Alyson Avenue Omega II

2009, ALYSON AVENUE is a female fronted AOR/ Melodic Rock band from Sweden that was founded in 1989. The band released two albums, "Presence Of Mind" (2000) and "Omega" (2004), until they called it a day in 2006. "Presence Of Mind" gained rave reviews including a 93/100 in Japan's well-known BURRN!!! Magazine which lead to massive sales. The band then started to put together "Omega" which was finally released in 2004 and earned enthusiatic reviews by the press. During this time, ALYSON AVENUE was fronted by Anette Olzon (now NIGHTWISH) with Niclas Olsson on keyboards, Thomas Löyskä on bass, Fredrik Eriksson on drums and Tony Rohtla on guitar. Anette Olzon joined NIGHTWISH in 2007 and the rest of AA had already started working with an male vocalist. But Anette's success in Nightwish lead to renewed interest from labels and customers in AA's albums. As both recordings were out of print, there was no possibility to buy them anywhere. The only thing that could make the band release these albums again was re-recording at least 'Omega'. Many audio tracks from the original output were deleted and have now been newly recorded. The original voice of Anette is still there though. Also five polished demos have been added to the album as bonus tracks - and "Omega II" was done! "Presence Of Mind" is still the same as the band finds it charming in its sound and memory.