The live performance of Sleeping Sun is beautiful. Vocalist Tarja Turunen has been dismissed from the band. If you know of any recent material that's tubed, please let me know.
Vocalist Tarja Turunen has been dismissed from the band. If you know of any recent material that's tubed, please let me know.
Yeah, and that was the stupidist thing I've ever heard of a band doing. From all of the reading I've done on the subject, it appears that the keyboardist/songwriter was infatuated with her, but she married another man and that REALLY pissed him off. I guess he turned the rest of the band against her, curiously shortly after her husband told him to back off, she's married.
They fired her in a really nasty way right behind the stage of the End of an Era concert, then smeared her publically with an "open letter" that they placed up on the Internet the next day. From what I've seen of it, it's pure bullshit.
As far as Tarja, there's a bunch of recent concerts that she performed in the US and Canada this month. I think there's quite a few YouTube videos of those performances, some of better quality than others. Neither her nor the band are as good apart as they were together though.
It really sucks that they couldn't talk it over like adults, but I guess the guys had already made up their minds and refused to even consider working things out. What a bunch of wusses.
Finding Amaranth, I see they've lost their operatic patina. Too bad. The bass is still good. Before and after they're a little on the PC side for me, but the intent is good. Decidedly areligious.
Finding Amaranth, I see they've lost their operatic patina.
What's worse than that is that they can't perform even their new song Amaranth well live, as the new singer pretty much sucks in live performances and throws the band off. In the studio they can tune up her voice with the sound equipment at their disposal, but live, it's pretty bad.
That is the complete opposite of how they used to be, where their live performances actually used to sound better than the CD.
I have to say the former singer is electrifying. I think she may have needed the keyboardist's lyrics and that understated but driving bass to really soar, though.