Venus Mission Discography of CDs

Venus Mission albums This sophomore release from Venus Mission is getting great radio exposure in the tri-state area and garnering good reviews as well. Mike Breen of Cincinnati's City Beat wrote the following review of "Love Me Back Alive" in the October 12th issue of Citybeat magazine: For "Love Me Back Alive" Rosenthal enlisted two of the area's more celebrated knob-twidlers, John Curley (who engineered live full-band sessions) and Ric Hordinski (who co-produced with Rosenthal). The first collaboration between the studio magicians creates a fitting dichotomy: Just as Rosenthal's songs (which feature a couple of co-writers) blur the lines between the celestial and the organic, the production has a lively, driving underbelly splattered with an atmospheric magnetism. With often biting, empowering lyrics of redemption out of sorrow, Rosenthal and her co-conspirators paint sweeping, emotionally self-reflective tracks with a variety of textures and engaging, creative nuances, from echoing guitars and spacious, almost psychedelic effects to jarring guest spots from singer/poetess Abiyah and rapper Swift. The recordists and quality sessioneers recruited to play on the album bring Rosenthal's songs to life, but without the ornamentation the tunes would still stand up fairly well (though they'd tend toward a much more "Adult Contemporary" corner of the room). Rosenthal's airy yet pointedly expressive voice is uniquely effervescent, but it's also one of those love it/hate it kind of vocal styles. Standouts on the album (the ones where everything clicks at once) include "Girls of Virtue," a rolling, minor-key dirge that's the best written cut on the disc, and "I Want You," which features snake-charmer guitar and a defiantly abrupt, popcorn-bass-buoyed chorus. Occasionally, the songwriting doesn't stand up to encasement, but for the most part Love definitely holds up as Rosenthal's finest recording so far. Go to venusmission for more details

Venus Mission music CDs For five years, they've been called "the hottest band between Memphis and the Sun." With the release of their new CD BODY ROCKIN', their territory is expanding. Featuring three female singers and four male musicians, The Venus Mission has performed over 300 shows at area nightclubs, casinos, and festivals, plus numerous galas and private events. In 2005, the band began writing original music and caught the attention of Grammy-winning producer Chris Trevett (Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, etc. ), who came ...

Venus Mission discography Venus Mission, a Cincinnati-based orchestral pop five-piece, were nominated for three 2003 Cincinnati Enquirer Cammy Awards, were listed in the alternative press as having one of the top local releases of 2002, and were selected in 2002 as Top-20 finalists in the WOXY 97-Exposure contest, beating out over 100 other acts for radio airplay at Miami University. Venus Mission's debut CD, "Midwestern Soul," was released in February of 2002 to hundreds of fans at a restored art-deco theatre in Cincinnati. The CD quickly garnered critical acclaim from both the mainstream and alternative press in the region, and found them in rotation on AAA radio in and around the Cincinnati area. Midwestern Soul's 11 tracks were engineered and produced by Ric Hordinski who produced David Wilcox's new release "Into the Mystery" as well as an earlier Wilcox album, ...

Venus Mission CD discography Steve Fister/Venus Mission: Ric Hordinski (guitar); Amos Heller (bass guitar); Josh Seurkamp (percussion); Andrea Rosenthal, Aaron Mahoney (background vocals).