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Unweaving the Rainbow
Frameshift
Unweaving the Rainbow
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
 
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Frameshift is an exciting new Progressive Rock project written and produced by Henning Pauly of Chain for James LaBrie, vocalist of the legendary progmetal band Dream Theater. "Unweaving the rainbow" features 80 minutes of...  more »

     
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All Artists: Frameshift
Title: Unweaving the Rainbow
Members Wishing: 1
Total Copies: 0
Label: ProgRock Records
Original Release Date: 11/25/2003
Release Date: 11/25/2003
Genres: Alternative Rock, Pop, Rock, Metal
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Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 837792009009

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Frameshift is an exciting new Progressive Rock project written and produced by Henning Pauly of Chain for James LaBrie, vocalist of the legendary progmetal band Dream Theater. "Unweaving the rainbow" features 80 minutes of modern progressive rock based on the books on evolution by Richard Dawkins. Every song deals with a different evolutionary concept. The approach to writing the music was slightly different than most progressive rock projects out there.

Composer Henning Pauly has worked in a wide variety of styles. Shortly before he started working on Frameshift he wrote a film score and suddenly it clicked. Modern film music combines elements from a lot of different styles. They are a mix of metal, ambient, techno, orchestral, rock, pop, loop based music. The way these elements come together in a film score lends itself perfectly to the genre of progressive rock so Henning decided to use this approach for Frameshift. He did not want to limit the music on this album to what is possible with a rock band lineup, but to what is possible with the tools a film composer has at his disposal. This didn't mean that he would forget about all the elements that make progressive rock what it is, he would simply take a slightly different approach to arranging it.

Knowing that James LaBrie would be singing the whole album, he wanted to offer this outstanding vocalist an opportunity to sing in ways he has not performed before. James is a huge Queen fan and Henning frequently uses large vocal arrangements in his songs. The plan was simply: Leave a lot of space for vocals, make them the most important element on the album. So the songs were written with several a capella parts and even some counterpoint passages in the tradition of Gentle Giant and Spock's Beard, which both Henning and James are big fans of.

The album features modern studio recording techniques, fused with lush orchestration and diverse instruments such as Warr Guitar and Chapman Stick.

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This is in response to Mr. W. Greenwood "PorterW"'s review.
carteblanche | Bangalore, India | 04/21/2006
(5 out of 5 stars)

"First off, I'd stumbled upon this review when searching for the entire "Frameshift 1 - Unweaving the rainbow" tracklist. And I'm completely dumbfounded by some of the unbelievably ridiculous negative reviews posted by a few reviewers on this one. I saw this review by "PorterW" and with all due respect, I can confidently tell you that your review was perhaps driven either by pure ignorance or utmost hatred/jealousy of an extremely talented & humble singer as James Labrie is. I even got registered to Amazon.com just to respond to the mega-pseudo observations of "PorterW". Please try listening to some really "tough guys with bad attitude" singing,(or, am I permitted to describe it as pointless growling?) for Slayer, Pantera, Sepultura and a plethora of metal/death/black metal bands, if that's how you define "sublime good vocals" or "excellent singing"! Or try listening to Eminem, Pink, Kanye West, P. Diddy, Kid Rock and other "pseudo-superstars" of mainstream pop music!! Try singing a single verse of any of Dream Theater or James Labrie's tracks with exactly the same key used in singing the original, and only then even contemplate on criticizing the singer for his supposed "handicaps" or "flaws", as you quite wrongfully made, "PorterW"!

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