Title: Do not buy this CD...
Product review: ...if you are legitimately interested in the album. Cleopatra Records, rather than mastering the CD from the master tapes, decided it would be a good idea to master the CD from an old vinyl copy from their personal collection. The sound quality, overall, is poor, and the stereo separation is off dramatically. If you really want this album, search out the Japanese 2CD, typically referred to as "Force the Hands of Chants," which also contains the "Themes 1" album. This was actually mastered from the original tapes and is crisp in quality. Also watch out for the Cleopatra reissues of Kraftwerk records, as they were mastered in the same fashion, and I would not be surprised if other "classic" reissues from Cleopatra (Hawkwind, Syd Barrett, etc.) were done in the same way.
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