Jarle H. Olsen – Quadrasonic (2011)
Norway hasn’t really provided that many international shredders, besides Ronnie Le Tekro and a handfull others. Now, young stringsman Jarle H Olsen is here to change that. His first solo albumQuadrasonic is a really impressive affair. It’s actually been some time since I found an instrumental progressive album this interesting. With Jarle it’s not just the shredding that is in focus, it’s just as much about the songs. What I really like is that this actually feels more like a band effort, than a regular guitarist-shredding-his-ass-off album. Sure, there is tons of great soloing, but the songs are structured more like songs with vocals. You have your verses, choruses and bridges, although quite a lot of bridges here. The songs, like Dark Matter for instance, have great build ups, with nice dynamics happening. Here Jarle also shows a softer and more balanced side, without any overpowering distortion. There’s also a great explosive technical part in the end, where things happen all over the place. I also love the fact that he’s using real live, and outstanding, musicians to back him up. They do need to be mentioned, so here it goes: the outstanding technical drummerBjarte K. Helland, Norway’s answer to Mike Portnoy, bass playerRodrigo Garcia who lays down a great foundation, plus proves he’s quite the technical player as well, and finally keyboard player Alex Argento whose playing may not be highly noticeable in some songs (you would definitely notice if it wasn’t there, though), while he really shines in songs like Event Horizon. Quadrasonic is a great album, at times in the same vein as George Bellas, before he started experimenting too much. Great songs, great playing, great production, a sure buy!
Janne Stark
01. Exordium 01.24
02. Pro-10 05.59
03. Dark Matter 06.25
04. Enigmatic Mind 06.39
05. From Deep Within 05.34
06. Event Horizon 05.59
07. Chimerical Moments 07.18
08. Osiris – The Omnipotence 06.18
09. Osiris – Reawakening 02.10
10. Osiris – Journey To Duat 06.07
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Today is a great day in AVO land, folks We proudly introduce “In A Minute…”; our new EP. For those following the progress of this album, it’s our first endeavor into recording and mixing an album all on our own. Currently in digital release, we will soon be offering hard copies but so many folks have asked that we’re making it available digitally first. We will also be adding it to iTunes, Rhapsody, and your other favorite online services. Below is a link to our new logo, which also happens to be In A Minute…’s album cover Currently the album is available on Bandcamp and you can check it out to the right. We’re letting our fans name their own price for the album. All we ask is that if you like it, make a donation to help us keep making new music. Enjoy!
Genre: Hard Rock
Country: USA
Format: 320Kbps
Tracklist:
01. In A Minute 04:15
02. Crucial 04:19
03. The Blade 05:09
04. Wake Up! 03:41
05. Do As I Say, Not As I Do 03:48
06. Thieves 03:52
07. I Was Not 02:56
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Continue reading A Vision Of – In A Minute… (2011) -->Emanuele Perilli – Elheaven (2011)
Just like Steve Senes (also reviewed this month) Emanuele Perilli also releases an instrumental guitar album, however on three songs there is some vocals. “Manny” Perilli too wrote, arranged, and produced everything but released his debut not through a label and financed it himself. It is clearly all about the guitar playing for this Italian guitar teacher (who also is a sound engineer and graphic and web artist). The arrangements are put together with the accent on his playing, not too uncommon for an instrumental album, but on some songs the backing music sounds inferior to the guitar playing. Something one can see on many YouTube clips, a tape rolls and the relevant guitar player plays his part. Not so weird as one knows his guitar playing is recorded in the “Badroom studios”, the bedroom of “Manny” (nice wordplay by the way). Also Perilli explores more styles and genres en knows all the techniques, from speed picking, sweeping, legato and tapping until shredding, that is clear.
What should make, and keep, an instrumental album interesting are the melodies and colouring of the songs and that is well done by Manuele Perilli. Whether it is a heavy, funky song like ‘The Noise Of The Bliss’, a sensitive, atmospheric song like ‘Tears That Taste Of You’, a song that is being pushed forward by a disco like up-tempo beat like ‘Across The Universe’ or a heavy rock song like ‘The Truth’ (including speech from JFK), “Manny” gives them the needed, catchy melody, power when needed and colours them with lovely solo’s. ‘An Ivory Moon’, which starts and ends with the sound of crickets, sounds sweet as the summer and reminds of Joe Satriani, but that is more like a compliment. Perilli too dares to play a tropical reggae tune in ‘A Perfect Place’ with vocals by Rudy B. The song sounds like a mix between Santana and The Police and that too is not meant harmful. Strong debut album and – good – stuff for guitar players, or those who appreciate it.
01. The Vision
02. Trails Around The Sun
03. The Noise Of Bliss
04. Tears That Taste Of You
05. Midnight Thrill
06. Across The Universe
07. An Ivory Moon
08. Vortexes In My Mind
09. The Truth
10. A Perfect Place
11. Infinity
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Continue reading Emanuele Perilli – Elheaven (2011) -->Stand By – Stand By (1985)
Band Stand By
Info: Stand By
Style: Hard Rock
Years: 1985
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 50,99 Mb
Info: France
Tracklist:
01 – Please Me.
02 – Are You Ready For Love.
03 – Girls In Love.
04 – You Don’t Loose.
05 – Space Light.
Rip By: John New
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Asia – Arena (1996)
Band Asia
Info: Arena
Style: Progressive Rock
Years: 1996
Info: CBR 320 kbs
Info: 184,62 Mb
Info: UK
Tracklist:
01 – Into The Arena.
02 – Arena.
03 – Heaven.
04 – Two Sides Of The Moon.
05 – The Day Before The War.
06 – Never.
07 – Falling.
08 – Words.
09 – U Bring Me Down.
10 – Tell Me Why.
11 – Turn It Around.
12 – Bella Nova.
13 – That Season.
14 – Two Sides Of The Moon (Acoutstic).
Rip By: Trewqi
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Continue reading Asia – Arena (1996) -->Oceans of Night – Domain (2011)
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