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Sir Spamalot (crew)
geplaatst: 11 april 2009, 15:42 uur
In 2007 trad Therion op op het International Opera Festival in het Hongaarse Miskolc, samen met een orkest en koor. Op dat optreden werden eerst nummers gespeeld van ondermeer Wagner, Verdi en Mozart, waarna nog ruim een uur aan materiaal van Therion zelf volgde. Dat optreden werd opgenomen, en komt op 22 mei uit op dvd en dubbel-cd onder de titel The Miskolc Experience. Dit zal het laatste wapenfeit van Therion zijn waarop de gitarist Kristian Niemann, bassist Johan Niemann en drummer Petter Karlsson te horen zijn, want ongeveer een jaar geleden besloot bandleider Christofer Johnsson alleen verder te gaan met Therion.
Therion - The Miskolc Experience
CD 1: Classical Adventures:
1. Clavicula Nox
2. Dvorak: Excerpt from Symphony no. 9
3. Verdi: Vedi! le fosche notturne spotigle from Il Trovatore
4. Mozart: "Dies Irae" from Reqiuem
5. Saint-Saens: Excerpt from Symphony No. 3
6. Wagner: "Notung! Notung! Niedliches Schwert!" from The Ring
7. Wagner: Excerpt from the Overture from Rienzi
8. Wagner: Second part of "Der Tag ist da" from Rienzzi
9. Wagner: First part of "Herbei! Herbei!" from Rienzi
CD 2: Therion:
1. Blood Of Kingu
2. Sirius B
3. Lemuria
4. Eternal Return
5. Draconian Trilogy
6. Schwartsalbenheim
7. Via Nocturna
8. The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah
9. Grand Finale
En dit is de hoes (toevoeging werd ingediend):
Therion - The Miskolc Experience
CD 1: Classical Adventures:
1. Clavicula Nox
2. Dvorak: Excerpt from Symphony no. 9
3. Verdi: Vedi! le fosche notturne spotigle from Il Trovatore
4. Mozart: "Dies Irae" from Reqiuem
5. Saint-Saens: Excerpt from Symphony No. 3
6. Wagner: "Notung! Notung! Niedliches Schwert!" from The Ring
7. Wagner: Excerpt from the Overture from Rienzi
8. Wagner: Second part of "Der Tag ist da" from Rienzzi
9. Wagner: First part of "Herbei! Herbei!" from Rienzi
CD 2: Therion:
1. Blood Of Kingu
2. Sirius B
3. Lemuria
4. Eternal Return
5. Draconian Trilogy
6. Schwartsalbenheim
7. Via Nocturna
8. The Rise Of Sodom And Gomorrah
9. Grand Finale
En dit is de hoes (toevoeging werd ingediend):
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geplaatst: 31 oktober 2010, 10:58 uur
He Sir Spamalot is weer terug, gelukkig weer een vertrouwd gezicht terug hier, met een erg goede muzieksmaak. 
Op 1 band na dan
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Welkom terug Sir, ik heb je echt gemist hier op mu.me.
Deze band heb ik gisteravond zien optreden in de kleine zaal in de Oosterpoort in Groningen. Ik kende deze band niet echt, maar mijn zwager kwam gisteravond bij mij of ik ook mee wilde naar Therion. Ik was dit jaar nog niet bij een concert geweest, en aangezien onze smaken aardig overeen komen heb ik niet getwijfelt en ben gelijk meegegaan.
Wat een machtig mooi optreden was het. 2 zangeressen, 2 zangers, 2 gitaristen, 1 bassist en 1 drummer. Een 8 koppig tellende band zeg maar, wat behoorlijk wat is voor een band.
Krachtige power metal riffs worden afgewisselt door erg mooie en meer rustige passages. Ook de middeleeuwse sfeer en het musical achtige gehalte was erg mooi. Ook mooi vond ik het ontbreken van keybords, wat je zag zo werd er gespeeld zonder truckage of iets anders. Super gewoon zoals ik het graag mag horen.
Soms speelde een zangeres nog piano, of 1 van die zangers dwarsfluit. Een schitterend geheel vond ik het. Het waren allemaal losse nummers, maar het leek net of ze een 2 uur durend verhaal wilden uitbeelden.
Ik geloof dat het optreden van gisteravond onderdeel uitmaakte van hun wereldtour van hun net uitgebrachte album. Ik ken de band niet goed genoeg om te kunnen zeggen hoeveel nummers ze gespeeld hebben van hun nieuwste album, maar zowiezo eentje, omdat dat kenbaar gemaakt werd door 1 van de gitaristen. De frontman van de band wellicht.
Het was een geslaagd avondje, en als ze weer komen ga ik gelijk weer heen, de dik 2 uur vlogen gewoon voorbij.
Op 1 band na dan
.Welkom terug Sir, ik heb je echt gemist hier op mu.me.
Deze band heb ik gisteravond zien optreden in de kleine zaal in de Oosterpoort in Groningen. Ik kende deze band niet echt, maar mijn zwager kwam gisteravond bij mij of ik ook mee wilde naar Therion. Ik was dit jaar nog niet bij een concert geweest, en aangezien onze smaken aardig overeen komen heb ik niet getwijfelt en ben gelijk meegegaan.
Wat een machtig mooi optreden was het. 2 zangeressen, 2 zangers, 2 gitaristen, 1 bassist en 1 drummer. Een 8 koppig tellende band zeg maar, wat behoorlijk wat is voor een band.
Krachtige power metal riffs worden afgewisselt door erg mooie en meer rustige passages. Ook de middeleeuwse sfeer en het musical achtige gehalte was erg mooi. Ook mooi vond ik het ontbreken van keybords, wat je zag zo werd er gespeeld zonder truckage of iets anders. Super gewoon zoals ik het graag mag horen.
Soms speelde een zangeres nog piano, of 1 van die zangers dwarsfluit. Een schitterend geheel vond ik het. Het waren allemaal losse nummers, maar het leek net of ze een 2 uur durend verhaal wilden uitbeelden.
Ik geloof dat het optreden van gisteravond onderdeel uitmaakte van hun wereldtour van hun net uitgebrachte album. Ik ken de band niet goed genoeg om te kunnen zeggen hoeveel nummers ze gespeeld hebben van hun nieuwste album, maar zowiezo eentje, omdat dat kenbaar gemaakt werd door 1 van de gitaristen. De frontman van de band wellicht.
Het was een geslaagd avondje, en als ze weer komen ga ik gelijk weer heen, de dik 2 uur vlogen gewoon voorbij.
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geplaatst: 21 november 2010, 02:44 uur
Hmmm op de discussie pagina van Therion nog maar 2 berichten. Opmerkelijk voor zo'n grote band.
Ik zou graag aanverwanten van deze band willen weten.
Ik zeg: Nightwish, Ayreon, Within Temptation, Epica en Delain.
Ik hoop dat er meerderen komen met meer opties.
Ben benieuwd.
Ik zou graag aanverwanten van deze band willen weten.
Ik zeg: Nightwish, Ayreon, Within Temptation, Epica en Delain.
Ik hoop dat er meerderen komen met meer opties.
Ben benieuwd.
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geplaatst: 21 november 2010, 03:08 uur
Klik hier maar eens op:
Therion
dan zie je de volgende namen:
Tristania
Haggard
Moonspell
After Forever
Theatre of Tragedy
Epica
Sirenia
Trail of Tears
Tiamat
Diablo Swing Orchestra
Therion
dan zie je de volgende namen:
Tristania
Haggard
Moonspell
After Forever
Theatre of Tragedy
Epica
Sirenia
Trail of Tears
Tiamat
Diablo Swing Orchestra
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geplaatst: 17 december 2013, 11:10 uur
Christofer Johnson werkt hard aan een nieuw album. Het wordt een rock-opera. Met de nadruk op opera als ik het goed begrijp. Op facebook legt hij in het kort *kuch* uit wat de bedoeling gaat zijn:
The coming rock opera will be about the rise and fall of Antichrist and is inspired by and partly (not to be confused with "entirely") based on Vladimir Soloviev's "A Short Story of the Anti-Christ". I have been attempting to write a regular opera for some years following the same theme (which is now being therionized to fit in with what we are writing for this rock opera). We don't have a name for it yet, but for the time being we could humorously give it the working title Antichrist Superstar.
We will be performing beta versions of the overture and 4 excerpts from the opera. An excerpt is a part of something (not to be confused with the concept of a song;) you might consider it torn-out pieces from a puzzle. Here is a list of what we will be performing:
1. Overture. It contains the main theme of the opera and simply has to be played.
It's the beta version 0.8 and still has some potential to expand further, but the parts that are already there will likely sound something in the vein of this version.
2. End of The dynasty / Military March of the United States of Europe
In the book there is an Asian rule over Europe for 50 years after China and Japan have successfully invaded and occupied the continent. In the end, Europe manages to fight back and drives the occupants back east. "End of the dynasty" is the swan song of the last Asian emperor of this dynasty. The orchestration needs to be worked on a bit more, but the basic idea is there. Musically, it's band and orchestra playing all the time in a very therionish type of manner.
The military march is played while the european army marches back. It has not been orchestrated yet, so we will just be performing it in a guitar-based form. But I actually have become quite fond of it this way, so maybe we'll partly keep it like that and just add on some piccolo flute and maybe some brass typical for military orchestras.
3. Who's your God?
Here Antichrist is being interrogated by some prominent religious people. He is at the time a world leader and by far the most beloved leader of all times.
Musically, this is an example of a part where the guitars have a smaller role and the focus is very vocally oriented and mostly backed up by orchestra, bass and drums. There's still work to be done on it; there is a need for chorus to perform it live like the composer intended. But you will get a good sense of it.
4. Onda toner (swedish for "evil tones")
This is a part that comes fairly soon after "Who's your God" in which there is an outspoken accusation that he is the Antichrist. Making an opera/rock opera on the theme like this without including the famous "Diabolus in musica" interval would of course be an epic fail. So in the heat of this very intense moment, you will be enjoying infernal tritones and diminished chords backed up by unusual drumbeats to 3/4 time signatures - for those of you not acquainted with musical terms; it sounds very infernal and weird (in a good way.)
This part feels quite finished in terms of orchestration and vocal melodies/harmonies. It will require many more singers, when performed as composed later on, however.
5. Sad end
This is a very emotional duet at the end of the opera. I don't want to spoil what happens (the end of our opera will be totally different from the Soloviev book, as it has been completely rewritten,) but it involves two important people in the opera having lost everything they fought for and, at the time of dying, they start reflecting on their lives and things they did wrong.
The vocal duet is pretty much finished. There will be more stuff added before the duet, but this particular piece will sound at least close to this. Orchestration is quite basic at the moment. We will see if we keep it that way (it is sometimes better) or if we want work more on it.
The purpose of this tour is to try out some of the parts of the rock opera to see if we're on the right way or not. So we are looking forward to all constructive comments afterwards.
Before commenting keep this in mind: Imagine that a movie is about to be filmed and needs film music. They need a death metal song for one scene, a love ballad for another scene and a heavy metal track for the third scene. You're being asked your opinion if they are good songs. Then it's totally useless bombing the movie producer with with opinions like "I don't like ballads/death metal" or "I prefer the heavy metal song because that's my kind of music". He wants to know if each song is good or not, not what taste you have in terms of music styles. If the movie needs to have a love ballad at a certain place then it will be a ballad there. And he wants to know if it's a good ballad or not.
Same thing applies to opinions on what we perform from the opera on this tour. It's totally useless information to us what styles you prefer. The opera needs to have different styles in music when different things happen on stage. You can not have happy music when there is a sad scene and an army can not march to just any kind of music. So each type of music needs to be judged for what it is and what it is supposed to be. I know this may be a slightly complicated request for many people on internet who are used to comment off-the-cuff on things they come across on the web, without any deeper reflection or paying any attention to circumstances and facts. But none of those are likely to read this text anyway, so I'm fairly confident at least a majority will be able to supply us with intelligent usable feedback. It's a great bonus if people also make an effort to use their imagination a bit extra and picture how these pieces will sound later with more singers and a real orchestra (obviously we use samples and keyboards to demonstrate this now.) You may consider what you will hear an advanced sketch of something that later will be an oil painting.
For those of you coming to see us on this tour: there will be an attractive special offer concerning a future release for the fans coming to the concerts. Hint: It could be a good idea to bring 20 euro extra to the show. ; )
Sincerely yours,
Christofer Johnsson
The coming rock opera will be about the rise and fall of Antichrist and is inspired by and partly (not to be confused with "entirely") based on Vladimir Soloviev's "A Short Story of the Anti-Christ". I have been attempting to write a regular opera for some years following the same theme (which is now being therionized to fit in with what we are writing for this rock opera). We don't have a name for it yet, but for the time being we could humorously give it the working title Antichrist Superstar.
We will be performing beta versions of the overture and 4 excerpts from the opera. An excerpt is a part of something (not to be confused with the concept of a song;) you might consider it torn-out pieces from a puzzle. Here is a list of what we will be performing:
1. Overture. It contains the main theme of the opera and simply has to be played.
It's the beta version 0.8 and still has some potential to expand further, but the parts that are already there will likely sound something in the vein of this version.
2. End of The dynasty / Military March of the United States of Europe
In the book there is an Asian rule over Europe for 50 years after China and Japan have successfully invaded and occupied the continent. In the end, Europe manages to fight back and drives the occupants back east. "End of the dynasty" is the swan song of the last Asian emperor of this dynasty. The orchestration needs to be worked on a bit more, but the basic idea is there. Musically, it's band and orchestra playing all the time in a very therionish type of manner.
The military march is played while the european army marches back. It has not been orchestrated yet, so we will just be performing it in a guitar-based form. But I actually have become quite fond of it this way, so maybe we'll partly keep it like that and just add on some piccolo flute and maybe some brass typical for military orchestras.
3. Who's your God?
Here Antichrist is being interrogated by some prominent religious people. He is at the time a world leader and by far the most beloved leader of all times.
Musically, this is an example of a part where the guitars have a smaller role and the focus is very vocally oriented and mostly backed up by orchestra, bass and drums. There's still work to be done on it; there is a need for chorus to perform it live like the composer intended. But you will get a good sense of it.
4. Onda toner (swedish for "evil tones")
This is a part that comes fairly soon after "Who's your God" in which there is an outspoken accusation that he is the Antichrist. Making an opera/rock opera on the theme like this without including the famous "Diabolus in musica" interval would of course be an epic fail. So in the heat of this very intense moment, you will be enjoying infernal tritones and diminished chords backed up by unusual drumbeats to 3/4 time signatures - for those of you not acquainted with musical terms; it sounds very infernal and weird (in a good way.)
This part feels quite finished in terms of orchestration and vocal melodies/harmonies. It will require many more singers, when performed as composed later on, however.
5. Sad end
This is a very emotional duet at the end of the opera. I don't want to spoil what happens (the end of our opera will be totally different from the Soloviev book, as it has been completely rewritten,) but it involves two important people in the opera having lost everything they fought for and, at the time of dying, they start reflecting on their lives and things they did wrong.
The vocal duet is pretty much finished. There will be more stuff added before the duet, but this particular piece will sound at least close to this. Orchestration is quite basic at the moment. We will see if we keep it that way (it is sometimes better) or if we want work more on it.
The purpose of this tour is to try out some of the parts of the rock opera to see if we're on the right way or not. So we are looking forward to all constructive comments afterwards.
Before commenting keep this in mind: Imagine that a movie is about to be filmed and needs film music. They need a death metal song for one scene, a love ballad for another scene and a heavy metal track for the third scene. You're being asked your opinion if they are good songs. Then it's totally useless bombing the movie producer with with opinions like "I don't like ballads/death metal" or "I prefer the heavy metal song because that's my kind of music". He wants to know if each song is good or not, not what taste you have in terms of music styles. If the movie needs to have a love ballad at a certain place then it will be a ballad there. And he wants to know if it's a good ballad or not.
Same thing applies to opinions on what we perform from the opera on this tour. It's totally useless information to us what styles you prefer. The opera needs to have different styles in music when different things happen on stage. You can not have happy music when there is a sad scene and an army can not march to just any kind of music. So each type of music needs to be judged for what it is and what it is supposed to be. I know this may be a slightly complicated request for many people on internet who are used to comment off-the-cuff on things they come across on the web, without any deeper reflection or paying any attention to circumstances and facts. But none of those are likely to read this text anyway, so I'm fairly confident at least a majority will be able to supply us with intelligent usable feedback. It's a great bonus if people also make an effort to use their imagination a bit extra and picture how these pieces will sound later with more singers and a real orchestra (obviously we use samples and keyboards to demonstrate this now.) You may consider what you will hear an advanced sketch of something that later will be an oil painting.
For those of you coming to see us on this tour: there will be an attractive special offer concerning a future release for the fans coming to the concerts. Hint: It could be a good idea to bring 20 euro extra to the show. ; )
Sincerely yours,
Christofer Johnsson
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