Registr.: Sep 11, 2005 Mensajes: 9410 Ubicación: Reus capital
Publicado: Mie Jul 18, 2007 1:38 pmAsunto:
Lo que esperaba ... algo muy traquilito y sosegado, en la linea de los ultimos 2 discos de THE GATHERING, musica para escuchar con los ojos cerrados echado en cualkier sitio ... y Anneke sigue en forma, que vozarron tiene esta mujer!!!!!!!!!!!! _________________
When I see, you cannot see
when I move, you move with me ...
Registr.: Mar 30, 2006 Mensajes: 4243 Ubicación: the blank planet
Publicado: Mie Jul 18, 2007 7:57 pmAsunto:
Pues si, muy en la linea de mi amado Home, exquisitez y delicadeza a partes iguales, siempre es un placer escuchar a Anneke, a ver si saca el disco prontito que será muy bien recibido por un servidor.
En definitiva un placer para los sentidos. _________________
Registr.: Jun 26, 2004 Mensajes: 1143 Ubicación: Fachalayud
Publicado: Dom Oct 14, 2007 8:37 pmAsunto:
Anneke dejo la banda, pero segun pone en su web http://www.gathering.nl/ estan haciendo audiciones para elegir a un nuevo vocalista y tienen planes de sacar disco nuevo el año que viene. _________________
Registr.: Mar 30, 2006 Mensajes: 4243 Ubicación: the blank planet
Publicado: Dom Oct 14, 2007 8:50 pmAsunto:
Vamos!
Edito para poner una entrevista:
“I had been in the Gathering for 13 years, and I had never done anything for 13 years in my life,” says a cheerful Anneke van Giersbergen, on the phone from her home in Holland. The singer shocked many by leaving the Gathering less than a fortnight after the band’s North American tour this past spring, and what she left behind was a legacy few female metal singers can ever match, from six groundbreaking studio albums to an entire generation of female singers directly influenced by her work.
“It’s been my whole adult life, so to leave that, on one hand, was a very clear decision and a very strong feeling, and I was ready. In 13 years, things had changed in my personal and musical life. It was difficult as well, because the guys, they were like brothers, so to leave that and to change that relationship has been a long process and was probably one of the hardest things I did.
“I told them at the beginning of March, and so we really took some time to assess the situation,” she continues. “Also, the guys, they wanted to see what their plans would be next. Of course they were not happy with my decision, but they are respectful and they have good spirits to continue. Of course, I put a big stamp on the sound and the look of the Gathering, but on the other hand I’m not the only singer in the world, so it’s going to change, but it’s not going to stop.”
It was during the writing and recording of her debut solo side project when van Giersbergen realized just how much she enjoyed being fully in charge of her music, and also that she was ready to step immediately into a more artistically rewarding project helped make her decision easier.
“There were a lot of physical reasons, but they all came out of one big feeling in my heart that it was time to change,” she explains. “I was supposed to do this record besides the Gathering, and I was given time and it was all okay, but I like to do other small projects and work with other people a lot. I had some plans, and the feeling became stronger to develop that more seriously and also especially to be with my family a little bit more. Now, I can direct everything I do from this one agenda, and it feels very good to be the director of your own life. In a way the Gathering was officially a bigger band, and we were day and night constantly working with it, and it was quite intense, all the processes. So a lot of small things became one big feeling, like, ‘Okay, I’m ready.’”
The more the dust settles from all the upheaval, the clearer it becomes just how prepared van Giersbergen is to set out on her own. Air, the debut album by the creatively named Agua de Annique (“‘Annique’ sounds better than ‘Anneke’,” she laughs) is a superb, highly confident collection of songs that run the gamut from hard rock ("You Are Nice"), to folk ("Come Wander"), to Coldplay-esque pop ("Yalin"), to piano-based balladry ("Day After Yesterday"), to even a few progressive-minded moments that would make her old band proud (the best being the hard-charging “Witnesses").
“Some of these are quite old, actually, because I have so many songs,” she says. “In the Gathering period I also had many songs and a lot of them hadn’t been used, so they were shelved. I just recorded them simply, on mostly guitar and vocals, and recently I’ve been playing piano and writing a lot of songs on that. They all have kind of their own charm, like the easygoing, simple ones, but I’m equally proud of the mini-epic ones, because they all have a different feel. I have so much stuff, I think I can release four more albums.”
Actually, Air, for all its eccentricity, does sound like an extension of the last Gathering album, 2006’s Home. In particular, two songs, “Beautiful One” and “Lost and Found”, rely heavily on the contrast between darkness and light that has always been the Gathering’s calling card. “It was not intentional, but I think a logical thing,” admits van Giersbergen, “because my participation in the Gathering was also very personal, the way I sing and the melodies and lyrics, they are all really me, and I was part of five people, a big band, and now I am only one of those people making this record, but those elements I take with me because they come from me. So it’s logical that particular sound is hearable in the music. Of course a lot of people hear that, it has the melancholy and dark edge, you can see very much in the Gathering as well.”
Agua de Annique is currently preparing for a series of November shows in Holland, but for the first time in a very long time, van Giersbergen doesn’t really know what to expect, and has a lot more resting on her own shoulders, saying, “With the Gathering, after 13 years, there are certain things that are very comfortable and easy, like knowing exactly what their rhythms are, and how they play and how they feel onstage, and we’re one big thing, one whole. And that’s of course very different now, because, this is all quite new and exciting, and also because it’s my own stuff, so all the credits are for me, but all the critics are as well. So it comes a lot harder now, I really want to do a really good job, so I’m very focused on it.”
Typical of metal fans, when it comes to the music of the Gathering, the older, seminal material is loved the most, yet van Giersbergen continue to distance themselves from her classic metal past. With a pair of excellent new albums that couldn’t be less metal if they tried, it begs the inevitable question: Have she grown out of playing only metal music, and will she ever return to the heavier sounds that they played in the mid-’90s?
“I think where you come from, you never leave it behind, because you take it as baggage, as good positive baggage,” says an optimistic van Giersbergen. “So what we did in the early days, in the Mandylion period, as we were in the same cradle as the female-fronted metal bands, and kind of evolved from that and everybody went their separate ways, and the Gathering, we made a lot of different kinds of records, we became broader, and I as a singer became broader. And when you’re young, everything’s black and white, you’re either angry or happy. Now there’s such a variety in your character and in the way you sing and write music,” she says, adding, “You never know. Sometimes you have a personal revival.”
Registr.: Sep 05, 2005 Mensajes: 1311 Ubicación: Madrid
Publicado: Dom Oct 28, 2007 2:53 pmAsunto:
Recupero este post porque estoy enganchadñisisma a las 4 canciones que de este grupo se pueden escuchr en last.fm¿alqhuien sabe cuando sacan disco?, porque no consigo encontrarlo...Gracias.... _________________
"I will protect U from your enemies and all your demmons............................Will U?
Registr.: Mar 30, 2006 Mensajes: 4243 Ubicación: the blank planet
Publicado: Dom Oct 28, 2007 4:38 pmAsunto:
El disco ya se filtró hará un par de semanas y a mi me ha gustado, sin haber grandes sorpresas siguiendo la linea del Home con unas voces fantásticas y una música bastante correcta.
PD Saioita mira tu bandeja de entrada. _________________
Es un discazo. Me recuerda a los Anathema más suaves pero con voz femenina, y qué voz! Algunos temas son preciosos, parecen nanas para dormir. Gran descubrimiento, apra oirlo en la cama y te quedas hipnotizado.
Recupero este post porque estoy enganchadñisisma a las 4 canciones que de este grupo se pueden escuchr en last.fm¿alqhuien sabe cuando sacan disco?, porque no consigo encontrarlo...Gracias....
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