GABRIELLE DE VAL and The Dragonlords (Steve Overland, Robin McAuley) – Tiger (2024) *HQ*
Fireworks Magazine & Escape Music are releasing this special album, a Numbered Limited Edition only physical CD, of GABRIELLE DE VAL and The Dragonlords, entitled “Tiger“. De Val is a terrific female singer with true love for classic AOR / Melodic Rock who pleased us with her debut album ‘Kiss In a Dragon Night’ last year.
Well, this is not the second Gabrielle de Val solo album. The original idea behind the ”Tiger” album was to be a collection of songs left of the original Gabrielle De Val debut CD, along with different versions of songs that appeared on there.
But all the singers and the label had such fun putting Gabrielle’s 1st album together that even more songs were recorded, with many of the guest duo vocalists doing lead vocals themselves. All the singers that appear on this album also appeared on ‘Kiss In a Dragon Night’, hence the Dragonlords’ group name.
So along with originals by Gabrielle De Val like opener ‘Think Like a Man’, which she has been playing live for the past year, and ‘I’m In Chains’ – both songs written by Steve Overland and Tommy Denander, we also Last In Line’s Andrew Freeman take on the classic Magnum song ‘Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping’). Seven’s Mick Devine perform a superb rocked-up version of the Chesney Hawkes #1 hit ‘The One And Only’, complete with guitar solo from Fredrik Folkare (Nordic Union).
MSG / Black Swan vocalist Robin McAuley takes lead on two original tracks, one of which, ‘Bowmore’, was specially written for this release. FM’s Steve Overland does his usual superlative job on The Val’s ‘Pay For the Lonely Nights’ while Mark Boals similarly does a great rendition of ‘When Midnight Comes’.
The whole point of this album was just to have a great time with people who loved working together and share it with the fans. And the good news? There’s enough songs left for a 2nd album!
Highly Recommended
01 – Think Like A Man
02 – Tiger (duet with Elinor Asp)
03 – The One And Only (Lead Vocals Mick Devine)
04 – Bowmore (Lead Vocals Robin McAuley)
05 – Midnight (You Won’t Be Sleeping) (Lead Vocals Andrew Freeman)
06 – I’m In Chains
07 – Pay For The Lonely Nights (Lead Vocals Steve Overland)
08 – Little Piece Of Heaven
09 – When Midnight Comes (Lead Vocals Mark Boals)
10 – Up To Where You Are
11 – We Live, We Learn (Lead Vocals Robin McAuley)
Guitar – Steve Morris
Guitar, Bass – Fredrik Folkare
Keyboards – Nick Foley, Tommy Denander
Bass – Chris Childs
Drums – Johan Kullberg, Josh Devine
BUY
eonianrecords.com/titles-d/gabrielle-de-val-and-the-dragonlords-tiger
