Year : 2014
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : United States
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 121 mb
Bio:
From the Fire formed in 1990, and within a few weeks, found themselves in the studio recording their debut album. "Thirty Days and Dirty Nights" was recorded at Fortress Sound in Los Angeles, produced by Jean Beauvoir, and engineered by Pat Regan, for New York indie label Metropolis Records.The album featured Tommy Lafferty on guitar, Mike Sciotto on drums, Nadine Arel on keys, Paul St. James on bass, and J.D. Kelly on keys and lead vocals. The songs - with the exception of Eric Carmen's "Go All The Way" and Lafferty/Beauvoir's "Same Song", were all written by Arel, Kelly, and the band.The recording took a month - hence, the album title - and featured the band's tight, melodic arrangements and deep, yet edgy, production. More often than not, that meant Lafferty's hard-edged guitar and Sciotto's powerful drumming were set against multi-leveled keyboards and lush harmonies. Beauvoir's sense of drama and Pat Reagan's mastery of keyboard engineering gave the finished collection a resonance and quality that showcased the band's musicianship and songwriting to great effect, while retaining the live feel that the band would later demonstrate at performances in New York.With a selection of ballads and powerful rock anthems - even a strong duet between Kelly and "Harlow" vocalist Theresa Straley - the album garnered acclaim from artists like Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley of KISS, who stopped in to hear its progress during production. During their stay in LA, the band also attended several press parties and performed live for industry insiders.A year after its production, "Thirty Days and Dirty Nights" was released in Europe and placed well on the charts in most markets. The band, still in America, had little idea as to what was happening overseas. Critics regarded the album as a true landmark in AOR, and routinely praised the recording as a must-have for fans of the genre.Eventually, as other opportunities arose, two members went their separate ways, but remained friends: Paul Morris replaced Nadine Arel, and Thaddeus Castanis took over on bass from Paul St. James so that the band could continue playing live. Lafferty, Sciotto, and Kelly remained as the core of the band.During this period, the band continued to write together, and recorded several songs, and pieces of songs, in New York City's "Cherry Bomb" studios and in their own home studios. These carried forward the style, melodic themes, and style of the debut. One song - "From the Fire" was the band's first politically-motivated anthem, and another, "Some Kind Of Dream" was a lilting, trippy tale of the band's sudden, almost unexpected journey from unknown to anything but.A re-release of "Thirty Days" in 2009, through "Yesterrock", sparked talk of a reunion, but the event never took place. In 2013, the demos that had been recorded after the departure of Arel and St. James - long thought to be lost - were were re-discovered. These demos, and subsequent writing by the band as individuals, contained enough material, and then some, for a second album.In mid-summer 2013, the band entered the studio to record their second album, which is slated for release in the first quarter of 2014.
Album:
From The Fire started out as a studio project to showcase the songwriting skills of its founding members, but soon grew into a powerful melodic rock act with a strong presence on the European charts - a fact that escaped the band, who was across the ocean in the United States while their debut was being lauded by reviewers and radio jocks and enjoying heavy radio play across the Continent and in the United Kingdom.Reuniting twenty-four years later, the band, consisting of core members J.D. Kelly on vocals, Michael Sciotto on drums, and Tommy Lafferty on guitar, have produced an album that explores their wide range of melodic rock tastes, from the power ballads "Into Your Heart", "Never be Lonely", and the album's lead track "In Your Dreams" to the layered, semi-autobiographical trip-hook tune "Stagefright (Some Kind of Dream)" and "Blame it on the Moon" - a beautiful lament written by American Glam-Rock legend Brett Smiley.In between are straight-ahead rockers like the powerful, plaintive "Liar" and equally driven "Leave Me Alone" - songs reminiscent of the 'eighties power pop that kept so many bands on the charts and in the hearts of their fans. "From the Fire" explores the desperation of war, while the title track, "Evil Men Do" is a dark, deep-cut tale of unbridled passion, countered by the sweet, harmonious "Forever and a Day" - a song that speaks from the soul of a band that never knew "how far their lights would reach" - but will forever be grateful to the fans and friends who kept them in their hearts, all over the world.
Line Up:
J.D. Kelly (vocals, keyboards)
Tommy Lafferty (guitar)
Michael Sciotto (drums)
old members:
Thaddeus Castanis (bass)
Nadine Arel (keyboards)
Paul Morris (keyboards)
Tracklist:
01. In Your Dreams
02. Leave Me Alone
03. Liar
04. Into Your Heart
05. Evil Men Do
06. From the Fire
07. Blame It On the Moon
08. Stagefright (Some Kind of Dream)
09. Never Be Lonely
10. Forever and a Day
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