Zeno - Zenology II (Japan Limited Edition) (2005)

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Zeno - Zenology II (Japan Limited Edition) (2005)

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Zeno - Zenology II (Japan Limited Edition) (2005)

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Year : 2005 (Japan Remastered Limited Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Germany
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 105 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:

Zenology II is a new compilation of previously unpublished and unreleased Zeno songs. All of these tracks were recorded between 1983 and 1989 in studios in or around Hannover, Germany.Unlike Zenology I, these songs were recorded in a "live" context with a full band line-up, including a drummer. Initially, these songs were recorded as "demo's" for various record companies. However, they have been further enhanced by Zeno Roth's recent re-mastering, plus his addition of new guitars, keyboards and choir.Collection of great melodic rock songs with the awesome guitar playing by Zeno.I personaly think Michael Flexig is a good vocalist , but I can understand that some people dislike him ( just like Graham Bonnet and Rob Moratti you love him or hate him ).The production isn't top class either , but good enough.A very good album , although Zeno has recorded better ( classic ) stuff in the past.Zeno Roth - the younger brother of Uli Jon Roth - was born in 1956 and formed his first band, Black Angel, in 1974. While playing and recording with several other German bands (Karthago a.o.), he wrote a lot of songs between 1979 and 1983, that would later be used for Zeno, the band that he formed with Ule Ritgen in 1984. As soon as the first demo was released, a lot of record companies lined up to sign the band. Deals with Warner Publishing UK and EMI UK quickly followed and Zeno started recording his first album in 1985, using many recording studios and a lot of famous guest musicians, such as Don Airey, Chuck Bürgi, Stuart Elliot, Carl Marsh and Chris Thompson. Since its original release, "Zeno" has been rereleased quite a few times. When it was rereleased in Japan in 1993, it created quite a stir and sold over 25,000 copies! It led to a deal with Zero Corporation in 1994 and two albums would follow: "Zenology" in 1995 and "Listen To The Light" in 1998.What we have here with "Zenology II" is not a new Zeno album, but a compilation of previously unreleased Zeno songs, that have been recorded in studios in or around Hannover, between 1983 and 1989. The quality of the songs is quite good (which doesn't come as a surprise to me), but the sound differs from track to track and is - at times - considerably bombastic (no surprise either). Anyway, it's best to consider this album as a useful leg up to the next studio album, which may be expected soon (I hope).

Line Up:

Michael Flexig - vocals (tracks: 1, 2, 5 to 11), Tommy Heart (tracks: 3, 4)
Zeno Roth - guitar, backing vocals (R.I.P. 2018)
Ule W. Ritgen - bass, backing vocals
Rainer Przywara, Zeno Roth - keyboards
CC Behrens - drums

+ Backing Vocals – Liz Vandall, Karl-Heinz Boesel, Michael Flexig, Rainer Przywara, Tommy Heart

Production:

Design [Cover] – Mathias Dittner
Liner Notes [Japanese] – Koh Sakai
Liner Notes [Lyrics Translated By] – Naoko Goto
Management – ZENO Management
Photography By – Naoko Goto
Producer – Zeno
Remastered By [Digitally] – Zeno Roth
Written-By – Zeno Roth

Tracklist:

01. Call of the Heart 4:00
02. Tonight 4:27
03. Hard Beat 3:49
04. Dreaming the Night Away 3:55
05. Good Game Bad Game 3:39
06. Victoria 3:19
07. On My Way 3:45
08. Keep Your Love 3:46
09. Troubled Love 3:34
10. Time 4:54
11. Free Again (Eagle of Love) 3:55


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