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Published on: 2/6/2005
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"I like to give people shivers," says Dream Aria's lead vocalist Ann Burstyn.
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Ann Burstyn provides, "We were asked to write about Anne Bonny so the lyrics reflect her life on the high seas.
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Joining him on his musical adventure have been Ann Burstyn on lead vocals, Gary Gray on drums, Jozef Pilasanovic on guitar, bass, and flute, and Garry Flint whose talents as a robust drummer for Canada's popular Rock band National Velvet proved to be skillful as the producer for Dream Aria's album.
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Ann explains, "Don and Garry Flint had met years ago on a past musical project.
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Ann also crafted the name, Dream Aria, which she forms, "The music is dreamy and has some operatic passages so I thought It might convey this to the listener."She is also a gifted painter and made the artwork for the album cover.Don reveals, "Ann did the drawing for the album cover.She had shown me her artwork and my first thought was the cosmic pea soup from where we all emerge.I went home afterwards and wrote the song 'In The Wake-Soul' with the concept of male and female joining together to create the spark of life.I came up with the title of the album inspired by Ann's drawing.The song 'In The Wake-Soul' was before the physical life and 'In The Wake-Body' is the rejoicing of the physical body."Don imparts, "I wrote the music, Ann wrote a lot of the lyrics on the spot as well as many of the vocal melodies, and Jozef created all of his parts on the guitar mostly in one take.
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Ann mentions some online media outlets which have helped build the band's fan base like "Myspace.com, garageband.com, mixposure.com, letstalkmusic.com, and indiehangout.com."Don consigns, " I get Ann to do all the interviews for Dream Aria.
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"I spent a good six months promoting In the Wake and I know Ann has been doing promotional work as well.
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The consonance of "Snapshot" soars with the tender strength of Ann Burstyn's operatic/rock-laden resonance melded into the trance-like verses of the keyboards and electric guitar.