Month: April 2018

Country:US
Released:1996
Style:AOR, Hard Rock, Soft Rock

Tracklist
1 Changes
2 Cradle I
3 Paint It Black
4 No In-Between
5 Don’t Ask
6 The Wall (Reprise)
7 Crazy / Cradle II

Category: CCM AOR
Year: 1994
Label: Self Released

1. Home Again
2. Can’t Turn Back
3. Eye To Eye
4. Falling Star

Country:Germany
Released:1990
Style:AOR, Hard Rock

Tracklist
1 Don’t Care 3:53
2 (08/15) Films 4:22
3 Mirror Of Time 3:29
4 Last Time 3:22
5 Mc. Donald’s Boulevard 2:59
6 Plane Crash 3:03
7 Head In My Hands 4:09
8 Standing Ovations 3:38
9 Ultimate Warrirors 6:17

Category: AOR / Melodic Rock
Year: 1993
Label: Self Released

Tracks
1. Freude Herrscht
2. Play The Game
3. My Friend
4. Downtown Girls
5. Waiting
6. Another Brick In The Wall
7. Sudden Death

Mauro Casciero drums
Martin Wuthrich guitar
Peter Hubacher guitar
Cornelius Morscher vocals
Simone Walti vocals

Category: AOR
Year: 1993
Label: RDR Promotions

Tracks
1. You Say You Love Me
2. Shake It Down
3. Strike Out
4. The Darkness
5. Takin a Trip
6. Lean Machine
7. Running Out of Time
8. Guess
9. Listen to My Love Beat
10. Someone Special
11. Bop Hop
12. Leave Me Be

Blakjak vocals, producer
James Linden Burton drums
Timothy Johns guitar
Dave Murphy keyboard
Neil Numminen bass
John Pagnotta saxophone

Majestic Records indie release from Chris Herriges, entitled, “Come What May”. Chris Herriges is a tremendous AOR Artist that hails from Minnesota. Huge, bombastic keyboards and layered vocals make this one of the essential releases in the AOR/Melodic Rock genre. Herriges has a similar style to Rick Mathews, Keven Jordan and John Farnham. A few of the tracks remind of Stan Bush. Killer harmonies on all nine songs – no fillers.

1. Come What May
2. Its Not Too Late
3. Sweet, True Companion
4. Look My Way
5. Break Me Out
6. In Your Time
7. All Too Much
8. Higher

Country:Netherlands
Released:1983
Style:Synth-pop AOR

A1 Stranger 4:13
A2 Don’t Let Me Down
A3 Summer Breeze 4:03
A4 Love Seller 3:42
A5 Maze Of Love 3:49
B1 The Pawn 4:18
B2 Forever 3:56
B3 I Can’t Feel Your Feelings 4:16
B4 Too Late 3:40
B5 Savage Jungle 4:45

Country: UK
Genre: WeastCoast
Year: 1999

01 – Lonely Weekend (Russell Ferrante, Curiale, Ricky Lawson & Bobby Caldwell)
02 – Framed By Love (David Diggs)
03 – Easier Said Than Dance (Tom Saviano & Jeanne Alexander)
04 – Fallen Angel (Billy Batstone)
05 – Backbone (David Diggs & Pat Boone)
06 – Don’t Look Back (Tom Saviano)
07 – Jamie (Billy Batstone)
08 – Say Goodbye (Mary Ella Meek-Cummings)
09 – Light The Light (Bob Wilson)
10 – Love Won’t Always

Country:US
Released:1984
Genre:WestCoast

Tracklist
A1 Last Night 3:51
A2 Playing The Fool 3:47
A3 Rachel 3:46
A4 Framed 3:26
A5 Somethin’ Might Be Burnin’ 4:37
B1 Don`t Be So Shy 3:16
B2 Holding On To Love 3:32
B3 Sky Singer 3:50
B4 Dancing With His Shadow 5:04

Via one song at Youtube I was tipped off by this album a while back, and here you’ll get the full album reviewed. SAME SAME was a 2-piece consisting of (or centred around) siblings GERTY SEDLMAYR (lead vocals) and OTTO SEDLMAYR (keys, production) from Austria. Any fan of soft AOR will be eager to hear this gem, since it is among the best “new/unknown” albums I’ve come across over the past few years. There are even some westcoast vibes in a few songs.

The mix of soft AOR and some westcoast vibes are clear in “Why did you quit”. There is also the very soft and dreaml