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deep purple: gemini suite live
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  • Format: LP
  • Label: Other
  • Genre: Rock / Pop

180g purple vinyl, 1000pcs limited"

Label: Darker Than Blue"

Gemini Suite Live (vinyl edition) has been on the cards for ages. The recording has never been issued on vinyl before. As you might imagine, a lot of effort has gone into the release. As the label put it: 'To us, a vinyl release should be special and offer both the collector and vinyl fan something unique. The idea of just scaling up a CD to LP size is just so dull. We want the vinyl edition to be much more interesting and to take advantage of the extra size and space the format offers'. So the single album comes in a smart single sleeve, with the record itself housed in a full colour inner bag, which has notes, rare photographs and memorabilia on it. It's a 180gms pressing too, done in Germany. The finished package is shrinkwrapped. The first 1,000 copies only are on coloured wax for collectors.

The Gemini Suite was the second full length work involving rock musicians and an orchestra written by Deep Purple's keyboard player Jon Lord. It followed Deep Purple's highly successful Concerto For Group & Orchestra, first performed in 1969 and now (following a revival by the group in 1999) being staged by different players and orchestras all round the world.
Gemini Suite was based around the individual musical characters of the members of Deep Purple, with a solo movement for each. The work was performed for the first time in 1970, but the rest of the group, worried that such ventures would give rock audiences the wrong impression, declined to repeat the experiment. When Lord later made a studio recording of the piece, two of the group opted out, making this a unique recording of the work in it's original incarnation. With some stunning performances and imaginative writing, it's an important cross- over work as well as being a fascinating early example of the orchestral rock movement.
The recording was lost for many years but rescued and released by RPM and then transferred to Purple Records. To mark the 40th anniversary of the recording, a new edition single album on vinyl has been prepared."