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.
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