Voice of Treason

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What if Iggy Pop had passed over the legendary Stooges to fashion a raucous rock band raised on the sounds of the Mississippi Delta? That band might have been a precursor of the Soledad Brothers--primeval blues-rock intentions, bourbon-soaked vocals and an aggressively charged resonance that begs the listener to turn it up. Also hailing from Pop’s Detroit rock city, where their first single was produced by White Stripes’ frontman Jack White, the trio’s major label debut (a more subtle and streamlined effort than 2002’s Steal Your Soul and Dare Your Spirit to Move) is a back-alley romp of guitars, drums and sax—with occasional organ and harmonica. From the opening guttural chords of "Cage That Tiger" ("I want a purr/All I get is a growl"), they ape Let It Bleed-era Rolling Stones, riff off Sonny Boy Williamson and patriotically salute the fuzzy, old school garage barrage of the American Del-Vettes (see Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968) and British Creation. --Scott Holter

NEW YORK TIMES
The Soledad Brothers are throwback 1960's-style garage-rockers who don't stint on the fuzztone. (Jon Pareles)

Voice of Treason

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Voice of Treason

Average customer rating: Incredible Very Impressive CD Treason ROCKS! Worth your While...

Spinning Treason Manufacturer: Waterstreet ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music General | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Rock | Alternative Rock | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: X-Tremely Fun Spinning Nonstop Sound of Fitness Spinning 130 BPM Cycling Workout Music Maximum Workout Volume 1 mixed by Dave Matthias ASIN: B000059R8E Release Date: 2001-02-01

Tracks:

1. Silent Prayer
2. Last Stand
3. Cycles
4. SuperCool
5. Cold Tears
6. Holy Water
7. State of Grace
8. Spinning
9. Lethal
10. Visual
11. Deff Bendir
12. Kali Ma

Album Description

In a world straight jacketed by scripted passion and corporate identity - sometimes you just want to put push it all away and commit Treason. Treason claims its five members from the spans of North America including Toronto, Canada, Seattle, Washington and San Jose California. Their debut Waterstreet offering, Spinning, has been embraced by the worldwide press as delivering “the rock voice of the millennium” - Italy's Metal Shock magazine, “pumping, gut wrenching guitars” - USA's Electric Basement, “keyboards nothing short of a mindblower”, Portland Music Network, and a “rhythm section as precise as a Swiss watch” - Metal Shock magazine. Treason lays claim to the heart and the imagination of its fans. In the words of Sonic Foundry e-zine, Treason has “serious talent, serious potential”, or more succinctly as Germany's Rock Reunion says “Long Live Treason!”

Treason's previous self titled album, which featured Alan White and Billy Sherwood of Yes, caught the attention of Waterstreet, a new media company in search of serious talent. Waterstreet got Treason into the studio immediately, arranging for the bands chief songwriter/keyboardist Ted Stockwell to produce, Zack Reinig (Foo Fighters, Alice in Chains) to engineer and celebrated producer/mix man Ron Saint Germain (Creed, Soundgarden, 311, Living Color, Tool, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, etc) to mix. “It was incredible to have this wealth of experience, imagination and enthusiasm at our disposal. The situation couldn't have been better”, said Stockwell. Adds Stern “Making Spinning was an amazing experience. You can hear it in the songs; you can feel it in this album. It always gives me shivers when I hear it.”

Customer Reviews:

Incredible.......2003-01-31

This album should dominate world media! It is brilliant and must be heard! Calling it FANTASTIC does not do Spinning justice.

A must have!

Very Impressive CD.......2001-02-12

I finally got a copy of Treason's "Spinning" CD... It is great! ...and if that isn't enough, the songs and the music are good enough that even if Ann Wilson(Heart) wasn't on the CD, I would have bought it anyway...

Treason ROCKS!.......2001-02-08

What a great album. I heard Silent Prayer at MP3.com, and had to get the rest of the album. It was even better than I expected ... I only wish more of my music collection made as much of an impact on me.

Right from the start, Silent Prayer lets you know that this band means business. Last Stand is a song that I HAVE TO SEE LIVE. However my absolute favourite on Spinning is the song Spinning ... it blew me away.

The band is very tight, moody and energetic. I know that sounds weird, but that's the best thing about Treason - there is so much variety in the music and instruments ... and they pull it off. And the vocals are killer ... as are the weird guitar and key sounds.

Gimme more !

Treason ROCKS !

Worth your While..........2001-02-05

The first thing that strikes you about the CD's sound is the clean, crisp production. There's no muddiness here. The sonics are balanced, with no exaggerated highs, mids, or lows. Both the producer and the mastering engineer definitely knew what they were doing!

The 12 songs are varied in style. The band is extremely tight and polished. The singer has a great rock voice. It would be unfair to draw comparisons to a known band. The sound is fresh and current, yet vaguely familiar. The band is not afraid of harmony and melody, and can definitely carry a tune.

Each of the songs creates its own atmosphere. All are unique in their own way. My personal favorites of the 11 tracks on the CD are "Cold Tears" and "Lethal". I kept going back to relisten to these.

Average customer rating: Great Potential & Poor Production The real deal.... Great Blues/Alt/Rock Album

Voice of Treason Soledad Brothers Manufacturer: Sanctuary Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Hardest Walk Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit The Go Broken Boy Soldiers Magic Potion ASIN: B00064LOSC Release Date: 2004-10-26

Tracks:

1. Cage That Tiger
2. The Elucidator
3. Lowdown Streamline
4. Sons Of Dogs
5. Lay Down This World
6. Only Flower In My Bed
7. Boogie With Viner
8. Sights Unseen
9. On Time
10. I'm So Glad
11. Ain't It Funny
12. Handle Song
13. Lorali

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What if Iggy Pop had passed over the legendary Stooges to fashion a raucous rock band raised on the sounds of the Mississippi Delta? That band might have been a precursor of the Soledad Brothers--primeval blues-rock intentions, bourbon-soaked vocals and an aggressively charged resonance that begs the listener to turn it up. Also hailing from Pop's Detroit rock city, where their first single was produced by White Stripes' frontman Jack White, the trio's major label debut (a more subtle and streamlined effort than 2002's Steal Your Soul and Dare Your Spirit to Move) is a back-alley romp of guitars, drums and sax—with occasional organ and harmonica. From the opening guttural chords of "Cage That Tiger" ("I want a purr/All I get is a growl"), they ape Let It Bleed-era Rolling Stones, riff off Sonny Boy Williamson and patriotically salute the fuzzy, old school garage barrage of the American Del-Vettes (see Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era, 1965-1968) and British Creation. --Scott Holter

Customer Reviews:

Great Potential & Poor Production.......2006-02-16

This cd could have been twice as good as it is if these guys would hire a bass player and upgrade there recording production. Half of the songs are "tinny" and are definetly lacking a bass line to drive the melody's. These guys have got potential though. There music is kinda alt-blues-rocky. They are somewhat trying to come off as 'White Strip-ish" with the guitar,drum, no bass gig. It works ok on 1/2 the songs, but the other half aren't all that good with this kind of set up. There are 5 or 6 decent songs, and the rest are below average. Three stars tops.

Gary Allen

The real deal...........2005-02-07

The Soledad Brothers have been around for ten years, and they may one of the last Detroit bands from the scene that spawn The White Stripes and The Von Bondies. They have released many albums but nothing that expresses their rage and glory. Voice of treason may that record that catapults them into the forebrain of the collective imagination. They are dedicated to the blues. "Cage That Tiger" is a sign of good things to come. Some bands think that they are playing the blues, but listen to things like "Son of Dogs" and you know that this band is the rightful heir to John Lee Hooker and Canned Heat. I look forward to checking these guys out live for real. They seem like a band that should break out. The blues live on in this music.

Great Blues/Alt/Rock Album.......2004-11-04

These guys are great. They played my town and I went out and bought the CD right after I saw them live. Really wild and thoughtful rock songs with some serious cool Blues. Really enjoying this one.

Average customer rating: Selective Tastes

1605: Treason & Discord Manufacturer: Signum UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Byrd, William | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Dering, Richard | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Dowland | Dowland, John | ( D ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Fantasies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music King's Singers | ( K ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Anthems | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Masses | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Motets | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music Solo Instrumental | New Age | Styles | Music Classical | Imports | Stores | Music Similar Items: Sacred Bridges ASIN: B0009KIYCM Release Date: 2005-06-28

Customer Reviews:

Selective Tastes.......2005-10-08

This is a heavily "themed" collection, the theme being the English social-religious crisis of 1605. The thematic culmination is "Master Tresham," a contemporary (drawn from period sources) concert piece--evocative, original, striking, doubtless powerful in concert, but listenable on a CD perhaps once. Buy the CD instead for William Byrd's Four Voice Mass--an "early music" reading, pitched low sung edgily, evoking its contemporary seditiousness--stands the hair on end. Buy it also for Byrd's "Civitas sancti tui," the final proof of how disciplined, taut, and yet at the same moment heartbreakingly emotional this music can be.

Average customer rating:

Voice of Treason ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0002TL73S Release Date: 2004-06-15

Album Description

The Soledad Brothers have a history that is inextricably linked to their Detroit cohorts The White Stripes, and the Soledad sound is about what you'd expect from a band that began recording in Jack White's living room. Borrowing liberally from the Stones and the Velvets - as well as most of the requisite blues icons - Voice of Treason is an engaging roadhouse stomp that makes for a mean soundtrack to either a night of excess or a night out on the open road. Frontman Johnny Walker puts a likeable strut into his singing, and he has enough charisma to be convincing even when the music isn't doing much to support him. The album gets off to an inauspicious start with three by-the-book barroom rockers that, while enjoyable, could be the work of a thousand other bands. Smash. 2005.

Average customer rating: Soledad justs keeps getting better!

Voice of Treason Soledad Brothers Manufacturer: Umvd Import ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Indie Rock | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Garage Rock | Rock | Alternative Styles | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Blues Rock | Rock | Styles | Music General | Rock | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Electric Blues Guitar | Blues | Styles | Music Acoustic Blues | Blues | Styles | Music Rock | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B0000ADYAC Release Date: 2003-10-07

Tracks:

1. Cage That Tiger
2. Elucidator
3. Lowdown Streamline
4. Sons of Dogs
5. Lay Down This World
6. Only Flower in My Bed
7. Boogie With Viner
8. Sights Unseen
9. On Time
10. I'm So Glad
11. Ain't It Funny
12. Handle Song
13. Lorali

Album Description

Canadian release from the Detroit based 'dark blues' trio follows their 2002 effort 'Steal Your Soul & Dare Your Spirit To Move'. This album is not scheduled for release in the US. Features 13 tracks. 2003.

Customer Reviews:

Soledad justs keeps getting better!.......2003-11-11

Once again, these gentlemen have managed to capture the essence of how modern rock and roll should sound. Rooted of course in blues, Johnnie, Ben and Oliver have expanded their sound to include a more eclectic nature. But, the core of the album still has these 3 men from Ohio rocking and having a lot of fun doing it. I highly recomend this album if you would like to hear a creative, fresh interpertation of the blues and the horde of rock artists to spawn from its influence.

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