The Dreamside
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The Dreamside is a rock and metal band formed in the Netherlands
in 1994.
The Dreamside's next release, Nuda Veritas (1995), consisted of several dance/techno remixes of songs from their debut album.
In 1996 they released their second album, Apaika, a glossier, more ethereal album than the first. Again reviews were excellent, and the Dreamside steadily became more popular in Europe. They also toured the USA for the first time, although to a tepid response, as the American Goth scene had shifted attention to harder-edged styles.
The band took an extended break, recruited bass player, producer and songwriter Roman Schoensee, and returned in 2001 with Mirror Moon, a harder, more metallic album. The group, and particularly Vita, changed looks, abandoning their Victorian-style dress for corsets, rubber and fetish gear. The following year the band returned to the USA, releasing Faery Child, a "best of" compilation.
The Dreamside's fourth "proper" album, Spin Moon Magic, was released in September 2005; it continues in the harder, more rock style of Mirror Moon. The band currently consists of Kemi Vita, Roman Schoensee, guitarists Cees Viset, Fried Bruggink and Louis Buurman and drummer Merijn Mol. In August 2011 the band founded here on Label Spin Moon Media and re-released the Mirror Moon album on 23. August.
or ethereal wave
, tending to the fairy
end of the spectrum, although there are also elements of shoegazing
, trip hop
and industrial
, and even early music
. After the millennium the band changed their music to a metal-oriented style. They have been compared to everyone from This Mortal Coil
and Tori Amos
to The Gathering
and Nightwish
.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
in 1994.
History
The band was formed by Italian-Dutch singer Kemi Vita. The Dreamside recorded Pale Blue Lights, the band's debut album, pretty much solo with assistance from various musicians; it was released in 1994 to excellent reviews. To tour the album Vita recruited guitarist Fried Bruggink, who became another core member of the band.The Dreamside's next release, Nuda Veritas (1995), consisted of several dance/techno remixes of songs from their debut album.
In 1996 they released their second album, Apaika, a glossier, more ethereal album than the first. Again reviews were excellent, and the Dreamside steadily became more popular in Europe. They also toured the USA for the first time, although to a tepid response, as the American Goth scene had shifted attention to harder-edged styles.
The band took an extended break, recruited bass player, producer and songwriter Roman Schoensee, and returned in 2001 with Mirror Moon, a harder, more metallic album. The group, and particularly Vita, changed looks, abandoning their Victorian-style dress for corsets, rubber and fetish gear. The following year the band returned to the USA, releasing Faery Child, a "best of" compilation.
The Dreamside's fourth "proper" album, Spin Moon Magic, was released in September 2005; it continues in the harder, more rock style of Mirror Moon. The band currently consists of Kemi Vita, Roman Schoensee, guitarists Cees Viset, Fried Bruggink and Louis Buurman and drummer Merijn Mol. In August 2011 the band founded here on Label Spin Moon Media and re-released the Mirror Moon album on 23. August.
Style
Their early music is most often described as DarkwaveDarkwave
Dark Wave or darkwave is a music genre that began in the late 1970s, coinciding with the popularity of New Wave and post-punk. Building on those basic principles, dark wave added dark, introspective lyrics and an undertone of sorrow for some bands...
or ethereal wave
Ethereal Wave
Ethereal Wave, also called ethereal darkwave in Europe and ethereal goth or simply ethereal in the US, is a term that describes a subgenre of Dark Wave music...
, tending to the fairy
Fairy
A fairy is a type of mythical being or legendary creature, a form of spirit, often described as metaphysical, supernatural or preternatural.Fairies resemble various beings of other mythologies, though even folklore that uses the term...
end of the spectrum, although there are also elements of shoegazing
Shoegazing
Shoegazing is a subgenre of alternative rock that emerged from the United Kingdom in the late 1980s. It lasted there until the mid 1990s, with a critical zenith reached in 1990 and 1991...
, trip hop
Trip hop
Trip hop is a music genre consisting of downtempo electronic music which originated in the early 1990s in England, especially Bristol. Deriving from "post"-acid house, the term was first used by the British music media and press as a way to describe the more experimental variant of breakbeat which...
and industrial
Industrial music
Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...
, and even early music
Early music
Early music is generally understood as comprising all music from the earliest times up to the Renaissance. However, today this term has come to include "any music for which a historically appropriate style of performance must be reconstructed on the basis of surviving scores, treatises,...
. After the millennium the band changed their music to a metal-oriented style. They have been compared to everyone from This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil
This Mortal Coil was a gothic dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom...
and Tori Amos
Tori Amos
Tori Amos is an American pianist, singer-songwriter and composer. She was at the forefront of a number of female singer-songwriters in the early 1990s and was noteworthy early in her career as one of the few alternative rock performers to use a piano as her primary instrument...
to The Gathering
The Gathering (band)
The Gathering is a Dutch alternative rock band, founded in 1989 by brothers Hans and René Rutten and vocalist Bart Smits in the small city of Oss, North Brabant....
and Nightwish
Nightwish
Nightwish is a Finnish symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, Nightwish's current line-up has five members, although Tarja has been replaced by Anette Olzon and the...
.
Current members
- Kemi Vita (Vocals)
- Roman Schönsee (bass)
- Fried Bruggink (guitar)
- Cees Viset (guitar)
- Louis Buurman (guitar)
- Merijn Mol (drums)
Guest Musicians
- Diex (Music, Additional Programming)
- Wouter van der Zwaan (guitar, Acoustic guitar)
- Laura Capitani (Viola da gamba)
- 'Smore' (Additional Programming)
- Marijn van der Ven (Piano)
- RogueRogue (musician)Rogue is a founding member and lead singer of the American goth/electropop band The Crüxshadows.-Biography:...
(Vocals) (The Crüxshadows)
Discography
- Pale Blue Lights (1994, Nuclear BlastNuclear BlastNuclear Blast is an independent record label and mail order record distributor with subsidiaries in Germany, the United States and Brazil. The record label was founded in 1987 by Markus Staiger in Germany. Originally releasing hardcore punk records, the label moved on to releasing albums by melodic...
) - Apaika (1997, Nuclear Blast)
- Mirror Moon (2001, Serenades Records)
- Faery Child (2003, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Spin Moon Magic (2005, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Pale Blue Lights / Nuda Veritas Re-issue (2007, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- The 13th Chapter (2007, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Lunar Nature (2009, Lion Music)
- Mirror Moon Re-issue (2011, Spin Moon Media)
Ep's
- Open Your Eyes EP (2005, Dancing Ferret Discs)
- Nuda Veritas EP (1996, Nuclear Blast)
Others
- Vier Factor #1 (2004, split with The CrüxshadowsThe CrüxshadowsThe Crüxshadows is an Dark Electro group from Florida. Their sound is made up of a combination of male vocals, electric violin, guitar, and synth...
, Paralysed AgeParalysed AgeParalysed Age are a gothic rock and darkwave-band from Germany composed of Marco Neumann, Stefan Kirsch, and Michael Knust.-Discography:* 1992: Christened Child* 1993: Exile* 1994: Nocturne* 1994: Bloodsucker * 1999: Empir of the Vampire...
, and ThouShaltNotThouShaltNotThouShaltNot are a band whose style blends post-punk, goth, industrial music, and synthpop. Active since 1998, they are from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and are signed to Dancing Ferret Discs.-Biography:...
, Dancing Ferret Discs)