Artist.......: VUUR
Album........: In This Moment We Are Free - Cities
Label........: Sony
Genre........: Metal
Catnr........: 88985474362
Source.......: CD (LP)
Rip.date.....: 2017-10-24
Str.date.....: 2017-10-20
Quality......: 277kbps/44.1kHz/Joint Stereo
Url..........: http://www.vuur.band/
track title time
1. My Champion - Berlin 7:36
2. Time - Rotterdam 6:40
3. The Martyr and the Saint - Beirut 5:34
4. The Fire - San Francisco 4:46
5. Freedom - Rio 6:06
6. Days Go By - London 6:30
7. Sail Away - Santiago 6:00
8. Valley of Diamonds - Mexico City 6:24
9. Your Glorious Light Will Shine - Helsinki 5:32
10. Save Me - Istanbul 5:04
11. Reunite! - Paris 4:38
Runtime 64:50
Size 129.30
Release Notes:
Dutch vocalist Anneke van Giersbergen is easily one of the hardest working
people in music, and an artist that defies being pigeonholed by genre. She will
forever be known as the vocalist for melancholic metallers The Gathering, but
since striking out on her own in 2007, she has solidified a solo career,
recorded and performed multiple times with Canadian metal genius Devin Townsend,
launched the prog rock band The Gentle Storm, and recorded an album with
Icelandic folk group ┴rstφ≡ir. This has provided Anneke with a huge catalogue to
choose from as a live performer, but it has also created a certain amount of
confusion amongst her fans which has led to the creation of a new band, VUUR, a
new band that features some of the best heavy metal players in the Netherlands.
In early 2016, Anneke decided for the sake of clarity to narrow her musical
focus, choosing to go in a folk acoustic direction as a solo artist and in a
heavy progressive metal direction as a band vocalist. The name VUUR - translated
from Dutch as "fire", which can also be interpreted to mean "passion" or "drive"
- was chosen as a moniker to represent Anneke's metal side, with the idea that
when fans buy a ticket with the VUUR name on it they will be getting her heavy
progressive music, while an Anneke van Giersbergen show will be entirely
different.
"It's like I'm searching for contradictions," Anneke says of splitting her focus
in two. "I want the heavy to be really heavy, and the soft acoustic stuff that I
can do can be almost silent and inward. I'm trying to find those outer limits.
I'm still writing and collaborating with different people, so VUUR's style is
still kind of different from The Gathering and The Gentle Storm. You could say
VUUR's music has the melancholy of The Gathering and certain elements from The
Gentle Storm, but it's darker with fewer folk elements. It's still melodic and
warm, but heavy."
The Gentle Storm proved to Anneke that fans have been waiting for her to go back
to the heavy progressive style of music, which is why VUUR came to be.
VUUR will release their full length debut in the fall of 2017 produced by Joost
van den Broek, who will also be involved in some of the writing and arranging.
From there the band will hit stages across Europe and beyond. Make no mistake:
VUUR is a band and not a project, meaning that Anneke will focus on new material
as well as the heavier side of her previous outings.
"I will always play songs from The Gathering and Devin Townsend because I love
them," she says. "I also know for a fact that people want to hear those songs,
so I'll never leave them out. I also have my absolute favourite songs from The
Gentle Storm that I will keep playing. I have such a big outlet to choose from
nowadays, it's such a luxurious position to be in. We should look at VUUR as my
ultimate heavy outlet. It's not a project, which is why when we make the setlist
it will include the new stuff and my favourites from my catalogue.ö
Anneke van Giersbergen - vocals
Ed Warby - drums
Jord Otto - guitars
Ferry Duijsens - guitars
Johan van Stratum - bass
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