I certainly arrive after a few hundred reviews to talk about the last 'Deep Purple', but too bad, what is it good to listen in 2020 to a new album by this legendary group that I had discovered enough late in the 70s with a certain 'Deep Purple in Rock' and whose 33 rpm (we used to say that at the time) turned to exhaustion on the family turntable all upset to listen to a huge ' Speed King '(which, by the way, is one of the compositions that struck me the most as much as a' Dark Side Of The Moon '), being more used to the symphonies of' Beethoven 'or' Mozart ' but also to 'Stravinsky' and 'Boulez'.
Since you will find all kinds of reviews already released that have presented the album in full and length, I would simply say that 'Whoosh!' will undoubtedly be for me one of the albums that I will remember from there 2020 year because, even if the last album ' inFinite ' of 2017 did not leave me with lasting memories (I should certainly reinject myself a small dose, we never know). But with 'Whoosh!', I find all these characteristic tempos and vintage sounds that rocked us and all this with a modern sound and a positive energy so necessary in these tormented times in which Man should return to the good old principles of yesteryear rather than turning to technology to solve a health crisis. To name just a few titles, how can we not respond at once and this from the introductory title, 'Throw My Bones' or 'Drop the Weapon' with this mix of guitar riffs and keyboards so characteristic and with a rhythmic to start the foot tapping machine or even that swaying tempo of 'No Need to Shout' or 'We're All The Same In The Dark', but 'Deep Purple' is also the encounter with the symphonic with for example 'Nothing At All' or 'Step by Step' which transport us to a hard-rock church (the Church would certainly not have depopulated its ranks if it had evolved towards this style of singing) and also a timeless hard-rock with titles like 'What the What' or 'Dancing in My Sleep'. But what I would like to emphasize in this column is the youthful spirit of this group of friends who have been doing hard rock for over fifty years and even if osteoarthritis is certainly starting to titillate them (don't say no, we say that after fifty years, if we have no pain nowhere, it is because we are dead), they continue their hard-rocker life without having anything more to prove but simply to deliver us the good hard-rock to give us a very pleasant time. And when we do the count (and yes I took out my calculator), few groups can boast of totaling 359 years by adding up the ages of these gentlemen (chronicle written on 11/09/2020 so it could have changed since then, I don't have all the birthdays !) and I remember in the 90s, that reflection (in retrospect, completely silly) that I had had on discovering the replacement of 'Ritchie Blackmore' after the interim of a few months of 'Joe Satriani', 'Steve Morse' : who is this little youngster who comes to replace Ritchie? Well, the young one, he is now 66 years old and has become an essential guitarist in the music scene with his participation in the super group ’Flying Colors’ !!
In short, no need to add more, and I will just say in conclusion two words that Americans are so fond of : Awesome !! and Enjoy !! | |
