GiGinJapan Artwork of Japanese CDs (mostly) Ritchie Blackmore’s Rainbow / Fukuoka 1995 Dat Master / 2CD / Black Box
Live at Kyushu Koseinenkin Kaikan, Fukuoka, Japan 20th November 1995
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Two amazing new masters will be released at the same time from the original DAT series of masterpieces! A sister work that revives the site of 1995, the last visit to Japan of “Hard Rock Ritchie”, with super-superb sound is now available on Permanent Preservation Press 2CD.
This work is the second release of two consecutive works. It is a transcendental audience recording of the performance of “November 20, 1995: Kyushu Welfare Pension Hall”. We archive successive RAINBOW visits to Japan with the highest quality / lineup possible, and 1995 is no exception. This week, our sister work “KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER (Black Box 045)” will be released at the same time, so let’s organize the collection by schedule here as well.
・ November 11 “FLY BY NIGHT (Yoyogi)”
・ November 12 “RETURN OF THE BLACK (Yoyogi)”
・ November 14 “KYOTO 1995: DAT MASTER”
・ November 16 “OSAKA 1995 1ST NIGHT (Prefectural Gymnasium)”
・ November 17, “NAGOYA 1995 DAT MASTER”
・ November 19 “TEARS IN BLACK (Osaka)”
・ November 20: Kyushu Welfare Pension Hall ← ★ This work ★
・ November 22 “KILLING FLOOR (Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium)”
・ November 23, “ELECTRIC EVER (NK Hall)”
* Only representative recordings on each day.
Above, all 9 performances. The tour starts in Tokyo, goes around western Japan and returns to Tokyo, and the Fukuoka performance of this work is at the southern end just before returning to Kanto. BLACKMORE’S NIGHT will not land in Kyushu, and it may be the last performance in Fukuoka not only as a hard rock guitarist but also in Ritchie’s life.
The gift title “FUKUOKA 1995” was popular at our Kyushu performance, but this work is a completely different recording. It is a new masterpiece that is directly digitized from the simultaneous release of “KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER” and the DAT master excavated from the same recorder collection.
And the sound is superb again. Compared to the gift board … No, no, it’s not good. The dimensions are completely different. “FUKUOKA 1995” was also a neat and beautiful recording for the 90’s, but it seems to be stupid just to compare it with this work that is fiercely on and soundboard-like. In fact, it is unbelievable that this work is also a spatial recording through the atmosphere like “KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER”.
However, the individuality is a little different. While “KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER” had a strong guitar and bass (and keyboard), this work has great guitar and vocals. It’s sharp to the edge of the clear outline, but the edges don’t hurt my ears. However, the fineness of the details stands out in the clearness that is just clear, and it is clear to the level of breathing rather than just one word of the lyrics. If “KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER” has a high-quality sound with a different dimension of “Can you hear such a phrase?”, This work has a high-quality sound as you can imagine in the word “sound board”.
The best sound that is similar to Kyoto is drawn with a full show that is similar and non-similar. As mentioned above, the live albums of all the performances have been released with the two titles of this week, so let’s sort them out by classifying them into “fixed songs” and “daily songs” that were found after looking over all of them.
● Fixed songs (12 songs)
・ Stranger in Us All: Too Late For Tears / Hunting Humans / Wolf To The Moon / Still I’m Sad / Black Masquerade / Ariel / Hall Of The Mountain King
・ Others: Difficult To Cure / Temple Of The King / Since You Been Gone / Perfect Strangers / Burn
● Daily songs (5 songs)
・ Semi-fixed song: Spotlight Kid / Long Live Rock’n’Roll / Man On The Silver Mountain
・ Position change song: Street Of Dreams / Maybe Next Time
…… And it looks like this. “Fixed songs” are songs played in all performances in Japan in 1995, and “Daily songs” are more than 6 times out of 9 performances. “Daily songs” are also divided into “semi-fixed songs” and “position-changing songs” depending on how they are used, and the former was also determined in the first half of the show. As the show goes to the second half, Ritchie’s mood is reflected and various songs are decided on the spot, and naturally the song order also becomes random. A song that makes such a change is a “position change song”.
And the Fukuoka performance of this work was also a show with a small number of songs along with the first day (11/11). Even so, on the first day, there were many play songs, so it was diverse for the number of songs, but Fukuoka was also characterized by almost no play. It’s easy to think that it’s a bad show when you think that “large is also small”, but the interesting part of music is that it’s not so simple. In the case of RAINBOW, shows with lots of play are fun and colorful, but tend to be a little distracting. However, if there is no play like this work (Fukuoka), it will become a concentration to fold the deadly songs in quick succession. In fact, this work has many improvisational and tense phrases, and the entire show goes on in a tingling and serious mood. It’s also a really tight and creepy show.
“KYOTO 1995 DAT MASTER” with rich sound and various play and fun, and this work with clear sound and sharp show. Although their individuality is the opposite, both are superb beauty sisters. Please fully enjoy the press 2CD that contains the brilliance of the Omoto DAT Master forever.
★ Recording of a transcendental audience for the performance of “November 20, 1995: Kyushu Welfare Pension Hall”. It’s a fiercely on and soundboard-like direct sound, and I can’t believe it’s a spatial recording. Especially the guitar and vocals are wonderful, sharp to the edge of the clear outline, the fineness of detail stands out in the clear clearness, and it is clear to the level of breathing rather than just one word of the lyrics. While the show has little play, it has a great concentration to fold the deadly songs in quick succession. It is a new masterpiece that you can experience the best full show that is spicy, serious and tight.
