Van Canto: 'Magic Taborea' Video Released
Date: Saturday, September 25 @ 23:20:00 UTC
Topic: Band News (tours, comings/goings, etc)


In Spock-like fashion, I raised an eyebrow and thought "Facinating." Or rather I thought, "that's interesting and different." Oh, not that Van Canto released a video for their song "Magic Taborea," which is included on the group's latest album Tribe Of Force (released in February via Napalm Records - that's to be expected. It's a trio of words that appeared in the original Blabbermouth.net posting: "...German 'a capella metal' band [...] -- which consists of five singers and one drummer (no guitars, no bass, no keyboards).

Said video can be found here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYdoFtPtFKU&feature=player_embedded

The CD features guest appearances by Grave Digger vocalist Chris Boltendahl, Rage guitarist Victor Smolski and Sonata Arctica frontman Tony Kakko.

Tribe Of Force track listing:

01. Lost Forever
02. To Sing A Metal Song
03. One To Ten (feat. Victor Smolski)
04. I Am Human
05. My Voice
06. Rebellion (Grave Digger cover; feat. Chris Boltendahl)
07. Last Night Of The Kings
08. Tribe Of Force
09. Water. Fire. Heaven. Earth.
10. Master Of Puppets (Metallica cover)
11. Magic Taborea
12. Hearted (feat. Tony Kakko)
13. Frodo's Dream

Van Canto is:

* Dennis Schunke (Sly) - Lead Vocals
* Inga Scharf - Lead Vocals (Effects)
* Stefan Schmidt - Lower Rakkatakka Vocals, Wahwah Solo Guitar Vocals (Rhythm, Lead on Solos)
* Ross Thompson - Higher Rakkatakka Vocals (Lead)
* Ingo Sterzinger (Ike) - Lowest Dandan Vocals (Bass)
* Bastian Emig - Drums

If there's been no cheating, you know... no "guests" playing some instruments... listening to/watching the vid I have to say pretty damn cool! It sounds great - comparable to Kamelot to my ears, other bands of that style. You'd not notice that there aren't guitars or keys. If Schmidt really can pull off sounding like a guitar, as he seems to here (well, on the audio part at least)... amazing, I say. Amazing. I mean, a capella isn't a feat, folks sing a capella all the time -- in fact, you will think of Gregorian chant, given the deep vocal tones. But also to emulate the "missing" instruments so that the don't sound missing and give it the feeling there's an orchestra? (or maybe that's the "cheat"?). I'm impressed. (And on some further research {a review of the CD at Encyclopedia Metallum}, I see said vocals are filtered through voice manipulation devices - at least on some tracks - and perhaps some actual orchestral enhancement on this track specifically, so... ok, sorta cheating) -ed. SS]

[Source: Blabbermouth.net, other than the editoralizing and mini-review, which is us]







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