Voodoo Lake - Flowers in the Sand

Bitrate:320K/s
Year:2005
Time:72:08 
Size:166,2 MB 
Label:Self-Released 
Styles:Southern Rock 
Art:Front 

Tracks Listing:
 1. Daddy -  9:11
 2. Son of the Witch -  5:14
 3. Live with It -  8:20
 4. Flowers in the Sand -  4:18
 5. Lady of the Rocks -  5:47
 6. Silas -  3:35
 7. Fear Another -  5:36
 8. Sometimes -  5:42
 9. Need to Leave -  7:16
10. Damn Light - 11:57
11. Rainbow Smile -  5:05

VOODOO LAKE hail from Italy, but they have nothing to do with whiny melodic metal. The cover and album title might evoke 60s hippie music – but you'd be wrong. If you wanted to pigeonhole these six Italians into a genre, it would probably be labeled "Southern Rock." But even that term is far too restrictive for "Flowers In The Sand." With this album, VOODOO LAKE simply pay homage to well-crafted, intelligent (but never intellectualizing) rock music with a Southern flavor. They rock, jam, blues, sing passionately, and solo with such gusto that it's a pure delight. Hard chords meet soulful blues guitars (in the streets of New Orleans?), slide guitars invite you to dance with harmonica, banjos, and mandolins, and Hammond organs roar like in the glorious 60s and 70s. Some songs are considerably longer than usual, but even the longest instrumental passages never bore for a single, goddamn second, because VOODOO LAKE handle their instruments with a temperament, passion, and feeling rarely heard before. This is the perfect soundtrack for sitting by the Mississippi with a drink on a warm summer evening, followed by a plunge into the vibrant atmosphere of the French Quarter. "Flowers In The Sand" boasts an almost uncanny density of moods. You can't just listen to it casually—yet this music is never tiring. A wide array of guest musicians, three male singers, and one female vocalist ensure plenty of variety. CONCLUSION: Great Southern blues country jam—and, if you like, even prog rock—because this amount of feeling and instrumental freedom can certainly be considered progressive. There's not a trace of backwoods, stuffy, small-town Southern patriotism to be found on "Flowers In The Sand." ~ Nils Herzog (Info)

Flowers in the Sand