SkyDancer

SkyDancer

SkyDancer

Editorial Reviews
Lynda Williams, Wind and Wire, April 1998
"SKYDANCER, is an enchanting, uplifting dance into the sky! Rolling bass notes and delicate but powerful high melodic harmonies tilt towards heaven ... the bass lines keep my feet grounded and the uplifting melodic notes/harmonics & elongated strums inspire my being into motivation... I want to paint, I want to work-out, I want to drive, just drive and watch the sky dance."

Product Description
Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar, Percussion, Voice, New Age, World Beat, Folk and Classical elements. Named one of 25 Eessential Echoes Cd's.

SkyDancer

SkyDancer,Tim Farrell,Magrathea Recordings,Elegant Compositions for Contemporary Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar with some sublte colorings from Tabla, Percussion, EBow and Voice.
Skydancer/Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Swedish Black Melodeath
  • Wow.....Majestic and beautiful music
  • Melodic Metal Masterpiece
  • yesteryear.
  • First Melodic Death Album
 Skydancer/Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Dark Tranquillity
Manufacturer: Century Media
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00004XSOL
Release Date: 2000-09-19

Tracks:

  1. Nightfall By The Shore Of Time
  2. Crimson Winds
  3. A Bolt Of Blazing Gold
  4. In Tears Bereaved
  5. Skywards
  6. Through Ebony Archways
  7. Shadow Duet
  8. My Faeryland Forgotten
  9. Alone
  10. Of Chaos And Eternal Night
  11. With The Flaming Shades Of Fall
  12. Away, Delight, Away
  13. Alone '94

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Swedish Black Melodeath.......2007-01-26

In my opinion, this has more in common with Dissection than In Flames and later Dark Tranquility. Blast beats, black metal vocals, and shredding solos reminds me alot of Storm of the Lights Bane. All of the songs are great, and Anders Friden shows up to sing on Skydancer, while Mikael Stanne shows up for Of Chaos and Eternal Night. Overall, however, I like Of Chaos and Eternal Night better, as it has a more refined sound.

Check out Dissection and early Sentenced if you enjoyed this album.

5 out of 5 stars Wow.....Majestic and beautiful music.......2006-11-05

Sometimes there are albums that are just damn good, sometimes albums are great....Sometimes albums go way past all of that and fit into a category you can't really describe but you can just say "WOW". This is one of those albums. It kicks off with Nighfall At the Shore of time. Comes in hard and heavy, with dreamy, deep, beautiful lyrics written by Niklas Sundin, who in my opinion CAN'T write bad lyrics. The album just goes forward from there with not a bad song on it. Songs like A Bolt of Blazing Gold are some of the most incredible songs I have ever heard. The combination of the music and lyrics on that song make it just PERFECT. Niklas Sundin seems to be a genius. Lots of tremolo picking but not just to play quick. Every note in every song seems to be from deep within, and I mean that. Through Ebony Archways is a haunting acoustic piece that only darkens the feel of the album more. But it is a beautiful, dark feel throughout. Can't recommend any more....GO BUY IT !!!!

5 out of 5 stars Melodic Metal Masterpiece.......2005-03-30

A whole lot of passion and energy created a brilliant landscape of magnificent manic melody!

5 out of 5 stars yesteryear........2004-11-23

On historical importance one should not overlook _Skydancer_, but the musical value of this exceptional debut is most noteworthy. Released in 1993, _Skydancer_ was a seminal melodic death metal album. But the early music of Dark Tranquillity has only broad technical attributes in common with the 'melodeath' with which most are familiar. For that matter, it barely resembles Dark Tranquillity's own music of late. Dark Tranquillity's early path was paved with Swedish death metal influences, progressive metal, and melodically driven riffing. The music is very high-speed and more "classically"-structured, and the band employs many acoustic guitar interludes, highly imaginative, snaky bass playing (Martin Hendricksson is one of my favorite metal bassists), with vocals consisting of harsh screaming as well as soprano and tenor vocals.

This is the only full-length release on which Anders Friden (now of In Flames) performs screaming vocals. Stanne is still in the band, but he plays guitar and sings the clean vocals. The lineup is different but the fundamental concept of the music is basically the primitive form of the subsequent masterpieces, _The Gallery_ and _The Mind's I_ (two of the greatest metal albums ever). The production is very low-budget and raw, and Friden's vocals are kind of substandard most of the time (I much prefer Stanne).

Most songs consist of brutally melodic, crunchy riffs racing along frantic tempos with moody key changes and rhythmic dynamics. Their musical language was always far broader than their contemporaries (even now this remains true). A few of the other songs are different: "Through Ebony Archways" is a Romanian-influenced ballad-like song with a mix of clean male and female vocals and screaming vox over the distorted middle part. Then there is "A Bolt of Blazing Gold", one of Dark Tranquillity's greatest moments. From its lamentful opening to the chorus that toggles between angelic soprano and Friden's anguished rasp with heartrending guitar melodies. The middle section has a lovely acoustic folk melody with which Anna-Kaisa Avehall is backed by a softly singing Mikael Stanne. Brilliant!

The EP _Of Chaos and Eternal Night_, thankfully included on this reissue, solidifies the lineup with Stanne moved to vocals and Johansson recruited for guitar. Three of the songs are Dark Tranquillity's metallic genius, the other is a remix of the _Skydancer_ song "Away", with Stanne singing.

Don't overlook the early Dark Tranquillity -- it offers as much, if not more, than anything else they have released.

4 out of 5 stars First Melodic Death Album.......2004-06-13

Originally released in 1993, Dark Tranquility's Skydancer remains a masterpiece. Along with At the Gates, In Flames, Carcass, Death and Edge of Sanity, Dark Tranquility created the genre known as melodic death metal. Everything expected of a good melodic death album is here. Aggresive sounds juxtaposed with acoustic parts, an inteligent concept and growled vocals. Mikeal Stanne is one of the only vocalists who can sound pissed off and peaceful all at the same time. Many of the ideas such as using female vocals for different effects were way ahead of their time as well. Can't give a perfect rating though because while it's original, the production isn't very well done and they hadn't quite hit the peak of their skills yet.
SkyDancer
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • my CD
  • Insane rolling melody
 SkyDancer
Tim Farrell
Manufacturer: Magrathea Recordings
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000008UN6
Release Date: 1997-11-17

Tracks:

  1. Joyride To Tranquility
  2. Little Sister
  3. Four Echoes
  4. So Long...
  5. ... And Thanks For All The Fish
  6. Barcarole
  7. Because She Likes It
  8. SkyDancer
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  10. Raja Mahris
  11. On a Winter's Night

Album Description

Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar, Percussion, Voice, New Age, World Beat, Folk and Classical elements. Named one of 25 Eessential Echoes Cd's.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars my CD.......2004-02-16

To all my adording fans:

I would really like to say that this is the best CD the world has ever seen.
So you should all buy it.
I would give it more than 5 starts if I could.

5 out of 5 stars Insane rolling melody.......1999-09-02

I can only say that this album is a masterpiece...A must to lift your spirits
Skydancer/Of Chaos and Eternal Night
Average customer rating: Not rated
    		Skydancer/Of Chaos and Eternal Night
    Dark Tranquillity
    Manufacturer: Spinefarm
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    ASIN: B000026AFB
    Release Date: 2006-04-04

    Tracks:

    1. Nightfall by the Shore of Time
    2. Crimson Winds
    3. Bolt of Blazing Gold
    4. In Tears Bereaved
    5. Skywards
    6. Through Ebony Archways
    7. Shadow Duet
    8. My Faeryland Forgotten
    9. Alone
    10. Of Chaos and Eternal Night
    11. With the Flaming Shades of Fall
    12. Away, Delight, Away
    13. Alone '94

    Album Description

    UK pressing features a total of 13 tracks. Spinefarm.

    Album Details

    Dark Tranquility Holds the Esteemed Distinction as Being One of the Bands Responsible for Founding an Entirely New Genre of Death Metal Music in the Early '90s, which Came to Be Known as "The Gothenburg Sound." Throughout Each Release, the Band Would Explore the Creative Dimensions of Expression, Drawing Upon Science and Mythology in their Songwriting While Focusing on Such Topics as Chaos Theory, Psychology, Art, Varying States of Consciousness and Self-destruction. It was These Lyrical Aspects Coupled with their Stunning Musical Contradictions Between Captivating Melodies and Sheer Brutality that Helped them Pioneer the Famed Melodic Death Sound.
    Carefully Taught
    Average customer rating: Not rated
      		Carefully Taught
      Ruthie Ristich
      Manufacturer: Skydancer
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

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      ASIN: B000CADXES
      Release Date: 2002-12-10

      Tracks:

      1. Samba de Orfeo
      2. You've Got to Be Carefully Taught
      3. Midnight Sun
      4. I Only Have Eyes for You
      5. I Wish You Love
      6. Please Send Me Someone to Love
      7. Easy to Love
      8. Nature Boy
      9. It's Nice Weather for Ducks
      10. You Don't Know What Love Is
      11. Invitation
      12. For All We Know
      13. Where Is Love
      14. Never Never Land
      Skydancer / Of Chaos And Eternal Night [Reissue]
      Average customer rating: Not rated
        		Skydancer / Of Chaos And Eternal Night [Reissue]
        Dark Tranquillity
        Manufacturer: Century Media
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD
        ASIN: B000LWW62M

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