About this Event

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Colin Boyes annd Andy Barlow will be carefully selecting and playing influential Prince backstory sounds over this now incredible and confirmed beast of a system.



Audio Menu now includes:



Linn LP12 Klimax

Plinius Kaitaki pre amplifier

Plinius SA-Reference power amplifier

KEF Blade II



Klimax spec LP12 comes with their Kandid MC cartridge and Urika phono stage



All cabling will be from Kubala Sosna: Fascination Series



***Update***



Guest Speaker Announced - Author, Matt Thorne!



Matt wrote 'Prince', widely regarded as one of the best biographies on the man and he will be presenting so look forward to great insight into the man during the Q&A as well!



I'm sure he'll sign your copy if you already have the book also!



See more on Matt and his book here: http://bit.ly/2cPYQl2



For our second event in Cambridge, we have decided to go purple and as we are featuring Prince - Sign 'O' The Times!



Following on from 1986’s Parade, Sign o the Times is the first release from Prince after eight albums with The Revolution. The departure from his band allowed Prince even more freedom in the studio and time to experiment. Initial plans for a triple LP project were balked at by Warner Bros (a fact that would later result in Prince publicly refusing to work and branding his deal “a slave contract”) and he was forced to scale back his plans to a mere double LP. The Linn LM-1 drum machine and Fairlight CMI feature heavily throughout the album, as do other effects that were being experimented with heavily at the time such as sped up vocals resulting in the arrival of Camille, Prince’s alter ego.



Read more here:

http://classicalbumsundays.com/cas-cambridge-presents-prince-sign-o-the-times/



Whilst reviewing the album for it’s 25th anniversary Tom Brielhan noted, “It crystallised all the artistic experimentation of those previous two albums into something huge and tangible, displaying Prince as a musical adventurer without equal. Prince tries out a ton of different musical ideas on the album, and he nails almost all of them. It’s a thing to behold… Sign o the Times is probably Prince’s most complete piece of self-presentation, the best possible example of how he wanted the world to see him. It’s an absolute essential.”



Audio Menu:



Linn LP12 Klimax

Plinius Kaitaki pre amplifier

Plinius SA-Reference power amplifier

KEF Blade II



Klimax spec LP12 comes with their Kandid MC cartridge and Urika phono stage



All cabling will be from Kubala Sosna: Fascination Series



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