There’s never been such a long gap in DEEP PURPLE album history – apart from the period of their non-existence, that is – than one between 2005’s “Rapture Of The Deep” and 2013’s “Now What?!” which restored their creative fortune, so the former offering felt like the end of an era for some time. Most fans liked it, some didn’t value the record too high, but it was fairly okay, even though everybody felt the platter could have been better. And now, two decades further down the line, it’s been made better, with Roger Glover overseeing the remixing of the songs of twenty-years vintage and changing the album’s running order to fashion a new context.
Planned for release on August 29th in an updated artwork, em>”Rapture Of The Deep” is augmented with two tracks – “Things I Never Said” and “MTV” – that previously were available as bonuses, and while a couple more studio cuts which appeared on special editions got discarded, making this not a definitive reissue, there’s a second disc with a few 2005 jams and rehearsals, the numbers exclusive to physical formats. A fascinating thing to bide time before the veterans’ next opus is out.
Rapture Of The Deep
CD 1:
1. Money Talks
2. Things I Never Said
3. Rapture Of The Deep
4. Clearly Quite Absurd
5. MTV
6. Back To Back
7. Wrong Man
8. Girls Like That
9. Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye
10. Don’t Let Go
11. Junkyard Blues
12. Before Time Again
CD 2:
1. MTV
2. Money Talks
3. Back To Back
4. Before Time Began
5. Closing Note (unreleased instrumental by Steve Morse)
