Timeless Melodic Rock at its best!

Timeless Melodic Rock at its best!

Keep The Flame Alive (Audio CD)

Customer Review

A good wine is the time even better. A football coach, however, has finished after a few years and mostly have to go. But there are also great things that are and will remain just as good as are classic rock of the 80's, for example - timeless melodic rock, as practiced by Nine-T-Nine. So far remained mainly reserved regional connoisseurs and absolute genre specialists the band's music. But it should not be too late to change the - this band deserves recognition!

Nine-T-Nine have already been established in the year of our Lord 19-'Nine-T-Nine 'and now have to match the tenth anniversary of the album "Keep The Flame Alive" at the start. This is remarkable, as we are dealing with the first studio album of the band ever. Previously, there were in addition to the publication of a track on the US compilation "Classic Rock - Unchained" (2008) album "Nine-T-Nine Live 2004", recorded in Bremen Meisenfrei. Even at this live recording is limited only to his own compositions. Cover songs it does not need - too much is one's own songwriting to good ideas, even though you're stylistically quite innovation freely go. That there must be it per se no penalty, proves this album with young, middle-aged and well ripened songs that have emerged in the past decade.

The opening track "Caught In A Trap" attracts the listener literally equal to a 'case' and no longer lets go. Striking staccato keyboards reminiscent of the very first of Bon Jovi; In addition a melodically sophisticated and clever rhythmic 'sharpened' hook which could originate the late-70s and early-80s from the treasure chest of forgotten Toto song ideas. The combination is addictive, no doubt ...

Wonderfully timeless it goes on - as if there had never been Grunge; as if the heyday of this wonderfully emotional music would have taken forever and would never end. With pace forward urgent rockers are part of the repertoire, such as "Sunshine" or "Not Easy" which drags and convinces with vibrant basses, enchanting Glitter keyboards and a dynamic piano-Drive surfers Journey-style. At the other end of the scale are ballads like "Bringin 'My Love' in atmospheric Steve Lukather-style, acoustic love letter to" Radio "or" Bus Stop "and" Can You Feel All The Days "- both sound like this powerful and at the same time buttery tearjerker of soft rock CDs from times when these compilations were still full of fantastically beautiful rock ballads of bands like Bad English or Warrant.

Passionate as Foreigner sounds "The Way You Touched Me," with a slight Magnum'Bombast 'breathed on the following "Light My Life" with his move from push ends Heavy guitars and ballad-like floating piano breaks. The polyphonic singing the choruses gives an intense atmosphere - not at all Poser Rock moderately, but 'seriously' (without that we would now speak of 'serious music' ...) and full of strong emotions, reminds of House Of Lords (particularly the haunting mid tempo song "Faith"). The passionate vocals of singer Sharky play their part to do so. With Corina Elvers is a budget-consistent backup singer in the line-ups that give the choirs the finishing touches - every now and then one hears shine through her voice clear and pleasant also.

With "Sandy" Nine-T-Nine still have a potential 'hit' up its sleeve - a straighter Power rockers, were determined at that time ended up with the Survivor in the charts. And then there are the introduced by the instrumental piece "The Escape" dark horses of the reviewer: "Shoreline" comes along with a magic wistful verse in country flair that is reminiscent of Bon Jovi's "Dead Or Alive" and then surprises with tempo changes and synth chased power Chorus. The odd frisson's one there already on the back. And despite more than six minutes of playing time the piece is not the least bit boring.

Many of the other songs are 'long' failed for this style, but remain exciting to the end. This is partly due to the complex composition of the pieces, which are peppered with breaks and move between quiet and punchy, reeling off rather monotonous endless loops. Secondly, there is the positive roles of the keyboard that supports controlled presence rather cheesy and tacky the overall sound by own drives (and solo) and no attempt to make the two guitars competition. The tools complement each other to want to be instead of the other competitor. There is no keyboard or guitar songs - there are only Nine-T-Nine; and that is invariably strong numbers without failure.

This CD can be one of the first not let go until the last second - how many albums do that already in the immense flood of new publications in the AOR-sector? Since you have already cherry picking, and is lucky if one here in the form of Nine-T-Nine will find it. There will certainly be even critics who chalk up the tape to be stuck in the past. But there happens to those who move with the times and / or re-invent their own sound - see bands like Tesla or Europe - but also those who have devoted themselves body and soul to a genre, as it is. Both can go up full tilt in the pants or perfect.

Nine-T-Nine have decided to retain proven; and manages them very convincing. "Keep The Flame Alive" is so much more than an album title - it is a mission.
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