Year : 2013
Style : Melodic Hard Rock
Country : Australia
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 125 mb
Info:
Orianthi Panagaris (born 22 January 1985), better known by her mononym Orianthi, is an Australian musician, singer-songwriter and guitarist. She is perhaps best known for being Michael Jackson's lead guitarist for his ill-fated This Is It concert series, and as the lead guitarist in Alice Cooper's live band. Her debut single "According to You" peaked at No. 3 in Japan, No. 8 in Australia and No. 17 in the US; her second album, Believe, received a worldwide release in late 2009. In 2009, Orianthi was named one of the 12 Greatest Female Electric Guitarists by Elle magazine.She also won the award as "Breakthrough Guitarist of the Year" 2010 by Guitar International magazine.Orianthi started working on her major label debut Believe in 2007 which was released in October 2009. The album produced the worldwide hit "According to You", which was the Single of the Week on iTunes on 27 October 2009, reached number 2 on US radio airplay and charted to number eight in Australia, three in Japan, and achieved platinum status in the US and Australia. The charismatic rock instrumental Highly Strung featuring Steve Vai became a popular YouTube video with millions of views and climbing, and her song Suffocated was featured on Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock as a playable song. Orianthi followed up with a four song EP including two singles "Shut Up and Kiss Me" and "Courage".Orianthi appeared on several late night shows most notably on American Idol results show 26 March 2010. In 2010 she toured extensively with headlining shows in the US, Japan, Australia and Malaysia. She also opened for other artists including: John Mayer,Mika, Kid Rock, Daughtry and over 30 dates for Adam Lambert’s Glam Nation Tour with former Idol contestant Allison Iraheta. Orianthi performed at various music festivals and charity functions most notably at the Stand Up to Cancer telethon.Orianthi has been very prolific in collaborating and being featured by many artists. She is featured on Iraheta's third single "Don't Waste The Pretty" and on Fefe Dobson's song "Can't Breathe"which appears on Dobson's album Joy released in November 2010. She has stated that the people she has collaborated with (i.e. Allison Iraheta and Lacey Mosley) are some of her best friends.She recorded for the song Saadda Haq composed by Academy award winning composer A.R.Rahman for a Bollywood film soundtrack Rockstar. The song became very popular and lot of media coverage in India came for Orianthi, being cited for her time as Michael Jackson's lead guitarist.On 12 October 2011, the 5 track EP Fire, produced by Dave Stewart was released as an iTunes download.Her third studio album, Heaven in This Hell, was released on 12 March 2013.
Album:
Orianthi’s name has been on the tip of the guitar world’s tongue for what feels like an eternity. The starlet has bounced between big name tours (backing up Carrie Underwood, Alice Cooper and, briefly, Michael Jackson) without translating her wantonly dexterous assault into definitive solo success. Orianthi has adapted her sound so seamlessly to the wants of others that, six years and two albums into her solo career, we’re still no closer to understanding who she really is.Perhaps a change of scenery was in order? In 2011 she joined forces with Dave Stewart deep in the heart of Nashville. Recorded at Blackbird Studios using local session musicians, Heaven In This Hell hopes to recapture the earthy inspiration that reinvigorated the former Eurythmics man’s solo career. Orianthi was certainly beaming with enthusiasm when she spoke to Guitar Planet in 2012 (“Yeah it’s rock, voodoo, blues, super commercial, just big guitar riffs. Very 60’s, 70’s inspired, lots of raw energy”) while Dave Stewart told us what we all secretly wanted to hear: “she always wanted to play rock music, but she got put into a box by the record company”.If the goal was to put some dirt under Orianthi’s nails then the album opener and title track certainly achieves that. The country nods are satisfying but not overt as Orianthi toes the line between glam/pop stomp and the earnest thud that underpins the best Miranda Lambert and Pistol Annies’ tracks. The aesthetic shift is loose and thrilling. “You Don’t Wanna Know” expands from the desperate swagger of a lonesome drinker metronomically digging her heels into a deserted bar-room floor, into a solo so glitzy and grandiose it could only be delivered from a revolving platform in the middle of a sold out arena.This strange hybrid between understated rootsy values and brazen pop immediacy grants Heaven In This Hell a ferocious sense of momentum. Unfortunately, despite “Fire’s” meaty punch, the album begins to fray when rollicking stomp subsides and Orianthi’s vocal comes to the fore. Her delivery is more than serviceable but she struggles to say anything that cuts deeper than standard pop rock cliché.The soaring but safe riff and the noodling expanse of “If U Think U Know Me” requires an irrepressible hook but instead settles for the drab and disappointing “If you think that you know me, put your hands up and show me”. It’s a nagging deficiency that undermines a promising LP. The more Orianthi attempts to impress upon her audience that she is a unique tortured rock’n’roll outsider - the more platitudinous and synthetic she appears.This frustrating antithetical sensation is most acutely felt on “If U Were Here With Me”; a dreamy watch-the-world-pass-us-by slowee that insists “This ain’t no temporary love, like the one’s they show on TV. This is the real thing baby”. It’s a crafty hook that’s unfortunately undermined by an MOR arrangement so devoid of edge that it sounds exactly like the type of indistinct ballad that does soundtrack the soporific love depicted in teenage soap operas.To her (and her producer’s) credit even in its most syrupy and generic moments Heaven In This Hell retains a strong melodic core. The balladry might fail to engage the emotions but the hooks rarely miss their mark. After a torrential start Orianthi settles into a lethargic mid-90s pop slump that’s punctuated by the slick riff and insatiable hook of “Frozen” and the strangely satisfying Believe throwback “Better With You”.Heaven In This Hell certainly succeeds in unleashing Orianthi’s inner bad arse and finding a more naturalistic canvas for her considerable talents, but the next step is clear: she needs to find the words to rival her shrewd and often instinctive playing.
Line Up:
Orianthi Panagaris - Vocals and guitars
Tracklist:
01. Heaven In This Hell
02. You Don't Wanna Know
03. Fire
04. If U Think U Know Me
05. How Do You Sleep?
06. Frozen
07. Rock
08. Another You
09. How Does That Feel?
10. Filthy Blues
11. If U Were Here With Me
12. Better With You (Bonus Track)
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