Steely Dan - Aja (Export) Still Sealed
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Aja
Steely Dan - Aja

Steely Dan – Aja (Export) Still Sealed

€199,99

Still Sealed. A Rare US Pressing for export to Sweden.

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.

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Description

ABC Records AB 1006 Stereo LP, Album, 1977 US Pressing

Side 1.

1. Black Cow 5:07
2. Aja 7:56
3. Deacon Blues 7:26

Side 2.

1. Peg 3:58
2. Home At Last 5:31
3. I Got The News 5:03
4. Josie 4:30

Credits:

Arranged By [Horns] – Tom Scott
Engineer – Al Schmitt
Engineer – Bill Schnee
Engineer – Elliot Scheiner
Engineer – Roger Nichols
Engineer [Assistant] – Ed Rack
Engineer [Assistant] – Joe Bellamy
Engineer [Assistant] – Ken Klinger
Engineer [Assistant] – Lenise Bent
Engineer [Assistant] – Linda Tyler
Engineer [Assistant] – Ron Pangaliman
Engineer [Executive] – Roger Nichols
Mastered By – Bernie Grundman
Producer – Gary Katz
Sleeve Notes – Michael Phalen
Sleeve Notes – Steve Diener
Written-By – Donald Fagen
Written-By – Walter Becker

Media Condition: Mint (M)
Sleeve Condition: Mint- (M-)

1st pressings have the AB-1006 matrix and came in a glossy gatefold sleeve with a glossy card lyric inner sleeve.

The AB was an ABC label price-code, and approximately two weeks after the release of the album the price was raised $1.00 and subsequent pressings were AA-1006.

The earliest pressings have ‘KENDUN’ in the run-off grooves, some AB pressings do not and have the same 1006-(RE-3) run off matrixes as the second pressings, only the AB-1006 or AA-1006 differs (initial AA-1006 pressings have a crossed out ‘B’).

All these pressings are on the red/yellow/orange ABC label.

 

 

 

Barcode and Other Identifiers:

Matrix / Runout (Label, side A): AB-1006-A
Matrix / Runout (Label, side B): AB-1006-B
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 1: Runout Side A)): AB-1006-A
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 1: Runout Side B)): AB-1006-B
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 2: Runout Side A)): AB 1006 (RE-3) – A 1A
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 2: Runout Side B)): AB 1006 (RE-3) – B 1A
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 3: Runout Side A)): AB 1006 (RE-3) – A 1A
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 4: Runout Side A)): AB 1006 (RE-3) – A R2
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 3: Runout Side B) ): AB 1006 (RE-3) – B 1D [“1A” is crossed out to left of “1D”]
Matrix / Runout ((Varation 4: Runout Side B)): AB 1006 (RE-3) – B R2
Rights Society: BMI
Other (On spine): 0798

Printed in U.S.A.

Gold stamp text used for export copies
“Export Only For
Sale Outside Of
United States Only
Sweden -69-4345

Additional information

Weight0,5 kg
Artist

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