Jayce Landberg - Break The Spell (Japan Edition) (2008)

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Jayce Landberg - Break The Spell (Japan Edition) (2008)

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Jayce Landberg - Break The Spell (Japan Edition) (2008)

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Year : 2008 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Hard Rock , Neoclassical Heavy Metal
Country : Sweden
Audio : 320 kbps + scans + Video
Size : 133 mb


Bio:

Erik Jayce Landberg is a Swedish guitar virtuoso, composer, record producer, multi-instrumentalist, lyricist and novelist.Landberg grew up between Stockholm, Sweden, the Swedish countryside as well as Switzerland. At a very early stage he discovered art and poetry until finally picking up the guitar at his parent's request. At age 18, Landberg left his current household to move back to Stockholm where he started playing guitar in several band constellations. He attended Uppsala University as well as Stockholm University and graduated with a Master of Arts degree as well as a Bachelor of Law.In 2006, Landberg met rock vocalist Göran Edman, famous for his previous work with acts such as Yngwie Malmsteen & John Norum. The two of them recorded two songs which were released as a demo EP entitled "Lost Without You".In the winter of 2005, Landberg decided to form his own band (which he would call Jayce Landberg) with former bandmates whom he had met while playing in previous bands, yet still looking for a vocalist. Prior to meeting Göran Edman, Landberg had written music for two songs: "Lost Without You" and the epic ballad "Marilyn" which Jayce originally wrote as a classical music piece. The lyrics to the song "Lost Without You" were later co-written with Edman and the recording resulted in the demo EP of the same name. It was released as a single in Japan & Europe, soon attracting the attention of record companies abroad. As a result, Landberg landed a solo record deal with Japanese label Marquee Avalon Records followed by the English label Escape Music Records to record his debut album "Break The Spell" also featuring Edman on vocals.After signing his first Japanese record deal, Landberg moved briefly to San Francisco where he started writing material for his upcoming album. Recording sessions took place in Sacramento and later on in StockholmThe release of his debut effort Break The Spell in 2008 was launched and covered by several rock magazines such as Japanese Burrn! magazine.and received very good reviews in the European & American press. Although only released as an import in the USA, prior to the international release of Break The Spell Landberg was interviewed on Alice Morning Show in California.The same year, Jayce also recorded two radio jingles for CBS in California.In 2009 Landberg hooked up with the Swedish band Europe's bassist John Levén and American vocalist Mark Boals (ex-Malmsteen, Ring Of Fire) to produce and record several new songs that were to be included on his second effort "Good Sleepless Night".The album was released in February 2010 on Escape Records featuring both musicians as guest artists.2010 also saw Landberg collaborating with grammy awarded video director Patric Ullaeus to shoot and direct a music video for his brand-new ballad "The Thorns".Ullaeus has previously shot and continues to direct videos for bands such as Ace Of Base, Europe, Rednex, Lutricia Mc Neal, In Flames etc.Influences and style:In the press, Landberg is often compared to guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen both stylewise and techniquewise. Although Landberg acknowledges the fact that he has been listening to Malmsteen in his early teens, he rejects the fact that he has a similar style, pointing out music and composition as a far greater emphasis in his music than just guitar technique.[8] Among strong influences, Landberg has cited Edward Van Halen in several radio interviews such as in The Heavy Metal Mayhem Radio interview in New York.

Album:

Jayce Landberg isn’t the first Swedish shredder to get compared to Yngwie Malmsteen, nor is he the last. Then again, one starts to invite these comparisons when selecting former Yngwie vocalist Göran Edman as the singer of a solo project. Landberg and Edman are the principal forces at play on the former’s debut album, Break the Spell, which actually ends up deviating from the Yngwie template quite a bit, showing that these comparisons are frequently a bit off-base.To be sure, Landberg has a neoclassical flair to his playing that he isn’t particularly shy about flaunting. But his style of choice is more subdued than true power metal, arriving as a trad metal/AOR hybrid that rarely gets above a midtempo coast. As such, while there are plenty of solos that last upward of thirty seconds, this isn’t really a shred album. That’s a good thing, because while Landberg has chops and a reasonable sense of arrangement, his solos here are mostly of the tuneful sort that fit with the songs but don’t particularly elevate them or stand out as showstoppers on their own. And, as Stefan Lindholm was proving around this time with Vindictiv, even Edman can’t save you when you try to senselessly merge empty AOR melodicism with pedal-to-the-floor shredding.The downside to this sort of music is that, because it isn’t brimming with energy, the only way it can be compelling and memorable is if the songwriting and performance are really top-notch; even small missteps in the arrangement can make a song too ill-fitting to really merit much listening. Landberg makes a couple of these mistakes: “Land of the Dark” has a very strange major-key resolution to its verse melodies and its staccato chorus phrasing doesn’t work at all, and “Burning Bridges” doesn’t flow well between sections.Thankfully, that’s about as bad as this album gets, and the rest of the cuts (beyond the very strange minute-long operatic interlude) work pretty well. The galloping “Flirting With Your Wesson” is probably my pick for best thing here, though tasteful ballad “Just Before the Dawn,” sixteenth-note hummer “Black Magic,” and the catchy “New Generation” are right there with it. The real reason to listen to this album is not Landberg’s guitar, but Edman’s vocals, which are on point as always. It’s really amazing how vibrant and powerful his voice is given his age: the chorus of “Black Magic,” for instance, sounds quite easy to sing the way he does it, but it’s actually a very challenging melody line. The vocals are well-produced and the instruments have generally pleasing tones, though the mix is frequently a bit off-balance in Landberg’s solo sections: the backing riffs tend to be too quiet to lend the solos a lot of momentum.There’s not much to say about the rest of the band, as Landberg’s bass lines are generally inconsequential. Charlie Arvstrand adds a good keyboard line to “My Generation” and a cheesy one in “Burning Bridges,” and James Humphrey’s drums are generally pretty restrained—a more active drum performance would probably have helped push some of these songs to the next level. But it’s a solo project, so it makes sense that aside from the vocalist, this album is dominated by the bandleader.Break the Spell is a fairly consistent album that is sure to please Edman fans, as well as those who eat up the sort of melodic but solo-happy hard rock that Frontiers Records seems to be putting out left and right. Those expecting something more in the furious post-Yngwie vibe—Ring of Fire, etc.—may find this too pared-back and lethargic for their tastes, since Landberg’s solos aren’t worth it on their own and there’s plenty of music of similar style and quality out there. But short of Stefan Lindholm’s follies, Edman always delivers a good product, and Landberg knows what he's doing enough to enable that here.

Line Up:

Erik Jayce Landberg - guitars, piano & bass
Goran Edman - lead & backing vocals - See also: Forces United, Headless, Shadrane, Stratosphere, XsavioR, ex-Johansson, ex-Madison, ex-Richard Andersson, ex-Time Requiem, Mårran, ex-Signum Regis, ex-Vindictiv, ex-Yngwie J. Malmsteen, ex-Brazen Abbot, ex-Karmakanic, ex-Vinnie Vincent Invasion
Charlie Arvstand - keyboards
James Humphrey - drums & percussion

Band members appearing as guests (Jayce Landberg band):

Mark Boals—vocals (2010 on the "Good Sleepless Night" album)
John Leven—bass (2010 on the "Good Sleepless Night" album)
Erika Norberg—vocals ("The Forbidden World", forthcoming release)

Tracklist:

01. Break The Spell 04:05
02. Flirting With Your Wesson 05:24
03. Left On A Dream 05:02
04. Land Of The Dark 03:57
05. Burning Bridges 04:27
06. Dawn 00:58
07. Black Magic 04:47
08. New Generation 04:00
09. Tell Me Why 04:32
10. Kusamura (Instr.) 03:02
11. Marilyn 03:51
12. Lost Without You 04:20
13. Caprice No 25 (Instr.) 03:31

+ Video "Land Of The Dark (Feat. GÖRAN EDMAN)" (Official Video)


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