{"id":2021,"date":"2012-08-27T15:58:08","date_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/the-lion-roars-again-brand-new-lionville-album-coming-this-fall\/"},"modified":"2012-08-27T15:58:08","modified_gmt":"2012-08-27T15:58:08","slug":"the-lion-roars-again-brand-new-lionville-album-coming-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/08\/27\/the-lion-roars-again-brand-new-lionville-album-coming-this-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lion roars again &#8211; \u2013 brand new Lionville album coming this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lionville.it\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/lionville_band.jpg\" border=\"0\" width=\"174\" height=\"157\" \/><br \/>Lionville, the AOR act led by Italian song writer \/ guitarist \/ vocalist Stefano Lionetti and featuring the signature lead vocals of Lars S\u00e4fsund (Work Of Art) will return with their sophomore album simply called \u201cII\u201d in November 2012. The follow-up to the highly successful self-titled debut will again be released on the Avenue Of Allies label. The record is currently being finished and the band is looking forward to celebrate the first ever Lionville live performance on October 19th in Nottingham (UK) as the opener of this years Firefest.  <!--more-->  <br \/>Lionville originated from the friendship of Stefano Lionetti and Pierpaolo \u201cZorro11\u201d Monti (Shining Line), who presented a couple of Stefano\u2019s demos to Gregor Klee, owner of the Avenue Of Allies label. The first record was released in June 2011 and the catchy pure AOR sound found many fans among critics and fans, ending up on many \u201cBest Of The Year\u201d lists. Among others the album reached # 3 on melodicrock.com\u2019s \u201cBest Debut Album Of 2011\u201d rundown, it also landed at # 20 on the site\u2019s \u201cBest Album Of The Year\u201d charts and the ballad \u201cThe World Without Your Love\u201d, written by Richard Marx, Bruce Gaitsch and Amy Sky, reached # 11 on \u201cThe \u201cBest Ballad\u201d listing.<\/p>\n<p>Lionville\u2019s \u201cII\u201d will deliver another slice of high class AOR and it sees many of the musicians performing on last years debut returning to the recording studio. Guitarists Bruce Gaitsch (Richard Marx, Chicago) and Sven Larsson (Street Talk) are just two of the studio cats who lend their talents again to make the new tunes shine. The names of more special guests will be revealed shortly including a musician who wrote AOR history and who was ranging on top of the wish list of everyone involved in Lionville.<\/p>\n<p>Besides Stefano and Lars, the band\u2019s studio as well as the live line-up includes keyboard player \/ producer Alessandro Del Vecchio (Edge Of Forever, Hardline), guitarist Mario Percudani (Mitch Malloy, Hungryheart), bassist Anna Portalupi (Hardline, Mitch Malloy) and new drummer Alessandro Mori (Mitch Malloy, Axe).<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Source: www.lionville.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lionville, the AOR act led by Italian song writer \/ guitarist \/ vocalist Stefano Lionetti&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2021\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}