Label: Warner Bros. Records (Japan), WPCP-4015
Style: Hard Rock, Classic Rock
Country: London, England
Time: 44:38
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 272 Mb
Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD.
A=Analog. D=digital.
The
first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter
for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's
will have D as the last letter).
In late 1968, Deep Purple had
embarked on a successful first US tour to promote their second album The
Book of Taliesyn, and returned home on 3 January 1969. The band was
considered an underground act in the United Kingdom, but word of their
success in America had influenced their reputation at home, as they
gradually rose in popularity and request. However, their releases had
yet to make an impact in the UK, where their second single, a cover of
Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman", had not charted and was retired after
six weeks, after having peaked at No. 38 in the United States and No. 21
in Canada.
Deep Purple's American label Tetragrammaton Records
pressured the band to make a single to match the success of their hit
"Hush", and the band had tried to satisfy that request while still in
the US for the last dates of their tour; they recorded some covers in a
New York studio in December 1968, without worthwhile results. The
musicians had come up with much more complex original material for their
second album, and making a song that would easily fit the three-minute
range was apparently becoming difficult.
A few days after their US
tour, Deep Purple settled in with their usual producer Derek Lawrence at
De Lane Lea Studios in Kingsway, London, already used for The Book of
Taliesyn sessions, to compose and record new songs and solve the new
single problem. The song "Emmaretta" (named after the musical Hair cast
member Emmaretta Marks, whom singer Rod Evans had met in the US) was
composed for that purpose and recorded on 7 January 1969, after four
takes. The heavier and more experimental song "The Bird Has Flown" was
arranged and recorded later on the same day and was chosen as the B-side
for the US release. The instrumental "Wring That Neck" from their
previous album was the B-side of the British edition of "Emmaretta",
which was issued in February 1969 and promoted by Deep Purple in their
first full UK tour. This was the first time that a Deep Purple release
appeared in the UK before the US. The tour started in Birmingham on 6
February with a concert broadcast by BBC Radio 1, and went on as a
series of one-nighters in clubs and colleges across the country during
February and March. Deep Purple's greater visibility and their declared
interest in the British public induced local music magazines to print a
few articles on them. However, after keyboard player and spokesperson
Jon Lord publicly stated that they would play large arenas for ?2500 per
show in America then come home and only be able to book small venues
paying ?150 a night, typical headlines were "Purple won't starve for an
ideal" and "They lose ?2350 a night working in Britain".
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Purple_(album))
01. Chasing Shadows (05:35)
02. Blind (05:27)
03. Lalena (05:05)
04. a. Fault Line b. The Painter (05:38)
05. Why Didn't Rosemary? (05:06)
06. Bird Has Flown (05:36)
07. April (12:07)
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