AREA 39: Stand Alone Together

Cover	Release	Style
	2004	symphonic rock
	Label
	http://www.area39project.com/index.htm
	Website
	ray_turrell@hotmail.com
	Contact
	-
	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	29:57	FRCD271
	Review by	Rating
	Luc Descamps	7/10
nederlands	Review
Stand Alone Together is a concept album about the moonlanding hoax. Very much influenced by the traditional symphonic rock as it was made in the seventies. The first track is very much like Eloy’s “The Power and the Passion”, including a dreamy female voice. “Beyond the Clouds” and “Through the eye of a Telescope” are very up tempo with a lot of guitar energy. In between the songs the radio messages and spacy sounds can be heard. “Universal Dot to Dot” is interesting in this way that the ‘landing’ can be followed: no music, just sounds. All quite nice and the guitar solos are not bad at all, but the music misses the extra dose of power that I needed to make this album into something special. There are quite some Pink Floyd influences too: some sounds that seem to have been sampled from “Echoes” and the finale could be compared with “The Great Gig in the Sky” without reaching the same top quality level, however. “Changing Horizon” sounds too much like “On the Run” from Dark Side of the Moon to be a coincidence. The short playing time isn’t an advantage either if one thinks about buying the cd. A nice go between…
Musicians
Ray Turrell: guitar, bass John Grosberg : keyboards Wayne Sowden : drums Gavin Fletcher : lead guitar David Roy : vocals Paula Cunningham: vocals Nicky Allan : vocals
Tracklist
1.The Dreamer Dreams 2.Beyond The Clouds (Exclusive 3 min 53 sec version) 3.Through The Eye Of A Telescope 4.Universal Dot To Dot 5.Changing Horizon 6. The Dreamer's Dreamed


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