EDEN
Album to the
maximum expression of AOR, from Italy.
By Carlos Zaldivar
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| EDEN. |
So many
years of enjoying good music, and it is not for less, the Rock and Metal are
just that: BEST MUSIC ON THE WHOLE UNIVERSE. There are untouchable and
classic bands as MAIDEN, SABBATH, ZEPPELIN, RUSH, PRIEST and they are “sacred”. They
already have a pedestal in the musical paradise.
Other bands
that have left their mark and are still leaving it, are JOURNEY, SURVIVOR,
EUROPE, TOTO, FOREIGNER that would be as the AOR of yesteryear, because today
have arisen bands such as SKAGARAK, HOUSE OF LORDS, RIVERSIDE, EVERGREY, HUIS,
KRUK, MAGNUM, TEN, MYSTERY, RPWL and SONUS UMBRA (from Mexico) among others
many.
And there
are other bands, influenced by those that have seen the light and have grown
beneath the feet of the same.
In the
recent decades some bands have reached “the top” to stay and others had to go
very fast. Bands that remain, they stick to the formula of success with a
song and going by this "same" path, leaving aside the innovation, the
creativity and the love of music. They spoil!
And after
one album, disappear.
Ah! But
there are bands that are well built up with musical knowledge, wanting to give
battle between the “big bands”, with innovations, creativity music and eager to
break buttocks within the scene of Rock and Metal. These bands are very
few, and have come to stay. They are bands that have generated new sounds
and extraordinary sounds in Rock and Metal. There are genres known as Prog
- Metal, Death Metal, Nu - Metal, Hard Rock and mainly the famous AOR, which is
exactly that, music for adults.
And with
this not refers to persons of legal age, but that adults "in musical
knowledge", which have already passed for listening to classic bands,
respect them and now they know and listen of the new AOR bands. Because I
have had the pleasure of enjoying as young people between 12 and 18 who have
good influences of parents and hear excellent bands.
Of these new
bands that have emerged in this decade, there are few that reach the degree
qualify as "extraordinary" and much more within the AOR genre,
because this genre is pure, fine, with excellent arrangements, harmonies,
equalization, direction and production of their material. They sound so
much good in the Studio and Live. They are bands that I've found (many
have rejected them) and today have been so share them, recommend them and so
that they are in this huge list of "Big bands"; such bands as
REASON (UK), EQUATOR, DELTA DEEP, DEEP LIMBIC SYSTEM (Mexico), SHOOTING ANGELS
(Austria with a Mexican drummer), MORTICIAN (Austria with a Mexican drummer),
WAR KABINETT (Mexico), KARNATAKA, ZAPHIRA (Austria with a Mexican drummer), S7N
(Mexico) and there are more. Today, there is a band that has grown out of
many, from Rome, Italy, and the name is EDEN.
EDEN, Italian
band formed by Alessandro Iovannitti: on the Drums, Percussions & Vocals; Paolo
Castellani: Keyboards & Vocals; Stefano Mastrangeli: Guitars & Vocals; Patrizio
Izzo: in main Vocals; and Giordano Latini: Bass & Vocals.
These
Italians are going strong in the AOR scene in many countries, and Mexico is no
exception. It is a quintet formed in Rome in 2011, and they have brought
us an album developed, produced, edited and released by themselves, which is
still more than welcome.
It has a
very fresh sound, with guitars that do the same, those “guitar sounds” are
heard when they should listen at very high volume and occasionally are heard
when they only accompany other instruments or voice. Also the keyboards; they
never abuse of the song, they just do their job, they "decorate"
sometimes the song and in others they accompany it and in other musical times,
stand out as the main instrument. Very fine and well played by Paolo.
Brutal!
EDEN is the
current band that sets a tone for the AOR, the classic sound that repeats song
after song and always different sound in each song from the album. Their
debut album has an introduction, a pause of a call and eight songs, is how to
enjoy superb eight different songs, as if they were from eight different bands
and not, are all of EDEN. Note
the pleasure with which was the album and also the enormous work of each of its
members. Everything indicates that in Italy, as in most countries, should have
confidence in these new bands and will bring the "power" and take it
to the most remote places on Earth. This goal is also for all of us: their
fans.
The disc
came to my computer, and like many others it was formed in line to listen to
it. When it came his turn, it was a moment full of ecstasy and delight. I
had a few months of not hearing an AOR at this level. I think it was with
DREADFUL MINDS and REASON recent occasions.
Since the
introduction with "Sounds from Eden" captivated me. Then give
account you want more turn up the volume and this is already the most. I
need more!
Then comes
the song "Dreamin'" similarly, picks you up and will not let you go. "Fear
Has Gone" it is shocking, has been that most lasted in my cerebral
hemispheres, while one is singing it, the other is describing the lyric. "I
Know You Know" arrives with a few very powerful drum sounds. Different
sound to the two earlier songs.
UF,
spectacular! We are going to the other songs.
The turn
goes for "My Time", a ballad, with keyboards accompanying on guitar
and drums, with that so fine voice of Patrizio. A soft voice that always
stands out in first level. Then comes the song "Enemy" with
little more than power and an acute voice. "Feel the Fire" is
the next and with the same power to continue hitting Italian AOR as it should
be.
Fuck! And
then comes another huge ballad, direct to the heart. In fact at this
moment, as I’m writing these humble words, my romanticism is strong, because
matches the lyrics and the song with what I've been living, although far...
very close from her (MG). "A Change of Life" is this song, and
is the type of ballad that you will never forget, since you hear it for the
first time until the day that you grow old and you have Alzheimer's disease. Huge
ballad because Patrizio begins with whispers in your ear that bristles your skin
and then hits the acute sounds and those painful cries to the veins, so blood
run through your entire body and you feel completely, "live".
Applause to
this song!
To finish
this masterpiece of AOR, comes an introduction of a cell call after a downpour,
and responding to the answering machine, enters the song "Into the
Night". Wonderful song to close with a flourish this magnificent
album. The bass is noticeable from the beginning and is at full volume,
the body feels it.
After this
album, what more remains?
That yes, it
is highly recommended. Buy it in digitally format at the usual sites; in
addition you have to buy it in physical format, because it will never compare
the digital version with the pleasure of opening the box, feel the booklet and
read the autographs (mine and my cousin Hugo's are in the way), open the disc
tray, close it and put the sound at maximum volume to enjoy EDEN until the windows vibrate, and why
not?... Break them!
EDEN, from
Italy, for the world.
