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STRANGEWAYS to release a new album with Terry Brock on vocals\u00a0 – AOR fans rejoice with \u201cPerfect World\u201d in October<\/p>\n
STRANGEWAYS to release a new album with Terry Brock on vocals\u00a0 – AOR fans rejoice with \u201cPerfect World\u201d in October<\/p>\n
Napoli, September 2010 \u2013 The news of Strangeways reunion with American singer Terry Brock leaked when the announcement of Firefest 2010 festival line-up was launched with the inclusion of the band in the \u201cNative Sons\u201d\/\u201dWalk in the Fire\u201d line-up on the bill. This came as a big surprise to many, since probably very few people would have hoped to see Brock crossing the ocean again and even less could think of a brand new Strangeways recording with the singer together with guitarist Ian J. Stewart, new bassist Warren Jolly, drummer Jim Drummond and keyboard player Dave “Munch” Moore.<\/p>\n
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Still the Strangeways reunion is now reality and the newly recorded studio album \u201cPerfect World\u201d will be released on Frontiers Records on October 15th in Europe and October 26th in the US.<\/p>\n
Turning back the clock in 1986, Strangeways released their self titled debut for Bonaire\/Arista Records. \u201cStrangeways\u201d received rave reviews, particularly from the british press which saw the potential for the band to break on to the US market. By the time the album hit the shops, original singer Tony Liddell had already been replaced by Brock who was persuaded to join the band by the album\u2019s producer Kevin Elson (Journey, Europe etc.). Strangeways toured intensely supporting Europe, Bryan Adams and Meat Loaf but it was the following year\u2019s \u201cNative Sons\u201d album that chiselled in stone the name of the band, who produced a full-blown melodic rock masterpiece, hailed by Kerrang! magazine as \u201cthe greatest and most preciously perfect AOR album of all time\u201d.<\/p>\n
In 1989, even if ‘Native Sons’ didn’t sell as well as the critical acclaim gathered, Strangeways recorded a third album titled ‘Walk In The Fire’. The band wanted to have a more personal approach, less leaning to the Journey sound of the previous record. The result was truly superb, a big step further compared to \u201cNative Sons\u201d. Still today songs as \u201cLove Lies Dying\u201d, \u201cEvery Time You Cry\u201d or \u201cWhere Are They Now\u201d are considered by the fans some of the most beautiful songs ever in british AOR style.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Strangeways were finally starting to see rewards from touring, particularly in Germany but after Brock flew to the US to secretly audition with Deep Purple to replace Ian Gillan, he never returned to the UK and left the band. Three more very different Strangeways albums followed with Ian Stewart at the microphone: \u201cAnd The Horse\u201d (1995), \u201cAny Day Now\u201d (1997) and \u201cGravitational Pull\u201d (2000). All of them saw Strangeways exploring a more atmospheric and rootsy style which had nothing to do with the previous three albums.<\/p>\n
Terry Brock in the meanwhile started a solo career which produced two acclaimed releases (\u201cBack to Eden\u201d and the very recent \u201cDiamond Blue\u201d) and collaborated with The Sign, Seventh Key and Giant.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was no real plan for Terry and I to work together again, it just kinda happened\u201d says Ian Stewart. \u201cWith the Firefest gig offer and Frontiers showing interest in another Strangeways album it all just seemed to fall together naturally. The relationship with Terry is probably better than it’s ever been, which I think is down to the fact that we’re both older and dare I say wiser\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerfect World\u201d takes from where \u201cWalk In the Fire\u201d left off, with the band finding an even more mature musical identity, an amazing sense of spacious melodies and of course the magic voice of Terry Brock which connects the music with the classic Melodic Rock sound of \u201cNative Sons\u201d and \u201cWalk in the Fire\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI honestly couldn’t really describe the “new” sound as such, it’s just honest melodic heart and soul rock music, good tunes played with attitude and feeling\u201d concludes Ian Stewart.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t miss their performance at Firefest 2010 hoping it will be the first of a long streak of dates.<\/p>\n
\u201cPerfect World\u201d final tracklisting includes:
Perfect World; Borderlines; Movin’ On; Time; Cracking Up Baby; Liberty; One More Day; Bushfire; Too Far Gone; Can’t Let You Go; Say What You Want.<\/p>\n
The songs \u201cPerfect World\u201d and \u201cBorderlines\u201d can exclusively be listened to in full by streaming on the Frontiers Web Radio from September 1st. Tune in at: www.frontiers.it\/webradio<\/a><\/p>\n Lineup: Weblinks: www.facebook.com\/pages\/Strangeways-Official-fan-page\/264061032678<\/a>\u00a0 www.frontiers.it<\/a>\u00a0 \/\u00a0 www.myspace.com\/frontiersrecords<\/a><\/p>\n SAMPLES: Source: Frontiers Records<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" STRANGEWAYS to release a new album with Terry Brock on vocals\u00a0 – AOR fans rejoice…<\/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-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","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=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Terry Brock \u2013 vocals Ian J. Stewart \u2013 guitars Warren Jolly – bass Jim Drummond – drums
David “Munch” Moore – keyboards<\/p>\n
http:\/\/www.frontiers.it\/m\/uploads\/audios\/strangeways_01perfectworld.mp3<\/a>
http:\/\/www.frontiers.it\/m\/uploads\/audios\/strangeways_02borderlines.mp3<\/a>
http:\/\/www.frontiers.it\/m\/uploads\/audios\/strangeways_03movinon.mp3<\/a>
http:\/\/www.frontiers.it\/m\/uploads\/audios\/strangeways_04time.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n