The songs on the CD are a variation of pure AOR and pure pop.
author: Gabor Kleinbloesem
Out of Germany comes ARIS, a very professional
sounding lighter AOR/Pop band. They recorded their
debut CD 'Rain dries' in their own studio and it all
sounds pretty good to me. There are 14 songs on the
CD and there is a variation of pure AOR songs and
pure Pop tracks. At times the band can be compared
to bands like HIGHER GROUND, PROMOTION,
OUTRIDER, BOULEVARD…
Opener "No one else" is a good example of how good
this band can sound, because this first track is a lovely calmer AOR piece in the style of
JOURNEY/STRANGEWAYS. A great start for ARIS and I really thought this was going
all the way throughout the CD. Unfortunately, next track "Like your daddy" is pure Pop
and has nothing to do with our beloved musicstyle. "Smile" follows in a poppy AOR
style, a bit like old PROMOTION. Then we're back into AOR territory again on the
song "Keeps me alive", a great pure AOR song (with a lovely melodic guitarsolo) in the
style of JOURNEY and STRANGEWAYS again.
After this song, the band is changing back to a very calm popstyle on songs like
"Moonlight", "Love calling", "Crazy for you" and "Where do we go". On songs like those
ARIS sounds like BOB CARLISLE and the AOR influences are hard to find. Happily,
there are also some more AOR orientated pieces such as "She cries" (calmer progressive
AOR), "Wonderland" (calmer AOR) and "Friendly face". This last mentioned song is
again superb pure AOR (a la STRANGEWAYS and JOURNEY).
So, in the end we got three awesome pure AOR songs ("No one else", " Friendly face"
and "Keeps me alive") and the rest is either Poppy AOR or pure Pop. It's your choice if
you're interested in such a diverse band. Well, I really enjoyed ARIS and besides
musically, I also need to add that the lay-out of their CD is looking very good. More info
on ARIS at:
http://www.mp3.com/projektaris
http://members.aol.com/projektaris
and e-mail them at: ReneGa@t-online.de
Rating: 7,5/10
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ARIS is "Back" with a chartbreaker
author: Tom
ARIS is back with a multiple no.1 hit on the online internet musik charts www.besonic.com (the biggest online charts worldwide) with a song called "BACK". I like the new style from ARIS is much better then the old CD, because they sounds like "linkin park" or "evanescence". You can hear it on: http://www.artist-tonstudios.de click on "REFERENZEN", or of course on http://www.besonic.com/
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