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Roland Grapow
« Kaleidoscope »
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1 | Walk On Fire 04:30
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| 2 | Under The Same Sun 05:23
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| 3 | The Hunger 06:05
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| 4 | A Heartbeat Away 05:26
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| 5 | Hidden Answer 05:03
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| 6 | Till The End 03:50
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| 7 | Kaleidoscope 06:45
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| 8 | Angel Face 05:47
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| 9 | Listen to the lyrics (instrumental) 03:55
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| 10 | Reaching Higher 05:10
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| 11 | Lord I'm Dying 04:34
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| 12 | Separate Ways (Japan Bonus) 05:28
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| | Total playing time 56:33 |
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Michael Vescera - vocals
Roland Grapow - guitars
Ferdy Doernberg - keyboards
Barry Sparks - bass
Mike Terrana - drums
Guest musicians:
Jens Johansson - keyboard solo on tracks 9 & 10
Tammy - howling on "Reaching Higher" |
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All songs written, arranged and produced by Roland Grapow
All lyrics by Roland Grapow, except 3, 5, 11 by Micheal Vescera/Roland Grapow
Recorded by Michael Tibes at Crazy Cat Studio, Tennessee |
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| 1. Walk On Fire
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
I don't need a helping hand from some like you
Even if I slip away and tumble
All the lies you told me on and on
Behind your mask is really something wrong
Now I believe in my own way
Please let me go, why should I stay?
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На второй сольный альбом Роланд Грапов собрал отличную команду. Причем трое из них ( Michael Vescera, Barry Sparks и Mile Terrana) пораздельности работали с Малмстином в 94-95 годах на 'Seventh Sign', 'Magnum Opus'. Также на паре песен просолировал на клавишах небезыственний Jens Johanson. Остальные клавишные партии сыграл Ferdy Doernberg (Rough Silk, Axel Rudi Pell), который без сомнения знает как извлекать звук не только из клавишных, но и из Hammond органа. Что же касается результата, то получилась этакая помесь Малмстина с Хелловином, спида с хардом и с небольшой добавкой нео-классики. Фу, какая гадость, скажет кто-то. Однако не торопитесь с выводами - диск получился довольно таки не плохой. И риффов (рифф на 'Till the End' - просто killer) и мелодий и соляков ( особенно пазабавил коротенькая вставка на акустике из Григовского Hall of the Mountain King) в достатке и все в основном хороши. Также порадовала ритм-секция в лице Майкла Терраны ( он кстати как бы подхватил знамя из рук прежде-временно ушедшего из жизни Кози Повелла, и по технике и по количеству участия в различных проэктах :) ) и Барри Спаркса ( пара ходов прости гениальны). .
1 бал снимается за неоригинальность, и второй за бездарную и безвкусную обложку. Роланд конечно чувак симпатичный, но хотелось бы увидеть что то более интересное, чем его фотка крупным планом ( даже если он на ней и с Фендер Стратом)
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К сожалению, "Kaleidoscope" получился более стандартной работой по сравнению с "The Four Seasons Of Life". Количество запоминающихся мелодий невелико, песни достаточно шаблонны. Акцент немного сместился в сторону метала, но и хард-рок никуда не делся. Исполнить вокальные партии Грапов пригласил Майкла Вескеру (ex-Yngwie Malmsteen), и поэтому альбом утратил индивидуальность, потерял некоторую частицу самого Роланда. Слушабельно, но не привлекательно. |
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If not you must walk on fire
Please don't tell me your view 'bout what's wrong or right
Do you really know what's going on?
Rest in peace and walk away from my side
If you need a real friend buy a dog
Now I believe in my own way
Please let me go, why should I stay?
You should see my sign which is your desire
If not you must walk on fire
Walk on
Walk on fire
Walk on
Walk on fire
[SOLO]
Now I believe in my own way
Please let me go, why should I stay?
You should see my sign which is your desire
If not you must walk on fire
Walk on
Walk on fire
Walk on
Walk on fire
Fire, fire
2. Under The Same Sun
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
Lost horizon, the sunlight is rising
Souls are lifting only dreams
Wake up to our painful reality
Don't go closing up your mind
I don't care if you are black, red, white or brown
We reach for a better world to become
Feels like balancing on the edge of a knife
So start to give in, don't discard your life
Go ahead with your dream for what it's worth
We all living together under the same sun
Fading shadows one by one like a wheel of fortune
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
When a child is born into this world
It has no care which colour to wear
I assume the reason that pushed us to change
No big difference we're all the same
Be honest today, believe in yourself
Raise your head, don't give up, you'll find the way
There's some kind of madness still in your eyes
If you don't let it go it should be your demise
Go ahead with your dream for what it's worth
We all living together under the same sun
Fading shadows one by one like a wheel of fortune
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
[SOLO]
Go ahead with your dream for what it's worth
We all living together under the same sun
Fading shadows one by one like a wheel of fortune
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
Go ahead with your dream for what it's worth
We all living together under the same sun
Fading shadows one by one like a wheel of fortune
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
Yes, we're all living together under the same sun
3. The Hunger
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Michael Vescera, Roland Grapow]
Come on everybody, can you feel the fire
Burning up inside your soul, feeding your desire
Oh, you've got to understand everything we need
A rhythm of your heart and the hunger for the beat
Feel the heat, can't you see
Every note you much higher
Feel it creep, it's so deep
Only you can raise it higher
Taken no prisioners giving a way
Feeling the strength as your fears slip away
Paying the price of the power that fills you inside
Loneliness crying from deep in your soul
It's giving you hope while you're losing control
No chance in fighting, you must let this feeling go
Come on everybody, I hope you wanna hear
If you do you've got to let my feelings touch your ear
Don't run away from this tune, you ain't hypnotised
But I hope you have some fun without a compromise
Feel the heat, can't you see
Every note you much higher
Feel it creep, it's so deep
Only you can raise it higher
Taken no prisioners giving a way
Feeling the strength as your fears slip away
Paying the price of the power that fills you inside
Loneliness crying from deep in your soul
It's giving you hope while you're losing control
No chance in fighting, you must let this feeling go
[SOLO]
When I see you standing there in the dark
You're wearing my soul in your eyes and your heart
Beware, feel me crawl under your skin
Beware, now the fantasy can begin
Taken no prisioners giving a way
Feeling the strength as your fears slip away
Paying the price of the power that fills you inside
Loneliness crying from deep in your soul
It's giving you hope while you're losing control
No chance in fighting, you must let this feeling go
Let it go
4. A Heartbeat Away
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
Just turn around, look what you see
So many memories
You lived your life as sun melts the ice
Live for yourself if you believe
You can do what do you want, don't get lost in a dream
We're never falling apart
Won't see tears dry in the wind
I'll show you things that you never really knew
Heaven is just a heartbeat away
Every day, every night, every moment
We all need friends just let people see
Open your hands, open your heart, open your feelings
Self confidence is the key to choose
Don't be proud make up your mind
Flying in the stray of an ocean wind
Clouds are stalking, don't hesitate
Troubles seem like they never will end
Anytime you need a friend
Even if you are miles away
Remember, I'll be there to guide you home
Heaven is just a heartbeat away
Every day, every night, every moment
We all need friends just let people see
Open your hands, open your heart, open your feelings
[SOLO]
Remember, I'll be there to guide you home
Heaven is just a heartbeat away
Every day, every night, every moment
We all need friends just let people see
Open your hands, open your heart, open your feelings
5. Hidden Answer
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Michael Vescera, Roland Grapow]
You've been caught in time
In a haze of shattered dreams
So lost and paralysed
You can't shake off this disease
You don't know, you won't show any kind of true emotions
Why should we waste our time you throw away
What a fool, you're too cruel
I'm mesmerised, you're such a tool
What twisted lies that you are living in
Just wake up, are you blind
Try to be a little kind
You might just find it's in you're hands the hidden answer too
Now take one good luck
At yourself and you might see or you'll see
What are you waiting for
Oh, now it just may set you free
We don't know how to show you this kind of true emotions
How could you waste our time another day
What a fool, you're too cruel
I'm mesmerised, you're such a tool
What twisted lies that you are living in
Just wake up, are you blind
Try to be a little kind
You might just find it's in you're hands the hidden answer too
[SOLO]
We don't know how to show you this kind of true emotions
Why should we waste our time you throw away
What a fool, you're too cruel
I'm mesmerised, you're such a tool
What twisted lies that you are living in
Just wake up, are you blind
Try to be a little kind
You might just find it's in you're hands the hidden answer
Just try and find it's in you're hands the hidden answer
If you just find it's in you're hands the hidden answer too
6. 'Till The End
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
Hear that thunder die away
I wouldn't wonder if somebody screamed
Nice and slowly 'till the end
Crashing bones and a smell of burning skin
Open your heart for a holy land
Mankind will lose control
If you just hide under government
Nobody will reach for more
'Till the end
Creating creatures manipulate DNA
Nothing natural, that's what the future will be
Silicon standard for synthetic girls
That's what we need like our atomic world
Open your heart for a holy land
Mankind will lose control
If you just hide under government
Nobody will reach for more
'Till the end
'Till the end
[SOLO]
Open your heart for a holy land
Mankind will lose control
If you just hide under government
Nobody will reach for more
Open your heart for a holy land
Mankind will lose control
If you just hide under government
Nobody will reach for more
'Till the end
'Till the end
7. Kaleidoscope
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
Like a little child in a sand box
We're all diggin' much too low
Next millennium will pay the price
We found disaster already now
Count every minute before time is over now
Hear every second like a heartbeat of your soul
Wrath of the night hear that crying
Nobody cares, we live in a kaleidoscope
Too many times we missed the warning
We need a chance or this human race won't have a hope
The chance we had won't come back once more
Lord, tell me why we choose this way
'Cause the end is ready to go
No way out and no control
Count every minute before time is over now
Hear every answer before we have to go
Wrath of the night hear that crying
Nobody cares, we live in a kaleidoscope
Too many times we missed the warning
We need a chance or this human race won't have a hope
[SOLO]
Count every minute before time is over now
Hear every answer before we have to go
Wrath of the night hear that crying
Nobody cares, we live in a kaleidoscope
Too many times we missed the warning
We need a chance or this human race won't have a hope
Wrath of the night hear that crying
Nobody cares, we live in a kaleidoscope
Too many times we missed the warning
We need a chance or this human race won't have a hope
8. Angel Face
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
When I saw you the very first time
I couldn't take my stare away from you
The eyes of a cat, lips of seduction
Wind blows your hair, like gloomy haze
Feeling of immunity in a web of emotions
Was our philosophy, you know what I mean
Pictures of the glory days I haven't seen in a long time
Time locked the door and stole the key
Angel face, my angel face
Please tell me where's the answer, I'll hold a sign, it says
Angel face, no more faith
'Cause without any answer is our love like a flower on grave
You won't find an open sealing
Your love is a barricade of steel
My heart is filled with daydreams
To return to our love battlefield
Tears won't dry, hate won't deny, this might be the ending
Deception spins around, you know what I mean
No more trust and no more pain in this hopeless circle
I will rise and you will fall
Angel face, my angel face
Please tell me where's the answer, I'll hold a sign, it says
Angel face, no more faith
'Cause without any answer is our love like a flower on grave
[SOLO]
I never will forget the end
I'll never say good bye
Destiny set us free, oh
Angel face, my angel face
Why don't we hear the answer before emotions fade away
Angel face, my angel face
Please tell me where's the answer, I'll hold a sign, it says
Angel face, no more faith
'Cause without any answer is our love like a flower on grave
9. Listen To The Lyrics
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Instrumental]
10. Reaching Higher
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Roland Grapow]
In the silence of your room
In the darkness of your schemes
You might need something better that you can hold on to
We're all riders of this train
You can't shut off risk and pain
Look where we stand, it slips away
If this world is wearing thin and you're thinking of escape
You always think you can't win but it will never be too late
Reach for something higher
Don't follow your desire
Don't waste your time for another goal
You wouldn't sell your soul
When your pride is on the floor
I'll leave you begging for more
You'd better hope that you'll be safe
Don't think you will understand
'Bout the lies you are dreaming
You'd better hope that you're gonna wake
You will find uncertain signs, please don't wait holding on too long
Why should you waste another time 'cause you're gonna rise so strong
Reach for something higher
Don't follow your desire
Don't waste your time for another goal
You wouldn't sell your soul
[SOLO]
You will find uncertain signs, please don't wait holding on too long
Why should you waste another time 'cause you're gonna rise so strong
Reach for something higher
Don't follow your desire
Don't waste your time for another goal
You wouldn't sell your soul
Reach for something higher
Don't follow your desire
Don't waste your time for another goal
You wouldn't sell your soul
You wouldn't sell your soul
You wouldn't sell your soul
11. Lord I'm Dying
[Music: Roland Grapow]
[Lyrics: Michael Vescera, Roland Grapow]
Since I've been gone
I haven't seen you far too long
I'm missing so much, missing your touch
Take me back to your lovin'
I waited for so long
Now I can't remember
Bad memories are gone
Take me home back where I belong
I've been dreaming 'bout it much too long
I can't wait no more not another day
Lord I'm dyin'
Time's healing all the wounds
The scares you left can't be gone too soon
Leaving behind, tryin' to find
The one and only way back to you
We've wasted so much time
We shouldn't wait forever
Our love is on the line
Take me home back where I belong
I've been dreaming 'bout it much too long
I can't wait no more not another day
Lord I'm dyin'
[SOLO]
Take me home back where I belong
I've been dreaming 'bout it much too long
I can't wait no more not another day
Lord I'm dyin'
Take me home back where I belong
I've been dreaming 'bout it much too long
I can't wait no more not another day
Lord I'm dyin'
Oh, Lord I'm dyin'
12. Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)
[Music: Steve Perry, Jonathan Cain]
[Lyrics: Steve Perry, Jonathan Cain]
Here we stand
Worlds apart, hearts broken in two, two, two
Sleepless nights
Losing ground I'm reaching for you, you, you
Feelin' that it's gone can change your mind
If we can't go on to survive the tide
Love divides
Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched and went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched and went our separate ways
Troubled times
Caught between confusions and pain, pain, pain
Distant eyes
Promises we made were in vain, in vain, in vain
If you must go I wish you love
You'll never walk alone, take care my love
Miss you love
Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
How we touched and went our separate ways
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
Though we touched and went our separate ways
[SOLO]
Someday love will find you
Break those chains that bind you
One night will remind you
If he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
You know I still love you
I still love you girl
I really love you girl
And if he ever hurts you
True love won't desert you
No, no