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GREENHOUZE "Greenhouze"European Import : 0681-114 STOCK STATUS: IN STOCK - ships in 1 day |
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Lars Levin (bass, guitar, keyboards, backing vocals) Additional musicians: Frank Tostrup (drums & percussion) Celio de Carvahlo (percussion) Leif Johansen (backing vocals) Drums samples played by Mike Sturgis |
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| In 1999 guitarist Lars Levin
(SECOND HEAT, Session musician, producer) was recording a bunch
of songs he had written the latest years. Solli (SONS OF ANGELS,
PSYCHO MOTEL, 21GUNS) was hired in for backing vocals and it sounded
so good they decided to work together on a long term basis. Early
2001 they started recording the first GREENHOUZE album. It was finished
in November 2002. One year later they secured a 3-album contract
with MTM MUSIC. The album features 12 tracks which has a huge, updated
AOR sound for the 2000's and beyond. Both the music and the lyrics
express urban alienation vs the deep sense of mystic harmony in
nature. With this album the Norwegian Rockers have created a unique
sound, but at the same time resembles bands as diverse as Pink Floyd,
U2, Bad English, Whitesnake, Boston and Mr. Mister! Solli has a
voice that goes from melodic and emotional to intense and plain
aggressive. Lars Levin combines strong riffs with melodic leads
and from time to time an acoustic guitar is in there to. He also
plays the lush keyboard landscapes, deep bass guitar as well as
singing back up vocals. The drums are handled by Frank Tostrup (Shirley's
Temple) who has written the title song for Gene Simmons' new solo
album, "Asshole". Together with Lars Levin they appeared
at Norwegian TV recently. Percussion was performed by Celio de Carvahlo,
and additional backing vocals by Leif Johansen (21Guns, Phenomena,
A-HA). These Swedes have introduced themselves
with a demo CD sent by mail. "Every day we receive demos from
all over the world, but only once in blue moon the enthusiasm of
the first soundcheck is as great as in GREENHOUZE's case,"
says Mario Lehmann, joint owner and managing director of the Munich based label MTM MUSIC, who promptly put of copy of the CD into his car's stereo. There, it's on "heavy rotation" until it can be exchanged by the real pressing. On this album every song is different from each other, thus maintaining a signature sound. The music of GREENHOUZE is likely to fit the Hard Rock/AOR audience as well as the mainstream market. |
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