don't think I’m the only one. They’ll need to seriously re-think their packaging decisions for the next releases.

 

Why cant companies just ship records outside the cover. These are in a resealable outers too, no excuse not to.