MAGIC DANCE – Haunting Me (CD version) *Exclusive*

From time to time, as fans of ’80s culture, this website covers some of the finest synthwave releases which revive that decade sound & style. “Haunting Me” is the fourth release from MAGIC DANCE, the band / project commanded by New York musician Jon Siejka, a wonderful slice of pure Eighties radio-friendly, soundtrack-like songs.
In the last five years or so, there has been a constantly growing scene of this type of music all over the world, mostly due to technology advance which allow to reproduce those synthesized sounds by your own with proper equipment.
But you need to write ‘songs’, and good ones to make it work. Jon Siejka and his Magic Dance got ’em.

Additionally, Jon Siejka is not limited to programming to obtain that ‘classic’ ’80s sounds, he play electric guitar, some bass and sings pretty well.
Some of his songs are impregnated with a ‘Rock’ spirit as well, think Miami Vice but also ‘action movie’ AOR soundtracks.

As opener we have the energetic instrumental ‘Last Light’, an uplifting mix of soaring synths and electric guitars. This track would be perfect in an ’80s John Hughes-style film.
Title track ‘Still Haunting Me’ is the first vocal track and Jon’s voice is in fine form. His style perfectly suits the style of music he creates. There’s a passion required to give these songs the authenticity that is needed to pull them off, and there is plenty of that going on here. Guitars are pushed to the fore and there’s a great solo by Tim Mackey on this.

‘I Wanna Know’ is next up and is a highlight for me. With its big synths, rocking guitars and pumping AOR melody you’d expect to see this as a video on MTV, wedged in between Journey, Heart and Foreigner. Not only is this a great sounding song but Magic Dance manage to complete the whole package with the use of sublime breaks, builds and bridges — going the extra mile in overall songwriting craft.
‘Another Life, Another Time’ is a classic rock ballad wrapped by a 1984 sound with nice guitars, piano, a healthy dose of chiming synths and layered chorus vocals set the scene here. I can picture the music video for this now – a girl, a guy, rain. Longing looks, hands breaking apart in slow motion. May a little extra hairspray…

Jon Siejka’s Magic Dance is much more than a synthwave artist creating his music behind a synthesizer. He blends all these stuff with real electric guitars / vocals, and composing true rock&pop, 80s radio-friendly AOR songs with substance
It’s great to see more artists embracing classic adult contemporary rock and exploring the Top 40 chart sounds of the ’80s / movie soundtracks that are not solely synth-pop focused.
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01 – Last Light
02 – Still Haunting Me
03 – I Wanna Know
04 – Another Life, Another Time
05 – ‘Til You’re All Mine
06 – Kiss Scene
07 – One Step Away (Is This For Real)
08 – Lay Me Down
09 – The Mirror of Dreams
10 – The Unknown Beyond

All songs, vocals & instruments: Jon Siejka
Guitar solo in “I Wanna Know” by Tim Mackey

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