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| Artist: East Village Opera Company
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $13.98
Buy New: $6.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 4152
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 602517754430
EAN: 0602517754430
ASIN: B001AW9DL4
Release Date: August 12, 2008
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Condition: Factory Sealed Full Artwork Punchout Ship 1st Class
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| Tracks:
| • | The Ride | | • | King Of The Night | | • | Help Me - (Jove, in Pity) | | • | Brindisi Libera (Pop The Cork) | | • | Gloria | | • | Walk | | • | As You Were Then | | • | Soldiers | | • | You're Not Alone | | • | Va Tosca | | • | Butterfly Duet |
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Album Description
Old School, the new album from New York City's East Village Opera Company is an album 300 years in the making. Using a few centuries worth of opera's greatest hits as their launching point, the album took 12 months and 14 engineers to record and involved 65 involved musicians in 10 different studios around the world. EVOC has once again taken a selection of opera arias and re-imagined them as popular songs, using full symphony orchestra, R&B horns, and choir alongside the group's guitars, drums, keyboards, string quartet, and singers. Arias by Verdi, Puccini, Bach, Mozart, and Wagner collide with Rock and Roll, R&B, 60's and 70's Pop, Surf, and Soul in an explosive mosaic of sound that is deliciously eclectic and singularly cohesive at the same time. As filtered through the group's irreverent sensibility, a seemingly bad idea (rock meets opera) comes off as a triumphant celebration of all music in a musical highwire act that deftly balances tradition and renewal.
Album Description
Old School is the 2008 release from The East Village Opera Company. Per Time Out NY, 'The group's charisma is inescapable and infectious, they electrify the classics for a new generation.' E.V.O.C. is a Rock group cofounded by vocalist Tyley Ross and arranger, multi-instrumentalist Peter Kiesewalter. Vocalist AnnMarie Milazzo was then recruited to provide female vocals. EVOC includes eight other members: two guitarists, a bassist, a percussionist, and a string quartet. EVOC could be described as a cover band whose niche is traditional operatic pieces that are then arranged to reflect more modern musical stylings.
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| Customer Reviews:
Possibly the best CD in my collection! October 25, 2008
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Words fail, so this won't be long. I've heard modern takes on classical music before and was severely underwhelmed. After hearing this music on a NPR program, I could tell someone finally got it right. The musicianship and arranging are near perfect and the variety of styles (influenced by Led Zeppelin, The Who, Queen, and many others) kept me interested from start to finish. I couldn't be happier to stumble on this gem.
Fantastic Group October 24, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is a great CD and it gets even better if you have seen the East Village Opera Comany's new show which showcases the music in this new CD. The group has outstanding instrumentalists and the two vocalists (Tyley Ross and AnnMarie Milazzo) are supurb. In fact, the entire band is outstanding. Great work by the whole group
This CD is far more meaningful if you have seen the band in person. They are very impressive. The sound at a live performance is hard to duplicate on a CD. I will be looking forward to the next CD done by this group.
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