Orphaned Land - The Never Ending Way of ORwarriOR [LTD Edition]
Including The Ltd Edition Bonus Track 'Estarabim' by Erkin Koray & Orphaned Land
Progressive Folk Metal, Middle-East | Mp3 320Kbps CBR + LOSSLESS (Img.APE+LOG+CUE) | 531 MB | + Scans (31.4 MB) | Running Time : 1:18:22 | RS
Release Date: 2010-01-25 | Label: Century Media | Catalog#: 9978230
Including The Ltd Edition Bonus Track 'Estarabim' by Erkin Koray & Orphaned Land
Progressive Folk Metal, Middle-East | Mp3 320Kbps CBR + LOSSLESS (Img.APE+LOG+CUE) | 531 MB | + Scans (31.4 MB) | Running Time : 1:18:22 | RS
Release Date: 2010-01-25 | Label: Century Media | Catalog#: 9978230
| “ | Starting in 1991, the Israeli band made its stigma from the beginning. The first two albums, "Sahara" and "El Norra Alila", put folk Arabic Metal (if we could characterize it as such) in the metallic map. If ORPHANED LAND is the first band that made that step is still under discussion – as PENTAGRAM from Turkey (MEZARKABUL then) exist since 1987. What happened for sure is that ORPHANED LAND got that amount of recognition that allowed them to become widely known to the Metal audience. The main topics that this band is covering are religious and philosophical, the fight between light and darkness and the exploration of religious meanings. In that aspect we could say that ORPHANED LAND is a conceptual band. Not only that, but their albums are like whole flowing histories with no specific structure, like refrains etc. Each melody flows and then another comes and then another one and (adding also the special features of this band) the result is somehow one of its kind. "Sapari" makes the start full of orient melodies, gently wrapped with female vocals, while both parts of "The Path" unveil a melodic masterpiece with neat, delicate changes between melodic and brutal parts, as many as happen between darkness and light. "Olat Ha Tamid" brings back lots of orient melodies while there is a change of melodic progressive and Arabic, even ethnic, with "The Warrior" and "His Leaf Shall Not Wither". "Disciples Of The Oath Ii" combines everything with sheer mastery, progressive Arabic folk and epic intermezzos, lyrical themes stopped by brutal moments, all mixed perfectly. From "New Jerusalem" and onwards there is a stronger presence of progressiveness with glimpses of ethnic. This fourth album of ORPHANED LAND has matured musically, each part serves the past and the following greatly. The voice of Kobi Farhi is an asset while the musical ideas being put in this work are quite original. Excellent musicianship is found in this album for once more. Melodies and images passing in front of you, feelings change, melodies change and flow without coming back. Honestly, an amazing trip full of eastern mysticism and melodies. Release dates: Europe - January 25, 2010 USA - February 9, 2010 Produced by Orphaned Land. Mixed by Steven Wilson (Porcupine Tree, Opeth). Orphaned Land Are: Kobi Farhi : Vocals Yossi Sa'aron (Sassi) : Lead Guitars, Acoustic Guitars, Saz, Bouzouki, Oud Matti Svatizky : Rhythm Guitars, Acoustic Guitars Uri Zelcha : Bass, Fretless Bass Session members: Steven Wilson - Keyboards Shlomit Levi - Female Vocals Avi Diamond - Drums Avi Agababa - Percussions Avner Gavriell - Piano (Song 15) Nizar Radwan and Srur Saliba - Violins *the violins on this album are dedicated to the memorial of Yousef Elkhader 1967-2008, Mazareeb. Alfred Hagar - Nay and Kawala Flutes Yonatan Danino - Shofar Shmuel Ruzbahan - Santur Lyrics by Alon Miasinkov & Orphaned Land (Except Hebrew part on 'Sapari' written by Sa'adiya Ben Amram, 17th Century. 'Olat Hatamid' written by Rabbi Shlomo Ibn Gvirol, 11th Century. 'His Leaf Shall Not Wither' taken from Psalm Chapter 1. Arabic part on 'Disciples Of The Sacred Oath II' taken from the Koran, chpater 'Al-Nur - The Light' Recorded At Bardo Studios, Tel-Aviv, Israel. Engineered by Yaniv Paz Assisted by Daniel A & Erez C (Except Erkin Koray's vocals on Estarabim Recorded at Studio Taskiran Istanbul, Turkie by Bora Ozcoban) Mixed at No Man's Land Studio by Steven Wilson (Except 'Estarabim' Mixed at Bardo Studios by Yaniv Paz) Mastered by Itzik Filiba at Master Disk | ” |
Tracklist:
[Part I: Godfrey's Cordial - An ORphan's Life]
01. Sapari
02. From Broken Vessels
03. Bereft In The Abyss
04. The Path Part 1 - Treading Through Darkness
05. The Path Part 2 - The Pilgrimage To Or Shalem
06. Olat Ha'tamid
[Part II: Lips Acquire Stains - The WarriOR Awakens]
07. The Warrior
08. His Leaf Shall Not Wither
09. Disciples Of The Sacred Oath II
10. New Jerusalem
11. Vayehi Or
12. M I ?
[Part III: Barakah - Enlightening The Cimmerian]
13. Barakah
14. Codeword: Uprising
15. In Thy Never Ending Way (Epilogue)
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