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Ueno Gakuen Hall, Hiroshima, Japan 17th March 2023
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The latest Japan tour of the new DEEP PURPLE, with a series of super-super-class recordings. An original recording of the class that will be the final appearance! It is an emergency release decision with a press 2CD that permanently preserves the full show with Simon McBride.
Engraved on this work is the performance of “March 17, 2023: Hiroshima Ueno Gakuen Hall”. It is the transcendental audience recording. As you may know if you have caught your eye on this article, this time’s Japan tour has one after another of ridiculous quality name recordings. This is an unprecedentedly high level of bountiful harvest. First of all, let’s look back at the schedule for coming to Japan and organize the masterpieces that were nominated for the final match.
・ March 13 “BUDOKAN 2023”
・ March 17: Hiroshima Ueno Gakuen Hall ← This work
・ March 19: Fukuoka Sun Palace Hall
・March 21 “OSAKA 2023”
A total of 4 performances. There is no prospect of finding Fukuoka recordings, but we have a lineup of Tokyo, Hiroshima, and Osaka. “HIROSHIMA 2023 (Shades 1722)” introduced earlier was a net sound source, but this work is an upgrade … not. Another sound source by a completely different person. It is an original recording that can only be heard in this work, given directly by the taper himself. Moreover, the best recording with “super” that makes the sound completely out of the question. It’s also the one that makes you want to line up endlessly with “super-super-super-super-super-super”. Please don’t jump to conclusions like “Is it better than HIROSHIMA 2023?” “Already released” here includes “BUDOKAN 2023 (Shades 1716)” and “OSAKA 2023 (Shades 1725)”. Yes, this work is the best masterpiece, the live album of the king, who will be at the top of his visit to Japan in 2023.
If you have experienced “BUDOKAN 2023” and “OSAKA 2023”, I think you will agree that both works were super advanced. That is why I said at the beginning that it was an unprecedented bountiful harvest. But on top of that, this work has gone even further. How should I describe this sound? “A close-fitting zero-distance feeling”, “extremely thick core”, “ultra-delicate details”, “extremely beautiful ringing” … even if you look at all the compliments you can think of, they have everything. It has both the close contact like “OSAKA 2023” and the vividness like “BUDOKAN 2023”, and it is more beautiful than both. It’s like a soundboard … no, it’s like an official work … no, no, it’s like MADE IN JAPAN. There is no choice but to bring out that super masterpiece that shines brilliantly in rock history. It’s true that I had trouble with the rhetoric, but when I actually listened to “MADE IN JAPAN” continuously, it really didn’t lose.
A sound comparable to that of “MADE IN JAPAN” is a live in Japan that jumps over 50 years of vast time and space. I have already written the set many times, but this work is a permanent press masterpiece. Let’s include the meaning of the record and repost it at the end.
● Classics (8 songs)
・Machine Head: Highway Star/Pictures Of Home/Lazy/Space Truckin’/Smoke On The Water
・Other: Hush／Black Night／When A Blind Man Cries
●After reunion (5 songs)
・ Blackmore era: Perfect Strangers / Anya
… and it looks like this. And the performance that spins such a set is really wonderful. Ian Gillan, who has hardly changed since the 90’s, the wonderful instruments that remain unchanged, and Simon McBride, who has done a feat of spelling his own phrases without feeling uncomfortable. While he cherishes the original of Ritchie Blackmore, he is reminiscent of Rory Gallagher and Gary Moore from his hometown (Northern Ireland) rather than playing down. His phrases and tones make me feel the real thrill of British hard rock, and it may be a better match than Steve Morse.
This performance in Japan has been realized more than half a century since “MADE IN JAPAN”. While it was a memorial, he showed us a fresh show that took in new blood. This work is “MADE IN JAPAN in 2023” that teaches the true value of such a new DEEP PURPLE with a transcendental sound. I don’t know if 77-year-old Ian Gillan will have a “next visit to Japan”, but the brilliance of this work will remain forever. No, I have to leave it. A press 2CD that even engraved such a mission. A new masterpiece from Japan that boasts to the world, here is the grand birth.
★ Recording of the superlative audience at the performance of “March 17, 2023: Hiroshima Ueno Gakuen Hall”. It is an original recording that is completely different from the already released “HIROSHIMA 2023 (Shades 1722)”, and its quality is definitely No. 1 on the tour. A close-fitting zero-distance feeling, a thick core, ultra-delicate details, and a beautiful ringing … all of them are combined. That is why it is not defeated even if you listen to it side by side with the historical daimyo board “MADE IN JAPAN”. “2023 MADE IN JAPAN”, which conveys the true value of the new DEEP PURPLE with Simon McBride, is the birth of a majestic one.
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