Sonny & Linda Sharrock - Paradise (1975)

Sonny Sharrock was one of the first American free-jazz guitarists. He played in the '60s and early '70s with Miles Davis, Pharoah Sanders, Roy Ayers, Herbie Mann and many other greats. 

He also recorded three solo LPs at the beginning of the '70s with his wife Linda Sharrock on vocals, before discreetly disappearing from the musical scene. The couple divorced in 1978.

1st off, you have have to be ready for Linda's vocals. They're wordless, and an confident take on the path Yoko Ono blazed. 

It's mannered, funny, terrifying - i wonder if the B-52s heard this. She's in tune and fearless; i enjoy it, and i've sold Keith Jarrett records solely because of his vocalizations in the background. 

She doesn't sing that much, either. The focus is on the guitar.

That's the reason you're here, of course. Sharrock's guitar; he plays high up the fretboard, choking otherworldy skronks out. 

Everything wobbles and smears. It rocks as surely and complexly as any Ulmer or Fripp, but no one sounds exactly like this.

The rest of the band is competent, but not monster, famous players. The keyboardist, Kenny Armstrong, deserves mention for some fun Moog solos.

"Gary's Step" ends the record on a slow burn, building through successive waves of guitar frenzy on a bluesy groove and Linda's keening; Sharrock may not have liked this record, but I do.

Tracklist

1.  Apollo - 7:50

2.  End of the Rainbow - 3:00

3.  Miss Doris - 9:22

4.  1953 Blue Boogie Children - 7:04

5.  Peaceful - 4:23

6.  Gary's Step - 8:27

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Copyright © – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Recorded At – A&R Studios
• Remixed At – Record Plant, N.Y.C.
• Pressed By – Presswell
• Manufactured By – Atlantic Recording Corporation
• Record Company – Warner Communications

Credits

• Art Direction – Paula Scher
• Bass Guitar – Dave Artis
• Drums, Timpani – Buddy Williams
• Engineer – Phil Ramone
• Engineer [Overdubs] – Rich Blakin
• Engineer [Remix & Additional Overdubs] – Carmine Rubino, Dennis Ferrante
• Executive-Producer – Nesuhi Ertegun
• Guitar – Sonny Sharrock
• Percussion – Sonny Bonillia
• Piano, Electric Piano [Fender], Synthesizer [Moog], Clavinet, Mellotron [Chamberlin] – Kenny Armstrong
• Producer – Ilhan Mimaroglu
• Voice – Linda Sharrock

Notes

Release: 1975

Genre: Free Jazz, Jazz-funk

Length:  40:08

Label:  ATCO Records

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Tina Rainford - Silver Bird (1976)

Tina Rainford, Real Name: Christa Zalewski, German Schlager singer.

Born 25 December 1946 in Berlin, Germany - Died 23 February 2024.

Tina Rainford made her mark in the Schlager music scene in the mid-1970s with hits like "Silver Bird" and "San Francisco Bay," which propelled her to the top of the German music charts. 

Her initial stage experience came in 1972, performing alongside Drafi Deutscher, which set the stage for her solo career.

Rainford's music resonated with audiences for its catchy melodies and relatable lyrics, securing her a place in the annals of German pop culture. 

Throughout her career, she maintained a presence in the industry, both with timeless hits and as a valued collaborator with other artists.

Her legacy in the Schlager genre is defined by her contribution to the popularization of the style during its heyday and her continued influence on subsequent generations of artists. 

Rainford's artistry left a lasting impression on the music world and her fans, who continue to celebrate her work and contributions to the German music landscape.

Tracks

1.  Charly Boy - 4:00   

2.  Tiger Rider - 2:55   

3.  Love Me Or Leave Me - 2:50   

4.  I'm Danny's Girlfriend - 4:52    

5.  Norwegian Wood (Beatles Cover) - 2:33   

6.  Silver Bird - 3:40   

7.  Guitar Man - 4:04   

8.  Writing On The Wall - 2:54    

9.  Fly Away Pretty Flamingo - 3:48   

10.  Devil Man - 2:47   

11.  Sailing Home - 4:03  

12.  Rising Sun (Amazing Graze) - 3:14

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Pet Shop Boys - Ultra Rare Trax, Vol. 2 (1993)

The Pet Shop Boys are an English synth-pop duo formed in London in 1981. 

Consisting of primary vocalist Neil Tennant and keyboardist Chris Lowe, they have sold more than 50 million records worldwide, and were listed as the most successful duo in UK music history in the 1999 edition of The Guinness Book of Records.^[6]

Three-time Brit Award winners and six-time Grammy nominees, since 1984 they have achieved 42 top 30 singles, 22 of these being top 10 hits on the UK Singles Chart, including four UK number ones: "West End Girls" (also number one on the US Billboard Hot 100), "It's a Sin", a synth-pop version of "Always on My Mind", and "Heart".

 Other hit songs include a cover of "Go West", and their own "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money)", and "What Have I Done to Deserve This?" in a duet with Dusty Springfield. With five US top ten singles in the 1980s, they are associated with the Second British Invasion.

Tracks

1.  Can You Forgive Her?   (Ton Up Crew Remix) - 4:55    

2.  Bet She's Not Your Girlfriend   (Indictment Mix) - 6:52   

3.  So Hard   (Coarse Textures Mix) - 8:15   

4.  Suburbia  (Dub Mix) - 7:48    

5.  Opportunities  (Prime Cuts) - 7:20   

6.  Paninaro   (House Mix) - 5:12   

7.  How Can You Expect To Be Taken Seriously?   (Def Mix) - 4:05  

8.  Miserablism   (Hot Tracks) - 6:23    

9.  Left To My Own Devices   (Razormaid) - 6:21  

10.  Always On My Mind   (Razormaid) - 7:03  

       

                                              

Each track is accompanied by trivia and (alleged) sources:

1 - "An excellent reworking by the up and coming Ton Up Crew."

2 - "Only to be found on Art Of Mix CD 7 - very rare as you can imagine."

4 - "This orchestrated mix of Suburbia was masterfully done by Mr Arthur Baker."

5 - "The Prime Cuts Club must have worked very hard on this track because the outcome sounds like it should have made them lots of money."

6 - "Originating from Italy this Kicking House Mix is extremely rare and sought after."

7 - "A Dave Morales mix ever to be found on a US promo 12", find it if you can."

8 - "A Hot Tracks remix of a lesser known PSB track - still brilliant."

9 - "Left to Razormaid's devices, say no more!!!"

10 - "An excellent reworking of the amazing Elvis Presley number."

Notes

Series: Ultra Rare Trax (3) – Vol. 2

Format: CD, Compilation, Unofficial Release, Red Face Label Disc

Released: 1993

Genre: Electronic, Synth-pop

Runtime: 1:04:14

Label:  Not On Label (Pet Shop Boys) – PSB 2

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Dexter Wansel - Voyager (1978)

Keyboardist/arranger/producer/recording artist Dexter Wansel can be heard throughout the catalog of Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff’s Philadelphia International Records. 

His skills can be heard on non-PIR sides like Jermaine Jackson’s “Where Are You Now” from his gold LP Let’s Get Serious and “Tonight” from Junior’s Acquired Taste LP. His frequent songwriting partners were Cynthia Biggs, Bunny Sigler, and T. Life.

A synth pioneer, Wansel’s first LP arranging assignment was several tracks on Carl Carlton‘s 1975 LP, I Wanna Be With You, produced by Bunny Sigler. 

A Biggs/Wansel song, “The Sweetest Pain,” a duet between Wansel and Jean Carn, originally a 1979 single from Wansel’s Time Is Slipping Away LP, was a popular radio-aired LP from Loose Ends’ Zagora

After employing a lot of sci-fi/space travel imagery on his first album, Life on Mars, Dexter Wansel got away from the outer space theme on his second album, What the World Is Coming To. But as it turned out, that was only temporary, the cover of Wansel’s third album, Voyager, finds him dressed like an astronaut. 

In the late ’70s, Wansel wasn’t known for recording one-dimensional albums and he lives up to his reputation for diversity on this decent 1978 outing, which ranges from funk (“All Night Long“, “I Just Want to Love You“) and smooth Philadelphia soul (“I’m in Love“) to instrumental pop-jazz (“Time Is the Teacher“) and fusion (“Voyager“).

Most of the instrumentals that Wansel provided in the late ’70s were more pop-jazz/NAC than fusion, but Voyager’s title track is the sort of hard, aggressive fusion that one would have expected from Chick Corea’s Return to Forever or John McLaughlin’s Mahavishnu Orchestra in the 1970s. 

And that’s ironic because one of the players who is featured on that track is Philly saxman George Howard, who went on to become a NAC/smooth jazz favorite in the 1980s but had yet to provide any albums of his own back in 1978. Voyager falls short of mind blowing, but it’s a likable record that deserves credit for its unpredictable nature.

Tracks

A1. All Night Long - 5:34

A2. Solutions - 4:57

A3. Voyager - 8:13

B1. I Just Want To Love You - 4:17

B2. Time Is The Teacher - 5:30

B3. Latin Love (Let Me Know) - 4:48

       Backing Vocals – Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton

B4. I’m In Love - 3:36

       Backing Vocals – Barbara Ingram, Carla Benson, Evette Benton

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – CBS Inc.
• Copyright © – CBS Inc.
• Distributed By – CBS Records
• Distributed By – CBS Inc.
• Recorded At – Sigma Sound Studios
• Mastered At – Frankford/Wayne Recording Labs
• Pressed By – Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Pitman
• Published By – Mighty Three Music

Credits

• Bass – Derrick Graves
• Congas – Larry Washington
• Design – Ed Lee
• Drums – Billy Johnson
• Engineer – Jay Mark, Jim Gallagher, Joe Tarsia
• Engineer [Assistant] – Ken Present
• Keyboards, Guitar, Drums, Percussion – Dexter Wansel
• Mastered By – NS
• Photography By – Ronald G. Harris
• Piano, Synthesizer – Steve Gold
• Producer – Dexter Wansel
• Rhythm Guitar – Herb Smith
• Saxophone – George Howard
• Strings, Horns – Don Renaldo
• Trumpet, Flugelhorn – Butch Harper

Notes

Released: 1978 

Genre: Funk / Soul 

Style: Jazz-Funk, Disco 

Length: 39:24

Label: Philadelphia International Records 

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Blown Free - Maximum Rock 'n' Roll (1978)

(US, great hard, rough 'n' raw, pre stoner rock, limited release, 300 copies)

BLOWN FREE were a Houston band active between 1978 and 1982. Their history is almost completely unknown, what is known is that the band's leader and main songwriter, David Matthews, has a long history in music. 

He got his start in Wisconsin, playing in some underground psyche bands as early as 1968.

When he moved to Houston he immediately put together his own band and the results of this can be heard on this disc, what recordings survived anyway. 

If there ever was a band that could be classified as "obscure, underground rock" this is surely one. The only known release on this band is a sole 45 released on Excelsior (the label owned by the late Bill Holford, SR. of ACA Studios in Houston).

Mr. Holford would sometimes take a band under his wing and help them through business deals and publishing deals, which is what he did with Blown Free. 

After the dissolution of the band, and the break-up of Matthews' marriage, David took off for greener pastures back in Wisconsin where he started his own label and put together another version of Blown Free, this time under the monniker of The Matthew Davis Project. 

Several tracks from that period are included here as "Lemonade and Suzie Tonight", "A Seedy Reefer", and "The Bash".

Tracks

1.  Baby Come Back - 2:14

2.  My House - 2:57

3.  Sweet Love - 3:52

4.  The Wizard - 3:56

5.  Come Back My Way - 4:58

6.  Rock And Roll Band - 2:48

7.  A Little Bit At A Time - 3:59

8.  My House - 3:11

9.  I Feel Free - 3:54

10.  Blown Free - 5:47

11.  Sweet Love - 4:14

12.  Lemonade & Suzie Tonight - 5:30

13.  A Seedy Reefer - 3:55

14.  The Bash - 4:46

15.  The Wizard - 3:18

Notes

Release: 1978

Genre:  Rock

Length:  58:59

Label:  Shroom Productions

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The Silence Cries - Silent Eyes (1987)

Here’s the debut album from Swiss post-punk/new wave band The Silence Cries, released in 1987. 

This three piece band reminds me quite a bit of Mecano, Svätsox, Razor Penguins, early Modern English, and other rickety, yet powerful post-punk bands from the early/mid 80s. 

There’s also quite a bit of sax, trumpet, and accordion throughout the LP, which adds a nice bit of tension. It’s quite an eclectic album – there’s a lot of variation and dynamic range across the album, and the band occasionally flirts with jangle pop, NDW, and more experimental shades, but still retains that gloomy post-punk sound I love so dearly.

The Silence Cries has a rather modest discography,  three albums and two singles, all of which were released on the Winterschatten label. 

I couldn’t say how their sound evolved on their second and third album, but I’d be curious to find out one of these days. As always, feel free to drop a line if you have any of their other releases, and perhaps you’ll find the band’s first 7” single here soon enough.

Tracklist

1.  Change - 3:42

2.  Emotions - 3:23

3.  Grieni Auge - 4:42

4.  Fische Nur - 2:38

5.  Silent Eyes - 2:53

6.  Violence Is Growing - 6:05

7.  Why Should I Dance - 2:49

8.  Slow Death - 3:36

9.  In My Brain - 3:48

10.  Another Beer - 3:48

11.  Frontiers - 2:48

12.  Killed By Unfeeling - 4:57

Credits

• Engineer – Stefan Hugye
• Producer – Stefan Hugye

Notes

Released: 1987

Genre: Post-punk, New Wave

Length: 45:15

Label: Winterschatten Records

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The Pointer Sisters - Only Sisters Can Do That (1993)

Only Sisters Can Do That is the last Pointer Sisters studio album made with founding member June Pointer. 

Issa Pointer, the daughter of longtime group member Ruth Pointer, performed as a background vocalist on two album tracks; she eventually replaced June Pointer in the group's lineup in 2002. 

The album was helmed by producer Peter Wolf and led by the single "Don't Walk Away", which featured Michael McDonald as guest vocalist. 

Originally, the track had been recorded by Ruth Pointer for a solo album that she abandoned in favor of the Only Sisters project. 

Other songs of note include "I Want Fireworks" and "Tell It to My Heart", which were both co-written by Anita Pointer, and the title track, penned by the sisters. 

The track "Feel for the Physical" appeared on the 1995 album Souled by Thomas Anders reworked as a duet by the Pointer Sisters and Anders. 

After a troubled, one-album affiliation with Motown Records, the Pointer Sisters entered into a troubled, one-album affiliation with SBK Records. 

That one album was Only Sisters Can Do That, on which producer/songwriter/synthesizer player Peter Wolf (not to be confused with the J. Geils Band singer), who had given Starship several hits, was intended to take over the job of group Svengali previously handled by David Rubinson and then Richard Perry. 

Wolf put together his typical, highly polished musical tracks, playing most of the instruments himself, over which the Pointers sang with their usual enthusiasm. 

The trouble was that pop production styles had moved to a more intricate, R&B-influenced sound typified by the hits of Mariah Carey and Janet Jackson, so that Wolf's tracks sounded out of date, and none of the compositions was sufficiently memorable to buck the tide. It didn't help that SBK, which had looked like a hot start-up label in the early 1990s with hits by Wilson Phillips, Vanilla Ice, and Jon Secada, was cooling off noticeably. 

Soon, the label was history and, with two consecutive non-charting albums, so were the Pointers as a current recording act.

Tracklist

1. It Ain't a Man's World" (Kim Eurisa, Clemard Harvey, Maya Angelou) – 4:27
2. "I Want Fireworks" (Anita Pointer, Ina Wolf, Peter Wolf) – 4:44
3. "Don't Walk Away" (Andy Hill, Peter Sinfield) – 4:49
4. "Eyes Like a Child" (Ina Wolf, Peter Wolf) – 4:45
5. "Only Sisters Can Do That" (June Pointer, Anita Pointer, Ruth Pointer, Sheldon Reynolds, Ina Wolf, Peter Wolf) – 3:54
6. "Feel for the Physical" (Peter Wolf, Peter Zizzo) – 4:02
7. "Tell It to My Heart" (Anita Pointer, Franne Golde, Allee Willis) – 5:10
8. "Vibe Time" (Peter Zizzo) – 4:03
9. "Lose Myself to Find Myself" (Keith Forsey, Steve Krikorian, Steve Schiff) – 4:45
10. "Sex, Love or Money" (S. Harry) – 4:14

The Pointer Sisters

• Anita Pointer – lead vocals (1, 2, 4, 5, 7–10), backing vocals
• June Pointer – lead vocals (4, 6, 9, 10), backing vocals
• Ruth Pointer – lead vocals (1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 10), backing vocals
• All vocal arrangements by The Pointer Sisters.

Musicians

• Peter Wolf – all other instruments (1–8), backing vocals (5), additional keyboards (7), acoustic piano solo (8)
• Scott Frankfurt – pyrotechnic sounds (2), keyboards (7)
• Arthur Barrow – programming (9), bass (9)
• Steve Schiff – programming (9), guitars (9), arrangements (9)
• Sheldon Reynolds – guitars (1–5, 7, 8, 10)
• Benni Bilgeri – guitars (5)
• David Williams – guitars (6)
• Mark Schulman – drums (9)
• Rafael Padilla – percussion (1, 3, 4, 10)
• Everette Harp – alto sax solo (4, 7)
• Keith Forsey – arrangements (9)
• Issa Pointer – backing vocals (1, 6)
• Michael McDonald – lead and backing vocals (3)
• Thomas Anders – backing vocals (6)

Notes

Released:  November 16, 1993 

Recorded: 1993 

Genre:  R&B/soul 

Length:  44:53 

Producer(s):  Peter Wolf, Keith Forsey 

Label:  SBK Records 

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The Del-Lords - Howlin' at the Halloween Moon (1989)

The Del-Lords are an American rock and roll band that formed in New York City, United States, in 1982, founded by The Dictators' guitarist Scott Kempner. 

The band combined elements of 1960s garage rock with country, blues and folk influences to become one of the early originators of urban, roots-rock. The band members were Scott Kempner, Manny Caiati, Eric Ambel and Frank Funaro.

Modeled on British bands of the 1960s that used several singers – The Kinks, Beatles, The Who - Kempner's vision was to create an act featuring four singers, that some said was like an "East Coast Beach Boys".

The band took its name from Del Lord, director of many early Three Stooges shorts. 

The four Del-Lords studio albums, released between 1984 and 1990 – Frontier Days, Johnny Comes Marching Home, Based on a True Story and Lovers Who Wander – were released on CD in 2008 by the American Beat label

Howlin' at the Halloween Moon is a live album by The Del-Lords, released in 1989 through Restless Records.

It's the best...Lords since Frontier Days, it still represents a holding pattern more than a return to past glories. The overall sound is pretty hot: Eric Ambel's slide raunch cuts a swath through Scott Kempner's scratchy (and underrecorded) rhythm guitar (Scott guitar is on left channel; Eric guitar is on right channel), while Frank Funaro and Manny Caiati bash'n'crash like a runaway train. The set list is strong (good cover of The Flamin' Groovies' "Jumpin' in the Night"), despite the fact that much of it was taken from their last two so-so records. But, to their credit, "True Love" and "Judas Kiss" have never sounded better...

Track listing

1. True Love - 4:37 

2. Jumpin' in the Night - 5:23 

3. Wastin' Time Talkin' - 3:11 

4. The Cool 'n' the Crazy - 7:43 

5. Judas Kiss - 6:14 

6. I Play the Drums - 5:37 

7. Tallahassee Lassie - 3:11 

All songs written by Scott Kempner, except "Jumpin' in the Night" by Cyril Jordan and Chris Wilson and "Tallahassee Lassie" by Bob Crewe, Frank Slay, and Frederick Picariello. 

The Del-Lords

• Scott Kempner – lead vocals, guitar
• Eric Ambel – guitar, vocals
• Manny Caiati – bass guitar, vocals
• Frank Funaro – drums, vocals

Companies, etc.

• Phonographic Copyright ℗ – Restless Records
• Copyright © – Demon Records
• Mixed At – Quantum Sound Studios
• Published By – Prince Of The Bronx
• Published By – La Rana Music
• Published By – Blue Disque Music
• Published By – Photon Music
• Published By – Connelly Music
• Licensed From – Enigma Entertainment
• Recorded At – Dr. Rockits, London, Ontario
• Recorded By – The Comfort Sound Mobile Recording Unit
• Made By – PDO, UK – 10096051

Credits

• Engineer – Doug McClement
• Engineer [Assisted By] – Andy Skuse , Ike Zimbel
• Mixed By – Gray Russell
• Written-By – Scott Kempner (tracks: 1, 3 to 6)

Notes

Released: 1989

Recorded: Halloween night, 1988 ar Dr. Rockits London, Ontario. 

Recorded:  by Comfort Sound Mobile Toronto Canada

Genre:  Roots rock, Rock and roll

Length:  35:57

Label:  Restless Records

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Rush - Permanent Waves (1980)

Permanent Waves is the seventh studio album by Canadian rock band Rush, released on January 14, 1980, through Anthem Records. 

After touring to support their previous album, Hemispheres (1978), the band began working on new material for a follow-up in July 1979. 

This material showed a shift in the group's sound towards more concise arrangements and radio-friendly songs (such as "The Spirit of Radio" and "Freewill"), though their progressive rock blueprint is still evident on "Jacob's Ladder" and the nine-minute closer "Natural Science." 

Bassist/vocalist Geddy Lee also employed a more restrained vocal delivery compared to previous albums. Permanent Waves was recorded at Le Studio in Morin-Heights, Quebec with production handled by the group and Terry Brown.

"The Spirit of Radio" featured the band's early experiments with a reggae style in its closing section, which was explored further on the band's next three albums, Moving Pictures, Signals, and Grace Under Pressure. 

The group had experimented with reggae-influenced riffs in the studio and had come up with a reggae introduction to "Working Man" on their tours, so they decided to incorporate a passage into "The Spirit of Radio," as Lifeson said, "to make us smile and have a little fun."Peart wrote the lyrics with Toronto radio station CFNY-FM in mind which had adopted the title as its slogan.

"Jacob's Ladder" uses multiple time signatures, and possesses a dark, ominous feel in its first half. Its lyrics are based on a simple concept: a vision of sunlight breaking through storm clouds. 

The title is a reference to the natural phenomenon of the sun breaking through the clouds in visible rays, which in turn is named after the Biblical ladder to heaven on which Jacob saw angels ascending and descending in a vision. 

Early in Rush's 2015 R40 Live Tour, Geddy Lee incorrectly stated that the song had never been played live before, but was corrected by fans on the internet (the song had been performed during the Permanent Waves tour and a live recording of the song was featured on Exit... Stage Left).

"Entre Nous", French for "Between us", did not receive heavy radio airplay and was not performed live until the Snakes & Arrows Tour in 2007.

While the band began stepping back from the epic song format on this album, the closing track "Natural Science" is more than nine minutes long and is composed of three distinct movements: I) Tide Pools, II) Hyperspace, and III) Permanent Waves. The lyrics are driven by concepts of natural science.

Tracklist

1.  The Spirit of Radio - 4:58 

2.  Freewill - 5:23 

3.  Jacob's Ladder - 7:50 

4.  Entre Nous - 4:37 

5.  Different Strings - 3:50 

6.  Natural Science - 9:27

       I:  Tide Pools

      II:  Hyperspace

     III:  Permanent Waves

All lyrics by Neil Peart except "Different Strings" by Geddy Lee. All music by Lee and Alex Lifeson.

Rush

• Geddy Lee – lead vocals, bass guitar, Oberheim polyphonic synthesizer, Minimoog synthesizer, Taurus pedal synthesizer, Oberheim OB-1 synthesizer
• Alex Lifeson – electric and acoustic six- and twelve-string guitars, Taurus pedals
• Neil Peart – drums, timpani, timbales, orchestra bells, tubular bells, wind chimes, bell tree, triangle, crotales, cover concept

Additional personnel

• Terry Brown – arranger, producer, mixing
• Fin Costello – photography
• Robert Gage – hairdresser to the cover girl
• Bob Ludwig – remastering
• Adam Moseley – mixing assistant
• Craig Milliner – mixing assistant
• Paul Northfield – engineer
• Deborah Samuel – photography
• Flip Schulke – photography
• Ray Staff – mastering on original album
• Hugh Syme – piano, art direction, design, cover concept
• Paula Turnbull – cover girl (credited as "Ou La La")
• Robbie Whelan – assistant engineer

Notes

Released:  January 14, 1980

Recorded:  September–October 1979 Studio Le Studio (Morin-Heights, Quebec)

Genre:  Progressive rock 

Length:  36:05

Producer(s):  Rush, Terry Brown

Label:  Anthem Records

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Deep Purple - Burn (1974)

Burn is the eighth studio album by English rock band Deep Purple, released in February 1974, and the first release by the Mark III line-up, featuring then-unknown singer David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes, from Trapeze, on bass and vocals.

The album was recorded in Montreux, Switzerland, in November 1973, with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio. With the addition of David Coverdale and Glenn Hughes, Purple's hard-rock sound became more boogie-oriented, incorporating elements of soul and funk, which would become much more prominent on the follow-up album, Stormbringer.Hughes participated in songwriting, but was not given credit due to unexpired contractual obligations. However, the 30th anniversary edition of the album included Hughes in the credits for all the tracks except "Sail Away", "Mistreated", "'A' 200" and bonus track "Coronarias Redig".

Although it shook the band's fan base to its core, the acrimonious departure of vocalist Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover served to rejuvenate Deep Purple in time for 1973's aptly named Burn album, which unquestionably showed huge improvement over their lackluster previous effort, Who Do We Think We Are. 

And in an interesting twist rarely attempted before or since, new recruits David Coverdale (vocals) and Glenn Hughes (bass and vocals, ex-Trapeze) traded lead singing duties on virtually every one of its songs -- an enviable tag team, as both possessed exceptional pipes. 

The phenomenal title track started things off at full throttle, actually challenging the seminal "Highway Star" for the honor of best opener to any Deep Purple album, while showcasing the always impressive drumming of Ian Paice. 

Up next, the intro to the equally timeless "Might Just Take Your Life," however simple from a technical perspective, remains one of organist Jon Lord's signature moments; and the downright nasty "Lay Down, Stay Down" roared behind wildly careening starts and stops and a fantastic Ritchie Blackmore guitar solo which left no doubt as to who was the band's primal force, regardless of lineup. 

Moving right along, though it was rarely included in later-day greatest hits sets, "What's Going on Here" was about as good a single as Purple ever wrote; "You Fool No One" was compelling for its sheer intensity; and the funky "Sail Away" was a sign of the band's direction in years to come. 

Lastly, the fantastic slow-boiling blues of "Mistreated" closed the album proper (let's ignore the record's only throw-away track -- boring final instrumental "A 200") with a command solo performance from Coverdale, as nuanced and sensitive as it was devastating. 

So impassioned was the singer's delivery, in fact, that the song would remain his personal, in-concert trademark with Whitesnake, long after his tenure with Deep Purple came to a close. 

Like the vast majority of Burn this song's greatness qualifies it for the highest echelons of hard rock achievement, and therefore ranks as an essential item in the discography of any self-respecting music fan.

Tracklist

1.  Burn - 6:00

2.  Might Just Take Your Life - 4:36

3.  Lay Down, Stay Down - 4:15

4.  Sail Away  (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 5:48

5.  You Fool No One - 4:47

6.  What's Goin' On Here - 4:55

7.  Mistreated  (Blackmore, Coverdale) - 7:25

8.  'A' 200  (Blackmore, Lord, Paice) - 3:51

All tracks are written by Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Jon Lord, Ian Paice and Glenn Hughes, except where noted.

Deep Purple

• Ritchie Blackmore – guitar
• David Coverdale – lead and backing vocals
• Glenn Hughes – bass, backing and lead vocals
• Jon Lord – keyboards, synthesizers
• Ian Paice – drums, percussion

Production

• Deep Purple – producer, mixing
• Martin Birch – engineer, mixing
• Tapani Tapanainen – assistant engineer
• Nesbit, Phipps and Froome – artwork
• Fin Costello – sleeve photography
• Candle Makers Supplies – candles

Notes

Released: 15 February 1974 

Recorded:  November 1973 Studio Montreux, Switzerland with the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio 

Genre:  Hard rock  

Length:  38:12 

Producer:  Deep Purple 

Label:  Purple Records 

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