Deep Purple- DEEP PURPLE

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Deep Purple- DEEP PURPLE- CD- 21.06.1969(US)/01.09.1969(UK)/01.01.2006-
- HEC Enterprises Ltd./EMI Records Ltd./Comp Music Ltd.- 724352159727- 300 grn
THE ORIGINAL DEEP PURPLE COLLECTION Series.
DEEP PURPLE, also referred to as DEEP PURPLE III, is the third studio album by the English rock band Deep Purple, released on 21st June 1969 on Tetragrammaton Records in the United States and only in September 1969 on Harvest Records in the United Kingdom. The music of this album is mostly original and a combination of progressive rock, hard rock and psychedelic rock, but with a harder edge and with the guitar parts in more evidence than in the past. This was the least commercially successful of the three albums released by the band's Mark I line-up, and was ignored by critics upon its release. Modern reviews are generally positive, and remark on the variety of styles within the album and the boldness of the song arrangements. This is a record that even those who aren't Deep Purple fans can listen to two or three times in one sitting -- but then, this wasn't much like any other album that the group ever issued. Actually, DEEP PURPLE was highly prized for many years by fans of progressive rock, and for good reason.
PERSONNEL: Rod Evans – lead vocals; Ritchie Blackmore – guitars; Nick Simper – bass, backing vocals; Jon Lord – Hammond organ, piano, harpsichord, backing vocals, strings arrangement on "April"; Ian Paice – drums, percussion.
Between Jon Lord's ever-greater ambitions toward fusing classical and rock and Blackmore's ever-bolder guitar attack, both of which began to coalesce with the session for Deep Purple in early 1969, the group managed to create an LP that combined heavy metal's early, raw excitement, intensity, and boldness with progressive rock's complexity and intellectual scope, and virtuosity on both levels. On "The Painter," "Why Didn't Rosemary" and, especially, "Bird Has Flown," they strike a spellbinding balance between all of those elements, and Evans' work on the latter is one of the landmark vocal performances in progressive rock. "April," a three-part suite with orchestral accompaniment gets extra points for crediting its audience with the patience for a relatively long, moody developmental section and for including a serious orchestral interlude that does more than feature a pretty tune, exploiting the timbre of various instruments as well as the characteristics of the full ensemble. Those elements DEEP PURPLE holds together astonishingly well as a great body of music. This is one of the most bracing progressive rock albums ever, and a successful vision of a musical path that the group might have taken but didn't. Ironically, the group's American label, Tetragrammaton Records released this album a lot sooner than EMI did in England, but ran into trouble over the use of the Hieronymus Bosch painting "The Garden of Earthly Delights" on the cover. Although it has been on display at the Vatican, the work was wrongly perceived as containing profane images and never stocked as widely in stores as it might've been. DEEP PURPLE third album sets itself apart from the previous two in the fact that Shades Of Deep Purple and The Book Of Taliesyn had been given attention on the strength of the hit remakes of songs ''Hush'' and ''Kentucky Woman''. It doesn't quite fall into the "rock-album" category either, due to the fact that the material did not receive enough airplay or limelight. But DEEP PURPLE is a fascinating album, and a stir to the imagination. This is remastered reissue of album with five bonus tracks. The bonus tracks here contain versions of a single, `Emmaretta,' and live or alternate versions of album cuts. DEEP PURPLE is an essential piece, as tt was evident that one musical taste was going to defeat the other, and something had to give.
Comes In A Standard Jewel Case With Black Tray Includes 12-Page Booklet.
Official Ukrainian Edition.
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