Year : 2020
Style : Melodic Rock , AOR
Country : United Kingdom
Audio : 320 kbps + front
Size : 103 mb
Bio:
TOKYO STORM - Melodic Rock Band (A O R) playing our own brand of Original Rock Music. Based in Solihull & Lichfield.
Joe Bartnicki - Birmingham born, Joe discovered a taste for music at the age of six, learning to play the piano (self-taught) before discovering the guitar at the age of 14, Forming his first band at the age of 15 Joe soon discovered a passion for penning his own material & has performed, wrote and arranged music for many bands he has played with over the years. Joe now finds himself coming full circle by teaming back up with Bob Peach who he first collaborated with at the age of 17. Optimistic State of Mind is testimony to the creative, writing and producing skills Joe has acquired along his winding musical highway.
Bob Peach - Bob has worked, toured and produced bands for many years. The role models who inspired and shaped Bob in his early years were John Bonham (Led Zeppelin) and Simon Phillips (Toto). Bob has also acquired the knowledge and skills as a producer and has over the years landed him publishing deals in the USA and Canada. Having previously played on two albums, Bob has now turned his skills to writing and recording in his own studio and in the last couple of years has teamed back up with Joe Bartnicki to write and record Optimistic State Of Mind.
Jason Edwards - Coming from a musical family, Jason was born and raised in Solihull. He first picked up an acoustic guitar aged 8 but unfortunately couldn't get his small hands around the neck. It wasn't until his early teens after purchasing a second-hand electric guitar that he spent many hours behind closed doors learning to play. Jason has been in various rock bands over the years either as Guitarist, Vocalist or Bassist but has always liked to produce and perform original material with varied influences such as Duran Duran, U2, Toto and Great White. Bass guitar became his first choice of instrument a few years ago. Very much like a 6 string, but only 4 strings and much cooler! He joined Tokyo Storm in late 2017 having developed an optimistic state of mind while listening to the bands fresh material.
Abum:
The title says it all. Once you’ve listened to the debut album from new Midlands based melodic rock quartet TOKYO STORM, you will enter into an “Optimistic State Of Mind“.Admirers of Journey, Whitesnake, Foreigner, Mastodon, Kansas and those classic American bands we all know and love will find “Optimistic State Of Mind” an approachable and familiar album blended with instantly likeable guitar licks, keyboard fills, searching lyrics with meaning, and the heartbeat of a superb rhythm section.You wouldn’t think that this thing is self-produced as it’s as good as anything I’ve heard. Opener ‘Optimistic State Of Mind’ sets its AOR stall out immediately. It envelopes you like a blanket, and you’re sucked in by the warm vocals and comfortable feeling that you get from a band that knows what it wants, and wants you to feel. Is this love is as smooth as it comes, a bit Toto, and FM like.‘Tune’ gives Joe Bartnicki the chance to show off his guitar skills, just simply and very nicely done. ‘Stormy Night’ is the ballad, with Ben Green’s vocals giving enough emotion to make it count.Then ‘Kill The Machines’ is a bit harder edged. Green reminds me of Matti Alfonzetti’s vocal style, and that is a great thing in my book. ‘Silent Obsession’ is a smooth an AOR midtempo that you are likely to hear, they type that could just be triple the length live and would be even more fantastic.The TS boys have set their phasers to ‘stun’ with ‘Fire In Your Eyes’, and it has a great ’80s vibe to it. ‘Lady Darkness’ is a bit of a plodder, I was hoping it would build up to a crescendo, but stayed at the same pace throughout. It’s not bad, I just wanted a little more out of it.’Summer feeling’ has a ‘proper’ 80s opening riff, and when it’s played out like this is when they truly shine.It’s over all too soon with the final track, the epic ‘Signals’. It’s the longest song of the album, and the guy try different atmospheres throughout.Tokyo Storm should take a huge bow and be extremely proud of themselves, as ‘Optimistic State Of Mind’, despite an obvious low-budget input, sounds amazing. In fact, on first listen you could easily mistake this album as being yet another one of those highly-polished products from the ‘big’ labels.‘Optimistic…’ will certainly be high on my list of 2020 releases and I’m already looking forward to their sophomore effort.
Line-Up:
Graham Purcell - Vocals
Jason Edwards - Bass & Backing Vocals
Joe Bartnicki - Guitar & Backing Vocals, Keys
Bob Peach - Drums
Tracklist:
01. Optimistic State of Mind (05:57)
02. Is This Love (04:27)
03. Tune (05:06)
04. Stormy Night (04:47)
05. Kill the Machines (04:23)
06. Silent Obsession (06:30)
07. Fire in Your Eyes (03:46)
08. Lady Darkness (05:27)
09. Summer Feeling (06:22)
10. Signals (11:00)
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