原文连结: http://tinyurl.com/zmnl5za 新歌连结 ActII-2 Moment of Betrayal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhFSTAyHWs 顺便贴-上个月发表的这首 ActI-3 The Gift of Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdPn1mCmqoE 原文很长，有介绍了新专辑的概念，以下撷取几段随意翻翻，大家随意看看。 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Astonishing is a story set about 300 years into the future about a dystopian world ruled by an emperor named Nafaryus where humans no longer create music: Instead, it is produced by noise machines. Meanwhile, the common folk look to a peasant man named Gabriel, who is a born musician, to lead them out of oppression. 新专辑的故事发生在300年後，统治者叫Nafaryus，这个世界的人不再做音乐，都 交给机器做。这时有个乡下人Gabriel是天生音乐人，大家就拱他带领大家改革。 "I was thinking of all of the things now that people used to do that they don't do anymore because they’re automated or done by robots: lots of jobs, self-driving cars coming right around the corner," he explains. "My thought was, 'What would happen if with all the advances in technology in music that music [became] all artificial?'" Petrucci说：「现在很多事情不是自动化，就是有机器人代劳，连车子都快不用人开了； 那如果音乐科技进步到所有音乐都是自动生产，会怎麽样呢？」 Petrucci conceived the album not just as a double-CD, but as a project that turns "into much, much more." For instance, he knew he wanted it be the length of an "evening with Dream Theater" concert, which runs at least two hours. When the band embarks on a world tour on Feb. 18, beginning at the Palladium in London, it will present The Astonishing in its entirety, and it booked such venues as symphony halls to make it a special occasion. Petrucci describes the show's production as using video panels "to help tell the story via animation and also help transform the stage into the environment that the story takes place in." (The North American leg begins April 14 in Quebec and ends May 11 in Seattle.) Petrucci希望这张专辑能至少两小时长，且2/18在伦敦的演唱会想使用交响乐场地并把整 个会场打造成专辑场景。 "Other things could come out of it because the story is very rich as far as the characters and plot, so a video game, novel or anything else might happen; a movie or even a musical," says Petrucci. "A bunch of those things I mentioned are in the works, and as they get closer we'll reveal the schedule of [release]." Petrucci觉得这张专辑格局之大，未来出个电玩、小说，甚至音乐剧、电影之类的 也不为过(!!)，而且以上有些已经在制作中了。 However, he knows that even by Dream Theater standards, The Astonishing holds a lot of material to absorb, so the band is providing such tools as lyrics written in screenplay form, character illustrations and a map to help better understand it. Petrucci credits his wife, Rena Sands, with the idea of creating a mini website where fans can discover more about the story, so on the street date TheAstonishingFanGuide.com will go live to provide more information. Petrucci说，即使是用DT的音乐诠释，大家可能还是难以吸收这张专辑的概念。所以他们 将提供剧本式歌词、脚色绘图、专辑世界的地图等，也接纳他老婆的提议，做了个网站 ( http://www.dreamtheater.net/theastonishing ) 上面会陆续放上新资讯。 "We didn't want this to be any kind of arbitrary process or some big mystery,” he says. "We want it to be a story that people could get engrossed in and follow." 他们不希望这张专辑变得太难懂，希望是大家能投入、享受的作品。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 纯粹觉得，这次的mixing令人舒服；至少身为一个鼓手，个人认为这次的小鼓比上一张 好接受多了。而且这次也有御用orchestra跟choir，气势磅礡，希望别让大家失望罗！ --

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