Twinspirits
The Music That Will Heal the World Lion Music

by Franco Wissa
Staff Writer

Comments: Twinspirits is the brainchild of Daniele Liverani who began studying classical piano at the age of six. At 17, he was introduced to guitar and began to take the teachings of Bach, Mozart and Chopin and in the style of Yngvie Malmsteen, began mixing the sounds of the masters with slightly harder edge. His first release, 1988's Me and Mee Too, was recorded on a four-track recorder and laying heavy on his early influences, with Daniele playing guitar, bass, and keyboards. In 1991 Daniele began to venture further away from his roots, experimenting with a more progressive rock sound. About this same time he formed his first real band, a six-piece titled Exarule, and recorded a demo titled, As A Rule in 1991. Fast forward to 2003 and Daniele began to finally get recognition on a much larger scale with the formation of the hard rock band Khymera, also featuring Steve Walsh, Mike Slamer, and Dario Ciccioni.

Listening to Twinspirits The Music That Will Heal The World, what becomes quickly evident is the love that Daniele Liverani has for epic, larger-than-life sound. Each track is wall to wall sound, with massive amounts of keyboards, drums and guitar chord after guitar chord. This debut CD features some of rock’s great musical talents, with 18 year old guitar prodigy Tommy Ermoli, bassist Albert Rigoni, drummer Dario Ciccioni and vocalist Soren Adamsen.

On The Music That Will Heal The World, Daniele goes back to his keyboard roots and much in the style of great prog rockers like The Sign and House of Lords where track after track the keyboard is front and center. The opening “Projected,” is a 4:22 keyboard (and mid-way guitar) introduction that flows into track two, “Back to Reality,” where again, it is almost a minute into the track where the vocals of Soren Adamsen finally come in. Track three, “What You Want,” is a standout with mean, sliding bass guitar work. Noteworthy as well is the eerie sounding vocals.

Coming across as a hard rocker is track four, “Take My Hand,” an almost eight-minute journey of sound that almost pounds you in the head with one keyboard and guitar riff after another. The vocals were a welcome change. A true, almost metal with deep, sounding vocals like Omen’s JD Kimball was track five, “Power To Kill.” Almost sounding like “Power To Kill,” was track six, “Understand.” At over 10 minutes, this was a huge prog rocker, with voices, keyboards, and guitars telling the story of what we must do as humanity to “understand” the secrets of this world. After a while, it became hard to concentrate on what it was that the lyrics were about, it was that over-whelming. Barely halfway into this monster of a track you are left shaking your head and wondering where this track is going. Not wanting to take anything away from the undeniable talents of Tommy Ermoli and the remaining band members on this track, perhaps it might have been better to cut this down in half.

The highlight of the CD was track seven, “Fire,” with its opening speaking of the war on terror and the killing of our US troops. From there heavy, deep guitar chords, with the drums of Dario adding a tough sounding edge. This was great, great track. It cascades back and forth from a crushing, furious rocker into a quiet hush with the perfect blend of serene vocals and accompanying drums and guitar. This was one excellent hard rocker. Nasty sounding, heavy chords keep track eight, “It’s Just Life,” moving forward, and wanted me to keep hearing what one bar after another would bring. With its interesting changes in pitch and intensity “It’s Just Life,” was another of the CD’s highlights. At almost 13 minutes came the closing title track “The Music That Will Heal The World.” You leave this, with a feeling that will take you several minutes to come down from.

This may not make you an immediate fan of Twinspirits. But with that having been said, there is no denying the talents of those involved. While it has all that a prog rocker may require from a band, with heavy guitars, layers upon layers of keyboards, and some incredible bass and drumming. It possess energy, attitude and sound galore. But that maybe more than some can take.

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HRH rating: 6/10