Diana Moves Sessions Part One
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Diana Moves Sessions Part One by The Quick: A Rock Opera
17-year-old Leslie Danko steps out of her troubled childhood and onto the highway as she searches for answers and experience in pursuit of her favorite rock band, Yosemite Quick. Traveling up the west coast from Los Angeles to Portland, her journey becomes a vivid examination of all things past and all things possible as she wrestles with newfound love and betrayal, alienation and addiction, and the relationship between herself and her unborn child, Diana
This collection of songs is the first installment of recordings from the original rock opera Diana Moves concieved and performed by Seattle based band The Quick with book written by Rob Knop and Sheila Callaghan and music written by Rob Knop, Steve Hatzai, Tim Castellani, Mark Volpe, and Jarrod Kaplan. Please visit our project website at www.dianamoves.com to learn more about the artists or view the interactive roadtrip scrapbook designed to compliment the storyline of the album. Hear me, who are we, yeah yeah, this is our history!
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Diana Moves extends pop-rock pioneering
author: Seattle Post Intelligencer
"Grease," "Hair," "Rocky Horror," "Starlight Express," "Tommy," "Rent" and "Hedwig" are among the shows that have introduced young audiences to the ageless joys of the stage musical. Within the restrictive confines of grunge expression, "Diana Moves" extends the pop-rock pioneering
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This is no "Rent"-like poseur
author: Seattle Weekly
The music surges with confidence. With a few exceptions— Stephen Trask’s Hedwig chief among them—rock musicals tend to be no more than Broadway show tunes souped up with guitars. But this score, composed by Knop, Steve Hatzai, Mark Volpe, and Knop’s band, the Quick, is no Rent-like poseur. Though the lyrics still need a little work, the songs all have a melancholy, West Coast contemplativeness that rocks convincingly; they actually sound like something these people might sing were they to live in a universe that encouraged such expression.
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