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LEONARD COHEN – OLD IDEAS (2012)
Leonard Cohen
Old Ideas
(Columbia)
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Leonard Cohen’s twelfth studio album in forty-four years opens curiously with a song titled “Going Home,” which both introduces Leonard Cohen as an artist and details the metaphysics of his own creativity. The man needs no introduction, of course: Everybody knows who Leonard Cohen is. We may not necessarily think of him as “a sportsman and a shepherd” or “a lazy bastard in a suit,” but we know the Canadian as a man with a physical voice so deep it sounds like a black hole and a lyrical voice so ominously Old Testament that his business card probably lists him as a singer-psalmwriter.
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Band Leonard Cohen
Info: Old Ideas
Tracklist: Columbia Records
Info: Canada
Style: Rock, Folk, Blues, Singer-songwriter
Years: 2012
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Tracklist:
1. Going Home (3:51)
2. Amen (7:36)
3. Show Me The Place (4:09)
4. Darkness (4:29)
5. Anyhow (3:08)
6. Crazy To Love You (3:06)
7. Come Healing (2:53)
8. Banjo (3:23)
9. Lullaby (4:46)
10. Different Sides (4:06)
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DIAFRAMMA – NIENTE DI SERIO (2012)
Artist: Diaframma
Title Of Album: Niente Di Serio
Year Of Release: 17.01.2012
Label: Booking & Press
Genre: Pop/Rock, New Wave
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320kbps
Total Time: 48 min
Total Size: 116 MB
Tracklist:
1. Vivo Così
2. Entropia
3. Absurdo Metalvox
4. Madre Superiora
5. La Botta Di Energia Del Rock
6. Niente Di Serio
7. Nilsson
8. Tempesta Nel Mio Cuore
9. Carta Carbone
10. Grande Come L’Oceano
11. Anime Morte
12. Un Orologio Rotto
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SOLEIL MOON – On The Way To Everything (2011-12)
The first album of SOLEIL MOON, ’99s ‘World’s Apart’ was one of the best AOR / West Coast CD’s of the nineties, and still ranks in my Top 50 list of the best of all time. Yes, it’s that good.
Soleil Moon isn’t so much known even between fans of the genre (which it is a crime), nor their members, but all of them are top-shelf music-biz pros – producers, writers, and first-call session musicians – playing the music they love in order to discover what truly matters to them.
Not that working with everyone from Beyonce to Richard Marx — as the busy players behind Soleil Moon have done — isn’t a thrill in itself, but this is the project that lets these musical journeymen get in touch with something very personal.
The latest example of what that process sounds like is the second Soleil Moon album, “On The Way To Everything”.
The man who makes it all come to life is Larry King. No, not that Larry King – save the jokes, he’s heard them all.
This Larry King is a mind-bogglingly multi-talented singer, songwriter, player, producer and bandleader who has been a full-time musician of one stripe or another since he was 12 years old.
After his college years, King moved to L.A. in the late ‘80s, forming the group Human Factor. They cut a record for the Warner Bros-distributed Caliber label that earned some attention, but by the early ‘90s, he returned to lucrative session work, becoming an in-demand singer for ‘every jingle that had a guy screaming his balls off’ as he jokingly describes it.Before long, King’s connections led to him becoming something of an entrepreneur, establishing his own recording studio, publishing business, production company, and more — all of which are still thriving – but after this long list of twists and turns, he finally found his way to Soleil Moon.
King sees life as ‘a constant state of reinventing ourselves’, and for him that meant partnering with keyboardist/producer John Blasucci to bring life to some of the more personal songs he’d been writing, ones that wouldn’t become part of his production projects for other artists.
“I like to do material that’s kind of art-rockish, album-oriented… timeless tunes that are more about orchestration and less a ‘let’s make a pop tune for radio and follow the trends’ kind of thing.”, says King.
The pair dubbed their partnership Soleil Moon, expressing the Yin/Yang-like balance of both their working dynamic and their music. Supported by a batch of world-class players (master Michael Thompson on guitars, drummer Kenny Aronoff of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Todd Sucherman of Styx), Soleil Moon released Worlds Apart in 1999, making a big impact on Adult Contemporary radio with ‘Willingly’, ‘Never Say Goodbye’ and the title track.
More than a decade later, Soleil Moon is finally set to unveil the long-awaited follow-up album, “On The Way To Everything”.
Why the wait? For a guy with as many irons in the fire as King, it’s not so easy to get the kind of clear head you need for such an all-consuming labor of love.
The songs were recorded over the past 10 years, whenever King and his cronies could steal an opportune moment in the studio in between other projects.
And while it’s not easy throwing everything you’ve got into an endeavor that’s more about artistic expression than commercial appeal, it’s a risk Soleil Moon is willing to take for the sake of “On The Way To Everything”.
Blending bittersweet, melodic ballads, burning hard-rock riffs, smooth grooves, and anything else that happens to suit their fancy, Soleil Moon has made an album of supreme musicality.
Opener “History Repeats Its Pages” is a pulsing, powerful history lesson lamenting how rarely the human race learns from its mistakes. Lush, soaring ballad “Love the Way You Love” deals with the joys and complexities of romantic relationships. The emotional travelogue really kicks into full gear with “On the Way To Everything,” whose blend catchy rhythms and propulsive pop melody frames a father’s hopes for a newborn child just beginning to play the game of life.
Soon, however, things turn darker; “Goodnight Irene” is about the death of a child, surrounded by a beautiful piano and great atmosphere.
The Americana, power-chord-driven narrative of “Freedom” goes on to reflect on the horrors of child abuse, and the lengths to which a battered boy must go to escape.
Then the churning instrumental rocker “Burn” appears, exploding with a confusion and anger that are natural reactions to the previous track’s tragic tale.
After some infectious odes to aging and wanderlust with “Down”, the transcendent “Move On” returns us to the album’s “life’s a journey” theme, before the big, bold, “Here I Am” closes things out with a statement of joyful acceptance, the kind that can only come at the end of a soul’s long, eventful travels.
“On The Way To Everything” shows clearly that Larry King and John Blasucci have abundant confidence in themselves and the music they make together.
Impeccably produced and arranged entirely by King and Blasucci (who also co-wrote all the tracks), this new album is more Adult Contemporary than its predecessor, still retaining the West Coast / AOR essence blending King’s rock instincts with John’s sleek smooth-flavored approach into a sophisticated slab of music.
“On The Way To Everything” offers high quality music and intelligent lyrics, something that is not easy to find nowadays.
Recommended.
01 – History Repeats Its Pages
02 – Love The Way You Love
03 – On The Way To Everything
04 – Blackbird
05 – Goodnight Irene
06 – Freedom
07 – Burn
08 – Down
09 – Colorado
10 – Move On
11 – Here I Am
Larry King – Lead & Backing Vocals
John Blasucci – Keyboards, Synths, Guitar, Backing Vocals
Chris Siebold – Guitars
Lamaar Jones – Bass
Khari Parker – Drums
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AOR / West Coast / AC
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Ned Doheny – The Darkness Beyond The Fire (2011-12)
Old Classic AOR connoisseurs already know NED DOHENY. His solo album ‘Hard Candy’ still remains as top favorite on many lists in the genre, and the follower ‘Prone’, though only released in Japan, was equally good.
Being absent in the business for 17-18 years, Ned is back with the new album “The Darkness Beyond The Fire”.
Doheny was under contract to a Japanese label in early ’90s, and the deal obligated him to deliver a final album. The tunes Ned wrote during that period were some of the most personal of his life, but the pressure to complete the album and the transformation he was undergoing obliged himself to release a body of work that was more demo than a finished product.
Thus, Ned revisted those tunes and re-recorded the whole thing including stellar musicians, with new arrangements and a polished production handled by himself.
The result is “The Darkness Beyond The Fire”, a classy West Coast / AOR recording.
The album takes off with “Between Two Worlds”, a superb breezy melodious track with an organic sound, driven by acoustic guitars, dreamy keyboards and using heavier, only male, top background vocalists: Sherwood Ball (Jay Graydon’s Airplay), Bryan Garofalo (Steve Perry Band), Joseph Williams (Toto) and himself, giving the song now a more depth and life-anchoring meaning.
“Perish The Thought” has a classic West Coast feel, rhythmically rich and deep, with closely arranged vocals supported by the great Maxine Lewis on the background.
On “Too Late For Love” and “Ghostdancer” he introduces some EWI winds of Steve Tavaglione to the arrangement, the background vocals are significantly reduced to avoid the sweetness, singing in a haunting manner coherently on both songs.
“The Secret Society Of Women” is incredibly smooth with a special bitter sounding concept, while “Love In The Rear View Mirror” has a more upbeat rhythm and a catchy percussion.
“Trail’s End” sounds much modern and really American, with a different approach than the rest of the tracks on the album. It’s one of the best and originally composed songs, but all are superbly written here, believe me.
“Life After Romance”, featuring Don Grusin’s acoustic piano, Sherwood Ball and Joseph Williams on backing vocals, has a romantic melancholy tone, and an exquisite, intimate lead vocal performance by Doheny. This is pure West Coast guys…
“In A Perfect World”, once written for a Japanese female vocal trio called Amazons released in 1995 with Doheny singing duet, seems to be the last song he has written and it is yet another everlasting love-affirming song, with a fantastic chorus.
For Ned Doheny his return to the music world took almost 20 years (a conflicting divorce and raise his son in-between) but well worth the wait.
“The Darkness Beyond The Fire” is the most personal album of his career, surely recorded in the way he wanted: with refined arrangements, a careful attention on every detail and a pristine production.
This is a beautifully crafted West Coast AOR album full of classic sounds, from an artist committed to his own style without care to what’s happening nowadays in music industry. “The Darkness Beyond The Fire” isn’t polluted by any actual trend, this is pure West Coast as it should be done.
If you hesitate to get it because you think this style is outdated, let me tell you, without imposing, that you’re terribly wrong… this music is pure class.
Buy it, and re-assure yourself that there are still genuine artists in this world. They need and deserve acknowledgment and applause.
“The Darkness Beyond The Fire” was originally released at the end of 2010 only in Japan, but it is available worldwide since the last month of 2011 with a slightly different cover artwork.
Highly Recommended.
01 – Between Two Worlds
02 – Perish The Thought
03 – Too Late For Love
04 – Ghostdancer
05 – The Secret Society Of Women
06 – Love In The Rear View Mirror
07 – Trail’s End
08 – Life After Romance
09 – In A Perfect World
10 – I Will Let You Go
Ned Doheny: Vocals, Guitars, Keyboards, Percussion, Producer
Musicians:
Keyboards: Cat Grey, Don Grusin, Greg Mathieson
Bass: Cat Grey, Jimmy Haslip
Drums: Gary Mallaber, Joey Heredia, Michael White
Percussion: Luis Conte
EWI: Steve Tavaglione
Violin: Charlie Bisharat
Background Vocals: Sherwood Ball, Brian Garofalo, Joseph Williams, Maxine Lewis, Leslie Smith, Marliyn Scott
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Tower City – The Ones That Matter (2012)
TOWER CITY, the American trio who formed in 1988, are best known for their album ‘A Little Bit Of Fire’ which has a cult following amongst AOR loving fans worldwide, largely in Europe.
The album, recorded back in 1992 with the help of Mike Slamer (Streets, Steelhouse Lane, Seventh Key) features some of the best AOR / Melodic Rock songwriting you are ever likely to hear, sadly looked destined to never be heard, until the now defunct German label MTM Records released the album in 1996 gaining high praise to the band.
With the songs on that album having been written and recorded in the early nineties, by 1996, the band had since become known by the name Colorvine, which delivered a more progressive and alternative form of melodic rock that gained them a solid fan base within the USA.
Now here we are in 2011 and the music of Tower City will be heard in a way it never has before.
The band has remastered a selection of their best songs (including titles from the second ’98 album ‘All Or Nothing’), along with 4 new tracks that have been recorded in the last 7 years, entitled “The Ones That Matter”.
Saltis brothers said;
“We have never been inactive as musicians. Our music may not have been represented as we felt it should have the first time around.
We went back and looked at a lot of the tracks, picked some of our favorites, and revamped a collection that we could be proud of presenting to those listeners that still cared.
The 4 new tracks are representative of our growth together after the Tower City days.”
For me personally, Tower City’s music is littered with virtually everything that I love about the Melodic Rock / AOR genres.
Together with Steelhouse Lane, Tower City carried the flame during the second half of the nineties. In fact, both bands were somehow connected. Steelhouse Lane’s mastermind, Mike Slammer, helped this band in the artistic production department, songwriting and playing some guitars.
Tower City is a very, very good band, with a late ’80s MR/AOR arena style full of trademark hooks, lush melodies and monster choruses.
As brothers Saltis like to say: “Time passes, people change, but the good music remains!”
Highly Recommended.
01 – Moonlight
02 – Little Bit Of fire
03 – Smoke (New track 2011)
04 – In These Arms
05 – Talking To Sarah
06 – Ain’t Nobody To Love
07 – Say You Love Me (New track 2011)
08 – Six Strings (New track 2011)
09 – I’ll Sleep Tonight
10 – Love And Money
11 – Surrender
12 – Hot Water
13 – When It All Falls Down
14 – Wishbone (New track 2011)
15 – Closer To The Heart
16 – Hungry
Larry Saltis – Lead Vocals, Guitars
Tim Paul Weiner – Bass, Backing Vocals
Heath Saltis – Drums, Keyboards, Backing Vocals
Additional Musicians:
Scott Sanders – Guitars & Backing Vocals
Mike Slamer – Guitar
Billy Cioce – Drums
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Geoff Moore – Saying Grace (2011)
As it is with many singers/songwriters, our inspiration comes from the journeys we walk in life. Never has this been truer for 25 year Compassion advocate, Grammy Nominated and Dove Award Winning artist – Geoff Moore. After a 4 year hiatus from recording, Moore is back with a new album, Saying Grace. From the beginning this album will embrace the listeners’ heart with Moore’s familiar storytelling way and raw melodic tones.The album opens with a song entitled “Believe”. It begins as a reflective piece which continuously builds instrumentally throughout the song. The message of the song will offer hope and assurance to all who at one time or another are faced with struggles and trials in life. Easily an anthem song for this album.The title track “Saying Grace” gives the feeling as though you’re sitting down with the family for a time of prayer. This song has a slight country feel with harmonies and mandolin playing in the background throughout. ”The Wonder of Kindness” is another track with a country feel. Pure harmonies, tight acoustic work, tambourines and mandolin give this song a reflective feel. With words like “The wonder of Your kindness is something I can’t earn,” reminds the listener of God’s great love for his children.
“Overwhelming Love” – a favorite of mine on this album. With lyrics that tear at your heart such as, ”Let us be ruined by your overwhelming love“, and ”if we could see just one glimpse of who you are than we would be undone“. The song styling is driven by a contemporary rock beat with great guitar work throughout. This song truly speaks the heart of Moore when he states, “‘Saying Grace’ is an album about thankfulness. The last few years God has let me walk some hard roads with people I love. These songs were born of those journeys. My prayer is that they will be good traveling companions. I wrote them to encourage all our hearts that we are loved, and cared for. That on our best, or hardest, days we would be overwhelmed by God’s great love for us.”
Saying Grace released in August 2011. Certainly an album I would highly recommend.
-Review by Kerri Thomson
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VA – DIRTY HOME OF RIOT ROCK ‘N’ ROLL (2011)
With the new label-sampler „The Dirty Home Of Riot Rock’n’Roll“ „People Like You“ Records presents first class and up to date punkrock.
Just like the old and very successful sampler “Where The Bad Boys Rock” this one is also going to give you a great overview of the present bands of “People Like You” and might just turn out to be the soundtrack of your summer! A perfect mixture of punkrock, rock’n’roll, ska and psychobilly.
Besides well-known “People Like You” artists like Broilers, The Adicts, Roger Miret And The Disasters, Mad Sin, Deadline and The Meteors, new artists like old-school skatepunx Face To Face, the folk-punk-youngsters Flatfoot 56 and London’s finest Buster Shuffle will blow your ears off. Nevertheless the spiky hair, drunk punx will also get some songs of their own on this compilation, please give it up for SS-Kaliert & Krum Bums.
One disc, one hour, packed with 21 rare, new and unpublished songs of international top-acts, brought to you by “People Like You”; as if it wasn’t enough, the CD will also include 10 free downloads of your choice!! What the fuck are you waiting for?
Style: Hard Rock, Rock’n’Roll
Info: Mp3 | 320 kbps
Info: 144 Mb
Tracklist:
01.Face To Face – Should Anything Go Wrong
02.Roger Miret And The Disasters – We Are Gonna Find A Way Reaggea Dub (Rare Track)
03.Flatfoot 56 – The Hourglas
04.The Creepshow – Hellbound
05.Broilers – Harter Weg (Go!)
06.Buster Shuffle – Thirty-Eight
07.The Adicts – Mad
08.Krum Bums – Hit And Run (Previously Unreleased)
09.SS-Kaliert – Es Eskaliert
10.Peterpan Speedrock – We Want Blood
11.Deadline – Fraud
12.Blitzkid – Cedar Bluff
13.The Kings Of Nuthin’ – For You (Live) (Rare Track)
14.Mad Sin – Nine Lives
15.Bob Wayne – Driven By Demons
16.The Peacocks – After All
17.Frenzy – Time Machine
18.The Meteors – Drag You Back To Hell (Previously Unreleased)
19.Blitzkid – Theme For A Jackal (Rare Track) (Bonus Track)
20.Roger Miret And The Disasters – Outcast Youth (Bonus Track)
21.Face To Face – Get Up (Unreleased) (Bonus Track)
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VA – LET’S GET ROCKED VOL.12 (2012)
Artist: VA
Album: Let’s Get Rocked vol.12
Year: 14.01.2012
Style: Melodic Hard Rock/AOR/Heavy Metal
Format: MP3
Label: Death’s Door Rec.
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Tracks: 30
Size: 305 Mb
TRACKLIST:
Angeline – Falling Into You
Beggars & Thieves – We Come Undone
Bridger – On The Ledge
Coastland Ride – Act Of Faith
Cornerstone – Like a Stranger
Daylight Robbery – Shame On You
Def Leppard – It’s All About Believin’
Fate – All That I Want
Greg X – How To Love
Houston – Runaway
Issa – Looking For Love
Jaded Heart – Burst Into Tears
John Galt – Riot Radio
Kee Marcello – Redux:Europe
Last Autumn’s Dream – Nine Lives
Magnum – Do You Know Who You Are
Mecca – Ten Lifetimes
Metal Scent – Riders Of The Night
Morton – Foreteller
Nickelback – Everything I Wanna Do
Outloud – Last Days Of December
Paradise Inc. – Close Your Eyes
Primal Fear – Metal Nation
Scorpions – Tainted Love
Soul Seller – Wings Of Freedom
Steel Panther – Tomorrow Night
Steelwing – Breathless
Summers – Too Late
Talon – Everytime
The Morning After – Over The Wire
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United Rockers 4U – One Family (2011) single
An all-star lineup of musicians has come together under the bannerUNITED ROCKERS 4U to record a heartfelt song called “One Family” that will benefit the American Red Cross.
UNITED ROCKERS 4U includes the following artsits:
* Eddie Money
* Bobby Kimball (TOTO)
* Jimi Jamison (SURVIVOR)
* Don Dokken (DOKKEN)
* Terry Ilous (GREAT WHITE, XYZ)
* Rudy Sarzo (OZZY OSBOURNE, QUIET RIOT, WHITESNAKE)
* Robin McAuley (MCAULEY SCHENKER GROUP, SURVIVOR)
* Phil Lewis (L.A. GUNS)
* Richie Kotzen (POISON, MR. BIG)
* Paul Shortino (ROUGH CUTT, QUIET RIOT)
* Brian Tichy (Whitesnake, Foreigner, Billy Idol)
* Jeff Paris (hit songwriter for MR. BIG, VIXEN, LITA FORD)
* Robert Sarzo (HURRICANE)
The single, which was written and produced by rock singer/songwritersTerry Ilous and Jeff Paris and mixed by Beau Hill (producer for RATT,WARRANT), will be released on Monday, December 12, through the Fyco Records label and made available via iTunes, Amazon and several other major online music stores.
“As the father of an adopted Asian child, I was greatly moved by the Japan tsunami footage of a little girl searching through the rubble for her parents,” states Terry Ilous. “I felt this could’ve been my daughter and disaster can happen anywhere, even here in America. So my writing partner Jeff Paris and I wrote ‘One Family’ as a way of helping the Red Cross.”
“We are excited to partner with such an impressive coalition of ’80s rockers who are helping raise awareness of and funds for the Red Cross,” said Paul Schulz, CEO, American Red Cross Los Angeles region. “We encourage everyone to attend the United Rockers 4U concert at the Hard Rock Café Hollywood and purchase the ‘One Family’ single to help support the Red Cross’ vital services to the community.”
After a lot of hard work, what was once a dream has now became a reality and all involved are hoping to collaborate again in the future.
Many of the artists featured on “One Family” have committed to performing at the benefit, including Ilous, Paris, McAuley, Sarzo andTichy. Also performing are members from GREAT WHITE, BLACK SABBATH, SCORPIONS, WHITESNAKE, SURVIVOR, XYZ, ALICE COOPER, FOREIGNER, AC/DC, DIO, HEAVEN & HELL, RATT, QUIET RIOT, RAINBOW, STRYPER, ANGEL, MSG, HOUSE OF LORDS,HURRICANE, LED ZEPPAGAIN and more!!
Monte Pittman – Pain, Love & Destiny (2011)
Hello all! My name is Monte Pittman and I’m based out of Los Angeles.
I’m an independant artist making my upcoming album (tentatively titled “Pain, Love & Destiny”) on my own. Some of my friends have strongly suggested using Kickstarter as they have been successful with it themselves. Not only will this opportunity of raising money from fans, friends and family help me make this album, but it also lets whoever is giving a donation be a part of this experience.
This album features not only acoustic guitars and vocals, but drums, bass, electric guitars, keyboards (synths, piano, and strings) … and hopefully you.
One of the Incentives is for the person donating to sing as a backing vocalist on the album. One of the songs on the album (or last of 4) features a final chorus of as many people as I can get to sing with me. The idea is kind of like “We don’t need no education” from “Another Brick In The Wall” by Pink Floyd” or “Give Peace A Chance”.
You record your vocals – send them to me – I add you into the track. If you’re out of tune – there are ways of fixing that.
Other Incentives include a private show in your living room. Have some friends over, and we’ll play for you. Also, private guitar lessons both personally and online. Private lessons have to be in the Los Angeles or Southern California area. The online lessons (Skype) will allow all of my incredible fans from all over the world to be included. If anyone has any ideas for incentives, send them my way!
01. About You … (4:05)
02. Lost (3:42)
03. Somewhere in the Middle (3:06)
04. Fortune (3:20)
05. Keep Shining (3:43)
06. The Price of Fear (4:39)
07. Close Your Eyes (4:13)
08. (I Am) The Black Rabbit (6:19)
09. Definitely (3:57)
10. Stay With Me (3:55)
11. Right Back Here Again (5:00)
12. Outside the Box (4:13)
13. Burn Down the Garden (8:14)
14. Predetermined Destiny (6:06)
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