Minnie Riperton – Adventures In Paradise

This one is starting to get a bit pricier, to the point where I hesitate to call it "cheap heat", but what a fantastic album. If you can find a clean copy for $30.00, that's money well spent. Amazing pressing, too - just explodes out of the speakers.

This 2012 editon does not exist. the whole submission is a mess. needs to be deleted.

it is clearly a repeat of this one

https://www.discogs.sie.com/release/6909759-Minnie-Riperton-Adventures-In-Paradise

This is a must Album full of true feminine qualities in all it"s glory. Minnie was a powerful petite loving being and this album and all her music simply speaks to an Angel trying to love and alert you at the same time. This Sista is a T.R.E.A.S.U.R.E! gRAB ALL OF HER MATERAIL ON wAX BECASUE THATS HOW THIS aNGEL SOUNDS tHE BEST!

What's the difference between this and https://www.discogs.sie.com/release/16221388-Minnie-Riperton-Adventures-In-Paradise

Nothing!!!!!! Brilliant album in SQ , which decodes in Dolby 5.1 beautifully.

Like, WHOA, I think this fourth track is melting my brain exactly like how I like my brain melted

To my surprise, I spotted this 1975 Japan pressing in near mint condition at my local record shop yesterday and I couldn't resist picking it up, per Mellowness' recommendation. I don't regret it either, as it absolutely bests all other pressings of this classic I've heard ('90s imported CD reissue, original 1975 US press, or otherwise). It's punchier in the lows and warmer. Certain details in the instrumentation come across more clearly without any artifacts or noise. Minnie's lovely voice, along with the drums and percussion work, fills the room. I'm typically not one to immediately jump towards rare Japan pressings when a domestic original is plentiful and more than suffices, but this is one incredible pressing.

Wonderful record, really good pressing, sound very smooth and her voice is from heaven.

Beautiful album; one of my absolute faves of hers, but spell her last name CORRECTLY! There is only ONE "P" in Riperton! Not TWO!

The late great Minnie Riperton will forever be immortalized in pop culture as a one-hit-wonder: the spirited five-and-a-half octaved songbird behind one of the sweetest hits of the 1970s, "Lovin' You." But as is the case with many undervalued talents, the breadth of her work and artistry has long stood in her biggest hit's shadow. It's a great injustice, as she recorded several great albums during her brief career. 1975's Adventures in Paradise is one of them. An elegantly lush and sensuous follow-up to her 1974 breakthrough album, Perfect Angel, Paradise found Riperton embracing an idiosyncratic, jazz-informed melding of R&B, funk, adult pop, and soft rock that reflected her maturity as an artist and woman. Where its predecessor, Perfect Angel encapsulated a young woman's journey with falling in and out of love, Riperton and her husband/principal co-writer Richard Rudolph conceived songs that touched on a wise woman's affirmations on intimacy, life, self-care, family. While it was deemed a commercial flop upon its initial 1975 release for not equaling the sales of its predecessor, Paradise has gained immense recognition over the years, in more ways than one: in hip hop, it rose as a sampling holy grail; in R&B, its laid-back, hypnotic sophistication is still keyed by many artists.

Believe me or not, this pressing is better than the original US first press!!! More punchy, clearer, without ANY background noise, we can hear the instruments better, specially the drums and percussions.
If you research the best sound of this legendary album, take this one! You will never regret it.