Watch EVANESCENCE Perform With Orchestra In Los Angeles

EVANESCENCE performed at The Greek Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday, October 15 in support of its fourth album, “Synthesis”. Like the disc, “Synthesis Live” features a reimagining of some of EVANESCENCE‘s best-loved songs with the spotlight on full orchestra, electronics combined with the band and Amy Lee‘s virtuoso piano and voice.

Fan-filmed video footage of the entire Los Angeles concert can be seen below.

Featured songs:

00:00 Overture
01:47 Never Go Back
05:53 Lacrymosa
09:38 The End Of The Dream
15:11 My Heart Is Broken
20:26 Lithium
24:40 Bring Me To Life
29:10 Unraveling
30:54 Imaginary
35:17 Secret Door
39:29 Hi-Lo
44:42 Lost In Paradise
49:26 Your Star
54:22 My Immortal
59:00 The In Between
1:01:00 Imperfection
01:05:57 Speak To Me
01:11:17 Good Enough
01:17:30 Swimming Home

“This is a total passion project for me. There are so many layers in our music, underneath the huge drums and guitars,” explained Amy Lee. “I’ve always wanted to shine a light on some of the gorgeous David Campbell arrangements and programming elements in our songs, and that idea snowballed into completely re-doing them with full orchestra, not just strings, elaborate programming and experimentation.

“This will be our first time touring with orchestra and I’m so excited to perform this way-really focus on the vocals, and the emotion and the story we’ve built over the years. I’m also really excited about the new material on the album. Besides the two new songs, there are some really beautiful instrumental in-between moments. The whole thing flows like a big, dynamic soundtrack.”

Lee told Graspop.be about “Synthesis”: “It’s different in a way that it’s still coming from the roots of what EVANESCENCE was conceived to be. It’s really a beautiful project. A lot of our old songs are getting a whole new life in a way where we’re getting to experience the focus being this beautiful, full orchestra. It’s also a lot of electronic, cool elements — parts that have always been part of our music. It hasn’t been full orchestra before — it’s just been mainly strings — but just taking it to very beautiful, classical and epic and groovy place. Oh, it feels so good.”

Lee also talked in more detail about the making of “Synthesis”, explaining: “As far as the conception, basically, you work in demo land first and just create the arrangements of songs. I went through all the master sessions of, say, ‘Bring Me To Life’, and [I would] pull out all the stuff and listen to it and then chop it up and decide, ‘Oh, maybe this part needs to be longer. Maybe this part at the beginning will be just strings and piano.’ Just figure out what you’re gonna do and build a map. And working with David Campbell, who has done all the string arrangements for EVANESCENCE for all three albums now doing full orchestra, just going back and forth with him and our producer Will and then each other, just throwing ideas in a Dropbox and basically just playing tennis back and forth for months.”

Fonte: Blabbermouth.net