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TARJA “Colours In The Dark” /2LP/


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    Band: TARJA
  • Product Code: 0208797ERE
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TARJA
The fourth full-length studio album by legendary Finnish Operatic/Symphonic Rock/Metal singer and she’s band.
"Colours In The Dark" is riskier than Tarja’s previous three solo albums. The album is a huge panorama of Operatic Metal, where some artistic experimentation is attempted, but repeatedly crushed under the album’s bombast. The dramatic scope of the strings and choirs, guitars and woodwinds, arrangement and high-gloss presentation is truly wondrous.
Tarja Turunen’s voice is a force of nature, dominant and dominating. The former lead singer for Nightwish fills her lungs and turns "Colours In The Dark" into the fury of the four winds. From the bombastic opener “Victim of Ritual” to the exquisite closer “Medusa”, in which she shares her hurricane-proof microphone with Blue October’s Justin Furstenfeld, "Colours In The Dark" is a colossal battle royal of operatic soprano, keyboard orchestra and Alex Schlopp’s ENGL amplifier madness. 
On "Colours In The Dark", the guitars are to die for, so to speak. The rhythm section is perfection and above all, Christian Kretschmar’s keyboards are magical. There are many instances where the orchestral emulation invokes the old question, is it The Hamburg Philharmonic or is it a bank of Access synthesizers?
The name of the album, as the cover image, came as a metaphor from the idea that life has a large range of colours and the dark absorbs all of them, containing every colour. Titles of the album's songs were revealed from times to times through Tarja's blog, like she did with "My Winter Storm" (2007). The album's name came out of the song "Until Silence". This is the third time the album's name came out of one of the songs. The artwork and some promotional pictures for this album were taken mainly in India during the What Lies Beneath World Tour in 2011. 
This is definitely one of the brightest albums in Rock in 2013 and proves to be a milestone for Heavy Symphonic Rock.
Clear Multi-Coloured Splatter double vinyl in gatefold cover.
earMusic/Edel Germany/Nems Enterprises, 2013 (0208797ERE) Made in Germany. First press.


Tracklist:

Side A
1. Victim of Ritual 5:54 
2. 500 Letters 4:22
3. Never Enough 5:20
Side B
1. Lucid Dreamer 7:28
2. Mystique Voyage 7:14
Playing time: 30:18 min.

Side C

1. Darkness (Peter Gabriel cover) 5:38
2. Deliverance 7:27
3. Neverlight 4:33
Side D
1. Until Silence 5:03
2. Medusa 8:12
Playing time: 30:53 min.

Total playing time: 61:11 min.


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