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CD/DVD Releases: Lion Music News For May 2009 Including X Anima, Lars Eric Mattsson Releases

Posted on Tuesday, May 26 @ 06:00:00 UTC by nightowl

In news from Lion Music: Imagine Evanescence mixed with Enigma goes Kate Bush.....enter: X Anima. X Anima is new original music, with beautiful melodies, perfect grooves and excellent sound design. It's all a creative combination of pop-rockelectronica with elements of symphonic mixes. It's dark, light, fantasy, heaven and hell...

How does a band go about creating new music? This question should be asked of X Anima, for on their new album they have created, not only new and innovative music - but also keenly individual and inspired songs. The lyrics tell stories of mysteries in modern times, such as the mind of a serial killer, the phenomenon of poltergeist, Jonestown - the power of the spirit and mind and the life after death. By uniting a voice which is ranging from an airy sound to rocky -sometimes almost operatic - combined with electronic synthesizers, a mean electric guitar with heavy riffs and ethnic sounds - X Anima has created music - which in their own classification could be called art rock/electronic.



X Anima started as a project in February 2007. At first it was created and only existing in cyber space - but later on it turned into a live band with excellent musicians turning the story of X Anima live.

Jade Ell (vocals and piano) is a true live artist - having performed at many different venues in Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Holland and US. She is both her own artist as well as an established songwriter, and her songs have been recorded by many international artists. The last year she had #1 in Mexico, Brazil and the US - with the Mexican pop act RBD.

Pelle H?nd?n (keyboards and synthesizers) started out in the 80's making several solo albums and scores. He has also produced and worked with such artists as Bj?rn J:son Lind and Janne Shaffer amongst others. Together with the female vocalist Magoria, he made the album The Divine Child, which sold 80,000 copies in Russia.

Tracklisting:

01. The Deeds And The Damage
02. Caged
03. Poltergeist
04. In The Lens
05. Born Into The Skin
06. Soaring
07. The Essence Of Being
08. Exodus
09. Inside Warrior
10. Reality Remains
11. Short Sighted
12. So Fragile
13. Time (bonus track)

Musicians:

Jade Ell - Vocals and Piano
Pelle H?nd?n - Keys
Fredrik S?derstr?m - Drums
Erik Bernholm - Guitar
Jan Hellman - Bass

Album Credits:

Produced by Pelle H?nd?n.
Mixed, produced and mastered by Daniel Flores.
All vocals arranged and recorded by Jade Ell.
All songs written by Jade Ell and Pelle
H?nd?n published by SONY/ATV Music
Publishing and Smilodon Publishing.

MySpace site

No Surrender + Live is a re-recorded version of one of Lars Eric Mattsson's earliest albums originally released in 1989 to celebrate 20 years since its original release. This new version sees all vocals and guitars being re-recorded with the addition of a few live tracks tagged on the end for good measure.

No Surrender is classic hard rock fused with neo-classical metal all with the unique Lars Eric Mattsson flavour. Whilst the song writing might not be as advanced as more recent efforts released under the Mattsson name such as Dreamchild and War, this is a slice of history which shows an artist that has continued to grow over the 20 years since its initial release. To go with the 15 studio tracks there is the bonus of 5 live tracks discovered in the Mattsson archives which features tracks from the albums Electric Voodoo and Eternity.

On the new version Lars comments, "It's now 20 years since I released my second album No Surrender which landed me a Japanese record deal a year after the debut album Eternity. While the original recordings were rushed and quite poor in quality the song writing was much better than its predecessor and I remember writing these songs with great pleasure. Most of these songs were then performed live in a number of different settings and they all seemed to transform quite well to the live stage. I have always wanted to return to this material to polish up all the rough ends and finally I found the perfect timing to make it happen. I think these songs showcases my early influences as well as the typical 80-ies mood that we all were in back then. Of course some things do mature better than others over time but overall I am quite happy with these songs representing my early career, and most of all, I had a really great time playing them again. I tried not to change things more than I had to and where possible maintain the original ideas rather than include more modern elements as my intention was to try to present the songs as I wanted them to have sounded at the time of composing them. Even if most guitars have been re-recorded I have copied my original ideas and basically just make them sound 'the same but better.'"

Tracklisting:

01. Introduction
02. Tear Down The Border
03. Lady Luck
04. Since Love Died
05. Crocodile Walk
06. Just To Survive
07. Chasing Shadows
08. Menuet (J.S.Bach)
09. Proud'N'Free
10. Midnight Train
11. Lady Death
12. The Magician
13. When Silence Came To Remain
14. Third Circle
15. The Stranger
16. Can't Go On Without Your Love (Live)
17. The Exciter (Live)
18. Break Your Chains (Live)
19. Eternity (Live)
20. Goodnight (Live)

Musicians:

Lars Eric Mattsson ? Guitars, Bass, Vocals
Tony Mattsson ? Drums
Goran Stenius ? Bass
Orjan Sjostrom ? Keyboards, backing vocals

Credits:

Produced by Lars Eric Mattsson

MySpace site

Also there is a new Twinspirits album coming soon -- "We have just received the master of the second Twinspirits album entitled The Forbidden City which features new vocalist G?ran Nystr?m..." -- a new Milan Polak album -- "We have also just received the master for the new Milan Polak album entitled Murphy's Law. The album, as with its predecessor Straight, is a vocal album yet sees Milan get heavier and more aggressive. More information to follow soon." Plus, "to tie in with the release of his new album Virtuostic Vendetta, world acclaimed American neo-classical/shred guitarist Joe Stump has given his website a makeover, check it out at www.joestump.com.

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