Friday, March 25, 2011

Reviews: Amadeus Awad Live in Hamra - Picadelli Center - 18th Of December

Hamra "Christmas Twinkle" Festival 2010
By Rach April Minä

After intensive requests from their fans to perform a gig in Hamra , Amadeus Awad hit the stage of the Picadelli Centre in Hamra Street as part of the Hamra "Chistmas Twinkle" Festival organized by the AUB music club. This Festival was a two-day concert on December the 18th and the 19th and it featured among the best local Lebanese Bands , Amadeus Awad performed on the 18th and what was exquisitely refreshing to us all is the sight of the number of fans who sticked around and who came exclusively to catch the guys Rockin' that stage as always! The Band had prepared for their audience a mixture of Original materials and Deep-Puprle's Favorite covers. 

 
They Started-off with "Full Moon Murder" which is a fast-beat fusional piece with spacey rock sounds standing-out all-through the track.
Amadeus performed this Instrumental with a true suspence feel created by the heavy use of Suspended chords.

And Then "Prologue" , This piece worked people's appetite for some beautiful neo-classical melodies played throughout both quiet and loud passages. This instrumental starts off heavier with those powerful drum beats to take a calmer tone through its middle as all goes mute with only the keyboard providing a dim background until the guitar kicks off again after a few quiet seconds , What A track! The audience cheered its exciting and esoteric mood.


And then "Time" follows it immediately with a keyboard solo as intro , paving the way for the vocals to begin.. Elia Che sang those intricate lyrics softly yet powerfully with some high pitches on the first part and then calming the mood down on the second part with a series of whispered-like vocal lines.

"Time" is an emotional operatic piece , a soothing breather after the heavy guitar playing in "Prologue". And The instrumental piece "Perpetual Voyage" had then concluded the first part of this enthralling set as the masterful continuity of "Prologue" and "Time" , It's a beautifully passionate piece so fusional and full of entangled sounds in its long composition. Amadeus played with great feel , at some point this track took an accelerated tone , the mood was progressive at its best , and some great fretting was exhibited. The crowd was cheering and the spirit was on fire , everyone was enjoying the show and it was all flowing smoothly.


The last two songs of the Act were the All-time classics "Soldier Of Fortune" and "When A blind Man Cries" where Elia Che excelled with an impressive , emotional and heart-felt singing ,combined with Amadeus's own Occult touch to the songs it was all in all a Skilfull , talented and Genius Show!   We would like to thank everyone who participated in the making of this event and for all the people who spread the word about it , it was a true blast!  

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