原文連結: http://tinyurl.com/zmnl5za 新歌連結 ActII-2 Moment of Betrayal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yhFSTAyHWs 順便貼-上個月發表的這首 ActI-3 The Gift of Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdPn1mCmqoE 原文很長，有介紹了新專輯的概念，以下擷取幾段隨意翻翻，大家隨意看看。 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. 新專輯的故事發生在300年後，統治者叫Nafaryus，這個世界的人不再做音樂，都 交給機器做。這時有個鄉下人Gabriel是天生音樂人，大家就拱他帶領大家改革。 "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說：「現在很多事情不是自動化，就是有機器人代勞，連車子都快不用人開了； 那如果音樂科技進步到所有音樂都是自動生產，會怎麼樣呢？」 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希望這張專輯能至少兩小時長，且2/18在倫敦的演唱會想使用交響樂場地並把整 個會場打造成專輯場景。 "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覺得這張專輯格局之大，未來出個電玩、小說，甚至音樂劇、電影之類的 也不為過(!!)，而且以上有些已經在製作中了。 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說，即使是用DT的音樂詮釋，大家可能還是難以吸收這張專輯的概念。所以他們 將提供劇本式歌詞、腳色繪圖、專輯世界的地圖等，也接納他老婆的提議，做了個網站 ( http://www.dreamtheater.net/theastonishing ) 上面會陸續放上新資訊。 "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." 他們不希望這張專輯變得太難懂，希望是大家能投入、享受的作品。 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 純粹覺得，這次的mixing令人舒服；至少身為一個鼓手，個人認為這次的小鼓比上一張 好接受多了。而且這次也有御用orchestra跟choir，氣勢磅礡，希望別讓大家失望囉！ --

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