…И тишина.
И более ни слова.
И эхо.
Да еще усталость.

Над ними наклонялись безнадежно
седые доктора и секунданты.
Над ними звезды, вздрагивая,
пели,
над ними останавливались
ветры…
(И. Бродский)

Deep Purple's new album «Bananas» was released on August 25 (August 29 in Japan) through EMI Records.

Мой совет начинать слушать c последних 3-х треков :

• 10. Bananas
  (The title track Bananas is a fast, aggressive song which reminds me a bit of Cascades; the lyrics are amazing, even referring to Alice in Wonderland at some point. The solos you'll have to hear to believe! It goes a bit baroque towards the end, and Gillan plays it out with some tasty harmonica.)
• 11. Doing It Tonight
  (Doing it Tonight is funky as hell, with a sort of a jerky rhythm pattern, aggressive lyrics and vocals. Great song, but too short… )
• 12. Contact Lost
  (Contact Lost. It's approximately a minute and a half; an instrumental with plaintive guitar that sounds unlike anything Steve Morse has played in his whole career.)

DP' 2003

• 01. House of Pain
  (The CD opens with House of Pain, which is a very catchy, classic mid-tempo Deep Purple song, sort of like Bad Attitude but better (Oops, there goes another House Of Blue Light reference), with screams, guitar/organ trade solo, harmonica solo, in short a great live song.)
• 02. Sun Goes Down
  (Sun Goes Down is slow-to-mid tempo, very heavy, with a fat hammond intro and «treated» vocals.)
• 03. Haunted

• 04. Razzle Dazzle
  (Razzle Dazzle is very commercial sounding, great, funny lyrics, with a honky tonk piano solo.)
• 05. Silver Tongue
  (Silver Tongue is a «typical» angular Morsey riff with a great call-and-response vocal bit.)
• 06. Walk On
  (Walk On — a slow blues, one of the absolute highlights of the album, delicate bluesy guitar, piano and organ to the fore, and some INCREDIBLE singing. This cries out for a 20-minute live version with jams.)

• 07. Picture of Innocence
  (Pictures Of Innocence starts as a shuffle and develops to an Almost Human-like tempo and feel, fantastic lyrics, incredible organ solo, one hell of a song.)
• 08. I've Got Your Number
• 09. Never a Word
  (Never A Word, you'll hear and won't believe your ears : it's possibly Episode Six, could be The Byrds, even the Beatles! I can't really describe it, it's a great song that will stick in your memory and you'll hum it for ages. What a vocal performance! )

Stathis Panagiotopoulos