After leaving Deep Purple, Ian Gillan owned a motorcycle shop, but quicky he returned on the rock'n roll stage. At first, he made three unsuccessfull jazz-rock albums ("Child in time", "Clear air turbulence" and "Scarabus"), far from the purple land. However, the 80mn long "Live at the Budokan" sum up the best of the area (without the horns and overdubs of the studio recordings)+ 3 revisited Deep Purple classics (child in time, woman from tokyo and... smoke on the water). The musicianship is higher than you could imagine, with the talents of Ray Fenwick (gtr), John Gustafson (bass, and backing vocals, Colin Towns (Keyboards, flute)... A must for inventive hard jazz rock prog
01 Clear air turbulence 02 My baby loves me 03 SearaBUS 04 mONEY LENDER 05 tWIN EXHAUSTED 06 oVER THE HILL 07 mERCURY HIGH 08 cHILD IN TIME 09 sMOKE ON THE WATER 10 wOMAN FROM tOKYO