Deep Purple

Deep Purple – In Concert ’72 (2012/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:19:36 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone UK

If you’re a Deep Purple fan, then you’ll definitely want to check out In Concert ’72, which arrived on record store shelves earlier this week, but we’ll forgive you if you do a momentary double-take and ask yourself, “Wait, do I already have this?”

The truthful answer to that question is that you might already have a fair amount of it, but even at that, you definitely don’t have all of it. And, yes, we realize that’s an answer which requires a bit of further clarification, so here goes.

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Deep Purple – Fireball (1971/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 40:34 minutes | 855 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Fifth studio album from English Rock band Deep Purple, released in 1971. Second studio album to include Mark II Line-up with Ian Gillian and Roger Glover.

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Deep Purple – In Rock (1970/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 43:48 minutes | 918 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino

Deep Purple in Rock, also known as the In Rock, is the fourth studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released on 3 July 1970. It was the first studio album recorded by the classic Mark II line-up. Rod Evans (vocals) and Nick Simper (bass) had been fired in June 1969 and were replaced by Ian Gillan and Roger Glover, respectively.

Deep Purple in Rock was their breakthrough album in Europe and would peak at No. 4 in the UK, remaining in the charts for months (the band’s prior MK I albums had been much better received in North America than in their homeland). The album was supported by the hugely successful In Rock World Tour which lasted 15 months.

Although this was the first studio album to feature the MK II line-up of the band, it was this line-up that had earlier recorded the live Concerto for Group and Orchestra. The album was also preceded by the single “Hallelujah”, the first studio recording that Gillan made with Deep Purple. “Hallelujah” was a Greenaway-Cook composition released in late 1969, but the song flopped. A second single, “Black Night”, was developed around the same time as the In Rock album, but not included on the album. “Black Night” fared much better, as it rose all the way to No. 2 on the UK charts.

In 2005 the album won the Classic Rock and Roll of Honour Award (given by the British monthly magazine Classic Rock) in the category Classic Album. The award was presented to Ian Gillan, Ian Paice, Jon Lord and Ritchie Blackmore.

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Deep Purple – Deep Purple (1969/2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 44:24 minutes | 1000 MB | Genre: Rock, Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Parlophone Records

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. The group was going through a transition — original lead singer Rod Evans and bassist Nick Simper would be voted out of the lineup soon after the album was finished (although they weren’t told about it until three months later), organist Jon Lord and guitarist Ritchie Blackmore having perceived limitations in their work in terms of where each wanted to take the band. And between 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, is overall a match for such similar efforts by the Nice as the “Five Bridges Suite,” and 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. Additionally, the band turns in a very successful stripped-down, hard rock version of Donovan’s “Lalena,” with an organ break that shows Lord’s debt to modern jazz as well as classical training. In all, amid all of those elements — the orchestral accompaniment, harpsichord embellishments, and backward organ and drum tracks — 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, which was rapidly approaching bankruptcy, 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. –Bruce Eder

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Deep Purple – Concerto For Group And Orchestra (1970/2012)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 53:49 minutes | 1,88 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino Atlantic

Deep Purple, one of the pioneers of hard rock, integrated classical elements into their 1970 masterpiece Concerto For Group And Orchestra. Each movement is an innovative display of raw orchestral power blended with an exhilarating rock band. The work composed by keyboardist Jon Lord found the band joined by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This undeniable masterwork will have listeners at the edge of their seats.

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Deep Purple – Burn (1974/2016)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 42:26 minutes | 940 MB | Genre: Hard Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Rhino/Warner Bros.

Deep Purple’s 8th studio album, originally released in 1974. Features slight influences from funk/boogie sounds that would become more prominent in their following album, Stormbringer.

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Deep Purple – Made In Japan (Deluxe Edition) (1972/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 02:32:23 minutes | 3,19 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © EMI Music Switzerland AG

This deluxe edition includes a new remix of Deep Purple’s classic live album, as well the new remaster of the original 1972 mix, both in Studio Master quality. Frequently cited as one of the greatest live albums of all time, ‘Made In Japan’ captures Deep Purple at their entertaining best.

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Deep Purple – Live in Tokyo 2001 (2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:26:00 minutes | 1,71 GB | Genre: Metal, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC

On “Live In Tokyo 2001” we return to the year 2001, when Deep Purple toured all over Asia, finally arriving in Tokyo on March 24 for two consecutive concerts. This live album brilliantly captures the two concerts, which are among the highlights of the live repertoire, and combines them in a single album. Deep Purple’s stay in Tokyo is unique thanks to the collaboration with the famous conductor Paul Mann, the Shin Nihon Philharmonic Select Orchestra and none other than Ronnie James Dio. It includes a full-length rendition of Jon Lord’s masterful three-part “Concerto.”

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Deep Purple – Live in Hong Kong 2001 (2001)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:59:03 minutes | 1,49 GB | Genre: Metal, Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC

The Soundboard series focuses on the last three decades of concerts around the world. Some of the shows were previously available as rare and limited fan club editions, while others are concerts from the artists’ archives, mixed and mastered for the occasion. In both cases, great care was taken to achieve the best audio quality

Live In Hong Kong 2001 shows Deep Purple at the height of their Asian tour in 2001. On March 20, they took the stage at Hong Kong’s Coliseum, the city’s largest concert hall at the time. Here we see Purple as a raw and immediate live act, with no background singers, guest vocalists, added string quartets or other bells and whistles. This is rock’n’roll in its purest form – and we like it.

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Deep Purple – Bombay Calling (Live in 95 / Remastered) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:46:42 minutes | 1,34 GB | Genre: Rock
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © earMUSIC

“Bombay Calling” was recorded in early 1995 and is one of the first shows Deep Purple played with Steve Morse showcasing his virtuosic guitar skills and some of the new material would later make it onto the widely celebrated studio album “Purpendicular”. Astonishingly, the long thought lost master tapes for this unforgettable show in Mumbai were found lying around in an old cardboard box in November 1999.

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