ANGEL - On Earth As It Is In Heaven [Rock Candy remaster] (2012)

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"On Earth As It Is In Heaven" was ANGEL third album and showcases the band expanding their horizons by taking a more Melodic Hard Rock path, but one with hooks and riffs to the fore.
Just because the music was harder and edgier, isn't to say that they had abandoned their progressive roots altogether as Gregg Giuffria's keyboard work will testify.

Produced by seasoned sound man Eddie Kramer (Hendrix, Zeppelin), the songs here display more edge and rockin' approach.
Guitarist Punky Meadows showers the songs with tasteful riffs but the leads are where he truly shines. Mickie Jones' bass work and drummer Barry Brandt are mirrored reflections of consistency while vocalist Frank DiMino rounds out this powerhouse group.
Gregg Giuffria and DiMino serve the band well with two distinctive voices that are perfectly harmonized throughout the album.
Songs such as "Can You Feel It", "Cast The First Stone" and "White Lightning" explode with a sense of urgency that suggests the band were scaling new heights of creativity and feeling all the better for it.
As a curiosity, check the symmetrical album cover. The band's logo it reads the same upside down, back to front and in a mirror.


"On Earth As It Is In Heaven" is the third and last for the moment Angel's essential reissue by Rock Candy, with the usual 24-bit remastering from original source tapes and enhanced artwork.
Take a note: this is taken from the original Japanese mix and superior (better) track sequence.
Pomp rules.


01 - Can You Feel It
02 - She's A Mover
03 - Big Boy (Let's Do It Again)
04 - Telephone Exchange
05 - White Lightning
06 - On The Rocks
07 - You're Not Fooling Me
08 - That Magic Touch
09 - Cast The First Stone
10 - Just A Dream


Frank DiMino: Vocals
Punky Meadows: Acoustic & Electric Guitars
Gregg Giuffria: Keyboards
Mickie Jones: Bass
Barry Brandt: Drums
Additional personnel:
Dan Wyman: Synthesizer, Programming




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ANGEL (Gregg Giuffria) - Helluva Band [Rock Candy remaster] (2012)

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ANGEL's second album "Helluva Band" was a record that took their brand of adventurous Pomp rock to astonishing levels.
Unafraid of throwing everything and the kitchen sink into their music, they reached a new level of achievement which allowed every member of the band to excel at their craft.

Singer Frank DiMino in particular, unleashes one of the definitive vocal performances of the era, an ostentatious operatic style that thrilled audiences back then and still continues to make its mark to this day, superbly complemented by the dexterous keyboard virtuosity of Gregg Giuffria.
Some say that this is Giuffria's finest hour.
Again produced by Englishmen Derek Lawrence (Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash) and session guitarist extraordinaire Big Jim Sullivan in Los Angeles, the album contains a clutch of 24 Karat showstoppers, including the epic "Feelings", "Mirrors", "Pressure Point" and "The Fortune", a progressive pomp-rock watershed with all the trimmings you might reasonably expect from such a genre defining band.

"Helluva Band" is the 2nd Angel's essential reissue by Rock Candy, with the usual 24-bit remastering from original source tapes and enhanced artwork.
Pomp rules.


01 - Feelin' Right
02 - The Fortune
03 - Anyway You Want It
04 - Dr. Ice
05 - Mirrors
06 - Feelings
07 - Pressure Point
08 - Chicken Soup
09 - Angel Theme

Frank DiMino - Vocals
Punky Meadows - Guitars
Greg Giuffria - Synths, Piano, Clavinet, Harpsichord, Mellotron, Strings
Mickey Jones - Bass
Barry Brandt - Drums, Percussion



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ANGEL (Gregg Giuffria) - Angel [Rock Candy Remaster] (2012)

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ANGEL was formed in 1975 by Frank DiMino and Gregg Giuffria with the ambition to create the perfect rock band.
Angel’s manifest destiny revolved around two key components: that’s killer hooks and killer looks. Seasoned players all, their arrival on the Los Angeles rock scene certainly put the cat amongst the pigeons in a world crying out for something fresh, original and very different.

Based in Los Angeles and signed by Casablanca label (home to Kiss), Angel’s debut received instant approval from anyone hip to the trip.
Musically the focus was firmly on a sort of pioneering seventies mash-up of progressive and melodic hard rock, spearheaded by the extraordinary operatic vocals of Frank DiMino and the wildly dexterous keyboard virtuosity of Gregg Giuffria.

This is one of the fundamental albums of Pomp Rock.
Few bands in the genre have matched the brilliance of "Tower", "Long Time" or "Mariner", the three songs that make up the legend of this album.
"Tower" is one of the most epic songs written in the '70s, "Long Time" takes lyricism into a whole new level and along with the ballad "Mariner" they display the vocal talents of Frank Dimino. There's pure magic in the musicianship these guys reach.
Produced by Englishmen Derek Lawrence (Deep Purple, Wishbone Ash) and session guitarist extraordinaire Big Jim Sullivan, the album is treasure trove of surprises and includes several songs that have since gone on to become standard bearers in the star spangled world of Melodic Rock mayhem.


Another essential reissue by Rock Candy, with the usual 24-bit remastering from original source tapes and enhanced artwork.
Pomp rules.


01 - Tower
02 - Long Time
03 - Rock & Rollers
04 - Broken Dreams
05 - Mariner
06 - Sunday Morning
07 - On & On
08 - Angel (Theme)

Frank DiMino - Vocals
Punky Meadows - Guitars
Greg Giuffria - Synths, Piano, Clavinet, Harpsichord, Mellotron, Strings
Mickey Jones - Bass
Barry Brandt - Drums, Percussion



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