ZANDEM – Zandem (Original 9 track Version 2006) + The Lost Sessions (2009) *0dayrox Exclusive*
As requested, here’s the rare, very hard to find recordings from ZANDEM, the project featuring Alan Kelly of SHY fame (lead vocals, all instruments) and Greek composer & guitarist Babis Kaisas (KAISAS) founded in the mid-2000’s.
Zandem born as fun, when Kelly started exchanging music stuff with one fan from his SHY days, Babis Kaisas from Greece. Soon they came up with demoed song ideas from Babis, and Alan had treated them in a more professional way adding lead vocals / lyrics, keys, lead guitars, bass, and drums of course.
That led to the first self-titled 9-track Zandem demo mid-2006. At some point they tried the ex-Karallon bassist Dave Deeley for the singer’s spot in late 2006. Using the same demo cover/title, they re-released the CD-r with 3 tracks sung by Dave only.
Some record labels were interested in Zandem, but Alan Kelly decided he wanted to concentrate on his own material towards September 2007, that came to fruition a few years later under the name 7HY.
Babis Kaisas continued under the Zandem name, recording some new songs with him doing lead vocals. In 2009 Babis released ”The Lost Sessions”, actually closing the Zandem chapter by putting all the lost tracks that had not been on the previous CD-r, the one with Dave Deeley on lead vocals as well, all on 1 disc.
We have here all the ZANDEM material, the first 2006 CD with Kelly on all lead vocals, and ‘The Lost Sessions 2009’ with all three vocalists. This is classic melodic rock / AOR in the vein of BLUE TEARS, AMAZE ME, WAYSTED’s melodic side, and SHY.
All songs on ‘Zandem’ 2006 are sung by Kelly, and he perform others on ‘The Lost Sessions 2009’ as well, he owns the right vocal register for this type of melodic stuff, very AORish.
While a few tracks on ‘The Lost Sessions 2009’ are the same, these are sung between Dave Deeley and Kaisas, and are differently mixed as well.
The sound quality is pretty good for demos, and while there’s a little screeching on a couple of tracks, all results perfectly listenable.
Zandem was also featured on the ‘Little Heroes Vol.10’ CD compilation by Underground Tapes, that came out somewhere around the end of the project.
Nowadays Babis Kaisas is working under the band name KAISAS having released 2 strong melodic rock albums so far with collaborations from singers like Tony Mills (SHY/TNT), and Mark Evans (Heaven’s Edge). Alan Kelly formed his own project 7HY (aka Seven Hard Years) with which he has released some good albums as well.
Rare, collectible melodic hard rock music with that ’80s feel all over.
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Zandem (Original 9 track Version 2006)
01 – Cold Feelings
02 – Lonely Hunter
03 – Helen
04 – Crazy
05 – Take Away Your Pain
06 – Surrender
07 – Stand And Fight
08 – Can’t Let You Go
09 – Innocent Cry
The Lost Sessions 2009
01 – Mystery Man
02 – Shoot To Kill
03 – All Unite
04 – That’s Me
05 – Wounded And Alone
06 – Fight The Lyin’ System
07 – Poison Heart
08 – Crazy
09 – Lonely Hunter
10 – Surrender
11 – It’s My Life
12 – Strangers In The Night
13 – Calling From Another World
14 – Chemistry
15 – Never Gonna Get Enuff
16 – Sins Of Man Kind
Alan Kelly – Lead Vocals, Guitars, Bass, Drums, Keys
Babis Kaisas – Guitar, Lead Vocals, Original Ideas
Dave Deeley – Lead Vocals (on some The Lost Sessions demos)
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