From mountains and mice

Well, since it is now so in front of me, the album. Not just any, but the me perhaps dearest album one of my favorite bands. Not in any issue, but in the recent "Deluxe Edition" with two CDs. Well, now I sit and wonder to what extent the new purchase real necessity "was.

Of course, is the legendary album "Rising" already in the domestic collection - once as a vinyl version and then again as a CD. Which dates back to 1988 and lands since every now and then like in the player, because in 1976, first published album "Rising", avowed fans will agree with me, is a milestone not only in the work of the band "Rainbow", but in the history of rock per se.

The second studio album of the band is presenting the lineup at his best - to "Rising" agrees Tony Carey atmospheric keyboard intro to "Tarot Woman" to Cozy Powell's last blow to the hi-hat in "A Light in the Black" everything. No question: "Rising" belongs in the collection of every professing Hard Rock fans.

A bit heavier, I do me with the answer to the question of which version is the real must-have - I would like to say that the "Deluxe Edition" was so ultimately no alternative and as band founder Ritchie Blackmore is perhaps wishes.

A total of three versions of "Rising" have paved the way to the two CDs of the Deluxe version found: In addition to "New York" and "Los Angeles Mix" offers the CD 2 another as "Rough Mix" titled variant also is "Stargazer "offered in a version directly from the rehearsal room. All three versions differ in my opinion marginal: In "New York Mix" appears to me Careys Keyboard better come into play, in the "Los Angeles Mix" seems to me the voice of singer Ronnie James Dio to be something more in the foreground. So fine are the differences between the two versions, seems to me the "New York Mix" the slightly more transparent more powerful, to be of the two mixtures, but this is certainly a matter of taste.

Compared to the above-mentioned CD-First published in 1988, both versions seem to me to sound a bit more dynamic - Wholesale benefited particularly Cozy Powell's drumming class; overall it seems to me the new version to offer both more highs and a little more bass.

The really big "eureka moment" is with me but then failed to materialize, because I've always been satisfied with the sound of "Rising" and therefore the run in relevant forums debates also understand only to a certain point. Where z. B. the CD version is compared in 1988 with his 1999 edition, for which the original tapes have apparently also been remixed, and people with better ears than I have come to the conclusion that Deluxe Version place seen sound again represents a further improvement over the 1999 version I can, as I said, only partly understand -. Since yesterday I've heard various versions of the Deluxe version on my stereo and a comparison attempted in these minutes must the CD part ran my computer.

Here I win unfortunately always the same impression: Yes, there are differences - but they are m. E. so minimal, that the purchase of the recently published new edition of "Rising" probably really worthwhile only for professing high-end fans whose stereo system can depict the differences between the various versions really sufficiently differentiated. My features (here are both ears and reproducers meant) pushes this regard obviously to their limits. The not mentioned in greater detail Rough Mix I think the way for plenty of expendable; also "Stargazer" in the "Pirate Sound Tour Rehearsal" version, because of its really lousy sound, which is worse than that of many a Bootleg, at best documentary value and unfortunately does not represent a real added value.

The conclusion is, so sorry it to me, given the status of "Rising" as a truly epochal Hard Rock album also does, so the bottom line is somewhat disillusioned from: Interested hard rock fans who "Rising" still given no place in their collection, lost time should catch up quickly, but do not necessarily have access to pretty laid-out "Deluxe Edition" therefore - in my opinion, which were previously available CD transfers a very mannered, full of the average consumer and quite adequate sound quality. Conclusion: The proverbial mountain has once again born a mouse - the "Deluxe Edition" of "Rising" unfortunately has not become an unqualified success, I had hoped for.