Tempest - The Double-Cross
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Artist: TempestEdition: Music CD
Format: Enhanced
CD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Music Label: Magna Carta
Soundtracks:
- Captain Kidd
- Slippery Slide
- Hangman
- Black Eddy
- Whoever You Are
- Vision Quest
- Per Spelmann
- Cabar Feidh
- Eppy Moray
- Wizard's Walk
Free Music Notes for The Double-Cross
Free Music Review: Double Good
Hit: 4 Stars
This one flat out rocks, folks. Tempest is one of the few bands out there today for whom the name "folk-rock" is not a misnomer. So many bands who call themselves "folk-rock" bands are merely ELECTRIFIED FOLK bands. They think that by adding electric bass and electric guitar to folk music they are turning it into rock music. But alas, they perform with no rock and roll intensity, so they are little more than RLECTRIFIED FOLK bands. Tempest, meanwhile, performs with true rock and roll intensity and the name "folk-rock" fits them to a T. With their previous release, Shapeshifter, while a fine effort from the band, something was lacking in the production. There was no low end, ie, while you could hear the bass, it was flat and lifeless and lacking in realism. It had no "oomph." The instruments were also meshed together into a uniform sound; in fact they were so meshed together that when I flipped the switch to "mono" on my stereo, there was virtually no difference in the sound. With Double Cross, these problems have been gladly corrected and the results are spectacularly improved. The bass here is beefy, thick, full, rich and realistic and has an "oomph" that you can feel as well as hear. This is how rock and roll bass should ALWAYS be produced. Add crisp drums up in the mix and electric guitar that has been boosted in the mix and WOW! There is also space between and among the instruments here. They have been allowed to breathe so that you can clearly hear each instrument's contribution to the total sound, rather than uniformly meshing all the instruments flatly together as on the previous album. So it sounds like the band is performing "live" in front of you. But what good is great production if the performance is lousy? Well folks, the performance on the contrary is very good. Here Tempest not only performs with rock and roll intensity, but has made a conscious effort to vary its sound more than ever before. We get additional instruments added such as harmonica, bagpipes, piano, flute and didgeridoo. Everything is thrown in but the kitchen sink. We get bass solos, tempo changes, playful interation between the instruments as well as electric guitar and fiddle playing in note-for-note unsison and on one song a Slavic sound which we haven't heard before from these lads. All in all, this is another fine effort from a band whose consistency of sound has been amazing considering all the personnel turnover they have had over the years.
The Double-Cross Poster
Enhanced with Bonus Video - "In The Studio With Tempest"Captain Kidd was an incurable romantic, and life took unkind advantage of that fact. His nautical career and life were unceremoniously shortened by a series of unfortunate circumstances that turned Kidd into an unwitting outlaw. The Royal Navy, his crew his very dream and even the hangman's rope conspired against Kidd. And when one's dreams get the better of him, he may end up like Kidd, lifeless body hanging in an elevated cage at the mouth of a river as a warning to future pirates. It could easily be said that he was double-crossed by 'life, its own self'.
But Kidd's unfortunate saga has provided Tempest with fodder for their newest album, "The Double-Cross". The idea that a dogged perseverance to pursue the romantic ideal not always being the wise path - and those who wish to make their way must use assets they truly possess. With a loose conceptual thread running through this musically and culturally rich recording, Tempest has reached a level of musical maturity that only experienced, road-seasoned bands can achieve.
"The Double-Cross" is consistent with Tempest's other recordings in that the material is drawn from folk- and traditional roots-based music and presented through the rock idiom. Yet it cuts a swath through an area where none of the previous albums have gone before. Songs such as "Captain Kidd" and "Hangman" are carefully crafted in the folk tradition. "Cabar Feidh" (with an assist from Los Angeles-based "Wicked Tinkers") is a high energy, tribal sounding rave-up. "Per Spelmann" is an adaptation of a Norwegian folk song - and fiddle tunes such as "Wizard's Walk" and "Black Eddy" are rife with freshness and authenticity. "Whoever You Are" is a more contemporary approach for Tempest with a thoughtful message delivered by tuneful vocalists. There's even a Finnish polka to make "The Double-Cross" an album that can be listened to over and over again, all the while discovering new, subtle elements. "The Double-Cross" is the album that will take Tempest to a new level of popularity.
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