'Whoosh!' had been one of my 2020 favorites with this return to a hard-rock that took us back a few decades and this end of 2021 saw 'Deep Purple' release a new album, well if you can say so, because these are not original compositions but, only, some would say, covers of tracks from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. But when it's done in this way with this feeling of immense pleasure, one can only salute this band of adventurers who, as I calculated in the last review 'Woosh!', total 359 years old, which then becomes 364 years old one year later! So, ready to embark on a journey through time with completely timeless compositions that mix rockabilly, rock, and jazz. You'll find yourself in between 'Fleetwood Mac', 'Bob Dylan', 'Ray Charles', 'Quincy Jones' and so on, and if your whole body doesn't start moving on tracks like 'Rockin' Pneumonia And The Boogie Woogie Flu' by 'Huey "Piano" Smith', in which 'Don Airey' even manages to place 7 notes of 'Smoke On The Water', or the catchy 'Watching the River Flow' and 'Let the Good Times Roll', or the last medley, 'Caught in the Act', chaining together 'Going Down' by 'Jeff Beck', 'Green Onions' by 'Booker T. & The MG's', 'Hot 'Lanta' by the 'Allman Brothers Band', 'Dazed And Confused' by 'Led Zep' and 'Gimme Some Lovin'' by the 'Spencer Davis Group', you'll have to pass by and, for the others, you'll just have to savor these 12 tracks with remarkable interpretations showing the talent of these five artists who each bring their own stone to the edifice and who transform all these tracks into "made in 'Deep Purple'" with this energetic hard-rock touch present here and there. In short, for this exercise, which is common for many other bands, it took more than fifty years for 'Deep Purple' to do it, but when the journey through time is so successful, we can only bow to these five artists who know how to transmit to us this immense pleasure of playing together... | |
