“The recording is very much tied to the live experience we want to create,” says AMY.
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With the skill and experience we've developed over the years, plus all of the great minds who came to be involved in the project, it snowballed into something very big, very quickly.”Īs their evolution continues, the band will embark on the “Synthesis Live” tour, performing the record start-to-finish with a live orchestra and electronic programming in each city. “The whole idea came from thinking about how cool it would be to do new versions of songs with strings and programming, and it just evolved from there. “I tend to dream very big,” says AMY LEE about the project. Living up to its name, SYNTHESIS is a combination of organic and synthesized sounds, classical and rock, old and new, reinterpreting the past while giving a glimpse into the future, an old-fashioned concept narrative that takes the listener on a journey from darkness into light, offering AMY LEE’s classic inkling of hope in the midst of despair.
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SYNTHESIS is an amalgamation of LEE’s masterful singing and piano playing, supported by her band, a full symphony orchestra performing arrangements by long-time collaborator David Campbell as well as an array of electronic music programming and effects engineered by co-producer Will Hunt-not to be confused with the band's drummer, of the same name-and mixer Damian Taylor (Björk, The Killers, Arcade Fire) who also collaborated with the band on the album.
Not simply a “greatest hits” album, SYNTHESIS takes a selection of EVANESCENCE’s three previous studio releases along with two new songs, and reimagines them with brand-new recordings. “We stand undefined, can't be drawn with a straight line/this will not be our ending, we are alive.” -“Imperfection”įor EVANESCENCE’s singer/songwriter and frontwoman AMY LEE, most of her best creative ideas are inspired by dreams, and with SYNTHESIS (BMG), the band’s long-awaited fourth studio album (and first since 2011’s self-titled release), it was a case of turning a long-held vision into reality.