{"id":204,"date":"2008-01-20T13:46:51","date_gmt":"2008-01-20T12:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=204"},"modified":"2019-11-13T20:33:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-13T18:33:00","slug":"alister-red-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=204","title":{"rendered":"Alister – Red Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"

Release date: 2007,
\nBy: Elvira\u00a0Visser<\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

\u00a0 Finally I received the second EP from Alister, a band from The Netherlands.
\n\u00a0 Their former EP recorded back in 2005, consists beautiful songs and strong guitar
\n\u00a0 play but most of all fairytale-ish melody lines and singing from their front
\n\u00a0 woman Brenda Van Veen. Last year I saw them perform and much to my surprise
\n\u00a0 the band clearly developed themselves. The songs had become a lot stronger and
\n\u00a0 had a lot more power but still it had those beautiful parts in it. Because of
\n\u00a0 this change, and knowing they played as support act of After Forever, I was
\n\u00a0 quite curious to hear what they recorded. <\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cRed Planet\u201d is a steady demo that takes you into the world of Alister,
\n\u00a0 a heavy rock-ish world with jazzy and pop influences mixed with sweet vocal
\n\u00a0 lines. Breda Van Veen is not scared to use her voice both sweet ‘n delicately
\n\u00a0 as well as and in a rougher way. The music is progressive like Lacuna Coil and
\n\u00a0 beautiful like Tool. Gertjan knows how to use the distortion on his guitar,
\n\u00a0 this together with some vocal effects create the special Alister sound.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u201cIt’s Getting Dark\u201d is the song that sticks in your head the most.
\n\u00a0 The vocal line of the chorus is easy to listen to. \u201cRed Planet\u201d starts
\n\u00a0 off calmly. Letting you hear the guitar skills of Gertjan and drums of Arjan.
\n\u00a0 (after the recordings Roel van der Sluis has taken over the drumsticks) Brenda
\n\u00a0 is clearly a great singer as she knows how to sing those high notes, but she
\n\u00a0 also knows how to use power. \u201cOde\u201d is definitely the strongest and
\n\u00a0 most rock-ish song on the album. In most of the songs there is place for a musical
\n\u00a0 moment to continue sometimes in an unexpected way, which makes this EP very
\n\u00a0 varied. \u201cGollum\u201d is a track that was also on their previous EP \u201cAlister\u201d,
\n\u00a0 but you can hear progress and more effects added to the sound. Great song based
\n\u00a0 on Lord of the Rings Gollum.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 The hidden track starts out with snippets of news messages. It sounds great
\n\u00a0 but I was waiting for Brenda to start singing something emotional which seemed
\n\u00a0 to fitted fit their sound. The hidden track is an instrumental one. Sometimes,
\n\u00a0 more is less and the songs evolves in more building-up guitar play to end with
\n\u00a0 those voice messages again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 A very good EP for this young band. I am curious what it will bring them on
\n\u00a0 their path.<\/p>\n

Alister is:<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 Brenda Van Veen
\n\u00a0 Marnix Kauffman
\n\u00a0 Roel Van der Sluis
\n\u00a0 Gertjan Smit<\/p>\n\n\n
<\/td>\n\u00a0 1 It’s Getting Dark
\n\u00a0 2 Red Planet
\n\u00a0 3 Ode
\n\u00a0 4 Gollum \u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Alister MySpace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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