[Album Review]: Alexandra Zerner - 9 Stories (2014)

Born in Sofia, Bulgaria, Alexandra Zerner is a solo artist, guitar player, multi-instrumentalist, composer, session musician and sound engineer. And in November of year de 2014, she started her solo career as a guitarist, working on her debut solo album “9 Stories”, 

The latest release is entitled  "9 Stories", features nine themed/conceptual pieces that enable Alexandra Zerner to display pretty impressive compositional, production and performance capabilities. Alexandra Zerner is a multi-instrumentalist and the tunes benefit from the full use of Alexandra tonal pallet, including guitar piano and organ which adds significantly to quality of the album. In the solo work, you can hear Alexandra's influences, a nod to Petrucci a wink to Friedman ("Memoirs Of A Geisha" and "The Sorrows Of Young Werther") and Yngwie/Becker overtones ("Girl With A Pearl Earring") . The guitar tone is full on and metallic, plenty of over driven grunt, but not too bright in tone, which adds to over all sound balance for the album.
Alexandra Zerner

Alexandra has created exquisite classical acoustic pieces, subtle classical piano driven pieces like Light Breathing and then more hard hitting progressive rock/metal tracks in your work. The whole album is well recorded and produced, with intelligent compositions which are well balanced and well thought through. I am pleased to say there is a significant amount of high quality guitar playing through out which will tick the box of any guitar fan and the conceptual nature of the album should put it on the shopping list of fans progressive music.

Tracklist
1 A Perfect Day for Bananafish 
2 Léon
3 Lolita
4 Memoirs of a Geisha
5 Light Breathing
6 For Esmé - With Love and Squalor 
7 Girl with a Pearl Earring
8 The Seducer's Diary
9 The Sorrows of Young Werther

                            

1 comment:

  1. 9 stories is masterpiece! Not your STANDARD rock/heavy rock/prog production. More to the INTELLIGENT side of music. Well thought out and executed. Perfection is chasing ones tail but, this production comes so close....without the chasing...

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