Hans Theessink - Slow Train - VINYL LP

Limited edition of 1500 individually numbered copies on blue coloured 180-gram audiophile vinyl. Return To Forever is often cited as one of the core groups of the jazz-fusion movement of the 1970s. The final album by the longest-lasting InchclassicInch lineup of the group (which consisted of Chick Corea, Stanley Clarke, Lenny White and Al DiMeola) was Romantic Warrior, on which they continued their experiments in the realms of jazz-rock and related music genres, and was lauded by critics for both the technically demanding style of it's compositions as well as for it's accomplished musicianship. The album is more avant-garde and less funky than the band's previous album, No Mystery. It would go on to become the best selling of all Return to Forever's efforts, eventually reaching gold disc status in the US. Album Tracks 1. Medieval Overture 2. Sorceress 3. The Romantic Warrior 4. Majestic Dance 5. The Magician 6. Duel of the Jester and the Tyrant (Part I & Part II)

I recorded HARD ROAD BLUES in 2 nights (October 6th-7th, 1994) in the OPUS Recorder Music Studio in Austria in one go and all analog. It was quite a meditative affair, recorded very well by sound engineer Andreas Fabianek. We used a vocal mic, a guitar mic, and a few other mics to capture the natural sound of the room. The recording sounds very organic; you can feel every movement and breathing and you can literally hear the fingers dancing on the fretboard. The record was first released in 1994 on vinyl, CD and cassette. HARD ROAD BLUES has been highly acclaimed by fans and press alike and has sold very well. If a copy of this pressing ever turns up in good condition, it would cost quite a bit of money. Unfortunately, the fire devil struck at the German pressing plant - many masters and matrices were destroyed; including those of HARD ROAD BLUES. A subsequent pressing was therefore impossible. But during Corona 2020 I had a lot of time to look through my stock of recordings and I also found the HARD ROAD BLUES master tapes. That's when the idea came up to re- this record.I contacted Christoph Stickl from CSMastering. Christoph had already done an excellent remastering of my 1987 InchBaby Wants To BoogieInch LP and he was therefore predestined to carry out this rather delicate work for HARD ROAD BLUES as well. He reviewed the tapes, which after all, were already 27 years old, and said he'd have to InchbakeInch them in the oven to play them and start remastering. Luckily the tapes were still in good shape and so Christoph was able to do the remastering without interrupting the AAA chain. Album Tracks 1. Big Bill's Guitar Hans Theessink Manus (Akm) 2. You Make Me Feel So Good Hans Theessink Manus (Akm) 3. Prison Blues Trad/Arr. And New Words Hans Theessink 4. Blind Willie Hans Theessink Manus (Akm) 5. One Kind Favour Blind Lemon Jefferson / Arr. Hans

A low-key but emotionally moving collection of stripped down songs, performed by Hans Theessink, who plays and sings with singular grace, using his honeyed baritone and his soulful pickin' to reinterpret songs by people as diverse as Hank Williams, Tom Waits, Bo Diddley, Johnny Cash, and the Rolling Stones, recasting all of their familiar tunes and a few of his own in service to a movie based on the Austrian version of Everyman, the English morality play. Album Tracks 1. Way Down in the Hole 2. The Man Comes Around 3. No Expectations 4. I'm a Man 5. Mother's Advice 6. Satan Your Kingdom Must Come Down 7. The Beast in Me 8. You Gonna Need Somebody on Your Bond 9. The Angel of Death 10. Oh Sinner Man 11. Call Me 12. Sympathy for the Devil