Beyond the Thunder

Product Description
"Beyond the Thunder," says Neal Schon, "is one of the best things I've done." With quiet power, Neal glides through cool jazz licks, worldbeat rhythms and soulful songs like "Send Me an Angel." As lead guitarist with the band Journey, Neal's dazzling guitar work was legendary. With his debut Higher Octave Music album, he creates a lush and lyrical sound that still throws off sparks!

Beyond the Thunder,Neal Schon,Higher Octave,Fusion,Hard Rock,New Age,New Age / Meditation,Pop,Rock

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Average customer rating: Neal's softer side Superb Guitar master My Best Surprise in Music Decades of Guitar Talent Distilled into one CD

Beyond the Thunder Neal Schon Manufacturer: Higher Octave ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Meditation | New Age | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music General | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Hard Rock | Hard Rock & Metal | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | New Age | Indie Music | Stores | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Electric World I on U Voice Late Nite Piranha Blues ASIN: B000003Z12 Release Date: 1995-03-30

Tracks:

1. Big Moon
2. Bandalero
3. Cool Breeze
4. Zanzibar
5. Send Me An Angel
6. Boulevard Of Dreams
7. Espanique
8. Carribean Blue
9. Someone's Watching Over Me/Iguassa Falls
10. Deep Forest
11. Call Of The Wild

Album Description

"Beyond the Thunder," says Neal Schon, "is one of the best things I've done." With quiet power, Neal glides through cool jazz licks, worldbeat rhythms and soulful songs like "Send Me an Angel." As lead guitarist with the band Journey, Neal's dazzling guitar work was legendary. With his debut Higher Octave Music album, he creates a lush and lyrical sound that still throws off sparks!

Customer Reviews:

Neal's softer side.......2007-07-10

This music from Neal could really be appreciated by everyone. You don't have to be a guitarist to appreciate how well Neal plays a melody, or to istantaneously love his fluid guitar sounds and his storyteller approach to this album. It is a sort of "new age" album in a sense, very different from Journey's music for the most part (you can easily understand this from his picture on the album cover which shows him with a Gibson hollow body guitar and not with a Les Paul or with another solid body rock guitar). It is him playing his heart out through the guitar on some calm, exotique and nice compositions that reminds me here and there some things written by Russ Freeman (Espanique, CoolBreeze or Zanzibar for instance). Here Neal is helped by his Journey colleague Jonathan Cain exceptional composer, arranger and keyboard player. What can I add? It is beautiful instrumental music very well played, music that you can enjoy in a lot of situations and that really deserves attention. I own a lot of solo albums from Neal and this is the one that I'd suggest to everyone who wants an album of very beautiful instrumental "guitar" music or that want to own something good from Neal. But don't think to shred guitar. Neal here plays very softly for the most part, making some doublings here and there like he usually does when he plays with Journey too, but this album is about melody and emotion not about show off. He very rarely use full distorted sounds here, instead he tends to gravitate towards clean or soft crunchy sounds .... but here and there his rock soul appears through his long sustained lead sound, and well ... he shines as he usually does! A very nice album I'm listening a lot in these days.

Superb.......2007-02-09

Neal Schon's CV is pretty impressive, and this is surely one of his best works to date. Favourite tracks are 'Espanique' and 'Deep Forest'. Schon's range is incredible and this album truly shows his maturity as a guitarist that we had not seen with Journey's later albums, up to the point that this was released. This album is as powerful now (2007), as it was in 1995, and surely cements Neal Schon as one of the great guitar virtuosos of our time.

Guitar master.......2007-01-12

I bought this album many years ago when visiting a hi-fi retailer with a friend who was looking for amps and speakers. This was one of the demo albums.
It has always had a treasured position in my collection - THE best guitar instrumental album. And that it is not accolade achieved lightly. I am a great guitar fan and have many albums by other established players such as Lee Ritenour, Larry Carlton, Joe Satriani, John Williams etc and I love them all, wwhatever their musical style.
However there is something about Beyond the Thunder that makes it practically the ideal album whatever your mood and I gravitate towards it more often than any other. I recently used several of the tracks to soundtrack a DVD of holiday photos that we took last year and have been inundated with requests for me to tell who is playing. Do I tell them or keep it to myself? There is a certain devious pleasure in being 'in the know' about artists that are not household names. It is sometimes to do with the fact that another person might not like an album as much as you do - that has not been the case with this one. I could not hold back and several friends and family are now slowly coming to terms with this great music.
Favourite tracks - Big Moon (the demo track from the shop noted above)Caribbean Blue and Call of the Wild (what a soundscape)

My Best Surprise in Music.......2006-11-14

I've been a Journey fan since the beginning of the addition of Steve Perry. It wasn't so much Steve Perrys voice that I had enjoyed as much as it really was Neal Schon's guitar playing. From the solo's in "Who's crying now" till what I thought was another great in "I'll Be Alright Without You", I had always craved more of his playing the guitar, there was never enough. It wasn't until last week I put Neal's name in search & as crazy as it sounds, never knew he had several solo cd's out. I listened to the tracks on Amazon for the "Beyond The Thunder" cd, I found exactly what I was looking for. No vocals! The guitar Neal plays, literally does all the singing in ways I would have never imagined & the dosage you will get, far outweighs anything I can compare to with Journey. No doubt Neal is a musical genius. There is not a bad track on this cd. If you like what you hear in the samples, you'll be more than pleased with this CD.I may have discovered his solo's 10 years later but with what I have been hearing in music with other artists, this couldnt have arrived for my ears at a better time! Thanks Neal!

Decades of Guitar Talent Distilled into one CD .......2005-08-12

After decades of guitar workmanship which included gigs such being Carlos Santana's sideman and lead guitar for super group Journey, Neal Schon is finally producing music which focuses on his guitar talent rather than focusing on making money. This music will never be played on top 40 pop radio. It's far too good for that. It's powerful, moving, delicate and flawless. Schon conveys many moods here from whimsical and dreamy to dark and powerful. He still rocks out too. All without lyrics. If you've graduated beyond adolescent music and can appreciate great guitar talent or just play a guitar, you owe this one to yourself.

Average customer rating: GREAT RECORDING, BUT THE PRICE...

Janácek: Osud (Fate) Manufacturer: Chandos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Janácek, Leos | ( J ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Czech | Languages | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Operettas | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Similar Items: Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen Leos Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen - Lucia Popp / Eva Randová / Dalibor Jedlicka / Vienna Philharmonic / Vienna State Opera Chorus / Sir Charles Mackerras Janacek - From the House of the Dead / Mackerras Janácek: Jenufa Wagner: Götterdämmerung ASIN: B00001T6K3 Release Date: 1999-10-26

Tracks:

1. Osud (Fate): Act I: Orchestra
2. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'Free As A Bird I Bask In The Sunshine'
3. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'Heavens, It's Him!' (Mila)
4. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'Is It Your Child You've Come For?' (Mila)
5. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'Sun In The Heavens Up On High'
6. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'We're Back Too Late' (Zivny)
7. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'The Sun's Vanished' (Mila)
8. Osud (Fate): Act I: 'Never Will I Forget This Fleeting Moment!'
9. Osud (Fate): Act II: 'Slumber On Undisturbed In The Shadow' (Zivny)
10. Osud (Fate): Act II: 'I Do, I Do!' (Mila)
11. Osud (Fate): Act II: 'We're Married Now' (Zivny)
12. Osud (Fate): Act II: 'Mummy, Mummy!'
13. Osud (Fate): Act II: 'Unspoken Thoughts Go Far Beyond Words' (Mila's Mother)
14. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'Listen To The Thunder Over The Horizon'
15. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'Endless The Pain I Must Suffer'
16. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'Enough Of That!'
17. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'Mummy, Mummy! Do You Know What Love Is?'
18. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'People Said It Must Have Been His Falling In Love' (Zivny)
19. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'Bitter Memories' (Zivny)
20. Osud (Fate): Act III: 'It Seems To Be So Clear' (Zivny)

Customer Reviews:

GREAT RECORDING, BUT THE PRICE..........1999-12-01

This is 20th century opera at its most vivid. Once considered a failure, Osud was resurrected in an English translation that actually improves upon the original libretto. The music is as vital as anything in Janacek: the piece starts a churning riff strangely reminiscent of Philip Glass; the ending is equally memorable -- startlingly brusque and humorous. Throughout, we get musical drama tied to the quick of spoken language; conversations overlap, or suddenly fall silent. At times the story is ridiculous, but the production rides over any problems. Philip Langridge, as always, is great. My only qualm: this was originally a single disc CD on EMI, for a single disc price. Though the package is nice, the price is steep for some 70:00 odd minutes.

Average customer rating: This CD is Fantastic

Beyond Words Gentle Thunder , Will Clipman , and Amochip Dabney Manufacturer: GT Productions/Delvian Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | International | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music Similar Items: Elements Series: Fire A Posteriori Spirit Music Magical Journeys of Andreas Vollenweider These Days ASIN: B000EHSMA4 Release Date: 2006-02-01

Tracks:

1. Big Sky Sunrise 3:31
2. Seven Twenty Twins 3:54
3. Feathered Pipe Portal 1:38
4. Beyond Words 4:23
5. Walk in Beauty 4:52
6. Glacier Tears 6:34
7. Karma Groove 6:26
8. Woven Essence 5:08
9. Rooted Breath 4:19
10. Heartland 4:56
11. Renaissance Reunion 2:06
12. Luminosity 4:05
13. Pathfinders 4:52
14. Summer Soulstice 4:48

Product Description

*Innovative composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist has enchanted audiences worldwide with her non-traditional distinctive sound (solo CDs N.A.R. Top 100) *Gentle Thunder opened in concert for the R. Carlos Nakai Quartet awakening simpatico w/ Quartet members Will & Amo (2005 GRAMMY nominees) *Potent synergy and passionate improvisation between Gentle Thunder, Will and Amo is captivating *Eclectic blend of instrumentation and each artist being multi-instrumentalists makes for a stellar new sound *Grand hammer dulcimer, Native Am. flutes, drums and percussion woven with piano, bass and soprano sax takes the listener on an aural journey beyond words

Customer Reviews:

This CD is Fantastic.......2007-01-20

The more I listen to this CD the more I love it. It is wonderful for a relaxing day by the fire with a nice warm cup of tea, let your mind drift to serene landscapes....

I also like this CD for my Reiki sessions and my clients are starting to request it during their treatments.

Gentle Thunder is an amazing and sensitive artist.

You'll play this one again and again.

Average customer rating:

Beyond Words Gentle Thunder w/ Will Clipman & AmoChip Dabney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000MU7YLQ

Product Description

1 Big Sky Sunrise 2 Seven Twenty Twins 3 Feathered Pipe Portal 4 Beyond Words 5 Walk In Beauty 6 Glacier Tears 7 Karma Groove 8 Woven Essence 9 Rooted Breath 10 Heartland 11 Renaissance Reunion 12 Luminosity 13 Pathfinders 14 Summer Soulstice

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3. Chapter & Verse
4. Clouds from the East
5. Convergence
6. Dedicated to the One I Love
7. Deep Space Network Meets Higher Intelligence Agency
8. Desde Que Tu Te Has Ido
9. Distant Shores
10. Dynamic Meditation [Enhanced]

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