Eye - 2 Hearts (2009)
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Eye - 2 Hearts (2009)
Year : 2009 (Blue Topaz Recordings Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 58 mb
Bio:
Swedish melodic AOR rock band that released only one album.Eye was a Swedish band in which guitarist and songwriter Oz Osukaru (whose real name is Oz Hawe Petersson) played at the start of his career. The project served as a brief but significant stepping stone in his musical career.Before forming the band Eye, Oz Osukaru worked as a heavy metal guitarist. In 2004, he co-founded the Swedish heavy metal band Katana. However, in 2008, whilst recording their debut album, he left the band because he wanted to focus on more melodic, stadium rock and a style known as AOR (Adult Oriented Rock). He therefore founded the project Eye, teaming up with keyboardist Mathias Rosén.The main – and essentially the only significant – achievement of the band Eye was the release of a album entitled 2 Hearts in March 2009 on the Blue Topaz Recordings label.Classic Scandinavian melodic rock with prominent keyboards and catchy choruses on this album.The band Eye was active for about a year, after which it ‘disappeared from the radar’ due to creative shifts. Oz Osukaru wanted to create a more comprehensive musical package with sophisticated visuals and a distinctive sound.In early 2010, he therefore founded his own band, Osukaru – now a highly successful group – in Gothenburg. Initially, he brought in some of his former bandmates from Katana, and also featured musicians from Eye as guest performers.
Album:
The 2009 album "2 Hearts" by the rock artist Eye.Released on March 4, 2009, the release features contributions from producer and guitarist Oz Osukaru and lead vocalist Ivan Höglund.Another extremely promising AOR band from Sweden.And the label, Blue Topaz clearly think they're onto something, rush releasing these tracks ahead of a full album.'2 Hearts' is self evidently modelled on the Blue Tears blueprint, with finishing touches added by Phantoms Opera.Mainman, producer, guitarist and co-songwriter Oz Osakaru, clearly motivated by an unadulterated love of the genre, has taken a battered, dog eared but well defined snapshot of eighties' AOR and restored it to its former glory, using 21st century technology and lots of enthusiasm.There's skill and talent there, in abundance. Co-producers Osakaru and keyboard player, Matthias Rosen have stretched and pulled a shoestring budget into more shapes and sounds than the laws of physics ordinarily allows.Opener and title track '2 Hearts' is immense. It has all the pace, panache and urgency of great AOR, with a naggingly famiar tune, driven by a sublime guitar motif and a gloriously thematic keyboard swell.The remaining tracks all try hard to get out from under the shadow of that opener, and although none really succeed, they all walk tall.I've often criticised AOR bands for ignoring the changes in rock music over the last 20 years and slavishly replicating the past.That's what Eye have done. Yet it sounds magnificent. More pastiche than plagiarism. Not a tribute but a triumph.Okay, a 7 track album is a slim volume of work on which to judge, but tracks like the yearning, heart rending 'These Tears' and the awesome, archetypal, emblematic-of-the-eighties, 'Without You' sound fresh and invigorated, like the genre just walked out of a hot shower. A work of art formed from disparate sources is still a work of art.Ignore the fact it's lyrically clumsy and clichéd in places. Just luxuriate in the evocative music.
Line-Up:
Ivan Hoglund - lead vocals
Oz Osukaru - guitar, backing vocals - See also: Osukaru, Oz Hawe Petersson's Rendezvous, ex-Katana
Jace Fevero - bass
Rob Degen - drums
Mathias Rosen - keyboards, piano
+ guest:
Backing Vocals – Jennie Nord
Production:
Copyright © – Blue Topaz Recordings
Mixed By – Oz Osukaru, Rob Dégen
Recorded By – Ivan Höglund, Mathias Rosén, Oz Osukaru
Tracklist:
01. Lovers Apart Intro
02. 2 Hearts (Lovers Apart)
03. Without You
04. Restless Dreams
05. These Tears
06. How Many Roads
07. Without You Acoustic
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/
Year : 2009 (Blue Topaz Recordings Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , AOR
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 58 mb
Bio:
Swedish melodic AOR rock band that released only one album.Eye was a Swedish band in which guitarist and songwriter Oz Osukaru (whose real name is Oz Hawe Petersson) played at the start of his career. The project served as a brief but significant stepping stone in his musical career.Before forming the band Eye, Oz Osukaru worked as a heavy metal guitarist. In 2004, he co-founded the Swedish heavy metal band Katana. However, in 2008, whilst recording their debut album, he left the band because he wanted to focus on more melodic, stadium rock and a style known as AOR (Adult Oriented Rock). He therefore founded the project Eye, teaming up with keyboardist Mathias Rosén.The main – and essentially the only significant – achievement of the band Eye was the release of a album entitled 2 Hearts in March 2009 on the Blue Topaz Recordings label.Classic Scandinavian melodic rock with prominent keyboards and catchy choruses on this album.The band Eye was active for about a year, after which it ‘disappeared from the radar’ due to creative shifts. Oz Osukaru wanted to create a more comprehensive musical package with sophisticated visuals and a distinctive sound.In early 2010, he therefore founded his own band, Osukaru – now a highly successful group – in Gothenburg. Initially, he brought in some of his former bandmates from Katana, and also featured musicians from Eye as guest performers.
Album:
The 2009 album "2 Hearts" by the rock artist Eye.Released on March 4, 2009, the release features contributions from producer and guitarist Oz Osukaru and lead vocalist Ivan Höglund.Another extremely promising AOR band from Sweden.And the label, Blue Topaz clearly think they're onto something, rush releasing these tracks ahead of a full album.'2 Hearts' is self evidently modelled on the Blue Tears blueprint, with finishing touches added by Phantoms Opera.Mainman, producer, guitarist and co-songwriter Oz Osakaru, clearly motivated by an unadulterated love of the genre, has taken a battered, dog eared but well defined snapshot of eighties' AOR and restored it to its former glory, using 21st century technology and lots of enthusiasm.There's skill and talent there, in abundance. Co-producers Osakaru and keyboard player, Matthias Rosen have stretched and pulled a shoestring budget into more shapes and sounds than the laws of physics ordinarily allows.Opener and title track '2 Hearts' is immense. It has all the pace, panache and urgency of great AOR, with a naggingly famiar tune, driven by a sublime guitar motif and a gloriously thematic keyboard swell.The remaining tracks all try hard to get out from under the shadow of that opener, and although none really succeed, they all walk tall.I've often criticised AOR bands for ignoring the changes in rock music over the last 20 years and slavishly replicating the past.That's what Eye have done. Yet it sounds magnificent. More pastiche than plagiarism. Not a tribute but a triumph.Okay, a 7 track album is a slim volume of work on which to judge, but tracks like the yearning, heart rending 'These Tears' and the awesome, archetypal, emblematic-of-the-eighties, 'Without You' sound fresh and invigorated, like the genre just walked out of a hot shower. A work of art formed from disparate sources is still a work of art.Ignore the fact it's lyrically clumsy and clichéd in places. Just luxuriate in the evocative music.
Line-Up:
Ivan Hoglund - lead vocals
Oz Osukaru - guitar, backing vocals - See also: Osukaru, Oz Hawe Petersson's Rendezvous, ex-Katana
Jace Fevero - bass
Rob Degen - drums
Mathias Rosen - keyboards, piano
+ guest:
Backing Vocals – Jennie Nord
Production:
Copyright © – Blue Topaz Recordings
Mixed By – Oz Osukaru, Rob Dégen
Recorded By – Ivan Höglund, Mathias Rosén, Oz Osukaru
Tracklist:
01. Lovers Apart Intro
02. 2 Hearts (Lovers Apart)
03. Without You
04. Restless Dreams
05. These Tears
06. How Many Roads
07. Without You Acoustic
Download links for all albums only on our blog here: http://goodmetalandhar.do.am/