[情報] PLACE VENDOME新專輯 "Close To The Sun"
Frontiers Music Srl is excited to announce the release of the brand new
PLACE VENDOME album, “Close to the Sun” on February 24th, 2017
“Close to the Sun” tracklisting:
1. Close To The Sun
2. Welcome To The Edge
3. Hereafter
4. Strong
5. Across The Times
6. Riding The Ghost
7. Light Before The Dark
8. Falling Star
9. Breathing
10. Yesterday Is Gone
11. Helen
12. Distant Skies
Produced by Dennis Ward
– Lead Vocals – Michael Kiske
– Backing vocals – Dennis Ward, Michael Kiske //
Additional Choirs on “Strong” by Alessandro Del Vecchio
– Bass – Dennis Ward
– Keyboards – Gunter Werno
– Drums – Dirk Bruinenberg
– All Rhythm Guitars by Dennis Ward, except:
“Welcome To The Edge”,“Across The Times”, “Close To The Sun”,
“Hearafter”– Rhythm Guitars by Uwe Reitenauer
– Guitar solo by Michael Klein on “Yesterday Is Gone”, “Distant Skies”,
“Strong”, “Breathing”.
– Guitar solo by Uwe Reitenauer on “Close To the Sun”
– Guitar solo by Alfred Koffler on “Welcome To The Edge”
– Guitar solo by Magnus Karlsson on “Falling Star”
– Guitar solo by Gus G on “Light Beyond The Dark”
– Guitar solo by Simone Mularoni on “Hearafter”
– Guitar solo by Mandy Meyer on “Helen”
– Guitar solo by Kai Hansen on “Riding The Ghost” and “Across The Times”
Of the album, Dennis Ward said, “[u]pon receiving the demos for the new songs
intended for the new Place Vendome record I was a bit concerned because a few
vocal styles seemed to go against what Michael Kiske is known for vocally.
After talking together we agreed to just let the melodies come out naturally,
without trying to imitate or “reproduce” the demos. Michael really stood up
to this on the new album. He did “his” thing, with no compromises. He
managed to make the songs his own and brought all the songs to another level.
I have a lot of respect for him because of this and now the album is much
more than just another AOR album. That being said I have to pay high respects
to the other musicians on the album: Dirk Bruineberg proved again that he is
a multi-talented drummer that can literally pull of any groove, any style of
any era with the highest of expectations. Gunter Werno is also a gem amongst
a pile of stones. He really shines on this album and holds all the songs
together, true to the Place Vendome sound. Uwe Reitenauer is also a master of
his instrument taking over duties that were critical and complicated to say
the least. He has the perfect AOR tone and can implement it no matter what
type of song you throw at him. The rest of the “guests” that helped out
made this album into a truly interesting compilation and also making this a
milestone for Place Vendome. That being said, it’s the first Place Vendome
album where I feel that we have achieved our trademark sound. This is how
we want to be heard and this is how we imagine ourselves to sound.”
Speaking of other album guests, once again, Magnus Karlsson (Primal Fear) was
one of the first to answer the call to participate and offered the awesome
song, “Falling Star” to the project. Jani Liimatainen (Cain’s Offering
Official, ex Sonata Arctica) was the next contributor with the epic “Welcome
to the Edge”, the album’s tour de force. Following Labyrinth’s reunion,
guitarist Olaf Thorsen sat with Eternal Idol, Angra, and former RHAPSODY
singer Fabio Lione and offered “Helen” and “Riding the Ghost”. Frontiers’
President Serafino Perugino then proposed that his favourite DGM song,
"Hereafter” be included. This brought DGM’s main composer, Simone Mularoni
into the picture and he wrote the album's title track and "Across the Times".
Alessandro Del Vecchio also offered two new songs, “Strong” and “Yesterday
Is Gone”, while Secret Sphere’s guitarist Aldo LoNobile wrote “Distant
Skies” and “Breathing”. The full picture was finally completed with a new
song written by Swedish melodic rock artist Michael Palace (Palace, Skylander),
“Light Before the Dark”.
Kiske and Ward wanted to make the album a little bit special, so besides the
“usual suspects” (including drummer Dirk Bruinenberg, Vanden Plas Official's
ivory tinkler Gunter Werno and Pink Cream 69’s Uwe Reineauer on guitars),
some guitar heavyweights appear on the recordings. The list includes Alfred
Koffler and (of course) Uwe Reineauer of Pink Cream 69, Magnus Karlsson,
Michael Klein, Gus G (Ozzy Osbourne, Firewind), Simone Mularoni, and Unisonic
guitarists Kai Hansen and Mandy Meyer among the others.
Kiske comments: “The production with my buddy Dennis was great, as always,
but what I especially like about this album – beside the new microphone I
used that Dennis has built me – is the various styles of the songs. It is
all a still very AOR-produced album, but we also have progressive or "wilder"
elements here and there. It was (again) interesting to see how much the songs
change until you finally reach the mixing stage.”
PLACE VENDOME 2017年2月24日要發新專輯
Kiske 近幾年陸續參與不少張專輯，但我還在找那種早期Helloween的感覺
Unisonic 一直讓我有種PLACE VENDOME的加強版而已，而非是Helloween的味道
或許詞曲不是Kai 操刀的關係吧 (猜) XD
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