Valensia - The Secret Album (2017)

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Valensia - The Secret Album (2017)

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Valensia - The Secret Album (2017)

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Year : 2017
Style : Melodic Rock , Symphonic Rock , Progressive Rock
Country : Netherlands
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 91 mb


Bio:

Aldous Byron Valensia Clarkson (born April 13, 1971, in The Hague),better known as simply Valensia, is a Dutch composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist.Valensia grew up in Waalwijk and used to spend a lot of his time at the family's beachhouse in Dénia, Spain. When he was a little kid, he used to play guitar and sing at the beaches in Dénia. He had also written a lot of songs and was even offered a record contract, but his parents decided he was too young for the music business and refused the offer.Several years later, in the Netherlands, Valensia used to play in some bands, usually on keyboard or guitar.Valensia met Robby Valentine (another Dutch singer) at an airport, as they were both listening to Queen´s Bohemian Rhapsody. After that, Valensia started sending demos to several record companies and producer John Sonneveld noticed him. Then Valensia signed a record deal with Mercury Records and in 1993 his first album "Valensia" was released.Influenced by Kate Bush and Queen, Valensia's self-titled first album (known as "Gaia" in Japan) contained the hit single "Gaia" that, out of nowhere, reached #2 in the Dutch charts and stayed in the charts for several weeks. "Gaia" had success in other countries too. The album itself spent almost 20 weeks in the album charts and had good critiques. Four singles were released: Gaia, The Sun, Nathalie and Tere.He was quite a success in the Netherlands, but he was an even greater success in Japan. Valensia noticed that, so a mini-album called "The White Album" was released in Japan only, in 1994, including a Valensian-styled Christmas song ("21st Century New Christmas Time") and a version of Duran Duran's "A View to a Kill."Valensia's second album "Valensia II" (also known as "K.O.S.M.O.S.") was the first Dutch surround sound CD ever made.It was, again, a success in Japan, but his Dutch record company didn't want to promote it. Due to this fact, it received less attention than it perhaps deserved in the Netherlands.K.O.S.M.O.S (Valensia often refers to it as "Costmost") was the most expensive album in the history of the Netherlands. Valensia said that people often forget that his first 2 albums were produced by "the best Dutch producers" (as Valensia himself said): John Sonneveld and Pim Koopman (KayaK's drummer).Three singles were released: "Kosmos", "Thunderbolt" (only in Japan) and "Blue Rain" (only in the Netherlands).For his next album, the record company ordered him to write songs in an Alanis Morissette-style, because they thought the public wouldn't like Valensia's style of music. At the request of the Japanese record company, "Gantenbrink" (the only real Valensian song on the album) was added. Ironically (or sadly), Valensia's new album "Valensia '98" (full name: "Valensia '98 Musical Blue Paraphernalian Dreams Of Earth's Eventide Whiter Future & Darker Present Soundspheres From New Diamond Age Symphonian Artworks To Yesterday's Westernworld Rockcraft Under The Raging Nineties' Silver Promise Of The Happy Hundreds On The Break Of The New Millennium's Hazy Misty Dawn") also known as "Millennium" or "Valensia III," was never released in the Netherlands.Though his Dutch record company refused to release "Valensia '98", Valensia still had a lot of fans in the Netherlands. A fan meeting took place near the Carré theater in Amsterdam and they were presented with a promotional copy of "Valensia ´98." In the summer of 1999, "V" was released. V was a cooperation between Valensia and Robby Valentine. Valensia's style have always had a mysterious atmosphere around it, but "V" sounded absolutely different. With a Beatle-esque ELO-esque and Queen-esque style, the sound of "V" was quite naive and happy.Valensia's mother Jacqueline died, in November 1999. This had quite an impact on him. So, his next album "Gaia II" (released on the new record label Marquee) had a song dedicated to his mother, "Requieme pour Jacqueline".Since then he has released several quality albums with little commercial success. For this reason he is still struggling to find a good company record. Meanwhile, he records his albums in his own home studio. He is a respected artist in Japan. He is known also because of his complex music (arrangement-wise), and also for his guitar skills (among other instruments). Valensia has also released albums with the bands V (with Robby Valentine) and Metal Majesty (with his brother David on drums).In 2008 Valensia appeared on the Dutch TV program De Reunie.He has been working on a new album which will be released in Spring 2010. A single entitled "One Day My Princess Will Come" was to be released on February 24, 2010. However, the release was cancelled.On 24 September a new album titled "Valensia VI - Gaia III - Aglaea - Legacy" was released. Valensia refers to this as "my farewell album".An official music video "The Cabinet Of Curiosities"[6] appeared on YouTube.

Album:

Valensia self-released album.Here’s another rarity.Aldous Byron Valensia Clarkson aka VALENSIA is well known for his overblown brand of pomp / melodic rock having released over his career precious albums in this genre. Between 2008 / 2010 Valensia composed & recorded a lot of music ought to be released as a double-album, but the project was withdrawn.However, in 2017, Valensia decided to create a Indiegogo campaign to collect some founds for his next album, and these ‘lost’ recordings were sent digitally to contributors as a gift.These late 2000’s albums were titled ‘Eden And The Second Serpent [Unreleased Album I]’ and ‘The Secret Album [Unreleased Album II]’ (aka Seven). Rather than being the overblown Queen-like symphonies Valensia fans have been used to in the past both albums have a somewhat stripped back sound and relatively – for Valensia anyway – fairly straight forward arrangements.But saying that the songs are still full of delightful twists and turns that other bands would choke at.These tracks / songs never were / are available for purchasing… a collectors item now.In the past Valensia has never been afraid to take inspiration from other artists and here it’s no different either, Aerosmith, Eagles, ABBA come to mind on occasions, but it still all stays perfectly Valensian. Arrangements and production are more earthy than your typical Valensia recording including real orchestras and a lot os studio work / mix.Particular album highlights being the seductive ‘Something Sexual’, the infectious ‘You Can Cry Yourself’, and ‘The Candle (Serpent Version)’, the latter being a barbed attack on his recording label at the time.‘Soaring Guitars’, an instrumental sees Valensia coming across as a mash up of Steve Vai and Steve Howe, and ‘The Family Man’ has a rather gritty Aerosmith groove to it.There is so much to enjoy here, all very well executed and played as is the case with all Valensia’s music. Both unreleased albums are most welcome additions to an already impressive catalogue of works.‘The Secret Album [aka Seven]’ is a different Valensia, an artist who is content to plough his own furrow regardless of trends. In a just world Valensia would be a household name, but his music is at times just too damn quirky for the mainstream (one of the reasons we love it so much).These unreleased albums deserve to be heard rather than them gathering dust and hats off. Perhaps some day will be officially released.Together with the 'Eden And The Second Serpent' and the single 'Die With A Smile On My Face' these tracks were ought to be released as a double-album around 2008/2010, which was withdrawn and issued in WAV format only through a crowdfunding campaign on Indiegogo in 2017.

Tracklist:

01. The Family Man
02. Something Sexual
03. The Impossible Love
04. The Maestro
05. Whatever
06. The Candle (Serpent Version)
07. The Proposal
08. Soaring Guitars
09. You Can Cry Yourself
10. Play The Game


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