Saraya (album)
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March 20, 1989 |
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| Label (s) | PolyGram | |||
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46:14 |
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Jeff Glixman |
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Saraya is the title of the first studio album by the US hard rock band Saraya , released in 1989 .
History of origin
The group, founded in 1987, had started performing in August 1988 under the name "Alses Loraine". Over time she corrected the name to "Alsace Lorraine", received a recording contract with Polydor and, at the urging of the record company, changed her name to Saraya. Jeff Glixman, who had produced the solo album by Paul Stanley (1978) and Black Sabbath's The Eternal Idol (1987), among other things , was commissioned to take over the production of their first music album .
The result was an album that was “audibly” inspired by the 1970s. This was expressed, among other things, by the sounds of Hammond organs in the style of Jon Lords ( Deep Purple ) or Ken Hensley ( Uriah Heep ). The band decided not to use electronically generated drum sounds. The song Love Has Taken Its Toll was written two days before the start of recording.
In order to be able to market the band more easily, Sandi Saraya should be photographed in a transparent miniskirt after the presentation of the record company for the album cover . The idea behind it was to turn the singer into a sex symbol , which she refused. Instead, she had the band photographed in such a way that it was not immediately obvious on first inspection that there was also a woman on the cover. In return for the record company's concession, she agreed to change the band's name.
An early promo cassette suggests that the album was originally supposed to be called Drop the Bomb . The catalog number of the promocassette is identical to that of the album. The instrumental piece, later published as Alsace Lorraine , is still recorded on this cassette as a piano piece . The album was then released on March 20, 1989 under the title Saraya . For both from the album the decoupled singles , Love Has Taken Its Toll and Back to the Bullet, were music videos produced.
Track list
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| No. | title | Songwriter | length |
| 1. | Love has Taken Its Great | Sandi Saraya, Tony Rey | 5:21 |
| 2. | Healing Touch | Gregg Munier, Saraya, Sandy Linzer | 4:43 |
| 3. | Get U Ready | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 3:10 |
| 4th | Gypsy Child | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 4:38 |
| 5. | One night away | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 4:40 |
| 6th | Alsace Lorraine | Munier | 0:50 |
| 7th | Runnin 'out of time | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 4:14 |
| 8th. | Back to the bullet | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 3:49 |
| 9. | Fire to Burn | Fredy Azizaj, Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 4:38 |
| 10. | St. Christopher's Medal | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 4:21 |
| 11. | Drop the bomb | Munier, Saraya, Linzer | 5:53 |
| Overall length: | 46:14 | ||
reception
The album reached number 79 on the US album charts .
In his review for Rock Hard in August 1989, Holger Stratmann wrote that the US quintet around the singer Sandi Saraya "effortlessly spools off high-quality rock numbers in the style of Heart or Kingdom Come on its debut album ," and that mainstream is "cut into just as much as pure hard rock". The whole thing is underlain by “a perfect, radio-compatible super production”. Stratmann called the album recommendable and awarded eight points.
Web links
- Saraya at Discogs
- Love Has Taken Its Toll on YouTube , accessed April 20, 2020.
- Back to the Bullet on YouTube , accessed April 20, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Metal Hammer, No. 9.1989, pp. 24 & 25
- ↑ a b c d The call of the blackbird in: Rocks - The magazine for Classic Rock, issue 05.2017, pp. 74–77
- ↑ Drop the Bomb promocassette at discogs.com , accessed April 21, 2020
- ↑ Charts US
- ↑ Billboard 200, week of June 24, 1989 , accessed April 20, 2020
- ↑ Review on rockhard.de , accessed on April 20, 2020