横跨西伯利亚乐队
乐队资料:
简写:TSO
组建地:美国纽约
风格:交响金属/前卫金属/古典音乐
组团时间:1996年
相关乐团:Savatage/Testament/Alex Skolnick Trio/Megadeth/Circle II Circle/Metal Church
所属唱片公司:Lava Records
简介:
Trans-Siberian Orchestra是由Savatage的御用制作人Paul O''Neill所号召组成的side-project乐团,参与的乐手包含了Savatage的团员,如领导人物keyboard手Jon Oliva、吉他手Al Pitrelli、bass手John Middleton和鼓手Jeff Plate皆全部在籍,此外更邀集了多位纽约百老汇乐界的歌手、大型交响乐团和唱诗班,共同合作以实现Paul O''Neill长久以来的音乐梦想。
在音乐界已经20年的Paul O''Neill,最早时是在百老汇的剧场担当吉他手,到了80年代中期后,他陆续成为了Aerosmith、Badlines等乐团的制作人,之后,由於和Savatage合作愉快,更成为Savatage的专属制作人,并协助Savatage陆续完成了多张备受赞誉的金属歌剧作品,包括<Streets>、<Dead Winter Dead>等,由於Savatage的成功,使得Paul O''Neill的名气也随之水涨船高。
在纽约长大的Paul O''Neill,对於孩提时期时深深感动他的一些节庆事物,特别是耶诞节,始终难以忘怀,热爱撰写故事的Paul,对於纽约市在耶诞节时街道的美丽景致更是有难以言喻的情感,而这也正是他希望能藉由Trans-Siberian Orchestra这样的一个音乐project,来将这种节庆气氛以另一种新的风貌呈现出来的缘由。
其实从团名"Trans-Siberian Orchestra"(横越西伯利亚乐团)或许就能约略嗅出此project的音乐风格并非一般金属乐,而是以交响乐风为主轴的主题式摇滚乐剧,的确,以Paul O''Neill、Jon Oliva和另一位资深制作人Robert Kinkel三人为创作核心的TSO,采分工的合作模式,由Paul O''Neill包办专辑概念故事和歌词的编写,而Jon Oliva则发挥他的交响编曲及钢琴、键盘的弹奏能力,Robert Kindel也协助了部份创作与键盘弹奏。
如上所述,TSO的风格就是定位在抒情式的故事音乐,仅管没有什么金属味,不过Savatage式的美旋律特色依然贯穿其中,谱以大量的交响乐、键盘与钢琴演奏,众多的男女歌手轮流献唱,再配上大量的合唱表现,使得Savatage的优美概念得以用另一种更为轻松活泼的形式来呈现!或许可以想像一下,将<Dead Winter Dead>专辑中激烈的部份去除,而仅将柔美的部份保留下来,大致就是Trans-Siberian Orchestra的音乐走向了!(转自VC)
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出了四张专辑,一张限量沃尔玛销售的EP:
1.Christmas Eve and Other Stories (1996)
曲目:
1. Angel Came Down
2. O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night
3. Star to Follow
4. First Snow
5. Silent Nutcracker
6. Mad Russian''s Christmas
7. Prince of Peace
8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24
9. Good King Joy
10. Ornament
11. First Noel
12. Old City Bar
13. Promises to Keep
14. This Christmas Day
15. Angel Returned
16. O Holy Night
17. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
2.The Christmas Attic (1998)
曲目:
1. The Ghosts Of Christmas Eve
2. Boughs Of Holly
3. The World That She Sees
4. The World That He Sees
5. Midnight Christmas Eve
6. The March Of The Kings/Hark The Herald Angels Sing
7. The Three Kings And I (What Really Happened)
8. Christmas Canon
9. Joy/Angels We Have Heard On High
10. Find Our Way Home
11. Appalachian Snowfall
12. The Music Box
13. The Snow Came Down
14. Christmas In The Air
15. Dream Child (A Christmas Dream)
16. An Angel''s Share
17. Music Box Blues
3.Beethoven''s Last Night (2000)
曲目:
1.Overture
2.Midnight
3.Fate
4.What Good This Deafness
5.Mephistopheles
6.What Is Eternal
7.The Moment
8.Vienna
9.Mozart
10.The Dreams Of Candlelight
11.Requiem
12.I''ll Keep Your Secrets
13.The Dark
14.Für Elise
15.After The Fall
16.A Last Illusion
17.This Is Who You Are
18.Beethoven
19.Mephistopheles'' Return
20.Misery
21.Who Is This Child
22.A Final Dream
4.The Lost Christmas Eve (2004)
曲目:
1. The Lost Christmas Eve
2. Christmas Dreams
3. Wizards In Winter
4. Remember
5. Anno Domine
6. Christmas Concerto
7. Queen Of The Winter Night
8. Christmas Nights In Blue
9. Christmas Jazz
10. Christmas Jam
11. Siberian Sleigh Ride
12. What Is Christmas?
13. For The Sake Of Our Brother
14. The Wisdom Of Snow
15. Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness)
16. Back To A Reason (Part II)
17. Christmas Bells, Carousels & Time
18. What Child Is This?
19. O’ Come All Ye Faithful
20. Christmas Canon Rock
21. Different Wings
22. Midnight Clear
EP:
1 A Mad Russian''s Christmas(Originally released 1996 on "Christmas Eve and Other Stories")
2 Dream Child (A Christmas Dream) (Originally released 1998 on "The Christmas Attic")
3 A Last Illusion (Originally released 2000 on "Beethoven''s Last Night")
4 Christmas Canon Rock (Originally released 2004 on "The Lost Christmas Eve" )
5 Heal My Soul Adaptation of a song (originally released on Savatage''s "Streets: A Rock Opera" album)
6 Prince of Peace (Live) (Live male vocalist performance recorded at New York City''s Madison Square Garden - 2006)
另,乐队的第五张专辑《The Night Castle》定为2009年夏天发行。