NOORA LOUHIMO EXPERIENCE – Eternal Wheel Of Time And Space (2021)
While Finland’s female vocalist NOORA LOUHIMO became known as front woman for commercial power metallers Battle Beast, she has a different musical background. And that it’s reflected into Noora’s solo album “Eternal Wheel Of Time And Space“, with the NOORA LOUHIMO EXPERIENCE.
The material here is traditional hard rock with a strong dose of blues foundation, there’s some funk and Midwestern American ‘acoustic-road’ tunes as well, all with melody and driven by the impressive soulful voice of Louhimo.
Indeed, “Eternal Wheel Of Time And Space” seems recorded in America during the Eighties, and at places, the Seventies. All with a modern polished production but a natural, timeless sound.
Noora says; “Actually, I started listening to classic metal and hard rock since I was a little girl. My father used to play LED ZEPPELIN, AC/DC and all the best. When I was around 15 or 16 years old, I started listening to DIO and such. That was the first time I heard IRON MAIDEN, which is my favorite to this day. Actually, I didn’t think when I was 15 or 16 that I would ever be a metal singer.”
She continued: “Even though I was singing back then, I already knew at four years old I wanted to be some sort of performer. When I was a teenager, I was a more pop and bluesy kind of singer.
I began studying more pop jazz music and I found my first band, which was called ADMIRAL OCTOPUS. We were playing Janis Joplin, Eric Clapton, and that kind of stuff. I fell in love with blues back then and started to find my raspy sound through Janis’s music.”
All these classic rock songs converging bluesy hard rock, funky, acoustic rock and more like ‘All These Yesterdays’, ‘Last In Line’ (not a DIO cover), ‘Sinner On The Floor’, or ‘Piece Of My Heart’ are plenty of melodies – and when she rocks, groove – timeless pieces of female fronted rock bringing back images of sweaty clubs and stadium arenas.
Noora vocals are the star however there’s an integral ‘band sound’ provided by experienced Scandinavian musicians.
Highly Recommended
01 – Eternal Wheel Of Time And Space
02 – Valkyrie
03 – All These Yesterdays
04 – Piece Of Your Love
05 – New You (duet with Pekka V. Louhimo)
06 – Intro (Last In Line)
07 – Last In Line
08 – Sinner On The Floor
09 – If I Was Your Woman
10 – Urban Life
11 – Piece Of My Heart
12 – CODA
13 – Relax (remix, 10 years back bonus track)
Vocals – Noora Louhimo
Guitars – Samuli Erkkilä
Guitars – JC Halttunen
Drums – Juuso Raatikainen
Bass – AP Kauppinen
Keys – Okke Komulainen
Backing vocals – Anni Lintula
Backing vocals – Hanna Marttila
Backing vocals – Petra-Miisa Juusenaho
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