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The two beautiful sisters Sarah and Mélissa Fontaine from France are the lead vocalists in the interesting project Chasing Violets. The album is written and produced by Frédéric Slama from the band AOR and together with an impressive list of musicians makes this a exiting album to listen to. The Fontaine sisters aren’t the best female vocalists I've heard and they are not the reason why I like this album. Every time Tommy Denander handles the guitars on an album, I have high expectations. And with strong vocal support from the two male vocalists, Göran Edman and Mikael Erlandsson, this sounds like a thrilling album. Frédéric Slama has written all twelve songs and produced the album. Very nice blend of vocalists, musicians, mixed with magnificent melodic rock songs, I find this quite enjoyable. If you like Heart, Survivor, Journey and such bands, you will also like this bag of ear candy. Like you can see in the list of involved musicians, who have contributed on 'Jaded Hearst' you find many big names from the melodic rock genre. Sarah and Melissa sings duet on every track and I don't know which one of them that has the stronger and better voice. One of them stays in the mid lane of the vocal road and doesn't have the ability to handle the higher tones. Hard to say, but maybe with one strong female vocalist instead of two so-so singers, I could give a much higher score. It's the weakest link in the chain. On some tracks the vocals are horrible, like on 'The Scarlet Nymph'!! Everything else on the disc is just brilliant musical craftsmanship. Overall is this a nice album in the middle range, not anything magical or so. Just a good hard rock album. Musicans: |
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