Blue Shade
Director's cut
© 2006 Blue Shade
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- 1 The Gathering
- 2 On the Train
- 3 No Woman No Style
- 4 Hot Wheels
- 5 Mona Lisa
- 6 Groaning Blues
- 7 Red Lights
- 8 Secret Island
- 9 The Revealing
- 10 The Keys
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First of all, Blue Shade are a Blues-Rock band one cannot compare to any other bands.
Why?
Because they don’t fall into kitschy Blues or Rock rhythms and always find some strange ways to pep up their songs, be it with cool lyrics, instant action on scene by the sax player or weird guitar solos for instance.
But one cannot only reduce Blue Shade to this!
Originally they come from a small country named Luxembourg, right in the heart of Europe.
These 5 guys, not older than 18 years at the time, had one big thing in common: Rock n Roll!
Though every member plays different styles on his respective instrument, they found a common soil and it ended up in forming Blue Shade.
Indeed, their music doesn’t sound typically Blues-Rock at all.
Ken (vocals and guitars) does all that psychedelic-Hendrix-stuff on the guitar,
Patrick (saxophones) plays a very jazzy style close to Coltrane,
bass player Sandro masters all the funky sounds on his instrument,
Chris (drums) definitely takes the hard-rock part over and, last but not least, Jerome (keyboards, Hammond organ) knows how to impress chicks with the beautiful sounds streaming through his fingers.
All these different styles melt into a beautiful sounding music that somehow never annoys.
The album “Director’s Cut”, released in March 2006, is a perfect snapshot of the Blue Shade mentality. It is a concept Cd (to make it fast: one story told through another story) and was recorded live at the studio. Blue Shade definitely are a live band, so they decided to get that vibe on the record too.
The first song “The Train” shows the more rocking blues side of the band, passing over to the quite funky “No woman no style”. “Hot wheels” is a very rocking piece of music on one side, “Mona Lisa” showing the bands latin-jazz-blues skills on the other side. “Groaning Blues” is a typical 12-bar Blues song but telling a quite familiar story to lots of people… The bluesiest part on the record is without doubt the wonderful slow-blues song “Red Lights”. It is followed by the poppy part “Secret Island”, a song where every dream can be fulfilled if one listens closely to the lyrics… The last song “The keys” is a very boogie-woogie like tune with a cool piano intro, jazzy saxophone riffs and a hilarious story to tell!
Don’t miss this great piece of music! You can order it by dropping us either a mail on contact@blue-shade.com OR by ordering it at http://cdbaby.com/cd/blueshade
Thank you very much for your support and we hope to see and hear from you very soon!