"I seem extroverted but I'm incredibly introverted," Tori Amos says in an articulate whisper. She's sitting in a light-filled Tribeca apartment explaining why, after a life spent performing, it was a thoroughly nerve-racking experience recording her new album, Gold Dust (due October 2nd). The album – Amos' second foray into classical music, following 2011’s Night of Hunters – reads like a scrapbook of her career, comprising old favorites reworked with orchestration from the Metropole Orchestra.
It wasn't revisiting her discography so much as the orchestra itself that intimidated Amos during the album's recording, which saw her tracking her vocals in front of the nearly 60-piece Dutch orchestra (whom Amos first performed live with in 2010) and personnel from her label (Deutsche Grammophon). "I sing about some of these very intimate moments in my life, and a lot of them written before I got married to Mark [Hawley, also her sound engineer], and he's there and everyone knows," she says. "It was walking into a room full of people and baring your most intimate thoughts to after barely saying hello."
"The Fallen Ones", the new single from the Karlstad, Sweden-based metal/rock band SPARZANZA, can be streamed in the YouTube clip below. The song comes off the group's sixth album, "Death Is Certain, Life Is Not", to be released on September 29 via Spinefarm Records. The CD was once again recorded at Leon Music with producer Rikard Löfgren, who helmed the band's previous three CDs and has also worked with such other artists as HELLFUELED, VOMITORY and DEATHSTARS.
SPARZANZA previously stated about the new record, "This time we have dug a little bit further in our minds, trying to create a really dark and heavy album, but still having focus on writing good melodies. We also added a lot more percussion parts, dark choirs and live strings. It sounds so good and we know that you will be blown away."
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Info: Shock Of Life
Years: 2012
Style: Progressive Rock/Metal
Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps
Info: Canada
Time: Fringe
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If the cinematic car crash constitutes the cliché that never dies (or kills or wounds its action hero passengers, for that matter), the new play presented by Unstrung Harpist Productions and directed by Tom Prewitt seeks to portray the darker, uglier side of its actual victims’ real-life experiences.
Shock/Trauma chronicles the effects – personal, social, familial, romantic – of Anna Parker’s (Julie Roundtree) crippling injuries in the wake of a devastating car crash that temporarily leaves her in a medically induced coma. Upon her return to consciousness, she faces not only a daunting road to recovery that proves physically and psychologically taxing, but also the feelings of guilt, bewilderment and helplessness of her friends and loved ones, including her boyfriend, Marc Radford (Evan Crump), who struggle in vain to help Anna – and themselves – restore a semblance of normalcy to their lives.
Sep 26, 2012 14:30
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The Great Bear is my first experience with Denver, Colorado, metal band Silencer. Although over past 10 years, they've had some domestic and international success with their version of American thrash metal. The Great Bear is intended to be a concept album, one considering alternative history.
Revisiting the early space race between the United States and Russia, Silencer wonder what would have happened if Russia "chose to one-up the American's moon landing by going somewhere further." They tell the story from the perspective of the Russian nation and an individual member of the mission. Sounds promising, right? But how does it pan out?
First, while the album has 11 songs,The Great Bear is a short album, on 30 minutes long. But if you knock the one spoken piece, 1969, and the last piece, which sounds like the Russian national anthem, then you're down to nine songs and just better than 27 minutes. If it weren't for quantity of songs The Great Bear might have been considered an EP. Second, Silencer's music is more heavy metal and less thrash. It's more like meat and potatoes Eighties traditional metal, with a side of thrash thrown in. Alternatively, Silencer packs a lot into many of the songs, mostly a big bass line and massive amounts of riffage, with a guitar solo now and then. Of these tracks Great Bear, Star City, The Roar, and Orders/Sacrifice are the best picks.
Sep 26, 2012 13:52
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On the album the band went through "a living hell" - said the leader of the team, Adam Savage. "It took four years, five line-up changes, two studios, two labels, and countless hours of work and here it finally comes out!"
During recording, the tension between the parties came to a head, and in the end it was decided to leave the vocalist and drummer. In place of the latter was quickly found Dave Kazukiewicz, but with a singer ... "We have found the singer, but quickly stepped life circumstances and everything will have changed" - says Savage. "Then I asked my friend, Jessica'y Sierra come with us on a few shows."
Following the presentations, Jessica became a regular participant Mongrel, and the group returned to the studio to re-record all of the material from scratch.
Band Gillan Info: The Gillan Tapes Vol. 2 Info: England Style: Hard Rock Years: 1999 Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps Info: 217 ?b Upload: Depositfiles;Rapidgator;Lettitbit;
Band Gillan Info: The Gillan Tapes Vol. 1 Info: England Style: Hard Rock Years: 1997 Info: MP3 CBR 320 kbps Info: 167 ?b Upload: Depositfiles;Rapidgator;Lettitbit;
