Product Description

Symphonic rock vocalist Lana Lane has just completed a new, stylized covers albums for release this winter entitled Gemini. It has been a tradition in Japan for Lana to release a 'specialty album' every two years. Lana, along with producer / keyboardist / husband Erik Norlander, started with the Lana Lane Ballad Collection in 1998, then continued with Ballad Collection 2 (2000), Covers Collection (2002) and Winter Sessions (2004). Now for 2006, Lana continues this excellent tradition for the winter season with Gemini. Gemini is an album of classic rock covers from the 60s and 70s featuring the backing musicians Vinny Appice (d), Tony Franklin (b), George Lynch (g), Mark McCrite (g, v) and Erik Norlander (k) along with Kelly Keeling providing additional duet and harmony vocals. Gemini is the astrological symbol for twins, and since this is Lana's second album of all covers, the album carries the theme of 'two' throughout. Lana recorded two songs by each classic rock artist for this release: a pair of songs each originally recorded by Cream, Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues, Heart, Jefferson Airplane and Foreigner. Of particular note is Lana's 'Pink Moon Suite' that combines the song 'Johnny Moon' -- originally recorded by Heart -- with songs from most of 'side one' of Pink Floyd's landmark 'Dark Side of the Moon' album.

Review

Trademark of Quality By Rev. Keith A Gordon ...Lane and crew reinvent these songs, from the ground up, discovering the grain of truth at the core of each and building a new, different, and sometimes better version of the song....Gemini is a sparkling example of the talents of this incredible husband and wife team, and a fine introduction to one of the best vocalists that you'll ever experience... --Trademark of Quality

Dead Earnest By Andy Garibaldi The album ends with the Moody Blues' "Nights In White Satin", performed just as you'd imagine, and bringing things to a predictably proggy conclusion, but, it has to be said, sounding a whole lot stronger than the original ever did, in the capable hands of Lana Lane's richly textured, soaring beauty of a vocal and, for a song I've always disliked with a passion, the first time I've ever heard a version of it that I'd want to hear a few times more ... one stone cold stunner of an album and a thing to be treasured. --Dead Earnest

Fireworks By Paul Jerome Smith This new release by the extremely versatile Lana Lane is an album of classic rock covers from the 1960s and 1970s all familiar songs to me and in some cases held so dear that I could not imagine anybody managing to impress me with their interpretations. So how has Lana Lane fared? My conclusion is to say very successfully on the whole. This is another classy album for aficionados of Lana Lane to add to their collections. --Fireworks