Violet Journey [Import]

Orianthi | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 11, 2007)
• Original Release Date: 2007
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Universal Import
• ASIN: B000R3VX92
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #36,384 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lights Of Manos

2. He's Gone

3. Violet Journey

4. Everyday

5. Here On Earth

6. Right Now

7. Anybody Else

8. Out Of Reach

9. Wouldn't Change A Thing

10. Anaheim

Editorial Reviews

2007 debut album from the 21 year old Australian guitar prodigy. Born in Adelaide, Orianthi has played the guitar since the tender age of six, and has accumulated an impressive list of credits. She opened for Steve Vai in her home town when she was 14, and when she was 17 she opened for ZZ Top. It was when she met and performed with Carlos Santana when she was 18, that doors really started to open. Now at 21, Orianthi has signed with a major U.S. label, Geffen Records, and is currently in Nashville writing with some of the world's biggest writers including Darrell Brown (Keith Urban), Troy Verges (Leann Rimes) and Angelo (Kings Of Leon). Universal.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She does it all, April 26, 2008

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S. Becker (Keller, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Violet Journey (Audio CD)

This is a cd that the more you listen, the more you'll be amazed. First, Orianthi's guitar playing will astound you, then her singing and song writing kicks in and finally, once you realize she played all the instruments and sang all of the vocals (OK at least 99% of them) and did this as a teenager, you know the future is going to be big for her. She plays and sings from the heart. Santana-esque guitar licks, vocal range from Michelle Branch's innocence to in your face rock to soulful blues - she truly is the total package. Enjoy!

43 of 52 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Find Out Why Carlos Santana and Paul Reed Smith Say This Girl Will Completely Blow Your Mind, August 9, 2007

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Jerry D. Neal "Carlos Fan" (Grand Rapids, MI USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Violet Journey (Audio CD)

There are very few guitarists, artists, songwriters, or albums that really matter. Albums where the musician is so good, the songs are so well crafted, the band works so well, the production is so top-notch, that everything else you listen to completely pales by comparison.

I recently made a list for a friend, of very best albums ever made (I figured he was smart enough to guess Sgt. Pepper)

On the list were things like:
Buffalo Springfield Again
Procol Harum's A Whiter Shade of Pale
Love's Forever Changes and Da Capo
Jeff Beck's Truth and Who Else!
Eric Johnson's Ah Via Musicom
Elegant Gypsy by Al DiMeola
the Mahavishnu Orchestra's Between Nothingness and Eternity
Caravanserai, Lotus, Borboletta, and Illuminations by Santana
the first Shakti album
Love Devotion Surrender by Carlos Santana and John McLaughlin
A Long Time Comin' by the Electric Flag
the Bluesbreakers album by John Mayall and Eric Clapton
Are You Experienced? and Electric Ladyland by Jimi Hendrix
High 61 Revisted by Bob Dylan

And right alongside those albums was Violet Journey by Orianthi.

This wonder from down under named Orianthi has been playing since the age of four, classically trained, and has been writing and recording her own albums for years.

I've been playing guitar for 36 years, and when by chance I landed on a web page playing "Lights of Manos," from this album, I was stunned.

By the time I had heard four notes I realized I was hearing something completely unique and way better than anything else out there, period.

"Lights of Manos" and the videos I saw on YouTube set some pretty doggone high expectations.

So I discovered who it was I was listening to--this Orianthi. Someone who appeared at NAMM onstage with Carlos Santana, and elsewhere with Steve Vai. Someone who Carlos Santana was saying was the only and the best new guitarist worth considering, who Paul Reed Smith himself said "will just blow your mind."

Well, after hearing this album just once, I have to say it. CARLOS AND PAUL WERE RIGHT.

This album exceeded those high expectations. It has completely blown my mind.

This is an album, an artist, a guitarist who matters. Who matters enough to go on stage this year--unknown--at Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival.

There's not a single song on this CD that doesn't work, not a single solo that doesn't hit the perfect spot, not a single vocal that isn't perfect, not a single tone that doesn't give you an audio orgasm.

Frankly, since I got it I have not been able to put it down. I have not been able to stop playing it.

Orianthi does a whole lot more or this album than just play the hell out of her Paul Reed Smith like absolutely nobody else. She sings and writes just as well as she plays.

Except for the drums on two songs and one background vocal, Orianthi played every single note on this album HERSELF--bongos, drums, keyboards, acoustic guitar, synthesizers--EVERYTHING. She even produced, engineeered and mastered the whole thing.

So get yourself a copy of this monster album by this absolute monster of a guitarist, and find out what Carlos Santana and Paul Reed Smith are raving about.

The monster artist we've been waiting for has arrived. Her name is Orianthi.

17 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Jimi Hendrex move over, November 11, 2007

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Fret Freak (Phoenix AZ USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Violet Journey (Audio CD)

This prodigy from Austrailia lives up to her reputation on this CD.
The guitar playing moves from eloquent to firey. If you are looking for some solid, creative, lift you out of your seat guitar, this is it.
It is little wonder why Steve Vai had her as his warm up on his American Tour.