Orianthi Full Album

[Micol Cohn]

Thediscography of Australian singer-songwriter Orianthi consists of five studio albums, six singles, ten music videos, a re-issue, an extended play, and 21 other collaborations. Her second studio album, Believe, was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) in 2010.

Rock Candy is slightly marred by the lack of guitar leads. The world knows Orianthi can shred, yet she gives mere glimpses on this album. Several of these tracks could be replaced with instrumentals. The album is barely 31 minutes long, which is ample time to shred on three or four tracks. However, when Orianthi does rip, she never disappoints.

Rock Candy will appease fans of Orianthi and a good starting point for people new to guitar heavy music. There are some accessible songs on here. However, the lack of shred guitar makes me wish Orianthi could have given us a little more candy.

Ever since my conversation with Orianthi in March of this year, I have been eagerly anticipating the album after we talked about the production of the full length album which was produced by Marti Frederiksen.

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Yes, there are exceptions. Established artists who have built large followings over the years, can turn the dial, and diversify with a degree of success. After all, we have seen this throughout the decades with artists like Shania Twain. She was an accomplished country artist that turn pop. Overnight it seems, she changed genre, and increased her fan base. Taylor Swift did it. Often compared to Shania Twain Taylor Swift was performed country, but then developed into a music icon. Even after receiving backlash over her career choices, Taylor Swift was able to become a musical powerhouse.

When she was 18 years old, she had the opportunity to meet and play with Carlos Santana in her hometown in Adelaide, who asked him to join her on stage and Orianthi played with Carlos Santana the entire concert. Later in life, Orianthi Panagaris would go on to perform with some of best guitarists in the world. Several times she has worked and collaborated with Alice Cooper, Steve Vai, Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, Michael Bolton, Prince, ZZ Top, Adam Lambert, Carrie Underwood, John Mayer, Dave Stewart, and many more international artists.

Orianthi: Thank you so much! Absolutely I felt confident going to the studio ..I had that riff for a while and I was just messing with it and I wrote the lyrics really fast and it came together really naturally.

Guitar Thrills: Did you decide to change up your guitar brand for the new sound, does it make a difference? I can imagine that the combination of guitar, amp and maybe pedals have an impact to the sound you are wanting to generate. What does the normal set up look like for you in studio?

Guitar Thrills: Do you already have the album completed? Also, are there any other artists that you decided to work with? Larkin Poe, Samantha Fish, Kenny Wayne Shephard, Eric Gales, and Gary Clark would be some great blues artists to work with.

Guitar Thrills: I have some other questions, that I would like to know. How tight are you with the Raiders Owner Mark Davis? Is it too late, to get you to change teams, that you support? You know the Bucs have a large following in the U.K. ?

Guitar Thrills: We want to thank you for joining us again. I always look forward to hearing from you. You one of top performing guitarists in the World. We look forward to what you will do next. Feel free to keep us in the loop. We are always willing to support your projects and to encourage your fan base to use their buying power for your music. They will never be disappointed.

Australian guitarist Orianthi is back with a new album, this one a solo effort to follow a collaboration with Richie Sambora known as RSO, and I was eager to see how diverse it got. After all, she jammed on stage with Carlos Santana at eighteen and moved on to work in multiple genres, playing the Grammy Awards with Carrie Underwood, performing in Michael Jackson's This is It show and touring with Alice Cooper for a few years. This ought to be interesting!

And that it is. While it's often heavy, with searing solos over solid riffs, and it features soul, funk, pop and other genres on top of a hard rock base, the overriding feeling I got was alternative rock. In fact, I often got a Sheryl Crow vibe, that stripped down melodic rock mindset from her Tuesday Night Music Club days, but often half buried under a few layers of amped up power and digital programming, like Crow jamming with Lenny Kravitz.

If I'm reading this properly, there are only three musicians involved: Orianthi herself, on both guitar and vocals, plus some of the programming, and a couple of brothers called Evan & Marti Frederiksen. The former handles bass and drums, while the latter plays percussion and handles the programming that Orianthi doesn't do herself. You might imagine quite the electronic album from that, but this is definitely rooted in rock, however jazzed up it might get with decoration.

That decoration may make or break this for a lot of people, of course, but the more open minded will get a blast out of this. Contagious is emphatic, with an incessant rhythm assault, Orianthi in a full on Steve Vai mode and even some Dio-era Rainbow vocal changes. It knows how exactly how to groove.

And this album carries on in reasonably similar vein for a while from there, those effects and rhythms changing, the funk or soul creeping in and out and the odd influences shifting up constantly. Sinners Hymn starts to hint at Hendrix before suddenly taking a left turn into pop territory instead, ahead of the crunch kicking back in. Impulsive is a glam rock anthem. Rescue Me is the most overt Sheryl Crow number, but there's R&B in that voice too, powerfully so. It's clear from the far quieter, Adele-esque song, Crawling Out of the Dark, that Orianthi's mad guitar skills apart, her voice could have made her a name in this industry on its own.

It's weird to listen to a song like Rescue Me, realising that, with a wildly different approach, it could have become a dancefloor hit but instead went for a song that mixes up Adele with Eddie Van Halen. It really is a good weird though, even if I could see someone covering this on a talent show because it allows them to showcase their voice but also go wild with emphasis to win over the audience. Sorry is the same sort of song without quite as much oomph. Moonwalker is clearly a homage to Jackson and it has a quirky beat that it's easy to see him dancing to.

I was looking for diversity in genre and I found that, albeit not to the degree that I expected. What I ended up being surprised by was the way in which Orianthi's guitar is used to such broad effect. Even on the poppier songs, she rocks out at some point with a solo because, as confident she is as a singer, she's a guitarist first and foremost. But it gradually became clear to me that many of the effects that I initially thought were programming tricks are her doing interesting things with her guitar. Steve Vai casts a long shadow over this album and I'm almost more impressed by her textures and effects than I am her excellent solos.

And that makes this a deep album that rewards further listens. Frankly, the people who pick this up in expectation of an Alice Cooper album or a Richie Sambora album are likely to put it back down again pretty quickly. It's the people open to something rooted in decades of genres but very contemporary in its approach who will listen again and again and find new things in the music as they do so. This is going to seriously grow.

Platinum-selling recording artist and world-class guitarist Orianthi announced the release of her new album, "O," on Nov. 6 (Frontiers Music Srl). This will be Orianthi's first new studio album in seven years and her first new music as a solo artist in six years.

In addition to her album release with Frontiers this fall, Orianthi also has a signature acoustic guitar being released in partnership with Gibson Guitars with first-of-its-kind engineering that will be revealed in early 2021.

Career-long fans are used to seeing their favorite world-class guitarist playing arenas with rock royalty and global superstars such as Michael Jackson, Carlos Santana, Carrie Underwood and Alice Cooper. The juxtaposition of her newly arrived online popularity and her lifelong pursuit of artistic credibility is the nebulous of this shining star.

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Internationally renowned rock guitarist Orianthi has confirmed to Eric Dahl of FOX17 Rock & Review that she is putting the finishing touches on a new studio album. "We started this one a bit ago," she said. "I've been back and forth just finishing up the mixes and adding songs to it. There's a lot of collabs on the new record too, [which is] very exciting. [There are] some really cool guests on it."

Regarding a possible release date for her new effort, Orianthi said: "That's gonna be out [this] year for sure. I'm in the studio a lot right now working on a few songs I'm gonna add to it and then mixing it and putting it in a really good place. I'm very excited about that one."

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