TERRA NOVA: Escape

Cover	Release	Style
	2005-08-29	AOR
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	Frontiers
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	Playing Time	Cat. N°
	54:48	FR CD 253
	Review by	Rating
	Edwin	7/10
nederlands	Review
“Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll”, “Rock Bottom”, “Hold The Line”, “Sole Survivor”, “Yesterday”. Another band that’s jumping the covers album bandwagon? Not so. While you may rightfully accuse this Dutch band of having a poor imagination in finding song titles, these are 12 original tracks, in vintage 80’s AOR-style. Terra Nova is a band built around brothers Fred and Ron Hendrix, which recorded a couple of albums in the 90’s – they even had considerable success in Japan. Problems with the record company forced a split of the band and the Hendrix brothers continued under the name Aquila, which was more of a modern pop rock outfit. “Escape” is their comeback album as Terra Nova. I would really have liked to have given this album a higher rating, because there are a couple of really great songs on it. “Rock Bottom” is a very catchy melodic rock song, with first-rate vocals and the most wonderful harmonies. In fact, this may be one of the best AOR rock tracks I’ve heard this year. “Lonely is the Night”, “Yesterday” and “Heaven Knows” are excellent ballads, and I quite like “War On War” as well. But then there are also awful clunkers like “Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll”, “Part Of The Game”, the aptly titled “Back In The Eighties” and the sugary Survivor/Journey-like ballad “You Are The One” – really, I can’t understand how a talented band like Terra Nova can include this kind of thing. Cheesy and cliché-ridden in its most extreme form, these almost sound like parodies of the genre. The kind of songs that should put any self-respecting band to shame. Other songs, like “Hold The Line”, “Sole Survivor” and “Escape” are OK, but just too derivative to be really good. All in all, not a bad album, just nothing really special. Fans of 80’s keyboard-driven AOR might want to check it out, though.
Musicians
Fred Hendrix: Vocals Ron Hendrix: Keyboards Gesuino Derosas: Guitar Additional musicians Hans Eijkenaar: Drums Eric Coenen: Bass
Tracklist
Long Live Rock ‘N’ Roll Rock Bottom Hold The Line Heaven Knows Escape War On War You Are The One Sole Survivor Lonely Is The Night Back In The Eighties Part Of The Game Yesterday
Discography
Living It Up (1996) Break Away (1997) Make My Day (1999) Escape (2005)


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