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JIM PETERIK
Legendary rocker - founding member of SURVIVOR and
IDES OF MARCH and now leading force behind
PRIDE OF LIONS - JIM PETERIK, announces the
completion of the recording sessions of his brand new solo
album entitled “Above The Storm”.
 
Jim Peterik live picture courtesy of Franky Bruyneel -
Rock Report Magazine
“My
last solo album came out in the spring of 1976” says
Peterik, “It was called Don't Fight The
Feeling. I still am very proud of that record, but I felt
that 30 years later it was time for another solo record”.
In "Above
The Storm", Peterik expresses many personal views
of life and love. “The title itself” he says, “refers
to that place we hope to find in our hearts above the chaos
and confusion of this crazy world”, adding “I had written
some songs lately that did not quite fit into the soaring
PRIDE OF LIONS mold or the R&B influenced IDES OF MARCH.
Three of these songs are co-written with Johnny Van Zant of
LYNYRD SKYNYRD and Donnie Van Zant of 38 SPECIAL. The rest I
pretty much wrote on my own”.
Of course
this new solo album does not mark the end of the
PRIDE OF LIONS chapter of Peterik’s
career. He explains: “As much as I love writing and
performing with PRIDE OF LIONS and
WORLD STAGE - sometimes I like to go back to the
very beginning, just getting into a room and writing from
the heart about what really matters most to me. This is
where this new solo album comes in. The songs have a really
wide range of feelings from sensitive ballads like the title
cut, to power ballads such as "A Kiss To Remember You By"
and totally hard rockers like "Live Life" and "Stand and Be
Counted”.
On "Above
The Storm", Jim Peterik is backed
by the musicians from PRIDE OF LIONS: Ed
Breckenfeld on drums, Klem Hayes on bass, Mike Aquino on
guitar and Christian Cullen on keyboards, with Peterik
taking care of most of the lead guitar work, as well as a
lot of the piano work. Lisa McClowry (the girl who appeared
in PRIDE OF LIONS’ “Sound Of Home” video) cares of
background vocals work.
On a
related note, Jim Peterik and his
production partner Larry Millas are also
very busy in mixing in 5.1 surround stereo the PRIDE
OF LIONS upcoming DVD “Live In Belgium”
and at the same time he is writing songs for the third PRIDE
OF LIONS studio album tentatively entitled “The
Roaring of Dreams”.
Frontiers Records will release “Above The
Storm” in March 2006, with
King Records taking care of the release in Japan.
KHYMERA
The Track By Track
comment on the new album “A New Promise”
out on December 5th 2005 by
multi-instrumentist and producer Daniele Liverani.
- A New Promise
This is a short instrumental intro that shows the
great talent of the new Khymera member Tommy Ermolli on
guitars. The melodic expression of this new young talented
guitarist shines since the first note of this intense
instrumental introduction!
- Alone
A straight-ahead uptempo rock song, with a catchy chorus.
One of the more direct songs of the albums. Dennis Ward
performance is unbelievable here ! Dario Ciccioni delivers
some cool drumming here and some passages almost have a
progressive feel.
- Let It Burn
Great choirs by Dennis Ward on this one. This song
is one of the more classic melodic rock tunes of the whole
record.
-Looking For You
Pure AOR song, with lots of keyboards atmospheres and nice
piano arrangements. A song that is very much in the 80's
feel, with a touch of modern sound.
- All That I Have
A ballad with piano arrangements that explodes in a straight
rock mid tempo song, taking off after the first hook.
-The Damage Is Done
The most powerful song of the album, with Dennis showing an
incredible vocal range. A very heavy guitar riff tuned in D
gives this song the right power to satisfy the “heavier”
listeners. This is the heavy side of the new Khymera line
up.
-After The Way
A mid tempo song that melts elegance and straight rock
sound. A very mature guitar arrangement from Tommy gave this
track the proper feel and approach. This tune has the best
guitar solo of the whole record.
-You Can't Take Me (Away From
You)
A straight rock'n’roll song of the album, penned from Jeff
Scott Soto. This is happier and brightest song of the entire
track list.
-Tomorrow Never Comes
Another piano rock oriented song, very melodic. I
particularly dig the ending of this one, very musical and
emotional.
-Fields of Fire
An uptempo rock song, with some of the great choirs of the
whole record. Another great performance on one this by
Dennis.
-If You Dare To Dream
A great version of this Judithe and Robin Randall song.
Dennis really gave to this one the right mood and the result
is really very melodic and strong at the same time.
-Give In To The World
Somehow a little more modern sounding than the rest
of the material, this song was anyway translated into a more
straight rock sound. Some weird guitar and keyboards sounds
here.
-All Is Gone
The only “real” ballad of the record, the most intense and
atmospheric one. Here Dennis shows all his potential giving
a lot of colours to the song with his inspired vocals.
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