Well, it was about then sad Roger – stadium hits to perform live and so we have plenty! Each have successful solo projects. How to find time for all this? And why to gather again in the Studio, if everyone would pull the blanket over himself? Maybe more useful to stay with a concert band?!
Yeah, maybe all these new vortex, fast, melodic, and wise hits from All The Time in the World Vincent Price 2013 to the Prime Minister in 2020: Nothing At All and We re All the Same in the Dark – we would not have heard! If not for producer Bob Ezrin, Deep Purple which met at the next round of their complex, full of temporary crises and quarrels of history. Calm faces, like the dragon and restless, like ant.
“Magnificent five” just needed just such a man. Able, like a real goalkeeper to beat all the flying kicks (after a failed album Rapture of the Deep but only a few believed that “purple” will be able to re-create the hits of the decades). A good songs alternated with apparent failures, something that had not happened, neither in the 70s nor in the mid-80s… But the Mighty Bob (especially after working with Kiss and Pink Floyd) was an excellent trainer – calm, flexible, able to humble ambitions and set to win.
And thanks to producer Deep Purple revived their tradition: again, we worked together, played offered any of these topics, improvised, albeit in a wild and risky solo, juggling rhythms. And Bob Ezrin was deciding which ideas to develop and which to give up… Maybe why the album has so much space, fresh ideas and reckless courage.
In the album 13 songs. The previous album Infinite in 2017 has already topped the charts. Obviously, the same will happen with Whoosh! If there were charts and poetic, certainly he would be pleased and in them: his major themes – ecology and the search for harmony with the world and himself, the secrets of the universe. Metaphors, allegories, images so much that other texts I want to read and outside of the music to which they are put. Responsible for the poetry of Ian Gillan, who admitted observer “RG” that he loves to read, has collected a decent library, loves to observe life – he’s a romantic and a philosopher, prefer family, home and nature’s most eligible parties.
the New album is dense in sound, this is the root hard with interludes of prog-rock and symphonic rock, with strong influences of Blues and signature approach is Deep Purple, and sometimes with dips in the neo-jazz.
the album Opens Throw My Bones with the leading parties on Dona Airey and guitar of Steve Morse. With the refrain and the text, like a hymn. And Nothing At All combines staccato guitar, almost buhovsky organ the Majesty, the quaint melodies of the Baroque and dive into the world of the Fugue.
One of the best songs – The Power of the Moon demonstrates fine vocal form Ian Gillan and interest in current progrock. Man Alive inherits the conceptual rock Opera Rick Wakeman, with alternating singing and reading poems. And The Long Way Round – simple, cheeky Blues-Boogie mess with the tone keyboards and lead guitar solo with creative methods of sound processing. This performing heroism of Airey and Morse, and makes the song attractive.
it is Not clear why the group decided to do a remake of his instrumental track And the Address from the 1968 album Shades Of Deep Purple without changing a single note, nor the nuances of the arrangement. Obviously wanting to show over the years, “purple” has not changed?! And as much to the creation of the “eternal greatest hits”, original sound, true to the glorious traditions of the 60s-70s?
