Description
I first (unknowingly) heard Malmsteen in 1983 when I caught the amazing guitaring in 'Hiroshima Mon Amour' by Alcatraz on the radio (although I did not catch the title at the time). Then in 1984, in a bar in Belgium, the bar owner played me a remarkably frantic solo, 'Hot On Your Heels', by "a 19 year old" in a band I'd never heard of, called Steeler. When he told me that it was the player in Alcatraz, something clicked. It made sense that I had picked up on both of them. Not for years had I had any guitarist have such an impact like the guitaring in both tracks. I had to check this guy out...more…A love affair started and the rest, as they say, is history.
Even though he has since spawned a hoard of imitators, at that time, no one was doing anything like this. This almost completely instrumental album was fresh and inspiring.
Every track on this album was (and still is) a gem. From the majesty of Black Star, the slighlly corny, but precise baroque of Far Beyond The Sun, the shear beauty of Icarus' Dream Suite (based on Albanoni's Adaggio) and the fury and beauty of Little Savage, this album paved the way for hundreds of wannabes that, even today, never quite master the melody and harmony that the man himself musters, even though others are faster these days...(and so what).
Malmsteen certainly has his knockers. But for those who say he has no 'feel', no soul...are they deaf?
Beautiful melodies are here in abundance and his heartfelt solos like no other guitarist before him. Sure, he will often play fast. But Malmsteen's fast was different. It was clean, so, so melodic and not just going in one direction like everyone else's 'widdly-diddly' efforts (including my own).
His profuse emotion, inherent throughout the fury, is evidently missed by his critics in its subtler form. A guitarists' guitarist true but, not as some have written, the only ones who can appreciate what he does, I'm sure.
By his 7th album, Fire and Ice, even I had to conclude that I had heard it all before and, for a while, the love affair was over, but this first outing was the foundation of many great tunes to follow...before he flirted with commerciality and then became a fat parody of himself.
| 1 |
Black Star |
| 2 |
Far Beyond the Sun |
| 3 |
Now Your Ships are Burned |
| 4 |
Evil Eye |
| 5 |
Icarus' Dream Suite op. 4 |
| 6 |
As Above, So Below |
| 7 |
Little Savage |
| 8 |
Farewell |
Info:
- Category:
- Music > Albums
- Case Type:
- CD
- Release Type:
- Retail
- Comments:
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Cover Info:
- Title:
- Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force (1989) Retail CD
- Part:
- Back
- Dimensions:
- 1010 x 800 px
- Size:
- 140 KB
- Downloads:
- 2113 (0 today)
- Uploaded:
- 11/05/07 by allcdcovers
- Quality Rating:
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