MURASAKI - Doin' Our Thing At The Live House Murasaki - SWE Flawed Gems - LISTEN - VERY RARE

Released in 1977 on double vinyl, the live, third and at the same time last classic album by the 'Japanese Deep Purple'. The band plays really fantastically here, and the live versions sound even better than their studio counterparts - which in the 70s was the standard for every self-respecting rock group. Only in the last 30 years has the value of the live album (usually made half in the studio) dropped almost to zero, and most of them are typical contract or discography fillers... Returning to Murasaki, this CD, lasting exactly 80 minutes, sounds like a (inevitably) somewhat weaker copy of Deep Purple's 'Made In Japan' combined with 'Made In Europe'. Is that an incentive? For me an enormous one! Compared with the original album the order of the tracks has been slightly changed and incidentally a mediocre, cloying ballad has dropped out. The sound itself, however, is almost excellent! A must!