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Room Experience
''Room Experience'' is a rock album that was released in both a regular and a 500 copies sold out limited edition by Melodic Rock Records on 22 May 2015. It is distributed worldwide by Cargo Records UK. Vocals are led by David Readman (Pink Cream 69, Voodoo Circle), while renowned musicians from all over Europe (Ivan Gonzalez, Sven Larsson, Boris Matakovic amongst the others) make their guest appearances in the record. The album was produced by Davide Barbieri and Pierpaolo Monti, while star producer Alessandro Del Vecchio took care of mixing and mastering duties. It received enthusiastic reviews all over the world, being named as one of the best albums of 2015 by selected websites and magazines specialized in this kind of music. Band members :David Readman: vocals, backing vocals :Gianluca Firmo Gianluca Firmo (Born 1 August 1973) is an Italian singer, songwriter and keyboard player. Born in Brescia in 1973, he is the main guitar player and songwriter on '' Room Experie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hard Rock
Hard rock or heavy rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music typified by aggressive vocals and distorted electric guitars. Hard rock began in the mid-1960s with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. Some of the earliest hard rock music was produced by the Kinks, the Who, The Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Cream, Vanilla Fudge, and the Jimi Hendrix Experience. In the late 1960s, bands such as Blue Cheer, the Jeff Beck Group, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin, Golden Earring, Steppenwolf and Deep Purple also produced hard rock. The genre developed into a major form of popular music in the 1970s, with the Who, Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple being joined by Queen, AC/DC, Aerosmith, Kiss, and Van Halen. During the 1980s, some hard rock bands moved away from their hard rock roots and more towards pop rock.V. Bogdanov, C. Woodstra and S. T. Erlewine, ''All Music Guide to Rock: the Definitive Guide to Rock, Pop, and Soul'' (Milwaukee, WI: Backbeat Books, 3rd edn., 2002), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melodic Rock
Arena rock (also known as AOR, melodic rock, stadium rock, anthem rock, pomp rock, corporate rock and dad rock; ; ) is a style of rock music that originated in the mid-1970s. As hard rock bands and those playing a softer yet strident kind of pop rock became increasingly popular, groups began creating material inherently designed for large audiences, and arena rock developed from their use of more commercially oriented and radio-friendly sounds. The often highly produced music, including both upbeat, dramatic songs and slower power ballads, features strong emphasis on melody and frequently employs anthemic choruses. Other major characteristics include prominent guitar effects and the use of keyboard instruments. Many of the above labels are used pejoratively, and discussions over music criticism often delve into the question of whether musicians' focus on rock spectacle and mass appeal results in compromised artistic merit, particularly in terms of the difference between the int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album-oriented Rock
Album-oriented rock (AOR, originally called album-oriented radio) is an FM radio format created in the United States in the 1970s that focuses on the full repertoire of rock albums and is currently associated with classic rock. Album-oriented radio was originally established by U.S. radio stations dedicated to playing album tracks by rock artists from the hard rock to progressive rock genres. In the mid-1970s, AOR was characterized by a layered, mellifluous sound and sophisticated production with considerable dependence on melodic hooks. Using research and formal programming to create an album rock format with greater commercial appeal, the AOR format achieved tremendous popularity in the late 1970s and early 1980s. From the early 1980s onward, the "album-oriented radio" term became normally used as the abbreviation of "album-oriented rock," meaning radio stations specialized in classic rock recorded during the late 1960s and 1970s. The term is also commonly conflated with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Barbieri
Davide Barbieri is an Italian singer, keyboardist and producer born in Italy. He is the founding member, main songwriter and mastermind of the Italian melodic hard-rock band Wheels Of Fire and the founding member, singer and songwriter behind the AOR all star project Charming Grace. Artist career Barbieri started his career in music at the age of 9 as keyboards player in some local bands, but it's only in the beginning of the new millennium that he discovered his passion for singing: he soon decided to approach Italian renowned rock/metal singer Michele Luppi (Vision Divine, Secret Sphere, Los Angeles, Killing Touch, and now official keyboards player and backing Vocalist of legendary rock masters Whitesnake) who became soon his vocal coach. In the second half of 2000 he joined New Jersey (Bon Jovi's tribute band), and then recorded the full-length debut albums of two progressive metal acts called Seventh Archangel and Liquid Shadows. Anyway his passionate love for hard-rock and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierpaolo Monti
Pierpaolo Monti is an Italian drummer, songwriter and producer born in Italy. He is the founding member, main songwriter and mastermind behind the AOR all star projects Shining Line and Charming Grace. Musician career Monti founded his first band (called Sovversivo) in 1999, leaving it in 2004 to pursue a personal career in Melodic Rock and AOR music. In 2008 he founded, with his longtime friend Amos Monti, an AOR all-star project called Shining Line, that was officially released in 2010 by German label Avenue Of Allies Music, receiving acclaim from fans and critics. In 2011 he founded, with Italian singer/songwriter Stefano Lionetti and Italian progressive rock mastermind Alessandro Del Vecchio, a new AOR project called Lionville, released the same year by Avenue Of Allies Music. He took part in the recording sessions playing drums and providing lyrics for all the tracks of the album, except for the cover songs "Thunder In Your Heart" (originally recorded and performed by John F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Readman
David Readman (born 6 July 1970) is an English singer best known as the vocalist of hard rock band Pink Cream 69 and former vocalist of progressive metal band Adagio. He released a solo album in 2007 and was part of German guitarist Alex Beyrodt's band Voodoo Circle, from 2008 to 2016, returning in 2020. In 2015, two new projects featuring Readman on lead vocals were announced. The first called Room Experience, is a melodic rock project led by Italian musician Gianluca Firmo, with a self-titled album released in May 2015. And the second is Almanac, the new heavy metal band led by former Rage guitarist Victor Smolski. In September 2016 it was announced he had reformed the David Readman Band, his solo band that he founded in Germany. It now features Dutch musicians Emile Marcelis (ex-Vengeance, bass), Eddie Claessens (Vandale, drums) and Bram Engelen (Ostrogoth, guitars). Readman joined British heavy metal band Tank in 2017. In October of the same year, a new project called P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pink Cream 69
Pink Cream 69 is a German hard rock/ heavy metal band founded in 1987 in Karlsruhe by Andi Deris, Dennis Ward, Kosta Zafiriou and Alfred Koffler. The band gained their first contract by winning music magazine '' Metal Hammer''s newcomer competition in Ludwigsburg one year after forming. In 1994, Andi Deris left the band to join German power metal band Helloween. He was replaced by British singer David Readman in August 1994. The band, often referred to as ''The Pinkies'', became a five-piece in 2003, when Uwe Reitenauer was hired to support neuropathic guitar player Alfred Koffler. On 5 March 2012 it was announced that drummer Kosta Zafiriou had left the band, due to his various activities as a manager at the company Bottom Row and as the drummer and manager of the new band Unisonic. He was replaced by Chris Schmidt. In 2019 and 2020, respectively, bassist Dennis Ward and guitarist Uwe Reitenauer announced their departure from the band. They were replaced by Roman Bes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianluca Firmo
Gianluca Firmo (Born 1 August 1973) is an Italian singer, songwriter and keyboard player. Born in Brescia in 1973, he is the main guitar player and songwriter on '' Room Experience'', an international melodic rock project featuring David Readman on vocals and many other star musicians of the melodic rock scene as guests. Musician career When Gianluca was little, he studied piano, but as he got older, he decided to concentrate more on songwriting. He collaborated with various local musicians as he took his first steps in the music industry to begin bringing his compositions to life. In 2013 he met Davide Barbieri and Pierpaolo Monti and decided to begin an international melodic rock project called Room Experience, based on his own songs and featuring David Readman (Pink Cream 69, Voodoo Circle Voodoo Circle, also known as Alex Beyrodt's Voodoo Circle, is a German hard rock band founded in 2008, as a project of Silent Force guitarist Alex Beyrodt (currently also playing w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
