Zeno - Listen To The Light (1998) (Japan Remastered Edition 2005)

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Zeno - Listen To The Light (1998) (Japan Remastered Edition 2005)

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Zeno - Listen To The Light (1998) (Japan Remastered Edition 2005)

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Year : 1998 (Japan Remastered Edition 2005)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans + Videos
Size : 167 mb


Bio:

The history of ZENO began to take shape in the early seventies when Zeno Roth and Ule W. Ritgen formed their first band (BLACK ANGEL) in Hanover. Influenced by classic rock bands like Cream, Yes and Jimi Hendrix, both musicians played together for some years while attending university. When this band had broken up in 1977, Ule Ritgen played bass in the band of Zeno’s brother, Uli Jon Roth, appearing on three Electric Sun albums.By 1980, Zeno Roth and Ule Ritgen were again working together, heading in a new direction. Zeno recalls: ” The music became more melodic, with stronger vocal parts than anything we had done before. Instead of just two guitars, we added keyboard parts and background harmonies. It started to sound like what we were striving for.”The complete line-up of ZENO was formed when Michael Flexig joined as a lead singer. On the basis of superb demo tracks, ZENO were awarded one of the largest recording contracts for a new band in rock history.The origin of the name “Zeno” traces back to a Greek philosopher, “Zeno of Citium (Cyprus)”, who founded the philosophy calledStoicism. Zeno (Zenon)’s philosophical system included logic and theory of knowledge, physics, and ethics — the latter being central. He held that happiness lies in living in accordance with the laws of Nature and Divine Reason, which governs the universe. A deep thinker, Zeno Roth, as a successor of such a Greek philosophical mind, is gifted with writing as well as making music. After the first album Zeno had been released in 1986 he went more into the writing field, as the music business at that time was not advantageous to melodious rock.However, the door to his music was knocked open anew by the Japanese listeners who loved “Eastern Sun” from the re-released album Zeno in 1993. It fits together that the East, the country of the “Rising Sun” should be directly responsible for rekindling Zeno’s desire to continue creating his music.As a next step, Zenology was delivered in 1995, with songs that had been composed in the non-active period of the band ZENO. Although those songs were not newly composed, some of them hit many people with the everlasting touch of ZENO’s powerful melody. (Like “Together”).In 1998, the third album Listen To The Light was released. It gained a high reputation with its melodious lyricism, containing profound and yet positive messages, spiritual, social and political, concepts for the future, plus his amazing guitar playing. In April 1999, when Zero Corporation was liquidated, the deal was taken over by Toshiba EMI(EMI Music Japan).In the annual reader’s pop poll of 1998 by Burrn! magazine, Listen To The Light was voted No. 2 as an album, and Zeno Roth reached the position No. 2 (guitarist) and No. 3 (songwriter). “Meet Me At The Rainbow” reached No. 9 as a tune. In August 2000, Zeno moved to the United Kingdom and continued recordings for the new album.In October 2003, he decided to release the past three albums (Zeno, Zenology, Listen To The Light), in a fully re-mastered and enhanced edition, also with bonus tracks, called The Making Of ZENO, which include the legendary demo takes, leading up to the first deal with EMI UK. In 2004 Zeno finalized the digital remaster of the past albums, and in addition Zenology II, a new compilation of previously unreleased material, was released. In November, the first album Zeno was re-released in Europe as well.In September 2006, the new studio album Runway to the Gods is released. No. 19 of the Oricon album Chart in Japan on the very first day. Again, Zeno Roth is voted No. 2 as a guitarist in the annual Burrn! poll 2006. Here are the complete results for ZENO: “2006 The 23rd Annual Burrn! Readers’ Pop Poll” *Guitarist: #2 Zeno Roth *Album Cover: #2 Runway To The Gods *Songwriter: #3 Zeno Roth *Tune: #3 Fanfares Of Love *Pleasure: #5 ZENO released a new album *Album: #8 Runway To The Gods *Group: #27 ZENO” In 2009, Zeno moves to Japan, where he is working on numerous new projects.Roth died on 5 February 2018. According to his brother, he had been sick for several years.

Album:

The name Roth guarantees musical quality. In one case (Uli Jon) as in the other case (Zeno). The long-awaited third prank by guitar sorcerer and songwriter Zeno offers the well-known trademarks and impresses like its excellent predecessors with sophisticated arrangements and killer hooks at its finest. And although you can hear all the songs that they are the result of many years of work and have been worked out to the last detail, the Chose sounds anything but artificial or cramped. In terms of production technology, too, people have made nails with their heads, which is why "Listen To The Light" rushes powerfully bold and powerful out of the boxes. A real mood cannon that strikes hit after hit without exception. Songs like the crunchy opener 'Goddess Of Sunrise', the groovy 'Love In Your Eyes', the driving 'Meet Me At The Rainbow' or the epic staged ballad 'I Would Die For You' reminiscent of the best meat loaf material with the best of what the genre has produced recently. And that's just the first third of this excellent disc, which leaves nothing to be desired in every respect and has zero gap fillers at the start. Thumbs up for what is probably the best AOR record from the Teutonic perspective since the last fair warning opus. Go for it today!

Line Up:

Zeno Roth - guitar, backing vocals (R.I.P. 2018)
Michael Flexig - vocals, backing vocals
C.C. Behrens - drums on tracks 14, 15, 16.

Tracklist:

01. Goddess Of Sunrise
02. Love In Your Eyes
03. I Would Die For You
04. Meet Me At The Rainbow
05. Light Of The Morning
06. Follow The Wind
07. Listen To The Light
08. Luna And Mercury (Instrumental)
09. Some Rocks Don't Roll
10. Eden On Fire
11. Tomorrow Arise
12. Rainforest Tears (Instrumental)
13. Sunset In Paradise (Instrumental)

"The Making Of Zeno" Extra Tracks:

14. How Can I Know
15. World Of Tomorrow
16. Together (Tommy Heart Version)


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