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 | Sujet: SAPPHIRE EYES  Mar 13 Nov - 20:32 | |
| INTRODUCING SAPPHIRE EYES FROM AVENUE OF ALLIES:
Sapphire Eyes
is the new AOR band of songwriter and keyboard player Niclas Olsson, well known for his female fronted Melodic Rock band Alyson Avenue and lead singer Thomas Bursell. Back in 2004 the two Swedish musicians already worked together in the Melodic Hard Rock band Second Heat.
For several years already Niclas had the idea for an AOR band with a
male vocalist, it originally started when Alyson Avenue parted ways with
vocalist Anette Olzon in 2006. But due to other projects, including the
work on Alyson Avenue's comeback album "Changes" with their new vocalist Arabella Vitanc, released in the spring of 2011 through Avenue Of Allies, the work on the male fronted AOR album was put on hold.
Over the years Niclas has written a lot of songs that didn't seem to be
the right choice for Alyson Avenue, so he kept them up his sleeve until
he was working on a suitable recording project.
Sapphire Eyes
is exactly the album
Niclas was waiting for to dig out 10 AOR jewels from his song vault and
to record them with a line-up of musical friends. Niclas and Thomas, who
recorded the vocals for seven album tracks, are joined by two other
male Swedish singers, Mikael Erlandsson (Last Autumn's Dream, Salute) took over the lead vocals on two songs and Mike Andersson
(Cloudscape) handles the vocal duties on one tune. The female vocal
touch is added by the two Alyson Avenue front ladies, past and present,
with Anette Olzon and Arabella Vitanc recording backing vocals for two songs each.
Guitar contributions on
Sapphire Eyes come from Sven Larsson (Street Talk, Lionville), Rik Priem (Frozen Rain), Emil Knabe and part-time Alyson Avenue musician Christopher Dahlmann. With Mikey K Nilsson (Nasty Idols) on guitars and G�ran Forss�n on bass, two more current Alyson Avenue members followed the call to be part of Sapphire Eyes. The recording line-up is completed by bassists Thomas L�ysk�, another Alyson Avenue alumni and Mats St�hl as well as Francesco Jovino (U.D.O., Hardline) on drums.
The big sound of Sapphire Eyes has "Pure Classy Scandinavian AOR"
written all over it. The songs are highly melodic with hooklines catchy
as hell, the musicianship is of the highest order and the mix handled by
Anders "Theo" Theander (Cloudscape, Urban Tale) finds the right
balance between top notch vocal performances, guitar power, keyboard
heaven and a solid rhythm back bone.
Sapphire Eyes
will be released November 30.
Track Listing (with audio samples): 1) You're My Wings 4:40 2) I Want You To See Me 5:08 3) Only Feel Love 5:32 4) This Love This Time 4:09 5) Change Of Heart 5:06 6) Can't Find The Words 5:24 7) When Love Comes Alive 4:22  A Man The World Can Do Without 4:27 9) Someone Like You 4:22 10) Lay Down In My Arms 4:39.
Sapphire Eyes
are: Thomas Bursell: Lead vocals, background vocals; Niclas Olsson:
Keyboards, background vocals, drums on track 3; Additional musicians:
Mikael Erlandsson: Lead vocals on tracks 1 & 6; Mike Andersson: Lead
vocals on track 8; Anette Olzon: Special lead vocals on track 4 &
background vocals on track 10; Arabella Vitanc: Background vocals on
tracks 3 & 9; Emil Knabe: Guitars on tracks 1 & 9; Sven Larsson:
Guitars on tracks 3 & 5; Mikey K Nilsson: Guitars on tracks 2, 6, 7
& 10, additional guitars on track 8; Rik Priem: Guitars on track 4
& Intro solo on track 2; Christofer Dahlman: Guitars on track 8;
Thomas L�ysk�: Bass on tracks 1, 2, 4, 8 & 10, clean guitars on
tracks 2 & 10; G�ran �G� Forss�n: Bass on tracks 3, 5, 7 & 9;
Mats St�hl: Bass on track 6; Fransesco Jovino: Drums on all tracks
except track 3; Anders �Theo� Theander: Loops, percussion and FX.
Produced by Niclas Olsson / Mixed & mastered by Anders �Theo� Theander at RoastingHouse Studios Studio 1, Malm�, Sweden / All drums recorded by Alessandro Del Vecchio at Ivorytears Music Works, Somma Lombardo, Italy
Executive producer: Gregor Klee / www.avenue-of-allies.com.
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