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Happy birthday asia!
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ASIA party this year a birthday with this new album. XXX (that it is necessary triple pronounced X appears) famous in fact and as well named thirty years of career. John WETTON (song, low),Geoff DOWNES(keyboards), Steve HOWE (guitars) andCarl PALMER (battery) compose the line uporiginal one of the group (nevertheless reformed in 2010 for the albumOmega), the one of the first album eponym in 1982 and ofAlpha in 1983.
For its 30 years, the 4 musicians operate a return to the sources Melodic Rock, of the one that see to gush these titles that did the success of the group: Heat Of The Moment, Only Time Will Tell, Sole Survivor ,Time Again( Asia - 1982), Don't Cry, The Smile Has Left Your Eyes ,The Heat Goes On( Alpha - 1983), but also Go andVoice Of America( Astra - 1985, Steve HOWE yielding then his place to Mandy MEYER). And effectively, XXX is a bath of jouvence! Melodies to the choirs on the refrains, game of simple but effective battery the guitars clearly do more present than onOmega, ubiquitousness of the keyboards to the production (when all is said and done modern, thank you Mike PAXMAN!), these 9 new compositions recall what ASIA offered to this era. Besides, Steve HOWEnot itself in mask, declaring having thought and composed withJohn WETTON an album borrowing the recipes and the spirit ofAsia and of Alpha. The magnificent oneartwork is again signed Roger DEAN, and confirms more or less this established fact, with the return of the logo, pyramid and eyes ofAlpha (them so present and with the same orangish color on the envelope ofAura).
More Rock than its predecessors, a more aggressive hair (any kept proportion to the views of the practiced style!), XXX could leave to presage a different tone with this intro languid piano / violin on the first title,Tomorrow The World, but that fortunately becomes quickly more sustained. The rhythmic one is done then hopping, inducing, the keyboards flood of their sounds 70' among others s entitles it, the song is perfect and the guitar imposes a current solo. Sonorous outline and of writing that we rediscover with delight on the superb one Bury Me In Willow, with his refrain hypermélodique and his methodical rhythmic one, but also on No Religion, the single Face On The Bridge , Al Gatto Neroand Judas . As higher remark, the guitars of Steve HOWEdo themselves less discreet, therefore more marked, by their solis or by their integral presences throughout the composition: the mid tempo Faithful that quickens on the final one, Face On The Bridge, Al Gatto Nero. The sumptuous harmonious ballad that clôt XXX, Ghost Of A Chance, sees in his environment a pass of supported weapons between keyboards and guitars, strong sonorous wink toYES. As for I Know How You Feel, his piano and his low one bring back us direct online to SUPERTRAMP (lacks here only the saxo)!
With XXX, ASIA offers themselves and we devote a magnificent return towards the passed, as well as a worthy birthday of this name! And as the group manages well his bizness (but poorly for our purse!), this album is of course available in cd digipack but also in vinyl (it would seem that this support type comes back to the method!) and in edition Deluxe : cd + dvd where are presented 2 videos: Face The Bridgeand Faithful, as well as the making of of the album.
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