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Limited Edition digi-pack of 1500 copies only Re-mastered by Martin Kronlund with 5 un-released bonus tracks!!! Release Date: 25 June 2010 Track Listening And The Lead Vocalists: Disc 1 : (The Hard Disc) Disc 2 : (The Soft Disc) Musicians: Guitars : Frédéric Slama, Tommy Denander, Steve Lukather, Michael Landau, Bruce Gaitsch, James Harrah, David Williams, André Harold Keyboards : David Diggs, Peter Hume, Ken Stange, Peter Friestedt, Marcos Udeba, Tobias Marberger, Bass : Hussain Jiffry, Eddie Watkins Jr. Drums : Vinnie Colaiuta , Ed Greene, Joey Heredia, Carlos Vega Saxophones : Dave Boruff, Tom Saviano, Brandon Fields Background Vocals : Janey Clewer, Rachel Diggs, Chris Demming, Charlie Bleak, Tom Bailey, Johan Sahlen AOR BIOGRAPHY It was in 2002 that Frédéric Slama took AOR to a new dimension with the critically acclaimed third album « L.A Reflection », which was considered to be the best Westcoast CD of the year by many journalists and fans alike. It featured all the big names in the music industry including Steve Lukather, Mike Porcaro, Jeff Porcaro, David Paich (all Toto members) and a line up of stars like Tommy Denander, Göran Edman, Michael Landau, Vinnie Colaiuta, Michael Ruff, Bruce Gaitsch, Rick Riso and lots of other top L.A. artists. The album became a huge success and was co-produced by AOR-legend Tommy Denander and world famous L.A. producer David Diggs. In 2003, Frédéric Slama was back with an even greater CD, which again featured the best musicians any Westcoast and melodic rock fan could possibly imagine: Bill Champlin (Chicago), Steve Overland (FM), Steve Lukather (Toto), Michael Landau, Bruce Gaitch, Brandon Fields among many others and two Westcoast legends who hadn't recorded anything for over 20 years: David Roberts & Dane Donohue ! This album was called « Dreaming Of L.A » and again co-produced by Tommy Denander and David Diggs. In 2004, Frédéric released « Nothing But The Best, an album featuring the best songs from his previous CDs, fully remastered by Tommy Denander plus 3 brand new unreleased tracks featuring Fergie Frederiksen (Toto) and Dane Donohue on lead vocals. In 2006 AOR released a new CD called « L.A. Attraction » once again featuring the talents of many great AOR / Westcoast stars including Philip Bardowell, Steve Lukather (Toto), Tommy Denander, Dane Donohue, Michael Landau, Peter Friedstedt or Rick Riso among others. This time, AOR developed a slightly different musical approach and moved into a more rock-oriented direction: « L.A. Attraction » sounded like a mix between Toto, Radioactive and Richard Marx and was a real feast for all AOR and melodic rock aficionados ! The same year Frédéric re-released officialy his 1st album « L.A Concession » (only available on Cdr at the time) fully remastered with 4 bonus tracks and a list of impressive guests again. In 2009, the magic trio was back: Frédéric Slama ,Tommy Denander & Philip Bardowell teamed up again for a new album « Journey To L.A », taking Westcoast and AOR music to a new level of perfection. With the help of top session players such as Steve Overland (FM), Steve Lukather & Fergie Frederiksen (Toto), Dane Donohue, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Bruno Levesque (Silence) & many more, Frédéric delivered by far his most impressive and melodic work in the vein of Toto, Foreigner or Survivor, mixing elements of westcoast with more Aor rock oriented songs. To celebrate AOR’s 10th Anniversary, Frédéric Slama & Escape Music proudly announce the release of a double limited edition Digipack CD entitled “LA Ambition ».This cd is the very best of AOR from the last 10 years with 5 previously unreleased demos from the 90’s & new mixes. “LA Ambition” is fully re-mastered and features songs from the 8 AOR releases spanning the last ten years. The CD is a two disc compilation containing the « Melodic rock » hits on disc one, and the « Westcoast » hits on disc two, with 28 songs in all. « L.A Ambition » features more than 40 top musicians including Tommy Denander, Steve Overland (FM), Steve Lukather & Fergie Frederiksen (Toto), Dane Donohue, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Göran Edman, Philip Bardowell, Michael Landau, David Roberts, Michael Ruff, Bruce Gaitsch, Vinnie Colaiuta, Rick Riso & many more. « L.A Ambition » is a dream come true and contains all the finest songs from AOR like you’ve never heard them before !
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Release date: 25 June 2010 Tracks: Band members: Produced by Ronnie Björnström - Hate Ammo (all the acoustic guitars) 8-Point Rose from Sweden was formed in autumn 2009 by a few members of the former band Evermoore that had been producing demo-records and playing live in different cities in Scandinavia, Czech Republic and Germany for seven years. The members of the band have an average age of 20 and all of them live up in the north of Sweden except for the singer Marcus Nygren that lives 2000 kilometers south of the bands "hometown" Kiruna. Marcus was found on the internet by the other members and after discovering that the musical similarities were so many and the personal chemistry was so good between all five of them that it would be perfect to start a hard-working band together despite the distance, they formed 8-Point Rose. Their music can be described as melodic, heavy and catchy metal with strong melodies, and they are inspired by a lot of other Scandinavian bands like In Flames, Nocturnal Rites, Tad Morose, The Rasmus, Evergrey, The Haunted, Soil work and Morgana Lefay. The music has both a really heavy and almost "extreme metal" base fronted by the furious screams of guitarist Alexander Timander and a softer surface with strong melodies and beautiful vocal arrangements fronted by talented singer Marcus Nygren. The first months, under the name of 8-Point Rose, they released a tribute-song to the pop-icon Michael Jackson that recently had passed away. The song was released for free download at the bands website and got a lot of attention at different memorial-pages for Michael. The success of the song also gave them the opportunity to play at two metal-festivals in the north of Sweden with bands like Lamb of God, Behemoth and Hypocrisy during the first months of the bands career! The debut-album "Primigenia" is recorded in three different cities in Sweden: Umeå, Kiruna and Malmö. It is produced and mixed by Ronnie Björnström at Enhanced Audio Productions and features guest-artists from some great Swedish bands which have influenced 8-Point Rose alot: Bloodbound, Avatar, Andromeda, Zonaria and Morgana Lefay. The lyrics of the album is about everything from deep emotions to the game World of Warcraft and the importance of parties and having a ball of course isnt missed either. Some of the tracks were actually originally written already in the mind of a 15-year old Johannes Timander during the years in the former band Evermoore. Most of the tracks from the album is featured in American bodybuilding-star David Henry's DVD "Beyond Motivated".
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Release date: 21 May, 2010 Wild Side is: The Tracks The Norwegian band Wild Side started out in late 2005. Formed by drummer Ronni Arntzen and ex-Pagan's Mind guitarist Thorstein Aaby. To complete the line-up, vocalist Paul Martin and bass player Johnny Myren was hired. Myren did not stay in the band for long, and in came a much more competent bassist, Stian Stensrud. In the beginning the band was mainly playing cover tunes, but a couple of original tracks also surfaced. Early 2007 a two track demo featuring Nite Show and Calling Past was recorded. Shortly thereafter Aaby's health got worse, so the band decided to get a stand-in guitarist. Tom Grana, and old friend of Stensrud joined the ranks. This worked out really well, so the plan was to go for a twin guitars attack when Aaby got back. Unfortunately that never happened, cause on July 24th 2007 Thorstein Aaby died of cancer. In November of 2007 the band entered Ronni Le Tekrö's(TNT's legendary guitarist) Studio Studio to record their debut album, Indication. But some problems followed, and the album wasn't released until October of 2008, then only in Scandinavia. Enter 2009 and things looked promising for the band; WildSide recruited a second guitarist, the highly skilled youngster Jon Aarseth, adding an extra dimension to both studio and live performances of the band. But shortly after singer Paul Martin decided to quit due to personal reasons. But WildSide turned the change into something good, and in came the enthusiastic Joachim Berntsen. After some very well received gigs the band went into the studio again to record their second album Speed Devil. This time in Klyve Lydstudio in Skien, Norway. The production was done by the band themselves, while the mixing was done by King Diamond guitarist Andy LaRoque at his Sonic Train Studios in Sweden.....Speed Devil marked a huge step in the right direction. So watch out, folks!
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Release date: 21 May, 2010 The Band: The Tracks: Third Eye started as a band back in 2003. Martin Damgaard, Andreas Schumann, Thomas Kuhlmann and Rasmus Kostending had formed a band at a school for music and were playing different kinds of metal, when their teacher, Michael Bodin, asked if they would like to try some tunes he had written. Almost immediately the band felt connected through the music and Third Eye was a reality. Things were going great, a lot of songs were written, but the band still needed a singer. After putting some tunes on the internet they got in touch with Casper Greiff. He had put some good vocals on some of the tunes and Third Eye agreed to start work with him. Soon after, they started to play gigs around the country and got a lot of great feedback. It was agreed to start working on a full length album. A lot of energy was focused into this but in the process Casper slipped further away from the direction the rest of the band was headed. In the beginning of 2007 after a concert, Casper left the band. This was a great setback and it was discussed how to complete an album without a singer. Things should soon turn to the better though. After 6 months Michael randomly ran into Per Johansson. Per was really interested in the band, and he was introduced to some of their material. Per was hooked, and soon after, he started working on the vocals for the songs. Spring 2008 the band headed to the studio to start the recording of what was to become the album: Recipe For Disaster. The recordings stretched for almost a year due to a lot of different setbacks. In the 11'Th hour the band even had to see keyboard player Rasmus Kostending leave the band, and it seemed that the album would get further delayed. Luckily Finn Zierler, from Beyond Twilight, stepped in and helped with keys on some of the songs. The rest was taken care of by Tommy Hansen at Jailhouse Studios. A year after Third Eye started recording, Tommy Hansen laid the final hand on the mixing and mastering. The album was ready to be revealed to the world. Easier said than done though. One more year should pass, struggling with different labels, before “Recipe For Disaster” was finally ready for the world, 2 years after starting the recordings. During this period Simon Krogh joined the band on keyboards. A long and hard journey was over. By coincidence the album title fitted the recording-process, even though it was created before the recording started This fine release is a great metal album which will impress right from the start.
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Release date: 23 April 2010 Track List: Stefan Lindholm - Guitars,
arrangements Stefan Lindholm all music, Tommy Karevik: All lyrics and vocal arrangements The band Firecracker started some years ago and is the brainchild of Stefan Lindholm (Vindictiv). Before Vindictiv was formed Stefan contacted keyboard maestro Pontus Larsson and they started to work on some of the songs he had laid down. With bass player Fredrik Folkare (Unleached) and Hasse Worzel on drums the band took shape. Vocalist Tommy Karevik from "Seventh Wonder" took care of the vocal duties and the basis of Firecracker came to a reality. Musically the band is everything you would expect and more from Sweden. For all of you out there that have heard and fallen in love with Vindictiv (“Vindictiv” ESM164 and “Ground Zero” ESM190) then this predecessor is essential listening. The guitar technique of Stefan Lindholm is as crisp and neat as ever, and he seems to effortlessly produce exciting riffs and melodies with nonchalance. His early years admiring and emulating the works of Malmsteen and Vai shine through but he does have a technique of his own that finds its way through. Keyboards play a vital role in the overall sound and there are plenty of these throughout, and when in harmony, form passages of pleasurable rock music. In addition to Pontus Larsson, keyboards are also supplied by classical player Henrik Mawe and his input of elongated keyboards makes this a stunning release and shows a difference to Vindictiv, a band who Stefan naturally progressed from Firecracker. The CD “Born of Fire” is an exciting look back to the earlier days of Stefan’s career, which is now developing into legendary status. It is a release that has an appealing raw edge to it, and it would have been a sin to pass by this fantastic recording. Firecracker is a great name for a band, certainly this one as they fit their moniker exactly.
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Release date: 23 April 2010 Track list: The band is: Louis D’Augusta-
Lead Vocals, Formed in 1980, this dedicated hard rock band from the Boston area has had numerous accomplishments. Most notably, they have sold over 100,000 albums worldwide and performed with great acts such as Hanoi Rocks, Molly Hatchet, Winger, Stryper, Cheap Trick, Girlschool, Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush, Hurricane, Grim Reaper, Steven Stills and The Ramones along with many many others. Their first self titled EP with producer Jon Mathias was recorded at The Record Plant in New York City. The EP sold over 10,000 copies in the Boston area alone, and was enough to get record companies’ attention. In 1985, the band was signed to RCA records and released their first major label debut, “New Birth”, produced by Tony Platt. The 45 single, “Do You Love Me”, was number one for over six weeks at many radio stations along the east coast. The video for that single was also in rotation on MTV and hit Billboard’s charts. In 1987, “Mass” was signed to Enigma records and released their third album/CD, “Take You Home”, produced by John Rollo and “Mass”. This record/CD sold tens of thousands in the United States as well as England, Japan, and other countries around the world. In 1988, “Mass” released their fourth record/CD,” “Voices in the Night”, on Enigma records. Michael Sweet of the band “Stryper” was the producer. Again, this CD sold well all over the world. Songs such as “Reach for the Sky”, “Turn it all Around”, and “Voices in the Night” were available as CD singles. Songs from this CD also appeared on various compilation CD’s. That same year, “Mass” was nominated for ‘Best Heavy Metal Act’ at the Boston Music Awards. Mass has continually worked to improve themselves and in 2007 signed with Escape Music and the result was the highly enjoyable “Crack Of Dawn” (ESM153). This release excited old fans of the band as well as attracting many new ones. Swedish producer Martin Kronlund twiddled the knobs to make this a fine sounding CD. It’s now 2010 and the band have been working harder than ever for the new release Sea Of Black, an album that is chock full of ripping guitars and driving rhythms. Mass have always been a tight sounding four piece that have excelled in great songwriting and blinding musicianship. Once again using Martin Kronlund at the production helm what we have here is a winning formula that can only enhance their poularity. Although essentially a hard rock band Mass know how to hit the right notes with a ballad or two and they pour on the passion with ease. Astounding music... With thirty years experience in this competitive world of rock music Mass has come shining through
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